Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-25
SUNNY SKIES TO
GREET HOLIDAY
BALMY AIRS PREDICTED FOR
THANKSGIVING HEEE
CHURCHES WILL HOLD UNION
SERVICES IN MORNING
Generous Baskets of Food and Good
Cheer Are Passed Out to the
Poor by Charitable
Organizations

Organizations
Thanksgiving day, the great and dis
tinctly American holiday of the year.
participated In by Americans only, but
by them the world over, will receive It's
time-honored celebration in Los Ange-
les today amid a bower of blossoms
and beauty, beneath skies that bid fair
to rival those of sunny Italy.
While the east is in snow and sleet.
Los Angeles will shine forth in flowers
land greenery, and throughout the land
the turkey will be king of the day, oc-
cupying the place of honor on all Ia
bles.
In observing the spirit of the day and
i'm commemoration of the custom estab-
lished on the other shore of this coun-
try, religious services of thanksgiving
| will occupy the morning hours. The
various Protestant churches have
Joined in arranging union services IN
different sections of the city, all of
which will be held at 10:30 o'clock, In
order to allow the good housewife to
return in time to prepare the feasts.
Union Service Scheduled
The majority of Episcopal churches
will unite in a union service IN ST.
PauPs pro-cathedral at 10;S0 o'clock,
and o'clock will be the hour of special
masses in each of the Catholic churches
Of the city.
At the Temple B'nai Birth q Thanks
giving service will be held at lO:SO
o'clock, conducted by DR.. S. Hecht,
rabbi Of the temple, who will make an
address Lucius L. Solomon of San
Francisco also will make an address.
The presidents Thanksgiving procia-
nation will be read and an elaborate
Iza dAH d.hN
musical program VIII be rehuereo py
the temple quartet.
Nor on this general day of thanksgiv-
ing will the poor and unfortunate go
| cheerless, for 5000 needy men, women
and children will be given good, sub
stantiaI Thanksgiving dinners today by
the Salvation Army, volunteers OF
America and the rescue missions or
Los Angeles. The numbers Will be
about equally divided between these in
stitutions.
For several weeks the two former or
ganizations have been collecting
Thanksgiving funds by means of con-
tribution boxes on the street corners.
The missions received their funds
through contributions.
Generous Baskets Filled
Yesterday at 2 p. m. the Salvation
Army headquarters at corps No. 2,
Wilmington street, were overrun with
eager, hungry men and women await
ing his or her turn by ticket to receive
the we'll filled baskets of substantial
food, with dainties for dessert, which
would insure a hearty Thanksgiving
feast. These baskets of provisions aV-
eraged twenty-five pounds each.
When some of the children who came
in place of their elders tried to carry
them they were simply foored, and
were compelled to be helped by strong
er persons. But all was carried out
with remarkable system during the dis
tribution of the $50 baskets which the
army gave out. The baskets were dis
tributed through the medium of tick
: cts, on which were written the names
of those receiving the food after their
cases had been investigated regarding
their financial conditions.
Major and Mrs. Alfred Harris and
their assistants were busy In the care
of the throngs and the distribution OF
the baskets that will feed approximate
ly 1900 people today.
Volunteers Also Busy
The Volunteers of America passed
through similar ordeal as did the
Salvation Army at their headquarters,
12S East First street, in charge of Ma
jor and Mrs. Hughes and their assist
ants, In making glad their quota of
needy persons in providing what will be
sumptuous dinners.
These institutions furnished a chicken
in each basket with potatoes and vege-
tables, -four, bread and butter, pies and
fruits.
The Union Rescue mission has made
preparations to supply regular dinners
to 1900 persons at the mission rooms.
las North Main street. The dinner will
be served continuously from IL a. m. to
p. M, without money and without
price Religious services will be held
preceding the dinner in the mission
hall The dinner will be under the su
Pervision of superintendent and Mrs.
c. w. Trotter and their assistants from
among the mission workers.
Street Services Planned
The speakers for the services preced-
ing the dinner will include o. d. Con-
rey, N. S. McClarken, e. r. Leary and
G. W. Trotter. Music will be rendered
by Miss Hazel Metz, Lindley Bryant
and others.
The mission wagon will be on the
streets during the day, holding ser~ ~ces
and gathering in from the highways
and byways the hungry for the dinner.
At the City Rescue mission, 606 East
Fifth street, Superintendent e. E. Lea
ry will celebrate the third anniversary
of the mission today with appropriate
services and will furnish meals to his
} quota of the hungry of the city.
At Bethlehem Institutional church a
service will be held at II o'clock at
The families of the neighborhood were
supplied with baskets of food fur
nished by Bethlehem church yesterday.
, Sale at Holy Cross
J A Thanksgiving day sale was opened
last evening on the grounds of the Holy
! Cross church, Forty-seventh and Main
! streets, to continue over today, with
, the service of a bountiful Thanksgiving
dinner by the women of the parish.
? Several beautiful booths had been ar
ranged and a large tent erected on the
grounds, where the pretty maids of the
, parish presided, beguiling money for
the church funds through the medium
, of fancy articles for sale.
The Children of Mary had charge or
an elaborate candy booth, Elizabeth
Hagan leading, assisted by Marie Pre-
ter, Lorena Gross, Eliza Gonzalez and
Agnes Morris.
Today the Thanksgiving dinner will
be served in the parish house. following
} the church services. This win be under
, the auspices of the Ladies' Altar So
) ciety. with Mrs. ]. Olivere in charge,
assisted by Mines. r. Gross, NJ. McLain
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