New-York tribune., 1922-12-01
Peace Spirit
Rules City's
Thanksgiving
Atmosphere of Happiness
and Prosperity Seen in
Homes and Street Crowds;
Children Play in Costume
Even the Poor Well Fed
Turkey Dinner With All the
sFixin's" Served on Bow.
ery at Five Cents a Plate

Perfect Thanksgiving weather pat
the city IN holiday humor yesterday.
The palhd November sunshine beamed
upon thousands Of hilarious gamins in
masks and tattered skirts, who, In
spite OF the police, frisksd about the
dinner going crowds with their tradi-
,ional pleas for pennies-pleas which
he crowds we're too good in
spite OF the police. 10 refuse. And II
tempered the air alike for tho football
!ans In their fur coats and the thinly-
clad cid men who stood in line at the
Bowery Branch Of the Young Mems
Christian Association. elutehinG in
iheir chapped hands the niekels that
would buy dinner When the sunshine
faded, dusk settled with a fine blue
mist that clothed the city in beauty
FOR the evening throngs on their way
20 church or theater or family gath.
crings.
II was q Thanksgiving as mellow in
spirit a. In weather conditions. With
no oyerthadowing calamity gripping
the peoples hearts, with the worlds
troubles. for the moment n least.
vague ana far away. with prosperity
and economic security sitting down
with the family az most dinner tables,
The average American gave thanks FOR
his blessings and forgot the price OF
:he tuTkey-cnough that he could pay
for it.
But the very poor and the unfortu-
natr ere never affected By the flue-
tuating OF prosperity The missions.
the prisons. the public hospitals, the
orphan asylums, are always filled. and
so. 10 matter how uptown rejoiccs.
there are always black spots on the
city map that have 20 be attended.
New York won't AZ these spots yes
'ttrday With baskets Of turkev ard
chicken, With fsastY for newsboys and
R0Tery{ttreliets. for immigrants and
erim.ness. Tor the crippled children.
f0r ~ destitute wards OF the city.
Aturkey dinner was supplied for
~ cents 10 5000 Bowery direliets who
1mcd q giorihed brcEdline Of tho Y.
III. {. A. Al 2 o'clock the line was
Tong enough to reach around the block.
and it was not until 3 o'clock In the
afternoon that the last hungry man
had shuhled TO his place before the
long tables holding turkey and cram
berry sauce, mince or pumpkin pie.
celery. bread and eoffee--the best FIVE
cent dinner IN town. The coffee was
distributed az the rate OF 700 pints
an hour, and FIVE barrels Of cranbeTries
were consumed. with everything else in
proportion.
Turkey was too high.prieed. however,
for the budgets OF institutions under
the New York City Department Of Cor
rection. Roast chicken instead was
served 20 the inmates Of city prisons,
with chicken soup, celery, mashed
turnips. apple jelly, baked sweet pota-
toes, hot mincc pie, fruit and coffee.
On the menu card distributed to tho
412 inmates at the Tornbs was the fol
loving greeting;
"A spirit Of happiness and JOY hils
the holiday season. With the cessation
Of strife and the return Of prosperity
there is abroad the feeling Of Peace
on earth. goodwill 20 men, As the old
year comes 20 close and VIC face the
new, let us resolve 10 strive for better
things and 20 lead more useful lives
The families of five hundred news
boys received packages containing
canned goods, chicken, candy and all
the "fxin's" from an anonymous
friend through the Brace Memorial
Ncws.oys Home. The money was
given in memory Of the late L. j.
O'Reilly.
Three thousand children who are the
charges Of the Chilcren's Aid Society
dined on turkey az the Newsboys'
House. 2s4 William Street; he Eliza-
beth Home for Girls. 307 East Twelfth
Street, and ten homes for deformed
children maintained by the society.
Scventy-fve old men and women, who
work at the Crawford Shops Of the
Association for Improving the Condi-
ton Of the Poor, dined on turkey as
the guests Of Miss Zelina 7. Clark, and
In addition hundreds Of dinner baskets
were sent TO the homes on the lists OF
the A. /. c. ?.
At Public School % more than on,
hundred crippled children were tha
quests Of the New York Philanthropie
League az turkey dinner and at the
Brightsids Day Nursery, one hundred
and twenty-five children were given
a Thanksgiving treat by Mrs. Felix NJ
Warburg.
Thousands Of relatives and friends
Of children in the Hebrew Orphan Asv-