The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-25
UNIVERSAL CHEER
FOR NEWARKERS ON
THANKSGIVING DAY
None May Escape Obeisance at
the Shrine of the Ma
tiOnai Bird.
TABLES WILL GROAN in
HITHERTO HUNGRY HOMES
Religious and Social Phases of
National Holiday Also Well
Planned For.

Never before in the history of the city
have such elaborate plans been made
for the celebration of Thanksgiving
as this year. Every man. woman and
child in the city may find cheer for
mind and body in the elaborate pro-
gram planned by dozens of churches,
orders, societies, fraternities and char
table organizations. Besides the fea-
ture of the day. a big Thanksgiving
dinner, in which all may participate,
there will be tonight and tomorrow
events almost innumerable in society.
athletics, sports and recreation of all
kinds.
Greater Newark will dine on turkey.
From the bay to the mountains, from
the salt meadows to the green pas
lures of Union county. the fragrant
aroma of roasting fowl will lend flavor
to a cloud of steaming gravy, and
every man, woman and child who will
la partake of the national bird and
be happy.
For a week past, according to vital
statistics, there has been heavy NOR
tally in the ranks of the feathered
kingdom. Chickens, ducks and turkeys
have been massacred to make an
American holiday. but for the most
part the name of the victim has been
turkev.
Good Cheer for All.
No one need go hungry. Everyone
can a v an old-~fashioned, down-the-
country Thanksgiving dinner, with
turkey and cranberry sauce aplenty,
If he will only make his wants known.
Among those who will go hungry
rather than ask the agents of half a
dozen charities have been busy for the
past week, preparing baskets with
tempting contents for the annual feast.
Between four hundred and five nun
dred homeless boys, street urchins,
newsies. bootblacks and orphans will
sit down to a table laden with good
things al the headquarters of the Chill
dren's Aid Society, at 249 Mulberry
street. None will be turned away.
1--WE want the boys whose hands are
soiled, whose clothes are ragged and
whose hair Is unkempt. Each of this
class who come may eat until he ant
contain more said Superintendent
Jared w. Kimball today. And, for
fear that we may not have enough to
supply all the boys, 1 want to ask the
people of Newark, through THE EVE
MING STAR. to contribute whatever
they can for the dinner"
Three hundred men and women who
would otherwise go hungry will be
given a glorious spread at the Rescue
Home, on Liberty street. Twelve New
ark men, whose gifts were made anony-
mously. are the donors of the feast. In
the evening the inmates will be enter
tained by a brass band at the home.
Inner Distributed to Needy.
The Salvation Army will give away
baskets containing ample provisions for
a good Thanksgiving dinner to a num-
Der of families throughout the city.
No family applying for help will be re-
fused, 1t was said today.
The Associated Charities has been the
means of distributing hundreds of
Thanksgiving dinners to needy families.
Requests for names have poured into
the bureau from churches. schools and
individuals by the score. Many din
ners have been distributed by agents
of the bureau in addition to such re-
quests.
Pupils of The public schools have in
many cases raised subscriptions for
Thanksgiving dinners, which will be
distributed early tomorrow.
at liC SOuiity Jdi, 81 Cily JdllS diiu
municipal Institutions the inmates will
be given dinners such as are placed be-
fore them but once a year.
Every Church Door Open.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union, acting with the Open Door Mis-
sion, expects to provide Thanksgiving
dinners for nan worthy poor today
and tomorrow. Donations of turkeys,
vegetables, ETC., for the Inner are be-
ing received by Mrs. Sarah D. Pierce,
president of the Union, at its head
quarters at Mulberry and Market
streets. The doors of every church and
in the city will swing open
to receive the worshippers. Special
services will be held throughout the
city in the morning. to be followed by
many and varied forms of entertain
, ,nent in the afternoon and evening.
I>ancing and a general good time will
then prevail.
thanksgiving Day masses will be
celebrated in all of the Catholic