Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-26
THANKSGIVING PLANS
Observance Of the Day in the
District.
ALL TO GO TO CHURCH
HOW CABINET OFFICERS WILL
SPEND TIE DAY.
Special Kxercises in Houses Of Wor-
ship-Inmates Of Public Insti-
buttons to Have Feast.
ALL TO GO TO CHURCH

Turkey and thanks will enjoy close COM
partnership next Thursday in Washington
as they will elsewhere throughout Uncle
Sans broad domain. The occasion will be
| national holiday by precedent established
at the time of the landing OF the Pilgrim
fathers, and by decree of Theodore Roose-
welt, President of the United States
Thanksgiving Day, 1906
In all the churches and In thousands of
American homes fervent thanks will be Of
fered up to the Creator for the many
blessings the nation has enjoyed in the past
| with equally fervent prayers for the future
| happiness of the great republic and its col
cnies. The President will set the example
to all by attending divine worship. His
official family of cabinet ministers will do
| likewise. Thanksgiving day is typically an
American occasion and 1t Is spent in Amer
| lean fashion. By some it has been termed
the New England or Yankees Christmas,
because perhaps it's first observance was
In old New England at time when the
destinies of this great world power, then in
its infancy. appeared precarious indeed.
Cabinet to Celebrate.
Now that Uncle Sam is full grown and
stalwart and far-reaching. as well as
thankful, he has come to celebrate Thanks
giving with genuine Yankee heartiness for
it means much to him, and he has very
many things to be thankful for.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw informed
| Star reporter last night that he had just
returned to the city and had not given
much thought to just what he would do on
Thanksgiving day. He believed he would
spend the day quietly in his apartments in
| the Arlington, he said. But there is one
| thing he will do, and that is to attend
| Divine worship and give thanks to God for
| the unexampled prosperity of the American
| people.
1 Postmaster General Cortelyou said it was
| his intention to eat his Thanksgiving din
| ner at home, and he added that his entire
family will be home with him, which will
| make the occasion a most pleasurable one
| With the members of his household he will
| attend the services at st. Margaret's Ep s.
copal Church, near his home, where inter-
esting and impressive services will be held
The Secretary of Agriculture, James Will
son. will give thanks both at home and I'M
| the New York Avenue Presbyterian
| Church. of which he is regular attendant
| He will partake Of his Thanksgiving turkey
and pumpkin pie at home.
| Secretary Metcalf of the Department of
| Commerce and Labor will spend the day at
| home, and will join in Thanksgiving, he
| says, in one of the Episcopal Churches.
| Special religious services will be held in
| conformity with precedent and the Presi-
| dents proclamation In all the Washington
| churches. The services at the Washington
| Heights Presbyterian Church will be made
| notable by offerings for the poor to be made
f, by the scholars of the Sunday school, with
| interesting exercises incharge OF the pas
| tor, Rev. w. T. D. Moss.
| To Give for the Poor.
| The poor of Washington will not be
neglected next Thursday, for 1t is the in
| tention of certain Christian workers to pro-
| vide for many of them. The Central Union
| Mission will send out, 1t is expected, about
| 700 baskets laden with provisions for those
| who are unable to provide Thanksgiving
| feasts for themselves. A number of those
| who have no homes will be given dinners
! in the mission building on Louisiana ave-
nue. between 9Th and It'll streets. Long
| tables will be spread also in the rooms of
| the Homeward Bound Mission, 119 Penn
| sylvania avenue northwest, at which ar
| rangements will be made to provide free
| turkey and other choice edibleS for 800
| poor men, women and boys. At both mis-
| sions the feasts will be preceded by divine
worship and short period Of thanksgiving
| to God,
| In Public Institutions.
| Some OF the fraternal orders, too, will see
to it. as on former Thanksgiving days, that
their dependent ones are provided with tur-
key, pumpkin and mince pies and other
| things necessary for feast. So general
| will be the combined spirit of thanksgiving
and charity that even the prisoners in the
| workhouse will be made to feel the con-
| tagion of kindness, as their menu for the
| day will contain dainty dishes that are usu-
| ally strangers to the prison diet.
| In the charitable institutions of the Dis
| triet generally the same liberality will be
| manifested-at the Home for the Aged, con-
Quoted by the Little Sisters of the Poor. at
| ST. Elizabeth's, the almshouse, the hos
| pitals the orphanages, the reform schools
! everywhere thankfulness and generosity
| will be manifested and the afflicted and un-
| fortunate and sinful made happy for the
| nonce.
Dainties in the Market.
| Already the Washington markets are
| taking on an air of Thanksgivingness.
| Plump turkeys, rabbits, geese, chickens,
I yellow pumpkins and rosy apples are in
evidence ON all sides. Local marketmen
| say the Chicago talk which was waited
| this way by telegraph several days ago
| about the prices of turkeys and other fowl
and filings mounting skyward, was much
| like many OF the gratuitous tips that are
| given out on the races-thoroughly unre-
liable Local dealers assert that prices will
| be as low, If not lower, than they were last
| Thanksgiving, excepting possibly potatoes
and apples.
| SAYS that Thanksgiving this year gives
| promise of being anything but an occasion
| Tor giving thanks on the part of the small
| householder, the man who works for liy-
ing or the moderately poor, to say nothing
| of those extremely poor. Not only are
| prices soaring on what may be called the
| celebrant viands of the occasion, but the
| adjunct necessities are also mounting up
| ward at an alarming rate. Inquiries at
markets for all kinds of viands revealed an
increase of from 10 to % per cent over last
| year and in every case the expressed opin-
ion was that present conditions were favor
1 rod to w might he cd
In the immediate future"
"Those conditions may exist in wind
swept Chicago" said local dealer. where
the food trusts roost high but here in
| Washington there will be no such hair
| raising prices and the horn of plenty will
| be turned big end down, at that"