The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-26
AT THE INSTITUTIONS.
Thanksgiving VIII he Celebrated
with Great Eclat To-day.

Thanksgiving, with all it's sumptuous fes-
tivities, has been amply arranged for in IN
dianapolis this year. At almost every in
stitution of the city the day will be cele-
brated by specially prepared dinners and
amusements of sundry characters. At the
county Jail the prisoners will be given a
big dinner. such as they will remember for
many day. Although turkey will not ap-
pear on the board, the menu will include
roast pork, sweet potatoes. baked beans,
corn bread, wheat bread, Irish potatoes,
cranberries, pie, fruit and ice cream. In
the afternoon at o'clock there will be an
address to the inmates.
Turkey will also be missing at the work.
house, but the inmates will have a bounti-
full dinner of other meats at noon to-day.
Roast beef will take the place of king tur-
key and 1t will be accompanied with about
the same menu that will be served at the
Jail.
Two hundred girls and women of the In
dustrial School for Girls and the Women s
Prison will sit down to an elaborate dinner
to-day at noon. Miss K. E. Rhodes, SUPER
intendent of the institution, has made ar
with its menu of cranberries, fruits pies
and nuts. Other preparations have been
made for the amusement of the inmates;
by pastor Of the city, and In the after
noon a theatrical programme, in which
the prisoners will take part, viii be an at
traction OF the day.
CENTRAL HOSPITAL.
An elaborate celebration of Thanksgiving
has been arranged at the Central Hospital
for the Insane. The turkey dinner will be
served promptly at noon. 1t will be fol-
lowed by a. dance in the chapel of the in
stitution, in which the governable patients
will take part The chapel has been decor
ated profusively and the occasion will be
one of rare enjoyment to the unfortunate
inmates
Thanksgiving evening will be made pleas
ant to many of the working girls of the
city at the Young women's Christian As
ISOLATION to-day. A party will be given in
the association rooms for the girls who
to go home over Thanksgiving. Games will
be played, refreshments served and a gen.
eral good time had. Guests of the asso-
citation will be given turkey dinner at
noon.
Thanksgiving programmes have been ar
ranged in all the orphan asylums of the
city. The Indianapolis Orphan Asylum will
serve big turkey dinner at noon to-day
dialogues will amuse the children.
Turkey will not be lacking at the Ger
man Orphans ASYLUM; The dinner will be
in games and specially arranged amuse-
ments. In the morning the children will
attend service at the Trinity Church.
The 124 children at the Blind Asylum will
eat turkey at noon to-day. big dinner
has been arranged for the inmates and
special amusements will not be lacking dur
ing the other parts of the day.
FOR DEAF AND DUMB.
At the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and the
Friendly Inn sumptuous turkey dinners will
mark the day in the memory of the in
mates. At the former institution pro-
grammes of amusement will shorten the
day for the hundreds of children kept there.
Pastors of the city will give short talks at
the Friendly Inn this afternoon
The hospital for the care of the incur
able sick poor will be opened to-day with
special exercises. the feature of which will
be an address OF Mr.. Morris Ross
Large and bountiful Thanksgiving din
ners will be served for a small sum I'm a
great many of the churches of the city
The Ladies Aid Society of Wesley Chapel
NJ. Z. Church will give their annual
Thanksgiving dinner and supper at the
home of Mrs. Howard Buchanan corner OF
Richland avenue and New York street The
dinner will be 20 cents and the supper Is.
The Volunteers of America have prepared
a Thanksgiving feast for about loo chill.
dren at their hall, 531 West Washington
street. to-day. Special services will bt