Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-25 | Page 7 | Friday Seafaring Legends

Friday Seafaring Legends There used to b be a legend told with relish by old of or a shIp St commenced on a Friday commanded a a. Captain Friday which sailed on ona ona ona by Friday and went down null with all allhands allhands allhands a hands on a Friday This highly colored history pointed to an obvious moral Steam came In in and this legend legend was conveniently pigeon holed on of the great sea ea far the sailors so 0 as trading tr nations were concerned con The clearance of ot a ship from port is now flow too important a business to be complicated com corn by deference to sailors sailors' su superstitions su- su Some skippers of the old ola school however display considerable In ingenuity nulty in guarding against having to sail alt on a Friday In Spanish Austrian Italian and Greek Greck sailing salling vessels Friday is still stUl held in superstitious awe In these vessels on Good Friday FrIda an effigy of or Judas is burned amid the execrations of the crew During tho the ceremony the ship is made to look as unship unship- share as possible with It Its yards at all aU sorts of ot angles and its gear Jear loose and untidy Whipping posts for offending motorists are advocated by a Western Vestern district attorn attorney e Why not sentence em to thirty thirty days as pedestrians pedestrians' n Eagle