The sun., 1903-11-26
TURKEYFOREVERYONE TO-DAY
If PRICES ARE UP, NEW iORk'S
CHARITY rs BOINDLESS.
some OF the Fessts Prepared for the Poor
and the Unfortunate by the wealthy
and PhilanthrOp.c - Hospital and
Prisons to share in the Good Cheer.

Turkeys are away up in price, and chickens
and ducks and other fowl come high, but
New York, if the number and the size of
the charitable dinners to be given to-day
count for anything is going to have just as
big and just az good Thanksgiving as any
of the good, big Thanksgivings of the past.
Nearly all the churches will hold services in
the morning most OF the business places will
close. the city's big departments of Chari-
ties and Correction are going to feed with
good things the hundreds in their care, and
missions and clubs and charity institutions,
as we'll as private individuals all over Greater
New York. will vie with each other in making
the day happy one for the city's poor
The little folks of the city who don't see
a turkey, alive or dead perhaps more than
once year will, az they always do, come in
for a big share Of the attention and good
things that have been arranged for to-day.
The Harlem Rescue Mission will feed 500
Of these little ones at its quarters, Third
avenue and 124th street, and the Young
Folks League of the Hebrew Orphan Asy-
lum will eat turkey and mince pie and have
as their guests lot Of poor children from
The Bronx.
Mrs William Z. Dodge. Jr., will give
big dinner at the Boys Lodging House
in Forty fourth street; W. Bayard Cutting
has provided lay out for the girls in the
Elizabeth Street Home; the boys of the
Tompkins Square Lodging House will
eat all they can at the expense OF d. Willis
James, and the boys and girls of the Sixth
street Industrial School will be provided
for by Mrs William Douglas Sloane
The boys of the West Side Lodging House
will have their Thanksgiving dinner this
year, although James King Oracle who
for twenty-five years has given them az
the turkey and cranberry sauce they could
hold. died few days ago. The dinner
will be provided by the Oracle estate.
At the Five Points Mission House prep
erations have been made to dine 800 chill
dren. and across the street the Five Points
House of Industry will give dinner to
/ 900 poor children. The workers at the
Doyers Street Mission will give dinner
to homeless men and women frequenting
the mission, also to the children and mothers
of the Hope Mission School and to the un-
The Bowery branch of the Y. NJ G. A. will
feed 500 men in relays, and other branches
of the Y. NJ, c. A. also will give dinners,
The prisoners at the Tombs and on Black
wells island will get big feed. The De;
1000 pounds of turkey and 5000 pounds
Of chicken for the hospitals and other
institutions.
At the Bowery Mission 5000 men vii!
receive breakfast. the place being opened
at O'Clock in the morning, twenty-five
families will receive family dinners at
o'clock and 600 men will be fed in the
evening.
The Protestant Episcopal City Mission
Society, Of which Bishop Potter is president
and the Rev. Robert B. kimber superintend..
ent, is another of the big distributors Of
Thanks giving cheer. They are going to
send cigars and oranges TO the prisoners IN
the Tornbs, the Workhouse and the peni-
tentiary. This is practically the first time
that these men and women have been
remembered in the distribution of the days
good things.
The society is also going to distribute
oranges in ssany Of the city hospitals.
Then they are going to give a turkey dinner
to 1000 persons at Gods Providence House,
in Broome street, near the Bowery. Three
hundred families, who cannot get to the
dinner, are to have sent to each Of them
basket containing turkey, sugar, potatoes,
turnips. apples. cranb erries. tea and celery.