The Washington times., 1904-11-20
Where Public Servants
Dine THANKSGIVING Day
Plans of OffiCiaIdOm for the Feast of Good
Cheer-PreSiden Will Eat and Rum
Taft Under Southern Cross

ing Day. Most Of the day will probably
be spent riding and driving.
President and Mrs Roosevelt leave
for St Louis al midnight on Thanks
giving night
Secretary Shaw's Plans.
il will be a happy Thanksgiving for
! Secretary OF the Treasury Leslie NJ
Shaw. The Iowa Cabinet member is
by nature a genial sort OF man and he
believes In observing national holidays
with due form. Since he has been IN
Washington some of his friends in Iowa
have never failed to send him a large
| fat turkey raised on the rich grain
fields Of the West. The Secretary al
ways has a gathering Of his immediate
friends TO enjoy the feast.
This year he will be ensconced again
at his comfortable home at 1850 Massa-
chusstts Avenue, and the Thanksgiving
dinner will be notable.
The Secretary Will have the satisfae-
/ ton of knowing that the financial inter
ests OF the country under his guidance
have done well. and that the song OF
prosperity Is heard far and wide in the
/ land.
Taft on the High Sea.
Secretary Taft and Mrs. Taft viii eat
Thanksgiving turkey this year on the
! Caribbean, under the Southern Cross,
/ Instead Of a New England Thanksgiving
they Will have the Thanksgiving OF the
/ tropics-blue sky. bluer water, and a
sun so near that it will be impossible 10
dream Of football game.
| 1t viii be a jolly party which Is 10
/ return thanks or board the receiving
/ ship Columbia. bound for Panama. Re
| peated delays in his work made It i'm
possible for the Secretary Of War and
7 his companions to start for Panama ia
/ time TO spend Thanksgiving In the 18th
milan republic. and consequently they
/ viii have a taste Of the experiences
I American sailors have In trying 10
| create Thanksgiving and Christmas
atmosphere with the thermometer Up 70
midsummer heat.
I Admiral Walker, of the canal commits
/ sioni Judge Magoon, the law officer OF
/ the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and VIII
lam Nelson Cromwell viii be among the
party which will sit down 10 turkey
/ and eranberries with the Secretary OF
t War and his wife
! But the Tafts are more fortunate than
| their guests IN that their long residence
/ in the Philippines has accustomed them
/ 10 perpetual summer, and plum padding
! and celery and turkey VIII not seem
strange to them with a sauce Of tropical
heat.
In Southern California.
Acting Secretary Darling. Of the Navy
Department. is another high Government
official who viii pass Thanksgiving in a
climate singuiarly Inharmonious with
the feast the day brings 10 New Eng
/ land
Judge Darling and Mrs. Daring are
now on the Pacific Coast, and win be
I in southern California. where roses viii
/ be in bloom, on Thanksgiving Day. The
( Darlings are natives Of Vermont. where
the day usually brings snow and tenn
peraJure which would make Washing
tonians shiyer even at Christmas time.
/ Assistant Secretary LOOMS. Of the
State Department viii pass the day
with his family at his home on Lafay-
cite Square.
Commissioners Dinners.
/ Commissioner Macfarland. following
/ his custom, viii attend with Mrs. Mac
I farland the Church OF the Covenant in
! the morning, From there they viii go
/ 10 the Central Union Mission. where a
Thanksgiving dinner is served every year
I TO the poor. Mrs MacfaFland is es-
peciaily interested IN this zvent.
/ I'm the evening they will have a family
reunion al their home at dinner.
| Commissioner West viii spend the
! morning I'm plaving golf on the Column
/ bia links After that he VIII dine ar
home with his family.
/ Colonel Biddle. the Engineer Com
4 missioner. has as yet made no plans for
! his Thanksgiving Day. He viii probably
dine in the city with some of his many
/ friends.