New-York tribune., 1905-12-01
ONLY THE CRUMBS LEFT
MUCH FOR GR4TITUDE.
0nly the Tiger and the "YeHou
Dog" Failed to Rejoice.

n all New-York this morning there Is moth
- that bears resemblance to turkey but
t-a.bers wings and pronged feet with per-
- few scraps of the dark meat in boarding
eos which viii probably be served UP as
=, before night The massacre was COM
-,.+e and an entire generation of turkeys
s wiped out satisfy Gotham's Thanks
..rinr appetite. Even the birds who had
go an icy refuge in the cold storage ware
..,ses were hailed forth at the last moment.
-. the demand was greater than ever be-
fore
r vas day of real Thanksgiving for nearly
.rerv one Of the millions who dwell in the
- boroijghs For those who could not afford
=. r,irkey-c-anberry combination which is
s,,,onnlous with Thanksgiving. charitable per-
.ors and organizations provided more than one
srndred thousand square meals, and those
Tho sal down at the feasts pinched themselves
,,ata sure that it was not all dream, and
.,6 they had something to be thankful for
after ali.
7, reviewing bis reasons for thankfulness
.hs soid citizen discovered that he had more
.srious ones than usual There was the
rssIity Of independence in municipal politics,
rbicb was shown to be a possibility in the last
lA,,ion. There was the vision of ballot re-
to-n7 and a law preventing corrupt compaign
,sctices. which would make largely for bet
+sr government. If he was a policyholder he
copli give thanks for opened eyes ana the
-osnact OF lower premiums and bigger divi-
5snds as thu result of the insurance reform
bicb i under way. If he was lover OF
,eacs his mIod could dwell the ending OF
,ba Russian-.t panese struggle and the part
his cclI7try played therein. If none OF these
tbt,es moved him, sure be could give thanks
%, tie crisp. biting winter weather, which
ture.d out appettces as though it had been
manufacturing them for trust.
TIGER GLAD IT WASN'T WORSE.
81 =, there were any quarters from which
THANKSGIVING did not come from the bottom
of tsi heart il was In 14th-st.. where the
Tsamany tiger ia nursing its municipal own
.rsnIo wounds. and in the circles Of high
ansrce where insurance officials are wonder
Ing il Chief Inqu!sitor Hughes will ever reach
the erd o. the rope he is winding about them
But both the Tiger and the Insurance presi-
dent knowing the inside OF their respective
activities must have been thankful that their
affairs are not in worse shape.
The dispensing Of free turkey meals began
almost as soon as the midnight bells struck
the hour and announced another Thanksgiving
Day The rain clouds OF the early. evening
scurried out over the Atlantic, the stars came
figure which tradition holds should prevail
on the last Thursday of November. There
was a scurrying of men in tattered clothes
along the Bowery in the first hour OF the day.
They were headed for the Bowery Mission. at
No. So where the first winter breakfast of
the year was served. These breakfasts will
be given out every morning until Easter but
none will find more hungry men than gathered
on Thanksgiving morning.
From daylight until noon countless wagons
impressed into service by various charitable or
carnations clattered about the streets delivering
the raw materials of hundreds of Thanksgiving
feasts 10 the homes of the poor. Experience
has shown that baskets delivered on Wednesday
are likely to be empty by Thursday morning and
the families in mourning because there is no
Thanksgiving dinner.
FEAsTING AND JOLLITY EVERYWHERE.
New-York has many strange Thanksgiving
feasts, but none more so than the dinner which
Sheriff ErIanger caused to be served to pris-
oners confined in the Ludlow-st. Jail. This feast
was at 1890 o'clock, and If there was finer din
aer served in New York the Sheriff would like to
meet the chef. He sat down at the board in
person with several official guests. The pris-
oners were afterward amused by professional
singers and dancers from East Side theatres.
Another unusual celebration of the day was
held on Ellis Island, where one hundred German
citizens were the guests of Robert ~Watchorn
United States Commissioner of Immigration 1t
was a reception TO the Heinebund Singing So
ciety, and all that part of the harbor about the
island rang with the deep German choruses of
praise and thanksgiving. Many of the immi-
grants now held the island are from the
Fetherland. and their joy at such songs as Fink
enschag" caused them to break into choruses of
helr own, though their hearts were half filled
with fear Of being deported.
II the Torbs prison 43 prisoners tried hard to
forget their misery and solitude by eating the
oountful dinner provided by the warden. About
i o. the waEden's guests received special din
neTs fram thei- friends the outside. The
french colony sent an eiaborately prepared din
heT 70 Bertha Claiche, the young French woman
accused Of killing her lover. ]. II. Bauer con-
aIcted OF murder IL the second degree FOR killing
ihonas Corcorau and disnlembering his body
was cared for by his counsel. John w. Wooten
ana David RothSchild We're not forgotten. s5#
Some Of the Tomb5 prisoners refused to eat.
samuel X. EIenbogen the Tammany election
district district captain sentenced to Sing Sing for per-
Iurg, ate hardly bite all day. tom" Foley
sSnI word that anything ne desired would be
@ eaL 70 him, but the prisoner refused to accept
At the Brooklyn branch of the Naval Y NJ. C.
a seven hundred sailors from the ships at the
navy yard were the guests Of Miss Helen Gould
a. q q turkey dinner which far surpassed any that
were served on shipboard. After the serious
business Of satisfying their sea going appetites
9 -aa been accomplished the sailors made merry
M song, dance and monologue until late in the
afternoon
There were half dozen dinners for newsboys
including that given 10 five hundred youngsters
a the Newsboys' Lodging House IN New Cham
UEefs-st at the expense of w. w. Astor. Some of
me oder boys managed 10 get in on two or three
QlnIers by sdlfully planning their engage
.eents One OF them, full after third turkey
Snlner that he could hardly walk declared that
he would not have TO eat for a week Another
Vas taken to Bellevue in an ambulance 10 re-
cover from the effects of putting four cranberry
pss on an empty stomach.
WHAT BECAME OF MANY TURKEYS.
The Municipal Lodging House. IN 23d-st. pro-