The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-05-14
TO RECLAIM FRIDAY.
Efforts of tho Thirteen club TO Make One
Week Day ns Good rs Another,

The Thirteen Club cOmbatcd popular SUI
pcrstition again last night with an excellent
mCnu. and the usual accessories of thirteen Of
everything. The club came up hale and
hearty. and after little delay thirteen were
found to take places NJ the table. Later Corners
had to take another thirteen table
You see. said the Chief Ruler Daniel Wolf,
we are restricted in membership to thirteen
times thirtoon. That makes one hundred and
sxty-ninc. The first thirteen that come to
combat superstition get tho best seats and the
most wine Those at other tables are however
not sent away hungry or thirsty"
Vim. Fowler. though one of the earliest
Corners politely vacated his scat at the first
table in order to give Gen. Leo. Ex-Governor Of
Wyoming. q chance to combat popular super
stition little for the benefit OF the. West.
After popular superstition had been, com:
honorary mclnbets of the club who have an
election was read. Among them are Prcsi
Mayor Grace. Congressmen Fowler and Dugro
Senators Boyd and Browning. Judge Van Hoe
sen. Judge Hall. United States Assistant Treas
". Hustled, Nelson, j. Waterbury, Goroners
Brady and Knox. Frederick de barry. Park
er. the Rev Dir. Charles f. Deems tho Rev. Il.
Hebcr Newton, and the Rev. Daniel .scherer.
COMMUNICATIONS were received from prom
| inent men in response to the following resolu-
tions. copies of which had been sent out:
nnsreqs The superstition connected with the day Of
e6Stted by it, seccSn as Rsmsmr day by The u
dietary and the Governors of the States Of tile Union
M1sra; There seem. to DO good and sufficient rea
son %hS fIgy OF A. DAYS Of the week should he dis
whereas Friday has for many centuries past Doe con
SGH' g 4a 4a
probably have led to its choice hanging day there
R,sored That It is the unanimous expression Of The
t ,S o MA LINZ VthyT u OF 's wSSN ShV"N 3r"'
which, by areprehensblc custom, has been so chosen
Rt;'red That the rchiyist Of his club he and /.
hereby requested to forward cory "t hi. preamble and
OF The GIFTED states. and to each OF he ovsrnorS Of tie
power sentence death, with the request that teS
consider the propriev Of selecting other DAYS well as
the & d M h the to be sas i
Nam al sas re 40 s. ann AMI
any objections there are to change in this respect.
Gov. Bigelow of Connecticut accepted m
election and. in long letter, declared himself
IN Sympathy with the objects Of the order
Chief Justice X. II. Chalmers of the Supreme
Court OF Mississippi wrote as, follows:
heartily approve OF the objects Of your orGan.
among you man who believes you should
plant potatoes by the dark Of the moon. II so
| l move his expulsion rs an unworthy member.
A committee of farmers was appointed to as,
| certain who the snperstitious member is. and
his reasons for his belief as to the proper time
c. n. Farr private secretary OF the Governor
| OF Pennsylvania. wrote for the Governor. say
ing that Friday had been virtually dropped rs
| hangman 5 day for many years. although Il
was considered as good a day to hang men OIL
in clear weather az any other day.
NJ. c. st. A. Dc. Billie. Minister from Denmark
wrote very polite note stating that he thought
one day for hanging man WAS as good as an
other and a good deal better.
Gen. Charles Roome OF Now York. Phiande
Reed, a well-known. potato merchant VIII,
plants on Fridays. and others made speeches.