New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-01
.CITY'S POOR DINE:
SOME ON TURKEY
High Price Bars Bird from
Many Thanksgiving Day
Celebrations
.TOMBS PRISONERS
HAVE REAL FEAST
Thousand Derelicts Fed at
Coffee Stands-LuXurieS
at Bowery Dinners

Blackwoll's Island. Lincoln Hospital
and the Catholic Protectory inmates
were thankful for roast chicken, beef
and pork yesterday since they couldn't
be thankful for turkey. For the first
time in years the officials in charge
found that turkey cost too much.
In other institutions, however, there
was turkey. The Tombs and all the dis
trict prisons rejoiced in the traditional
bird and municipal cigars. Eight hun
bred casual residents of the Bowery
consumed eight hundred turkey dinners
al the Bowery Branch Of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
Up in Westchester, where 2,4OO
Oliver Twists Of both sexes are housed
in the Catholic Protectory. the happy
day began at $3.50 a. m. Having spent
a profitable morning attending re-
ligious services and speaking pieces in
the classrooms, there was a genuine
spirit of thankfulness evident when al
noon the dining room doors were
thrown open.
To be sure there was no turkey, but
there were wholesome carrots ana
turnips and other vegetables for which
the merrymakers could vouch, for the
very sight Of. them called 10 mind the
happy hours they had spent IN weed
ing, hoeing and garnering these very
victuals. Likewise the lineaments OF
the roast sucking pigs seemed familiar
to some Of the chore boys, but they
were devoured without qualm.
No Turkey for Derelicts
The hopeful derelicts that come year
after year TO the coffee stands OF the
Greater New York Philanthropic So
cietv. prepared 10 eat turkey sand
witches in the shadow Of the Bridge OF
Signs and be thankful, found the task
harder than usual this year. For there
were no turkey sandwiches, nor were
there the customary number Of cnar-
lotte russo boxes and oranges.
Instead of turkey there was corn
beef i'm the sandwiches and bread and
butter and bananas took the place Of
the oranges and charlotte russo. Iur-
key was too high. having felt the ef-
fects Of national prosperity sooner
than the three hundred men who came
around 10 get something 10 eat.
Behind the turreted walls back Of
the coffee stand were 53l more Iortu-
nate men and women who had been ar
rested in time TO eat turkey and
chicken and mince pie in the Tombs.
Across the way, at the Five Points
Mission. 800 children were fed with
a turkey dinner, which ended with
cake and nuts.
Sheriff James O'Brien of Bronx
County treated the sixty-iive prison
ers in the county Jail to turkey din
ner and a speech.
Although the workhouse had no tur-
kew. it managed very well with chick
en- and beef and the Keith Ministries,
the members Of which went there vol
UNFAIRLY.
The orphans at the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum who were TO have earned their
turkey by showing city officials how
well they could drill, deyoured un-
earned turkey with a clear conscience.
for it was decided that it was too
rainy for the city officials, and the
drill was postponed
Thousand Fed at Coffee Stand
More than q thousand men were fed
at 81 West Eighth Street, the most
pretentious eating place Of the 81.
Andrews One-Cent Coffee Stand Soci-
ETY.. but only on Thanksgiving Day do
so many come. This was the Thrift
eth such dinner the society has given.
In addition. more than $50 baskets.
filed with food. were taken home yes
terGay by women.
Almost an tho men who came we're
old and many were crippled. Several
were blind. Few seemed capable OF
work.
There was no boycott of turkeys
among the missions Of the city yester-
day. At Hadley Hall Mission, 29S
Bowery. birds totalling i63 pounds and
purchased at the same market which
supplies the Manhattan and Belmont
hotels, were served to 1000 men.
crowd Of the same proportion was fed
at the Bowery Mission. POT Bowery.
With the turkey went all the regular
dishes of a Thanksgiving dinner, in
GLIDING mince pie and fruit.
At the Bowery Mission the day was
one Of special significance as IT marked
the thirty-seventh anniversary of the
institution. Services concentrating
the occasion were held in the evening
at which the speakers were Dr. II. J..
Lyman Wheaton. Of St. AIMS Church.
Brooklyn; Rev. J. G.. Hallimond, 4. c.
Baker. Charles Balevre, William J
William and James T. Hunt. After
the services 200 men were given beds
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