New-York tribune., 1901-11-29
MANY FEASTS FOR THE POOR
THOUSANDS OF TURKEYS OFFERED ON
CHARITY'S ALTAR

InOuSdnQS or N5E-1 OrkerS VINO had 1ndnhS-
giving dinners in their own homes helped TO
make the holiday one of good cheer to homeless
and destitute people by means of dinners given
at various charities, and many thousand New
Workers gave from their plenty to brighten the
homes of poor families. Many organizations
having offices in the United Charities Building
sent from brancn offices food and clothing to
needy families.
From the Salvation Army Headquarters in
West Fourteenth-st.. were sent several hundred
baskets containing turkeys chickens. vegeta bles
and pastry for worthy poor people living in the
neighborhood They were sent out under the
supervision of Adjutant Mary Jones.
The Industrial Christian Alliance, at No. 10
Bleecker-st.. fed between one hundred and two
hundred persons A turkey dinner was refused
TO who applied
More than thousand of the outdoor poor en-
joyed a hearty dinner Of turkey vegetables and
pie at the annual celebration of Thanksgiving
Day at the Five Points House of Industry. The
serving of the dinner began al > 2. m. A dinner
for the house children. about three hundred in
number. served at l D. After the din
ner the children entertained the visitors with
solos duets choruses and recitatons.
At the Five Points Mission was the fifty-first
annual celebration of the holiday at the mission.
and nine hundred children entertained
and fed. They also entertained large number
of visitors with literary and musical exercises.
These exercises We're held in the large assembly
hall, which decorated with flags ard ma
tional colors in profusion
TWO hundred and fifty of the poorest children
in New-Yorl recruited from the tenement
houses of Suffolk. Essex. Ludlow. Hester and
Division sts- feasted yesterday at a Thanks
giving luncheon given by the Sunday Kinder
garten Association at Pacific Hail. No 209 East
Broadway. The hungry youngsters sat at ia bes
decorated with potted palms and other adorn-
ments of white. green and gold. the colors of
the association and in order that the American
ism of the Thanksgiving festival might be bet
ter impressed upon them, small American flag
was given to each. The next entertainment for
these children will he Twelfth Night, Janu-
airy Z. Among those who contributed to the
luncheon yesterday were Mrs. George Crocker,
John Wanamaker and James f. Nichols.
The Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society.
at No. $50 Broorne- gave its annual Thanks
giving dinner. and SO men and women were
treated to a bountfui repast. while 394 families
received Thanksgiving dinners at their homes
Five hundred unemployed young men and
youths were treated a Thanksgiving dinner
by the Bowery Branch of the Young Men S
Christian Association. Two hundred of them
were those who living temporarily In the
association building until work is procured for
them.
At the Florence Crittenton Mission. No %
Bleecker-st Mrs. Flora A. Freeman, the super
intendent. prepared to furnish dinners to all
women who applied to the mission at noon.
About fifty availed themselves of the oppor-
tunty. and these fed. in addition to the
forty who We're staying at the home.
WHERE 300 WERE FED.
About twenty-five hundred people were fed at
the headquarters of the st. Andrews Society.
No A. Grove-st-. at noon. The meal was pre-
sided over by Mrs. J. NJ Lamadrid who also
sent out about two hundred and fifty baskets
containing food to poor families the West
Side Long before the doors of the society head
quarters were opened there was a throng of
hungry. homeless men in front of the building.
They were let in in squads of $50 until all were
fed.
The 40 inmates of the Montefiore Home for
Chronic Invads. at ne-hundred-and thirty
eighth-st. and Broadway. at noon enjoyed tur-
key and wine dinner through the generosity
of Mrs. Adoph LeWisohn. In the afternoon an
electric stereopticon exhibition given in the
lecture room. Superintendent a. Housman gave
a lecture. and the: pictures and stereopticon
were gifts from Professor Felix Adler.
The boys and girls in the Catholic Protectory.
at Van Nest. to the number of 2,300, had
regulation Thanksgiving feast The ponds on
the grounds were well frozen over, and squads
of boys and girls were skating on them nearly
all day.
Seventy-two Thanksgiving dinners were dis
tributed Wednesday night to s many poor
families in the vicinity of No. IS Henry-st., by
the Kings Daughters Settlement and the Jacob
a. Riis House. Il has been the at these
institutions for fifteen years to fill the baskets
Of many poor families with substantial food for
Thanksgiving dinners.
At the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
broadway and One hundred md -fftieta-st the
DAY opened with the singing of hymns in the
chapel by the children. The Rev. Dr. Jacob
Goldstein delivered address. At noon the go
children ate Thanksgiving dinner. In the af-
ternoon the children assembled in the big hall.
where there was entertainment by the band
of the institution, composed of fifty pieces and
the fife and drum corps.
There a great scramble yesterday among
boys TO gain admission to the East Side Boys
Thanksgiving games and gymnastic exercises
were held in the afternoon and vaudeville
show was given in the evening This school Is
a branch Of the Nurses Settlement OF No 200
Henry-st.
Dinners were furnished yesterday at the vari-
missions for immigrant girls in State-st.,
including the Lutheran Immigrant Mission the
womens Home Mission Society. the Ruth Pilger
Home. the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary
and the Leo HauS.
Those Of the patients of Flower Hospital who
were in condition to paTtake of d big Thanks
giving dinner were made happy There were
arrangements for the reception by the patients
of their friends and relatives.
DINNERS AT THE HOSPITALS.
Superintendent Fischer Of the Presbyterian
Hospital provided a fine dinner for the patients
of the hospital The friends and relatives of the
patients were permitted to call in the afternoon
and bring presents
Several thousand patients in the various