The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08
HAUNTED HOUSE WANTED.
New York Club Organized to Do Away
With Superstition.
New York.

New York, March The New ioTh
World says:
The Thirteen Club over which the
ghosts Of Death and Bad Luck are sup
posed to hover. wants a haunted mouse
The mere hoodoo of an unlucky number
is not sufficient The members want TO
shudder. They want to sit cheek by Jowl
with gray old ghosts. They want 10
awake in the night and see black AMI
shapeless thing lowering mysterlously
over the foot of the bed.
The squeaking of rats in the garnet IS
not sufficient for the jaded imagination
If the Thirteen Club. The hollow boot
ing Of the owls is trite and commonplace
Therefore If anybody knows where
first-class haunted house can be obtained.
and will make known the facts, the Thir-
teen Club viii pay good price for IT.
take I'D its quarters there and try TO he
happy.
There should be many of them about
I'D in Westchester County there are old
Colonial mansions whose walls have been
stained with murder. whose rooms haze
echoed to the ghostly tramp OF armed
heels. and where strange cries have been
heard.
The Thirteen Club is never happy IN
less IL is combating superstition. There
is probably not a member on its rolls
who would not walk straight up 70
ghost and ask il for match
In this spirit. al their banquet on Feb.
- the question Of taking up quarters IN
a bona-fide haunted house was preached
AZ this banquet the menu cards were IN
the shane OF coffins. with skull and cross
bone decorations
During the disposition Of the thirteen
coprses and after swallowing thirteen
bi,es Of salad. one Of the members arose
and suggested the purchase or lease OK
a haunted house
Il Do not believe 3" ne said. that there
Is a nan here tonight who Is afraid 81 a
sbos4 or OF sleeping alone n a haunted
house. do not believe there Is a man
who would not Ike 70 meet a ghost face
70 face
4 discussion followed during which
waz resolved 70 obtain a haunted house,
II possible in which 70 hold ire monthly
meeting q TIE club
An advertisement vas inserted 81 TIE
Wv York ard Brooklyn newspapers. ard
M 20 the rrssent tine BAR a dozen -
more answers have been received ron
owacr~ OF agents oGeTing % lease
haunted houses ~ verY iaE terms -
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uke,v that before Trey are aooeVted rorse
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