New-York tribune., 1905-12-01

prudent to allow at large received equally
hearty a dinner
AT the Five Points House of Industry dinners
We're served to one thousand homeless Children
In addition to those in the institution.
All the hospitals remembered the unfortunate
under their AT the Catholic Protectory
the two thousand boys under the care of the
christian Brothers found place for $500
pounds of turkey. Mother Superior Antoninus
presided in the female department, where seven
hundred little mouths were satisfied. At all the
branches of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton there was merrymaking and Thanksgiving.
The two hundred children at Father Drum
gooles mission. in Great Jones-st, were taken
to Mount Loretta, Staten Island. for their
Thanksgiving dinner.
The City Mission. at No 334 Broone-st.
maintained by, the Protestant Episcopal Church
sent out two hundred basket dinners besides
entertaining 1,500 men and women at dinner
in the mission.
Exercises in celebration of Thanksgiving Day
and in commemoration Of the 250th anniversary
Of the settlement of Jews In America were held
by the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum,
ar Amsterdam-aVe. and 136th-st.
Fffth-ave. was nearly free yesterday from raga-
mullins and their Thanksgiving begging opera
tions. An effort was made early in the week
In many OF the public schools TO discourage the
children from going out under the protection
of false faces and begging in the street The
school authorities say that many of the children
are not far removed from conditions where seri-
Gus begging is attractive, and that they should
be discouraged from getting taste Of it on
thanksgiving. There were fewer children in the
streets yesterday but perhaps the icy blasts
which cruised up and down 5th-ave. and Broad
way had more to do with it than the plain talks
which the school teachers gave them.
EAST SIDE CELEBRATED
The observance Of the day on the East Side was
fully as general as in any other part of the city
The newly arrived Jew takes to Thanksgiving
quicker than to any other national holiday.
Christmas has no meaning for him. because it is
not of his religion! New Years. likely noc
does not correspond TO the calendar with which
ne IS acquainted: of the events leading to the
Fourth of July he has little or knowledge;
but he can understand and appreciate Thanks
giving. He has many things to be thankful for,
ever though in dire poverty This year he IS
particularly thankful that he has escaped from
Russia. even though there is a touch of sadness
III his heart for the unfortunates still! on the
wrong side of the barbed wire fenced frontier.
] he turkey markets were still busy on the East
Side yesterday morning, for many live Sc cloSe to
the rule of hand to mouth that they had not the
money with which to purchase Thanksgiving
supplies until this morning In the ghetto, as z
rule. turkeys are sold alive, that the killing may
be conducted in true kosher style. This rather
complicated purchases. for few turkeys We're
small and skinny enough to come within the
purse of the East Side housewife.
Three women who live on the Same floor of
Hester-st tenement house solved the problem by
clubbing together and buying a turkey As
their families averaged nine members each, the
carving OF that turkey after 1t had been killed
according to ritual was a problem. The row
started over the allotment of one OF the drum
sticks, and for time riot ragged through the
tenement house. policeman was finally called
in to complete the division.
It was a small boy at one of the settlement
dinners wha reversed with pertinent question
the old proverb Of every cloud having silver
lining After stuff1ng himself with good things
until his eyes bulging and filling his pockets
with dressing, he went UP to the head worker
with a troubled look and demanded:
What has the turkey to be thankful torE
at is more blessed to give than to receive,
quoted the Settlement man.
Enough is plenty" SAID the lad. L III slau
cd he