The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-23
A DUEL ON THE NooRDLAND.
Why NM. Fribourg and Stein Wanted
to KIN Each Other.


The Noprdland, stauch steamship of the
! Red Star line set sail Saturday, Feb. A.
from Antwerp Wednesday she crept up
! the bay and found moorage at the pier in
Jersey City. Arm in arm down the gang
plank, walked two young men not yet out Of
their toens. One was dark, sombre and
pOmpOus the other fair and jolly. Both
were fat, and they were bosom friends.
They We're jules FrihoUrg, Of Metz and 81
mon Stein, of Regeusburg. On the pier
they wrung each others hands and went
through all the extravagant forms of dem
onstratlOn with which people Of the Cont
nent are wont TO give evidence Of grief at
parting. The cont0rtions over, each took
up his handbag aud went his way.
And yet last Tuesdays sunrise had seen
these young men glaring at each other
across the table in the steamships dining
room and Fastening through the formality
of breakfast in their iinpetuous desire to
shed each others blood. The cause of all
the difficulty, dark, dimped little beauty
of eighteen, sat away down at the end Of
the table between her parents, Mr. and
Mrs Norris Of Manchester, England, and
She norVously watched her two adorers
She knew of the trouble between them and
was so apprehensive Of the consequences
that She lett her meal almost untasted.
The story, with all it's tragic lights. is
omitted entirely from that prosv fiction
known as the captain log. In the memory
of the passengers it is written in red ink.
The first day out from Antwerp pretty
Miss Morris walked on deck, and the wind
made her red cheeks roster. Before eight
bells struck poor Fribourg was sinitten.
That night too, jolly Stein went sOrrowing
to his bunk with black eyes looking at him
from all quarters.
Next day both youths made eyes at the
fair passenger, and she looked from one to
the other and then went TO her mother An
acquaintance was soon formed and she
walked up and down the deck with each in
turn. A day later and she walked with
both at once, one far hand on the arm of
each. Neither could utter his admiration
in any tongue she knew. All that either
could do was just to walk up and down and
worship. They berated each other; but she
didn't understand and just smiled at their
efforts TO entertain her. The passengers
saw q storm was brewing
There was a German band on board com
ing to America. On deck, last Monday
night, Mr.. Stein gave the chief musician a
mark, and babe him go execute "Die Wacht
am Rhemn for the lady's deectation
Stay" cried FribOurg, who had French
blood in his viens and French coin in his
pocket. Here are four francs; play the
'Marseillaise' for the lady"
The musician pocketed both retainers, and
remained neutral The lady heard both
tunes, and that complication made it ever
so much harder to tell which she liked most.
Meanwhile, Stein and Fribourg were hav-
ing a war of words, and the passengers who
overheard them anticipated trouble
At II o'clock that night, the passengers
said Miss Emma Morris was to be the
heroine of mortal combat on the following
morning. When Stein handed Fribourg
his card Fribourg was pleased. The sec
onds were selected. Fribourg chose Mr..
jacques Grob, a handsome Swiss, from
Zurich, and Mr.. George burst, of Redwood
Park. Stein solicited and obtained the aid
of Mr.. John Tanner, of London, and Sig.
Louis Castot, of Milan, Italy. There was a
council of war in the cabin The seconds
held whispered consultations The princi-
pals smoked cigarettes and signed these
articles, which We're properly witnessed:
STEAMER NooRDLAND 18th February.
|, the undersigned, acknowledge herewith
that have challenged my follow traveller Jules
Fribourg, OF Metz, to "a duel with pistols in con
sequence Of his repeated insults, which culni-
mated to-day
SIMON STEIN, of Regensburg Bavaria.