New-York tribune., 1911-11-30
TURKEY FOR THOUSANDS
Father KniCkerhOCker and Other
Hosts Ready for Diners.
COOKS TO HAVE BUSY DAY
City Institutions to Serve More
Thanksgiving Food than
Ever Before.

Those who make a business OF providing
Thanksgiving dinners to the Submerged
tenth" worked yesterday and all night last
night as hard as bank presidents avertins
panic. The competition among missions.
sid societies. evangelical organizations and
rcsouere o. all kinds. corporate and indi-
,idua', ir examining turkey down the needy
throat. shovelling in cranberry sauce
mashed potatoes and turnips. and adding
splash of coffee 10 make the whole settle.
e urbcllcyably fierce. And every wear il
crows fcrcer. with no promoter i'm sight TO
hrluc relief through "A merger or combina-
ton
To begin with. old Father Knicker-
hooker himself probably as big and m.
dcubtedlv as well established an operator
As aiy In this line. will stoke about twelve
thousand human locomotives, many of
them laid up for repairs This old pioneer
has something Of z bulge on his rivals.
slrce ne is able 70 corral most Of his char
ity customers before the great day and
prevent them from going elsewhere for their
fuel
al the prisons are source OF graft IN
this way. The Tombs alone has become so
congested IN anticipation Of the supply of
gratitude that half its cells contain TWO
. prisoners each, IN violation Of the law.
What the building will do when IT'S 80 in
mates begin 70 bulge with so Thanksgiving
dinners IS a question which seriously wo~.
ries the officers Of the Department Of Cor
rec+ior.
To Feed Thousands or Island.
Buy the opportunity presented by the
tails IS no. { marker 70 that which the
hospitals ani homes offer, for jaibirds are
usually able bodied and can resist the I'M
position OF too &uch Thanksgiving cheer
but invalids. tina aged and infrm and
children must sub.1it. no matter 70 what
lengths the city caSss 10 so in Kidding her
self of the national aird In the City Hos
pital. the Metropolitan Hospital and the
Home for the Aged and Infirm or Black
Wells Island $3.50 receptacles are ready
snd waiting On RandalTs Island the CITY
Schools and Hospital for Children viii
provide 1.500 more. not so large, bur more
elastic The Kings County Hospital, the
Cumberland Hospital. the Conev Island
Hospital and the Home for the Aged and
1nhrra. all in Brooklyn. have 4 capacity NJ
$50 dinners.
But this does not include the big Muntc-
pal Lodging House, a. e5th street and
East River. where William c. Yorke. the
superintendent. plans 20 serve between
so and 1.6l0 men, women and children
the largest units Of Thanksgiving fare
n the history Of municipal charity. And
although each portion VIII he sufficient ~
satisfy a 'longshoremar, he who wants
second may get it by going outside and
taking his place once again ar the end
Of the waiting line. a fair proportion of
the lodging house guests, most Of whom
are men. 90 this every wear. Superintend-
snt yorke thinks they prepare in this way
20 hibernate until Christmas.
As @ special inducement and to fill the
lodging house the night before with pro-
spective diners, Superintendent Yorke
promised that no applicant would be com
ssfied 20 pay for his board by exile TO the
A6nepile on Blackwelrs Island.
t''Eserybody win have a holiday. except
the Superintendent and his officers" said
he "and they viii need one 20 recuperate
in after it's all over
Regins Stuffing Children To-day.
TO get ahead Of old Father kncke.-
locker the Childreus Aid Society began
ptufHng the 400 children who attend it's
schools yesterday at noon. Then the
schools closed until Monday morning, that
digestion might have ample opportunity 10
operate unimpeded by mental exercise.
This society VIII keep up the pace to-
day. too. by providing bounteous Thanks
giving p-ovender to tho 4C1 boys in
its lodging houses. TO the 80 boys in fits
farm school at Valhalla. 10 the 100 small
convalescents il takes care Of at Chappa-
qua. and 10 the % girls in Elizabeth Hotel
Tor Girls.
Down at the Rowery Mission close by
Riv1ngton street, James r. Hunt, the man
aver. began as far back as September /
getting names and addresses for the dis
tribuiOn Of free Thanksgiving baskets.
Needy mothers continued TO enter their
names until last Tuesday, when the
Thanksgiving book closed. In that time
two men were continuously employed in
ycstigating the Renuineness Of the need
existing in the 80 families entered. OF