New-York tribune., 1910-11-24

past blessings, but of day which bring.
them one or more square meals, though
provided by charity. These are the parties
of the second part.
And the third and smallest division, but
containing the true thanksgivers, is made
up of those whose gratitude for the ability
to give shines from their souls like the sun,
hlotting from consciousness smaller
thoughts and emotions.
The latter are a goodly host in reality
and growing. This wear they will feed
tens Of thousands in spite of the soaring
price of turkey. due to the cut-throat COM
petftion In gratitude the country over At
the head of the list in point Of time is the
Childrens Aid Society
Feasts for 10000 Youngsters.
Yesterday this organization fed ten thou
sand children. pupils in its industrial
schools scattered about the city. which
will be closed to-day. turkey dinner
was served in each school at noon, and
during the afternoon entertainments took
the place Of lessons. To-day the two thou
sand inmates of its seven boys lodging
houses of which the Newsboys' Home. In
New Chambers street, is the most famous
will be the guests of the society at turkey
dinners, as will the one hundred and fifty
girls in it's one girls lodging house and
the one hundred and fifty boys a Brace
Farms School, in Nalhalla.
The Bowery Mission led off at o'clock
this morning with hot feed for the
members of its bread line" Hundreds Of
dispirited huks slipped their noorings in
doorways and dark passages to stand shiv-
ering in single file for a chance to fill out
their baggy rags with the turkey and coffee
provided by this benevolent institution, ana
no doubt some will return, and be vel
come. for one of the Thanksgiving baskets
which the mission will distribute to a thou
sand or more needy applicants at o'clock.
The mission believes in following up its
advantage. for at $50 o'clock in the even
ing there will be gathering of the broth
erhood.'' and at 7:45 it will serve its regu-
lar Thanksgiving dinner, followed by an
evening of entertainment.
The city itself will play the generous
host. as in former years. In the City Hos
pital, Metropolitan Hospital and Home for
the Aged and Infirm, Blackwells ISL
and, $500 patients will gobble turkeys
which can no longer gobble themselves.
In the City Schools and Hospital for Chill
dren, on Randall's Island. the municipal
ity will feed 1,6OO unfortunate youngsters
and in Kings County Hospital, in Cumber-
land Hospital. in the Coney Island Hos
pita1 and in the Home for Aged and In
firm, all in the Borough of Brooklyn about
500 will be Father knickerbocker's guests
Open House on Big Scale.
And all this fails to include the bounty
of the splendid new Municipal Lodging
House at 18th street and the East River
BY noon the line of destitute citizens seek
ing admission 10 the feast provided there
will reach up TO First avenue and by sun
down Superintendent Moore and his assist
ants Will have Cheered the innards of over
thousand.
A hundred at g. time will be admitted
to the joys of the dining hall and their
cups of coffee will be kept full by busting
attendants while they surround the indis-
pensable bird and the indispensable fixin s
AS many as please too, may return for a
second or a third meal, SO long as they
take their place at the end of the waiting
line each time they finish round
All day long Yesterday a crowd Of several
hundred children and their mothers hung
a bout the doorway of No. 90 St Marks
Place, the home of the Little Missionaries
Day Nursery. 1t was literally dough dsv"
at the institution, and more than one thou-
sand children from the neighborhood we're
supplied with complete Thankssivins din
ners. The latter were arranged in generous
baskets all ready for taking away. and
consisted of several kinds of vegetables
fruits. chicken and pie Miss Sara Curry,
mead OF the nursery, personally superin
tended the distribution OF the baskets.
The annual Thanksgiving distribution m
the poor of the French colony was also
made yesterday by the French Benevolent
Society at the French Hospital. in West
5ith street More than one hundred un-
hal py Latins had their volatile temnera-
ments cheered with the sift of turkeys ond
Huyler's remembered its army
OF employees with the distribution of three
thousand turkeys. which reached their des.
tlnatlons yesterday Those who work in
the out-of-town as well as the city stores
numbering flfty-seven in all, we're the lucky
oenehciaries, the special staff of employees
having the distribution in charge heina
careful to see that ne colleague was ,afI
out III the cold
Generosity of Stock Broker
William J. Wollman. of the S,ock r..
change firm OF Jules S. Rsche & co sent