Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
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FRIDAY NOT UNLUCKY.
According to This Record of Events 1t
Was Quite Otherwise.

According to This Record of Events 1t
Was Quite Otherwise.
You mustn't be too ready to believe
all the evil reports the patrons Of the
other days spread about Friday, says
the New York Herald. It's been a
pretty good sort Of a day, so far as
the history Of America is concerned. If
you will take the trouble to glance
your eye down the list Of notable dates
that once in a while you come across
in the dark corner Of the library you'll
find that Friday has good deal Of a
claim to consideration. For example,
it was on Friday, August 3, 1892, that
Columbus set out from Palos, in Spain,
on the mission Of discovery which ter
minated so happily, to the infinite dis
comfiture of the doubters.
And it was again on a Friday, Octo-
Der 12, 1892, that the ancient mariner
only at that time ne wasn't an an
cient, but was by all odds the most
up-t o-date gentleman Of the day-dis-
covered land off the port quarter and
was correspondingly cheered and
strengthened.
That made Christopher Columbus
think pretty we'll Of Friday, and so he
picked it Of all the seven days Of the
week for his return, sailing on Janua-
ry 4, 1893, for Spain, and reaching
Palos on the back trip on Friday
March IA, 1893. This took considerably
longer than the present steaming time
Of the big vessels, but Columbus didn't
know this, and so it didn't worry him
any.
Friday, November %, 1893, was the
day Columbus landed at Espanola on
his second voyage to America, and on
another Friday-June II, 1494-our ex-
plorigator discovered the mainland Of
South America.
That's as far as Columbus went with
his Fridays, but every fairminded per-
son must admit it was good way to
go. However, there were Others just as
unimpressed by the popular notion that
Friday was bad day. There was John
Cabot, for instance. On Friday, March
5, 1494, King Henry VII gave Cabot
a commission to come over and see
what he could find in America, and
you all know the gratifying results at
tending his mission.
The oldest town in the United States
do you know what it is? st. Angus
tine, Fla And do you know when 1t
was founded, September Z, 1865, by
Mendez. And do you know what day
of the week that was? Answer. Fri
day.
And then another great occurrence
for which Friday must be duly cred
tied. The Mayflower, with all your de-
scendants on board-but at that time
known as the Pilgrim Fathers-slipped
gratefully into the harbor at Province
town Friday, November 10, 1920. And
on Friday, December %, 1920, the Pill
grim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock.
No one will dispute the Importance OF
the date February % in American his
tory. Everybody knows who was born
on that day. But not all Of US know
that the year was 1892 and that day Of
the week on which George Washington
first opened his eyes was Friday.
Then Friday was pretty helpful to
us in war ways. Friday, June 16, IT'D,
Bunker Hill was seized and fortified,
and surely we have not forgotten that
on October II, 1777-and it was a FRI
day-Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga
We discovered the treason Of Benedict
Arnold on Friday, September %, 1850,
and on another Friday-September ~,
17S1-Lord CORVALLIS did the most
popular thing he ever had done In his
whole, whole life-surrendered at
Yorktown. And to crown it all on Fri
day, July 7, 1776, John Adams, in the
Continental congress, made the motion
that "the United States are and should
be independent"
Oh, no, Friday isn't such a bad day.
after all.