Thanksgiving Day was celebrated Shinghai- by the American community in a quiet. manner. Many of the business houses were closed in the afternoon, "ud at_ many private residences receptions of fiends snd well-ushers were held. The Sturs_and Strip s floated from numerous howxetops and. decorated the interiors of hotels and restaurants. A special serves wes given in the Union Church in the eve ing, the Rev. Fleming James nddressing a congregation large in numbers in ~pite of the bal weather. The minister, in the course of his remarks, spoke on the features of American life and institutions the present day, bad and good, their dark and pleasant siles, making special reference t the existing conditions of capital and labour throughout the United States, legislative measures, and educa: tional' institutions.
In the evening Thank-giving dinners were held at the Astor House and Metropole Hotels, music of an appropr ate re being played by the orchestras ged for the occasion. During the day calls were paid on the American Consulate and the cruiser Monadnock,
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