Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-25
THANKSGIVING DAY
sun BEAMS WARM
ON MERRY THRONG
Observance of Holiday Is Gen.
eraI Throughout City-Tur-
key Graces Many Feasts.

Key UraCeS MANY FeaSIS.
Newark citizens observed T~hanksgiv-
ing Day more generally than they naVe
done in years. The morning union
services in several Protestant churches
were we'll attended. and h Roman
Catholic churches were crowded at
each mass. Turkey dinners were given
to the inmates of the public and pri-
vate institutions of all kinds, in spite
of the high prices charged for the great
American bird. In the afternoon the
sidewalks of Broad and Market streets
were crowded by men and women and
children out to enjoy the fine weather,
and hundreds of automobiles and car
riages were seen In the streets, each
automobile and carriage filled with
happysfolk out for a ride over country
roads.
Banquet for. Patients.
The 800 convalescent patients, the 125
doctors, nurses, officers and eether em-
ployees in the City Hospital had plenty
of roast turkey, for 900 pounds of fine
turkeys were secured early by the
management. Besides the roast turkey
the dinner consisted of cranberry sauce,
| celery, white and sweet potatoes, mince
and pumpkin pies, fruit and coffee, and
there was enough turkey meat left from
the dinner to serve cold for supper.
Patients who were not able to eat solid
food were given soup, beef tea, fresh
milk and jellies.
At the City. Almshouse the 260 men
and women inmates had lashin's OF
roast turkey ian fixins," with mince
pie, celery, oranges and coffee. Mem
bers of the poor and aims committee OF
! Common Council called to see the city's
wards at the dinner, after which the
old men enjoyed a smoke, new clay
pipes and plenty of tobacco having
been supplied by the superintendent,
The matron treated the women in
mates to cake n oranges after the
dinner.
AT the Newark Rescue Home, in
Spring street, $50 homeless men were
treated to a fine dinner of roast turkev
and accessories, including fruit and
coffee. Last night cold turkey was
served at supper. Besides this. a num-
Der of poor women who called at the
institution between noon and / o'clock
with baskets were given turkey meat,
bread, ETC., to take home to their chill
oASis otOA5S "a 49,
intendent, said to an EVENING STAR
man hat he was enabled to do all this
by the kindness of a few Newark
friends of the home who sent him
checks and cash Wednesday morning.
He also received from J. B. Persons, of
New York City, a box containing two
cooked ducks, with fine apples, oranges
and cakes. Women from several Prot
Aefa ~ oI,,,-A1 or ~ +I4 ,zArfhnrn enNffnn
of the city served as walters at the
dinner yesterday, and last night an en-
tertainment was given for the homeless
men. superintendent Simmons said
last night:
"a good friend of the Rescue Home
since the day it was started is a we'll
known citizen. a political leader and a
Catholic, to whom a ~gold-headed cane
was presented in the home several
weeks g by u men, for whom he
has done so much. He has got en-
ployment for a good many. He helps
the home every Thanksgiving Day and
Christmas, but he also contributes to
the other charitable institutions in our
city. His wife, who died last spring
was our good friend also"
Inmates of Home Are Dined.
The 225 old men and women in the
Home for the Aged, at South Eighth
and Warren streets, in charge of the
Little Sisters of the Poor, had a splen-
did dinner of roast turkey and
"stuf1n'," with vegetables, pumpkin
pie and fruit, and each man and
woman that cared for 1t had a bottle
of beer, brewers having sent many
boxes to the institutions. Everything
at the dinner was contributed by
friends of the home. Several liquor
dealers sent bottles of rye, and after
the first mass early yesterday morning
each aged inmate, most of them over
20 years old. was given a nip" to
warm the cookies of the heart"
After the dinner ice cream and cake,
contributed by dealers, were served
with oranges. Then the old men en-
joyed a smoke in the building in the
large yard. Among the inmates at
early mass and at dinner was a woman
"a years old. Some of the inmates were
at one time successful in business, but
became poor. There is one man who
Used to live in Academy street who is
believed to be a centenarian. He ard
a son, who was about 10 years old,
lived alone. When the son died, two
years ago, the old man sold his small
house and became a pay inmate with
the Little Sisters of the Poor, who will
care for him while he lives.
Friends of st. Barnabas's, st.
! Michaers, ST. James's and the Hebrew
hospitals saw to it that the patients
had a turkey ainrer, and friends of
the Protestant and Roman Catholic
orphan asylums made the day a happy
one for the hundreds of boys and girls
in those institutions. The newsboys
and bootblacks were not forgotten.
Poultry dealers said today they could
not supply the demands for Thanks
giving turkeys and game.