The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-28
THANKSGIVING DAY
GREATEST IN YEARS
Victory and Peace Songs Will
Rise All Over the
Country.
FESTIVAL AT THE GARDEN
Soldiers and Sailors Here and
Elsewhere Will Be Made
Special Guests.

icoSOh thiS year " NC BIdtcLui-tO
make its Thanksgiving Day one of
great rejoicing. II Is true that turkey
is high: that oranges are out Of sight
for the average family: that many
men and women who have had a
lovely time putting on uniforms and
bustling around at war service 5000
miles from the front are sad because
those uniforms will have to be
strapped now; that coal shortage is
still not impossible, and that no one
can prophesy what reconstruction may
bring.
All over the continent there is to
be song and prayer-lots to eat, of
course, for rich and poor. but the
spiritual side is rot TO be neglected.
Secretary Baker himself has sent out
from the War Department a request
that Just as our soldiers in camp OF
wherever they may be gathered give
vent to their feelings in song. SO shall
the nation sing on this most wonder
full Of all Thanksgivings. So the Ma
tional Council OF Women, 7.O00.0 900
strong, has inaugurated a Victory
sing. which will take place In every
town and hamlet of the country. It is
hoped. but of course the biggest sing
will be in New York city.
Festival at the Garden.
At 4 o'clock to-day in Madison
Square Garden young Allen Stockvas,
Boy Scout, will blow his bugle, and as
many persons as can crowd into the
Garden will raise their voices in the
strains OF The Star Spangled Ban
ner." Other songs will follow, and the
committee, of which William Fellowes
Morgan is chairman, has staged a
"Tableau Of the Allies" with twenty
two pretty girls and the same number
Of soldiers, sailors and marines taking
part.
In all Of the public schools appro-
pirate exercises were held Thanksgiy-
ing eve.
Special services In churches and
clubs, entertainments everywhere and
exercises on athletic fields Will make
this Thanksgiving Day long to be re-
membered. but first and foremost New
York is going to see that every soldier
and sailor anywhere near these shores
Is fed with all the turkey and cram
berry sauce and pumpkin pie and so
forth that he can eat. The War Camp
Community Service is prepared to pro-
vide a Thanksgiving dinner for every
man in uniform. and all those arriv-
ing at railroad terminals and ferries
will be met by members Of the War
Camps flying squadron, who will wear
Identification arm bands and will d.
rect the men to the nearest canteen
or club, where they will be Toasted.
One thousand Boy Scouts and students
Of the City College have volunteered
for the work.
Thanksgiving services will be held
at each OF the fifty-one units OF the
war camp at IL o'clock, and at noon
at least $4,000 dinners will be served.
To Honor Chateau Thierry NJ n.
One hundred American marines who
aided in checking the enemy at
Chateau Thierry will be entertained
by the Lafayette Battalion at dinner
at the Hotel Astor this evening. The
Mayors Committee of Women will
give less ceremonious but equally
hearty entertainment to uniformed
men at their canteens, where Open
house will be kept from noon till 8
p. NJ. At the canteen at 1S45 Broad
way there will be q dance for the men
The chief. day event, barring dinner
will be a football game between the
teams from Camp Mills and the Brook
iyn navy yard. II starts at 5 so in tine
Stadium of City College. Uniformed
men can go In free, but the public
will buy tickets at 20 cents, the money
to be used for smokes for the soldiers
There will be vaudeville performances
for the soldiers in various places.
Jews to Celebrate.
The Jews, who begin this evening
TO celebrate the festival Of Chanukah
are preparing q celebration under the
auspices OF the New York City branch
Of the Jewish Welfare Board. Soldiers
will be welcome at the canteens at So
Park avenue, in Seward Park, and al
Ninety-second street and Lexington
avenue.
The Greater New York Philanthropic
Society will furnish bountiful dinners
to all who apply at their dispensing
station at 81 City Hall Place. They
have prepared for 1000.
A service OF thanksgiving for the
victory of the Allies will be held at
the Cathedral OF st. John the Divine
at eleven this morning. Representa-
tives OF the allied nations, OF the army
and navy and OF federal and municipal
governments will be present Trinity
Church will have service at the same
hour and the flags of the nations will
be carried in procession by uniformed
men. Major Gen. Franklin Bell and
the Rev. william T. Manning will
speak.
st. Joseph Council 443, Knights of
Columbus, will have a memorial SER
vice at ten at the Church OF st. Alloy
sius. 1920 street near Seventh avenue,
Many OF their members are in service
and several have given their lives. At
the synagogue OF the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum. Amsterdam avenue and 137th
street there will be a victory celebra-
ton at eleven. All the Lutheran
churches In the city will have special
services in accordance with President
Wilson's proclamation.
The Swedenborgian Church on
Thirty-fifth street, founded one hun
dred years ago, where John Bigelow,
William C. Church, Chrales A. Dana
and various other well known men
were regular attendants in their life
time will haXa q unInua Tim nLsRIv.