The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
AT THE INSTITUTIONS.
Rufus CantreII, 1t Is said, Will BE
TOastmaster mt the Jail To-Day.

To-day will be the first of the three an
nual feasts-Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Years-in the state and county institu-
lions located in indianapolis. The proper
observance of Thanksgiving day has been
for time immemorial centered around a
large, fat, juicy turkey-plentifully stuffed
with dressings taking their name from
everything from chestnuts to oysters,
flanked on either side and In front and
rear by dishes of good things, and always
including pumpkin pie. cranberry sauce and
plum pudding. This feature of the dinners
to be served to-day will not be missing ex-
cept at the Marion county ~workhouse,
where. in disregard of the teachings of
some of the inmates, roast pork will be
served as the principal dish. Music and an
entertainment. dances by the inmates and
musical numbers and recitations at some Of
the institutions, will close the days observ-
ance.
AT the workhouse the superintendent has
arranged a dinner which will be heartily en-
joyed by the many men confined in the
prison, and by the woman who have been
unfortunate enough to receive sentences
within its gates. The dinner will consist of
roast pork and other dishes. At the county
almshouse a turkey dinner will be served.
Tobacco and bananas will complete the
meal. The appetites of the older inmates
are whetted by memories of previous
Thanksgivings, and II is predicted that some
OF the unfortunateS who are in the insti-
tuition will not have to be warned more
than once by the dinner gong.
AT the Woman's Reformatory and Indus
trial school for Girls the prisoners and
pupils will be served with a dinner of tur-
key, etc. After dinner an entertainment
will be given to which all of the inmates
will be admitted. Thanksgiving will be
celebrated in the old-fashioned pumpkin pie
way, and the menu card will not be a card.
but a spread" of eatables in family style
on the long tables of the dining room.
AT the Central Hospital for the Insane
Superintendent Edenharter has personally
supervised the preparation of a dinner for
the many hundreds of patients at the hos
pital. Turkey and cranberry sauce and
pumpkin pie and the other components of
a Thanksgiving dinner will be served in
plenty. After the dinner a dance will be
given in the auditorium and those who are
mentally competent will be permitted to en-
ter and dance. The Thanksgiving dinner
at the police station is still speculative.
and the prisoners arrested last night will
be hopeful until after the MONDAY mess is
over.
At the United States Arsenal when mess
call blows the soldiers of the Third Infan-
try stationed there will surround the cook
shack" and effect an entrance to a mess
room wherein will be served an army din
ner unlike the pork and bean messes of the
army's culinary department. At the va
rious sectarian and city orphans homes
dinners will be served to the children, and
all of them will be of turkey and other
eatables unlike those of ordinary days.
At the Marion county Jail Sheriff Saulcy
has arranged for a dinner that has never
been attempted before in the institution.
in addition to unlimited supplies of turkey
and cranberry sauce, the eighty-five pris-
oners will be allowed unrestricted CONVEX
sation and half of a mince pie each. Dur
ing the service of the meal, Rufus Can't
rell. IL is said, will act as POSTMASTER and
he will cali on members of the dinner
party for responses to toasts. Toasts APP
propriate to Isom Donnel and the other
ghoulS have been arranged. Inquiries as
to whether the theft OF a turkey for dissec-
ton purposes is justified where it is impos-
sible to secure it by legitimate methods,
will be directed to some of the diners.
Other prisoners are on the list of speak
ers. and in the two hours during which
the meal Is to be served the prisoners will
have an opportunity to talk to each other
while they are eating. Their conversation
may become general. but IL is an under
stood thing that discussions of the relative
merits of files and saws in jail-breaking
will be tabooed.
Several lodges have arranged for dinners
for the poor to-day. The Knights of Honor
will serve a dinner TO nearly a thousand
people at 2Ol South Meridian street at noon
and at the Salvation Army barracks or
South Capitol avenue, a dinner will be
served. The Friendly Inn. and. in fact, all
of the charitable institutions of the city
will help to Thanksgiving dinners many
persons who cannot afford TO buy them.