The Washington herald., 1913-11-27
CITY ALL READY
FOR ITS FEAST
Residents VIII Give Thanks
and Then Consume
Turkey.
MANY EVENTS PLANNED
Churches viii Hold Services-Mis.
sions and Salvation Army viii
Look After the Poor.

| A heaVy silence. DFohen ohiS
peals of church bells. hangs over tn
city as Washington prepares to celeorat
by prayer and fessting its day Of thanki
Reason for the silence seems to be hal
expectancy and half dread. Expectanc!
Of course, Is that OF the boy who wi
eat until his jaws refuse to answer hi
| agonized call II seems needless TO dra
into the open the parents dread OF ca
lamity and sudden death.
| Enough turkey will be eaten an
enough indigestion pills taken in thi
| country to supply the standing army 70
several years. There will be 100000
square meals and about 100000 cases 0
more or less acute Indigestion
Stores and markets were filled. las
night, with mothers and sisters an
wives selecting turkeys and Just know
ing that they wouldn't roast we'll" Tn
| apparent supply of celery. pumpkins, an,
mince meat was lessened appreciably.
! National Bird OH Menus.
Johnny is home for Thanksgiving; o
if he is not, he has IL he is any sor
| of son at all, written a long letter o
| regret But there is no need to worr,
about him. The hotel. or the lunchroom
| or even the mission. will take care o
him. On every menu in the countr!
| there will be something to reu-es-nt tn,
| national bird of sacrifice.
Programs arranged for such of the low
ing parents and ,dutiful children as hap
pen to be in Washington, whether in
dividually or collectively, leave no excuse
for an untitled day. In every well-regu.
lated home. breakfast. by common con.
sent. will be but poor affair-a travesty
of its usual self. Then there will bt
church services or walks-or hot-ovens
and burned fingers. Then comes the din.
ner-at some uncertain time between
noon and o'clock. The program is com.
plete, in effect.
The White House Thanksgiving will bG
marked by a quiet family reunion, oi
which details are being guarded. A few
of the Wilson relatives who came tC
Washington for the wedding have re.
mained over to aid i'm reducing the pro-
portions OF the White House turkey.
President Wilson will attend the Pan.
American Thanksgiving mass to be held
at St Patrick's Catholic Church. All OF
the Latin-American diplomats, including
Senor Algara, charge d'affaires OF tht
Mexican Embassy. will attend.
Mass at st. Patrick's.
The mass at ST Patrick's Church. al
Tenth and G streets northwest, will be
commenced at IL o'clock. Mgr William
T. Russell. pastor OF the church. will
be in charge. Seats will not be reserved
after II o'clock. There will be fifty voices
in the sanctuary choir. seventy voices
in the mixed choir, and the organ music
will be augmented by an orchestra.
Clergymen at the mass will be Rev. DR.,
William Fletcher. rector of the Cathe-
dral at Baltimore, ceIebrant: Rev DR..
Charles NJ. Bart. pastor of st. Teresa S
Church. Anacostia, deacon: Rev. DIR,
John NJ. Mcnamara, of st. Patrick's, SUBJ
deacon. Rt. Rev. Charles Warren Cur
rier. Bishop of Matanzas. Cuba. will
preach the sermon. Cardinal Gibbons
will attend.
Rev. DR.. Charles Wood. pastor of the
Church of the Covenant. Eighteenth and
streets, will preach the sermon at
services at II O'Clock. His topic will be
a christian Commonwealth"
Thanksgiving services will be held at
II O'Clock at Hamline NJ. E. Church.
Rev. DIR. LuciUs c. Clark will deliver
a sermon on "A Jet of Praise" There
will be musical program. thanks
offering for the benefit Of the Methodist
Church for the Aged will be taken.
All Souls Episcopal Church, Connecti-
cut and Cathedral avenues. will hold
services at II o'clock. Rev. Dr. T A
Johnstone will preach the sermon. Rev.
J. MacBride Sterrett, rector. announces
that there will be a special Offering for
the benefit Of the CIergymen's Relief
Fund.
Washington Chapter of the American
Red Cross will be hosts to eighty resi-
dents at the tuberculosis camp at Four
teenth and Upshur streets northwest
fox hunt will be held by the Riding
and Hunt Club from the Montgomery
Country Club.
Members OF the Young women's Chris
tian Association Home, 81 C street
northwest, this afternoon will receive the
usual Thanksgiving contributions of
money. groceries, and other gifts.
The District of Columbia Christian
Endeavor Union will hold union Chris
tian Endeavor Thanksgiving services al
9 O'Clock at the following churches: First
Congregational Tenth and G streets
northwest, Miss HiIda Ulrichson leader;
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Protest
ant, Paul H. Watson leader: Northmin-
ster Presbyterian. T. C. Crump leader;
North Carolina Avenue Methodist Prot
estant, Horace NJ. Gilman leader; Ia
koma Park Presbyterian. Takoma Park,
D. c.; Congress Heights Baptist. Con-
gress Heights, d. c., and Chevy Chase
Percy Gates, field secretary for Christian
Endeavor for the State of Illinois. and
Rexford L. Holmes, president OF the local
G. E. Union, will visit three Of the serv-
Ices, speaking briefly at each.
Other services, with the preachers, win
be as follows:
The Rev. Louis E. Purdum, First Con-
Church, IL a. m; Rev. DR..
Charles F. Steck, Epiphany Lutheran
Church, 1880 a. m: Rev. DR.. Frank
SewalI, New Church. II a. m.;s Rev.
5. A. Bower, Northminster Presbyterian
Church. a. M; Rev. Paul r. Hickock,
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, 1880
/. m; Rev. DR.. c. Everest Granger. Gun
.on-Temple Presbyterian Church chapel,
0:S0 a. m; Rev. James H Taylor, Gen.
.ral tSouthern Assembly,, Presbyterian
Church, 1870 a. m.
Union services of all the churches in
he Columbia Baptist Association will be
held in Calvary Baptist Church at II q.
n, when Rev. W. w. McMaster will
reach. The All Souls Unitarian Church |
will, meet with the members |
If the Universalist Church of Our Father |
It the latter church at the same hour.
Congregation Of Keller Memorial Lu- |
.heran, Ninth Street Christian, Eastern |
Douglas Methodist. Ep-
worth Methodist Episcopal South and In !
yram Memorial congregational churches, |
" Northeast Washington, viii hold
Inion Thanksgiving service at 1880
|clock this morning at Epworth Memo |
ial Church, Seventh and A streets ncrth- |
,ast.
At the Episcopal Church Of the Epiph- |
my there will be communion at s O'Clock |
n the morning and a song service and
ermon at IL O'Clock in charge of Rev.
}. Freeland Peter, associate minister.