The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-12
TIE fATAL ThIRTeeN.
4 Story, Which May Not Be True, That
VIII Be Food For the Superstitious.


VIII Be Food For the Superstitious.
Thirteen members of the Sprrdei
Fishing club of Buffalo defied the old
superstition one sultry day last August
embarked in yacht belonging to one
OF the party and made day of it down
the river. They visited some of the
pleasure resorts on Grand island, ate o
fine lunch, drank much beer and re-
turned to the city about 10 o'clock in
the eveping. As evidence of what they
had done they sat before photographer
at Sour Spring Grove and had group
picture made. The photographer was or.
dered to strike of 13 copies. one for each
member, and then destroy the negative.
The Sprudels is a great sotial-politi.
cal organization of Buffalo. 1t has near,
ly 1000 members Last winter IL re-.
cured the big Broadway arsenal and
gave ball for charity, which was at
tended by 10, 600 people.
The Is men who made the trip were
all comparatively young men, not one
OYER AZ, and all robust and healthy.
Within two months three of them have
died suddenly. The first of the 13 to GO
was Michael North, wholesale cigar
dealer He caught cold in the early
winter, had hemorrhage of the lungs
and died suddenly. He was 42 years old
and a man of strong constitution About
two weeks later thu Sprudels were
shocked to learn of the sudden death Of
D,nE,hn1l 10 i,,tn Fba
street while in heated condition after
a contest in bowling alley caught cold
and was carried off by pneumonia in
two days. He was 81 years old, nearly
feet high, weighed $50 pounds ard
had the red cheeks of girl. The third
TO die was the nan of all the members
Of the club whom an insurance company
would pick out as the best risk He WAS
Herman II. Hamper. an amateur ath-
lete, a man who never dissipated, 6 feet
tall, splendidly proportioned and SO
gears old. Pneumonia killed him in two
days.
The rest of the 13 began to feel un,
comfortable. One day, while looking as
the picture taken at Sour Spring Grovc.
it struck John Schwabl as remarkabls
fact that the three men who had disd
stood in the front low in the picture.
He communicated his discovery to the
others. When the picture vas taken, he
men stood four in row, with the thir.
-eenth man in the rear. Buffalo Dis
patch in New York Sun
1t is cheering feature Of the now
7soman movement that the athletic girl
Is coming to the front in a prompt agd
sprightly manner. For long time she
has been the attractive heroine of fiction.
Now shs is the equally attractive her.
oine of fact. Hitherto it has been the
English girl who has been held up as
the model for the American girl to fol.
low IN all departments of physical cui.
ture. Now the American girl is fast
demonstrating her physical superiority
aver her red checked English cousin.
All admirers of gracious, attractive,
robust 9omanhood will rejoice that the
nothouse camellias at last are in process
Of being replaced by vigorous outdoor
roses. The day has gone by, let US hope
forever, when school or academy or
education Of the American
girl meant snattering of the classics
and modern languages, maIreatment
Of the piano, some Delsarte fooIishncss
Of department and the cultivation of |
.rills to fit them for drawing rooms, the
outcome being an artificial, languid, |
iaccid, pale faced creature entirely out
If place anywhere outside Of the society
dollhouse. Another creature has taken
Ter place. Sine has as good an education
IS the girl Of the old times, and she has
besides this the boon of health and
strength adding to her sweet whole
Chicago Tribune.