The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-16
THE BUNCH JHEORY.
Evidence of History That Things Really DO
Happen in Series.

Evidence of History That Things Really DO
Happen in Series.
well. | wonder what kind OF bunch We will
have next" said tho thoughtful man. who Ia
always exercising his brain with odd spccula-
tons OF one Kind or another
Bunch OF WHAT" asked his matter of fact
friend.
That's what don't know" returned tho
speculative man. 1t may be n bunch OF big
fires. or bunch Of suicides. or u bunch Of rail-
way accidents. or a bunch of any Old thing in
tina, line. They always come in lunches
Nonsense"
NO nonsense about II. Ask any fireman II
one big fire doesn't always presagc two or three
more Ask any policeman il one sensational
crime isn't Invariably forcrunner Of others OF
a similar nature. Ask tina Coroner if one un-
usual suicide isn't invariably followed with
reasonable promrtnesS ly others like it. In
the case Of crime il may he the effect OF sug.
gestion. the report OF the first case acting upon
some weak mind. and thus leading to similar
offence. nut that will not explain the lunches
OF accidents in which no deliberate and inten-
tional human agency is inv,lvcd"
Again say nonsense" said the mattcr-o'-
fact frierd. such things are happening with
considerable regularity all the time and Que
sensational case merely ecrves to direct the At
without Comment
Take tn" crime of kidnapping as an Illus
traton," said I'll" man OF an investigating
p ban rhSse Was II" the Mnridn Clarke
cnSe and the laliner case, and since they re-; =;
at least a dozen 9th rs"
None OF which you would have seen IL it
had no; been tor hos" two affairs. grant. in
who hat no time for such slerulatOns and
wouldn't have given the time 70 them ii he hat
mean that things wouldn't have happened as
they did lust the same. TIL" public mind was
il a child wandered away IN pay and was miss.
ing for half an hour. SOM, frantic mother
rushed to r9lice station and tod thG man in
Then naturally it got to the Erwspar"rs. and
in view OF he state OF thu public, mimi it was
an exceptionally good item Usually the
youngster returned home Il little later. Tut the
genuine case; fkidnapynG yer" 10 commoner
" %h HAN u' thor w2}u ' haye tTT % "'''
=, Nr!y plausible nXp'anan'n' aimiited
M% Sp 81 so e @G "9f res GG n , 3 Ou
dents. nor to the more important events OF
Possibly you can give some facts. other than
tho mer" ipse djrh of fireman Or police
man. to uphold your theory"
Il can. | have been casually looking the
Great Scott. what lot of pressing business
you must have on land But lets have few
We'll. 81 course don't mean to say that
there are never isolated cases Of sensational
leisure: hut they usually come in lunches;
H. the latter rnrt Of 1893 there was bunch of
big railway accidents in which about p lives
were lost. while COR u year aft"rward and for
nearly year before there WAS none worthy OF
being recorded in FInyin's Dictionary Of Dates;
Tho first three occurred between Aug, % and
SEPT. IS loss than month. Then there was
~ :" "n4r, Hh thepe nH was r" "notb bs
Interval an then TWO moro accidents. IN" last
two wcr" not 80 clos" ;oSeth"r rs hey usually
.,'n ion 10
with rotation to the time preceding and the
time. following: serve TO =, Illustrate snyy
oq Few A Years "'F from ,6as date lat Si"E a
the statistics for more recent times and YOU
iutivIun the way they are nGnGh n Gec9 9lS
AMI Ja" y is,% there vsrs thr%% raij va n a.
In the time from Juiy3 TO Aug 8. 1891. three
more. followed ~ fourth, Aug, 29. 4 period
4. 1892, out In tns month succeeding that there
| were also three. followed by a fourth on Juno
A ETc HSFs T SSp an and scp gu a. s w.
| followed ly n fourth. as uSunl. about n month
AtST n, P NJ t Oh the @f o%nri Sea
| II tn. I isn't lunchinG things | don't knew
what it is and Furthermore II isn't opsn to the
| ot moro local importance nrc cited that 1t Just
hapnrned SO this time. ,,-r,
| THAT showing is rather extraordinary. ad-
mittnd the matter act man.
| " | haven't the statistics for fires, went on
| the thrOrHer, Dul any fireman VIII hPllO'u
as woll to con.lnc myself to tine bigger affairs.
ANYWAY Ih"y are Wnre GnIES at ip
come in lunches too
well. / should say so. There are isolated
! casn. vi rour -. but they usually cone III n
! lumy. For instance. in the thee Years "'TrT"n
| land i'oinnd. Venice and Rome: and eleven or
| twelve years later sweden ard HolIand "nJoycd
| oh hnF ",
when in that and the following year Poland;
the NETHERLANDS, Brnn 1wick. Franc" and Bra%lI
| Hungary. France and Rome amused them
fev"s Win tha, kind Of aghtinS all in in the the
other in France here wer" no more revolutions
until 1850. when Italy started the nalI rolling
i SSGj"i hV WV The imit"i States the Tapn states
and Spain. Isn't that hunrhng the hits as a
| hasehall crank would Put IT,
"rhrn TAX" The attempted demonstrations Of
rulers aud others high in public Ii'r; r 3rn'
from them. and was the first hai O. the
nineteenth Th"r" wore seven IN ~, nity years
| between lSlil md 1886 Then they began. and
there were several small ,un"h"st OF th mem, IN
bunch came along bctwcrn l~i1 and 1859 dur
Ing which tim" seven 4trmpt%T wHrm m""T r bn =
between 1916 and 49,. when no fever than
s%Gnt"eq 9t"mtGH @ s70 thcr "' were
! none, hut two annually ARE recorded for the
year 1897; lN"S and lSS, Again there no WAS was
toned with one for the following year
How 10 YOU accoun, for itE asked INC
wi don't account for it," returned the other
IL am merely giving facts. Let some one cst
try 10 tell why things come in lunches. Al
know is that they do And the same rule hold
| good In all minor happenings in u smaller way
| j i true 81 the deaths Of noted men rs well a
| Of accidents and crime. All such Things are
| hun"hrd. Aren't they p
They surely seem to be '