The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-11-28

such plan should he lNIWU
put into operation and H8TM
you and yours forced WJW
into the spotlight of
p"oncNS because you gave Chanks in too
p'ar'y manner Indications a few DAYS
peiore the memorable holiday suggested
ho corner In the turkey market in the
..uuie west, and FOR that reason the king
p, Vi 'he thanksgiving meal was attain.
aoie among those who perhaps a wear
ago were not so fortunate when the
birds were higher in price.
With over 100000 persons giving
thanks-perhaps 100000 don't know
WYNN these United States there are
o,ooo'ooo turkeys consumed on Thanks.
giving day. The preparation of the birds -.
toi the table Is one of the country's great LII
INDUSTRIES TOT several months before the n -
gruoiest takes place. Roast pig. duck s.
geese and chickens are also sandwiched u
III as thanksgiving delicaces, and their
preparation for market and the festive
poaru Is also big proposition to the
men who do the work r"
SiXty.seven years ago the Both Of No =.
vember was the first Thanksgiving dav
ever appointed for and observed in Chi.
cago; observed, be il said by the neonIe
generally. There probably were in the
population of between 1000 and OOO
souls as many New Englanders as tbere ~
were New Workers or Pennsylvanians or
ohioahs OF southerners, and some among =
those from New England remembered Z
the old home custom of giving specioI
thahks ana spreading an extra bountiful mea
on the last Thursday in November and pri
Nately observed II. But by the large majorit
OF the inhabitants It was entirely ignored n
~ IL
The New England influence. however, was III
most active of any and soon was the controllin
element. In 1S41 it was sufficiently yirile +
introduce and establish the annual Thanksgi,
ing as an institution.
SiXty'four years are but few in the life of III
institutions of a city or country, but I'm thi
case the period carries one back to within |
years of the incorporation of Chicago.
In 1S41 the fifth mayor Francis C. Sherman
was in the chair of municipal state. A natiy
of Connecticut, he was of Puritan ancestr
and had been brought up in reverence of tn
religious and social customs of New England
He came TO Chicago in 1884, when the legal
organized town was one year old and at ono
started in the business of keeping a boarc
ing house The first year he was in this bus
ness he observed the Connecticut Thanksgivin
by giving his boarders the first Thanksgiyin
dinner ever provided In Illinois.
To facilitate matters he had not the best @
education--he betimes sent TO Buffalo for bal
rel of good apple cider, which was frequent
used on this occasion.
But this humble occupation of boardinl
house Boniface did not content him for Ions
He had worked at brickmaking in Connection
and Just then good bricks We're much needle
in Chicago, and he was just the man to suppl
them There was available clay without goin
farther for II than to where Adams and Marke
streets now cross each other and there he Sc
up his kiln The first good house made of hi
bricks was his own. II was built in LAX
street, near Clark. He had now become
leading citizen. He took a good citizens II
terest in public affairs and had political inhl
ence.
This Puritan born, this giver Of the frs
THANKSGIVING dinner in Chicago, waited bu
four years till he took his turn in the mayo
atty.
And he made his occupancy of the ofic
memorable by ordering his official clerk Thon
as Hoyne to draw up the first proclamatio
of a public Thanksgiving ever seen in the ives
Mayor Sherman's Thanksgiving as tn
majority of the citizens dersiyely called 4
was gladly observed by every New Englan
family in the place, but that was the eXten
of its observance. Christmas was already
greater day in New York than Thanksgiving
and in the other Atlantic states out OF Ne'
England and in the southern states Thanks
giving WAS mostly unknown. Settlers iron