The New York herald., 1921-11-24
POOR TO DINE WELL
THANKSGIVING DAY
Many Organizations to Provide
Historic Dinners for
Thousands.
SPREADS FOR VETERANS
Churches, Missions and Red
Cross to Observe Holiday
With Ceremonies.
SPREADS FOR VETERANS

New York for the most part will ob-
serve Thanksgiving Day quietly to-
day. There will be services in practi-
caIly all of the churches. The Stock
Exchange. the banks and most Of the
shops will remain closed.
There will be thousands of family
gatherings about dinner tables with their
loads of turkey and other components OF
the historic American Thanksgiving Day
dinner. Charitable organizations viii
distribute baskets of food among the
poor. and dinners will be served in in
stitutions all over the city.
The Bowery Mission. ut 227 Bowery,
will celebrate it's forty-second anniver-
sary with. dinner to 1000 men. Dr.
Ernest l.. Crandali. director OF the Board
OF Education lecture department. and
Hans Kronold, 'celist, Will lecture at
80 o'clock At midnight last night
the mission reopened its famous bread
line, a step rendered necessary by the
presence of vast numbers of men with
out homes and without work. They
were invited into warm. wen Aanteo
room, where each received cup OF
coffee and roll
1000 to Get Mig Dinner.
The thirty-fifth anniversary Thanks
giving dinner for about 1000 poor anu
needy will be provided by the St An
drew's One Cent Coffee STANDS Society
at 81 West Eighth street from II a. M.
to s L. NJ The menu will inciuoe roase
turkey, cranberry sauce. boiled nam
roast beef, vegetables. charlotte russo
oY5xy nd
baskets filled with delicacies will De ois-
tributed among the Ill and others uh-
able to leave their homes.
The children OF the Sunday hindeI
garten Association will give tneir
twenty first annual Thanksgiving am
ncr to 100 poor children at n6 Park
Row at II O. clock. In the forenoon tne
Keith Troubadors. organized by u. II.
Albee, head cf the Keith vaudevilie
circuit. will perform for the prisoners
on Blackwelrs Island Entertainers
from the Keith theatres all over the
country will visit hospitals where con-
valescent soldiers are receiving treat
ment and give programmes i'll observ-
ance of Live Hero Day
Friends Appeal for Money.
The Quakers have sent a Thanks
giving appeal to the 100000 members
of the Society or Frlenu3 ASKING con-
tributions to a S5.000.00O fund being
raised for famine relief in Russia.
The. 26S marines temporarily assigned
to guarding the mails in and about the
city because OF recent robberies will
have Thanksgiving dinners through ar
rangements by the Red Cross. Most of
them are from Quantico. Va, and Paris
Island, S. c. They will be divided be-
tween the Red Cross Club at 129 East
Thirty-ninth street and the Soldiers and
Sailors Club at 261 Madison avenue.
Many ex-service mems families will get
turkey and trimmings through the Red
Cross. which also js providing special
Thanksgiving entertainment to the men
in Polytechnic and the Hudson Street
hospitals.
Mrs. Amelia McCudden. the British
war mother. will be guest at the formal
opening OF the new Red Cross clubhouse
for New York's war nurses at 102 East
Thirty-eighth street.
A large pipe organ, presented to
Ellis Island by Commissioner Tod. is
being installed in the auditorium of the
main building and probably will be
ready to be played at the Thanks
giving Day services. which will follow
a dinner of turkey, with cranberries
and all the other fixings. Commits
sioner Tod will inaugurate a Sunday
afternoon organ concert and there will
be religious service every Sunday for
the various denominations represented
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