New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-01
CITY GOES TO BED
WITH FULL STOMACH
Tons of Turkey, Reinforced by
All the Fixin'S. Attacked by
RavenOuS AppetiteS.
THANKSGIVING DAY QUIET
Monotonous Munching of Food
Disturbed, However, by Wall.
of Big Bill Edwards That
Cleaning Up Must Come.

of Big Bill" Edwards That
Cleaning Up Must Come.
The only incident TO disturb the monot-
onous munching Of food along the Bowery
YESTERDAY was the arrest Of young man
who wanted a Young Mems Christian Asso-
cistfon dinner. for "sassng" a policeman.
Instead Of payiuS five cents for Bowery
feed. the delinquent tore a drumstick to
shreds at tho expense of the city.
Il was impossible in New York TO escape
the Thanksgiving bird. Poverty, mis-
fortune. felony. merely served to hasten
the inevitable clash When the mission
aries said Thanksgiving passed off quietly
on the Bowery they meant that IN practi-
calIy every instance the man overcame the
turkey. But it was a sruelling day.
Almost every one i'm human form enjoyed
tho festival however, except Commissioner
Big Bill Edwards Big Bill' relishes
the breast when it's juicy and the second
jolnC when garnished with eiblet gravy;
stuh.ng and cranberry sauce and minceS pie
are separate and distinct joys 10 him. But
yesterday inc thought Of now the tons Of
turkey carcasses would add to the trials
of his unframed street cleaning force, and
his appetite fed. IT'S most unfortunate"
said ho that THANKSGIVING should have
come at this trying time
90 every institution Of a charitaD e or
penal character. as Well AS IN all hos
uitals public and private. religious services.
entertainments and turkey dinners con
s,iued tho daylight and. i'm some instances,
the twilight and evening hours. one of the
biggest Gastronomic celebrations IN the city
took place at Blackwclrs Island. under the
auspices az the Department Of Charities
and Department Of Correction.
Michael =. Drummond. the Commissioner
of Cha-ities. visited tho different institu-
lions ina his department I'm company with
Mr.. and Mrs. \. G. Gumberg, &C Pittsburgh.
Mr.. GlrmberC Is director OF public chart
ties in that city. and sought pointers on
the capacity OF public charges outside his
homo town As u climax to his tour Com
,1issione~ Drummond took him over to
Randslrs Island 20 the New York City
Hospital and school where Mrs. Dunphy
presided over tho Thanksgiving dinner fed
TO sixteen hundred children.
Line at Municipal Lodging House.
Before Commissioner Drummond and his
guests took the fcrrvboat az East 2Sth
street 10 the island Mr. Gumberg had
chance TO see the long line Of men, punctu-
ated here and there by a woman with a
child or two hanging 20 her skirts, which
stretched from the doors Of the Municipal
Lodging House. in East 25th street. 70 First
avenue and down the avenue TO sd street.
Superintendent Yorke of the lodging house
fed them al bounteodsly, but only hun
dTed at a time 50 that late Corners had TO
wait He estimated serving sixteen hun
bred dinners including duplicate meals
served 10 those whose appetite led them
10 take places At the end Of the line and
work up again after one successful entry.
IN the penitentiary. on Blackwelrs Island,
the twelve hundred and fifty prisoners,
after surrounding a ton or two Of birds
and hxins, enjoyed a vaudeville entertain
0ient provided by Percy g. Williams. the
theatrical manager. And while Mr.. Will
ssms's headliners were reaching the heart
or the seat Of humor through the eve and
car. Mr.. Williams's cigars were tickling
each male larynX and his bonbons each
female palate Commissioner Patrick G.
Whitney his deputies and several city Of
.atials attended the dinner. as we'll as the
entertainment.
The Salvation Army band ushered in the
holiday yesterday morning I'm the Tombs,
and after the concert the prisoners fell TO
on chicken turkey. pork, cranberries,
mincc pie and apples William J. Cummins
did not emerge from the "warden's suite"
% Join I'm the celcn ratiou. but had HIS meal
served privately 10 him by all outside ca
terer
! dance started the blood circulating at
he Manhattan state Hospital for the In
sane on Randalls Island. before the dinner
hour The result was record consumption
Of food. After dinner the patients rested
frem until 8 o'clock. and then received
yistors In the course of the reception
Louis Elias. one Of the patients, made an
address which aroused enthusiasm.
IN the Hospital for Ruptured and Grip
rled Children. at Lexington avenue and 42d
street two hundred little cripples fed on
the bounty provided by the institutions
patrons Dinner was served in the big
dining hall where nurses. teachers and
orterlies acted as walters, having previous
~ carried or wheeled TO tho tables all their
little charges who couldn't walk Some
were so crippled they couldn't sit up and
had 10 be fed by attendants while stretched
ont in their chairs.
Five hundred pounds nf turkey and one
hundred gallons Of cranberry sauce entered
for better or worse the anatomy OF 175 out
OF the 90 patients in Roosevelt Hospital,
the rest being too II 20 celebrate. Only
forty patients ate their dinner IN the big
dining room, the others being served at
their bedsides Much the same course was
followed IN every hospital.
The Sunday Kindergarten Association, at
No. n Centre street, fed hundred chill
dren, it being the tenth Thanksgiving din
ner given by this association, which was
founded to keep children off the streets on
sunday. Among those who subscribed for
The dinner were Mrs John r. Drexel, Colo
mel Asa Bird Gardiner George J. Gould,
Mrs. George Kemp. Mrs. Isaac Lawrence
Mrs. Charles NJ Oelrichs Prince Giovanni
do, T)rago and ex-sheriff TON" Foley.
sowery's Fun Begins Early
On the Bowery the fun began as early as
1 o,cIock Yesterday morning, and continued
we'll into last evening The Bowery MIS-
sion's bread line" started IT, ana the BOW
erv Missions religious service. presided
over he Mother" Bird, ended IT. In the
interval the mission fed thousand Dreau
liners distributed 10 free THANKSGIVING
baskets each containing food enough lot
,o a. no naed, families, and then spread