The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-24
TO OBSERVE THE DAY.
MANY CELEBRATIONS PLANNED
 FOR THANKSGIVING.

Special Services at the churches- Shooting Matches and Football Games in the aIornlng-Theaters and Dances Both Afternoon and EvenIng-A General Holiday to be Observed Special Dinners to be Served in Hos- pitfalls, sprIngside and JaiI-Y. NJ. c. A, to Entertain-Doings at the Clubs. To-day is Thanksgiving and it will be generally observed in this city. Nearly all of the shops and stores will either close all day or else they will close at noon. The postoffice will close at noon. and there will be no after noon delivery. Flags will be displayed from all the public buildings and the city will take on it's usual holiday ap- pearance.
 Many of the churches will hold union services, and the usual Thanksgiving sermons will be preached.
 The usual number of Thanksgiving calls will be made and there are large number of special attractions planned for the day. There was the usual flood of packages for Thanksgiving remind CTS for the postoffice to deliver. The weather is expected to be pleasant to- day, although probably cloudy during parts of the day. In the morning a number of football games have been planned, and there will be several pri- vate gun shoots. The various clubs around the city will have special attrac- tions for the members and their friends, and the various forms of amusenlents will be engaged in.
 This morning at Yale field the High school football team will play a team composed of alumni of the school. The time has been changed to 10:30 o'clock. The alumni team, of which Lee c. Will son is captain hopes to make the un- dergraduaes hustle to win. The team is quite heavy and capable of playing q good game Captain Wilson is just. closing a successful season on the Yale freshman eleven, getting into the game here against Harvard 1908 and making some fine plays after he was given a chance on the Yale 1908 eleven. The probable line up of the two teams for this morning is:
 ALUMNI. HIGH SCHOOL. Costello ............. BIakeslee, Pagter
 Left end.
 F. M. Adams ......... ....... Smith
 Left tackle.
 Sullivan. McWeeny ,...... Collar, Tlmm s Left guard
 Leavenworth ................ Esposito
 Center.
 Frankel ........................... Davis
 Right tackle.
 Doty ss.......... ...s..t.......=.....ss. NlzeF.
 Right guard. Wilson, Bergin ............ Hammond
 Quarterback.
 Kiernan, Wilson .............. Connors
 Right halfback.
 Adams, Small ................. Kreegah
 Left halfbank.
 DibbIe ............. Doyle. Knoll
 FulIback.
 This afternoon the National Blues will keep their fair open as well as in the evening. There will be splendid dance programmes furnished both aft ernoon and evening and there will also be prize rifle shooting and other at, fractions All the theaters will give matinee performances as well as in the evening and large crowds are expected at both performances.
 Of course there will be the usual number of people who will take long walks or drives into the country and the trolley company is expecting to do. a big days business.
 All the hotels are preparing to give special Thanksgiving dinners for those who care to partake of them. There will also be general Thanksgiving ob-s servalces and a dinner at the Y. M. e. A.
 The charities department and the City Mission have made preparations to provide special dinners for poor families who would otherwise have to do with out them. Special dinners will be sery-i Cd the inmates of springside and the jail. Tn the hospitals provision has al So been made to provide Thanksgiy- ing dinner for all who are able to par- take of 1t.
 Turkeys this year are retailing from twenty-five to twenty eight cents a pound dressed. Owing to the high price of this Thanksgiving luxury many peo- pie have bought chickens instead, all though they are selling for a corres- pondingly high price. All the grocery stores were open last evening and they did big business.
 Tn the cafes about town last night there were the usual Thanksgiving raf- f1es, and many citizens were seen Wend- ing their way homeward late last night