New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-27

OF Personal Service sent out one hundred ana nIty
dinners to needy families near the home IN East
sd street and one hundred and thirty dinners we're
TO children. The New York City Protestant
Episcopal Mission Society distributed two hundred
and fifty dinners In baskets to poor families near
the mission. No so Broome street, and gave Iree
dinner for nearly one thousand men.
There were no services in the Tombs, but there
turkey for each prisoner. {. W. Morse dlo
not partake of the prison fare. Like Jan Jan
off Pouren and Sarah Koten. he was visited by
relatives friends. who brought dinners VII"
them. Mr.. Morse's two called In the morn
ing and Mrs. Morse called in the afternoon III Is
against the rules to admit visitors on hondays OUT
an exception made in these instances Essex
Market prisoners enjoyed a good dinner ana an
entertainment.
At Ludlow street jail there were Teasing an
entertainment and cigars for the prisoners lre
Jefferson Market inmates listened to services De-
fore they received liberal portion or TURKEY -"
Blackwells Island there was feasting ana III 'ii0
penitentiary there vaudeville entert en-
In the other prisons there were extra hoeral on-
ners-
While all these entertainments partook OF a GER
tain novelty they did not compare with me ceieo,
tons at the downtown missions, especiaiS at e'lo
Doyers Street Mission of the New \ orh hes'''
cIaty About thousand OF the hunsriest men i"
Chinatown crowded the narrow street houis DC
fore the time set for the dinner. 1t was hetli'
midnight before the last wayfarer LETT the M
sion with a sigh of satisfaction Sohe %
plates used had been lent ny tis 'h''S'
and bore its monogram. The food was conulou'eu
by the Hotel Belmont, the Plaza 81 F>ess anu
others.
No entertainment received more applause than
the one at the West Side Lodging House, In WHICH
the boys took part, or the vaudevihe proe'ai'ii
sI,-en at the Newsboys' Lodging House
At the Sailors Snug Harbor six hundred mariners
had no occasion TO remember the salt horse OF lohS
Cruises of the olden times. They had more turkey
than they could eat with plum duff and other soou
things. In the evening there was n1Hslcai e"'
tainnnent in which sea songs predominated'
Over in Brooklyn the public institutions the mis-
sions and hospitals provided entertainment WIN d
liberal hand At the ANY yard there was special
provision for the DAYS observance. and at Gov
ernor's Island turkey was the principal feature OF
the bill OF fare.
Many business houses gave turkeys to employees
but none exceeded Huylers, whose two thousand
employees each received especially fat turkey
Joe Levy. the Duke of Essex Street, gave SIX
hundred turkeys to his friends
At the Hebrew Orphan Asylum the boys had a
feast and then gave drill audience before
going 10 the big hall where moving pictures were
shown The Hebrew Shetering Guardian Society
entertained seven hundred children at dinner and
with moving picture show. At the Montefore
Home Jacob H. Scnin. the president, made snort
address, and after the dinner the children in the
home were entertained.
In the largest school the city. No. 1ss, the SIX
thousand pupils held Thanksgiving Day exercises.
at which the Rev. DR.. Silverman presented por-
trait of Randolph Guggenheimer to the school
II was estimated that the Thanksgiving Day bills
for dinners would TO S-5n00o. That en-
braces the actual cost Of the food and not the
prices charged