New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-24
FOR THANKSGIVING JOYS.
CROWDS LEAVE THE CITY.
Plans for HoHday-Special Services
IN Churches.


Thanksgiving, thronged the Grand Central Station
yesterday. Suit Uttered the waiting room
floor, and almost everybody, old young, carried
at least paper covered package Candy stores
and tohacconists in the neighbOrhood of the station
made enough money from travellers yesterday
cause them to give thanks for Thanksgiving. II
all the candy brought into the railway station
Yesterday had been placed on one train there would
not have been room for a single passenger, accord
ing to the estimate of one station employe of
mathematical turn of mind The florists, too. did
a rushing business
The Thanksgiving crowd made UP OF all
sorts and conditions OF people. One old man, with
silvered hair attracted some attention by the pack
age he carried. He bore 1t proudly under his arm.
in evident Inconsistencies of the fact that the
long neck and reproachful looking head of a tur-
key had wormed its way through the end OF the
package,
On the New-York New-Haven and Hartford
Railroad trains the rush the heaviest but the
New-York Central trains also well filled. Be
tween the hours of and a. m. the crowds be-
came great that trains unable to pull out
of the station until minutes after schedule
time. Ticket agents. guards and baggage hands
were utterly exhausted last night by the
of work
Following a custom of years standing many
clerks in the Federal Building shook dice for four
twenty-pound Thanksgiving turkeys yesterday af-
ternoon. United States Marshal Henkel who has
a large and growing family. and Commissioner
Shields failed to get
In the rotunda of the Custom House the annual
turkey presentation TO William Phillips. a favorite
attendant there, made There were about
three hundred Custom House brokers who had
contributed for the turkey. and they had much
fun making Phillips mount the marble counter and
deliver speech. After the speech Phillips
asked to sing. The old negro essayed Way Down
Upon the Suwanee River but his voice broke in
a high treble and then the crowd took up the
song lower down and finished it with him.
Pupils Of the public schools of Jersey City car
rled offerings Of poultry meat, vegetables fruits.
flour and pastry charitable societies which sup
Fly the needs of orphans. The children en-
thusiastic in the work. and frequently the smaller
children were seen struggling with packages al
most as large themselves.
Thanksgiving Day Is one of the few in the year
that the enlisted of the navy look forward to
much children anticipate Christmas. About five
hundred marines quartered az the barracks will
have turkey. in spite of the fact that they were
bought at q cents pound cranberry sauce apples
and pies in addition the other usual foods. such
as bread and butter. mashed potatoes and other
vegetables. That which is said OF the Thanksgiving
dinner for the marines applies also to the 300 en-
listed men scattered about the battleships
Kearsarge, Kentucky, Illinois and Texas the cruis
ers Chattanooga. Tacoma and CuIgoa. the receiving
ship Hancock. the torpedo boat WinsIow and the
tugs After the dinner there will be football games
between the teams of the Kearsarge and the Texas
and the Illinois the Kentucky.
At nearly all the churches to-day there will be
Church. in Fiftyseventh-st., will be decorated this
year. There Will be attractive music. and DIR.
Macarthur will preach on Americas Great Place
Among the Nations Cause for Thanksgiving.
A union Thanksgiving service between St Pauls
Methodist Episcopal Church and the Park Presby-
terrain Church. will be held at the first named
church. West End-ave. and Eighty-sxth-st.. at IL
The Rev Dr. Mackenzie will preach Thanks
giving sermon at II o'clock at the Rutgers Presby-
tprfa prcaf nd VII ST
ard the choir will sing appropriate music.
At St Bartholomews Church, Mad!son-ave. and
Forty-fOurth-st, the Rev Leighton Parks will
At the Thanksgiving service at All Souls Uni
tartan Church. Fourth-aVe. and IWentleth-st, the
Rev: MiEot J. Savage will preach at IL o'clock on
A uhion Thanksgiving Day service. consisting of
the congregations of the Fifth Avenue Collegiate
Church, the Marble Collegiate Church. the Grace
Reformed Church and the Vermilye Chapel. will
be held at the Collegiate Church. F1fth-ave. and
the Rev Dr.. Donald Sage Mackay. win conduct the
churches. The sermon will be preached by the
Rey Or David j. Burrell pastor Of. Of the Marble
HONG %as;@ It's ?snse5s AND and ssfsgnards ~
a. The RD Dr. hs a a f. aasre T
At the Collegiate Church Vest End-aye., a
union service with the Boomngdale Reformed
Church will be held. the Rev. DR. William c. Stin-
At the Collegiate Reformed Church, second7ay Z,
and Seventh-St., the Thanksgiving service VIII be
at 1890, with sermon by the Rev Dr. Edward
terrain ChHrch Fftn-ave and Twelfth-st,, the
choir furnishing special music for the Thanksgiv-
4t the Fifth Avenue BAPTIST church, No. West
the Res i1.' K f p. johnston o H " "
Many Of the Jewish synagogues have prepared
elaborate ThSnksgyhg services t h TcmGle Bnt
Jeshurun Madison-ave. and Sixty-ffth-st.. the eX-
Mayor Asher. rabbi Of the congregation and pro
lessor of homietics in the Jewish Theological Semi
4bawath Chesad shaar Hashomayim Lexington
ave. and Fifty-ffth-st.. will preach the Thanks
Home BROADWAY and One-hundred and thirty
eighth-st. \ special programme has been prepared
Israel Bikur ChoIm East Seventy second-st and
Lexington-ave, Rabbi Aaron Eiseman Will deliver
There viii be the customary number OF dinners
given by charitable persons and 3FganzauGms no
According to the weather man. Ihanksgivlng Day
will he unpleasant Rain is promised for this morn m
OF the afternoon will change the rain TO sunshine
and give the early diners chance to take an out
States on Tuesday. has been moving rapidly, and
late last night was reported creeping up the At
The average temperature yesterday 46, which
was degrees higher than for the corresponding
drop from the temperature of yesterday. to-day
| wifi he the warmest Thanksgiving in twenty-five
| years.
WHERE TO EAT THANKSGIVING DINNERS
For the benefit Of the stranger and the wayfarer
unucky enough to have to spend Thanksgiving
Day this city the leading restaurants and hotels
| have prepared special Thanksgiving dinners OF
course. the proverbiaI turkey an fxn's form the
| base Of them all but the gastronomic interest in
the real national bird is further enhanced nearly
all places by such delectable things Kenue-
| becl, salmon. Maryland terrapn. broied quail and
| sucking pig
At the St Denis, Broadway and Eleventh-st a
| table dhote dinner will he served from 10 for
81 %. AT the Terrace Garden. Ffty-eghth-st. near
Gird- a ma he had vyh