The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-22
NEW YORK'S
 THANKSGIVING It Is City's Most Chari-
 table Occasion. ONE MILLION FOWLS Thousands Get Only Square
 
A Reward of sle,oOo oneEsa For a Real Live eho.t sho~. That
 The Ghost Market Is Looking

New York. Nov 21--one million tur- keys. ducks and other fowl are on their way. to supply the Thanksgiving half as many quarts of cranberries will be needed here to furnish the es- sentiaI accompainment of the great the estimate of wholesale dealers in these supplies. Moreover the good things to eat will be pore evenly di- vided among the wfiole population than they are on any other occasion. There are two hundred thousand per sons in New York who never get q square meal except once a year-~-on veteran worker for one of the city's charitable organizations. Of course not all this great army is made up of unemployed or dependent persons. but underfed. On Thanks giving Day. however, 1t is the proud boast of Father Knickerbocker that nobody need go hungry within his gates
 Dinners at each of which thousands are. fed are given by charitable insti- tutions, by public and religious asso-l citations and by Tammany politicians like the Sullivans of the lower East Side who this year are planning a feed" for some three thousand Bowery- ites, regardless of political afifliations al though that usually may be taken for granted. The diners of this sort als ready announced wili be sufficient for fully seyenty-five thousand persons while the free basket meals distribut- ed to poor families in the tenements probably will aggregate an equal num- ber Aside from all this there are , thousands of well-to-do men and wom- en who make practice of supplying Thanksgiving cheer to a number of families less fortunately circumstanc- ed. This form of help will reach fifty thousand more. so that 1t Is safe to say that practically nobody in New York will be suffering from hunger on Thanksgiving Day, a condition that could not Re duplicated on any other day in the year. Even the iEnmi grants Sn Ellis Island get their first iptfo- duefion to the typieaf American holf- day by a rousing dinner in mwhiui tur@ key and cranberry sauce eHgure. It Is characteristic of New York to pay ? special attention to the favorits Thanksgiving Day form of charity for there Is DO. city in the country where good eating and plenty of it is held in higher esteem. @ f& e3 The latest quotations on ghusts show that a req spook is worth 310,oO0 in cash to any one who can produce him and put minor her--throughf paces which will absolutely establish his autehenticity beyond the question of a oouDt. OnIy 0 IeW months ago ClaEA University offered $5.000 for the cap- ture of real ghost. Now the Metro politan Physical Society in this city has offered an equal sum for ghost that can count up to twenty. All that a ghost has to do to get this money for the medium by whom he Is con- trolied-for'a ghost obviously couldn't use the money--is to be successful in one simple test. This test consists in enabling the medium to tell how many oranges from bag containing twsns ty have been poured on table. the medium not to look at the table. So far the net results show that lemons should have been chosen. for such famous mediums as Bright Eyess" Princess" and Big Chief have not been able to interest their ghostIy adorers in the matter. The psychical society, however. is perfectly serious in its offer, as is Clark University, in its. President Stanley Hall of the lat ter institution Is apparently a bit of 8 skeptic in this matter. however, If one may judge from an article on spooks which he contributes, to Apple