The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-18
Star Visible at High Noon
Sets Town to Rubbernecking
Atlanta journal.
Masonic Temple

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How we wonder what you are!
Working here in broad daylight
When you're hired to work at night.
Have you chucked the ghostly job
Just to join the sunlight mob?
Has the earthly eight-hour day
Caused you, too, to act that way?
Up above the world so high,
Like q workman in the sky
Are you striving extra hard?
If so, where's your union card.
It may or may not be the presence
of the labor host in Atlanta this week
that accounts for the little old jour
neyman star that appeared unheralded
and unsung in the broad blue dome
overhead at high noon Thursday.
Whatever may be the reason for it, it
was there all right enough, as thou
sands of folks with bent and twisted
necks at this juncture can testify. 1t
perched itself on one of the invisible
blue rafters that holds up the afore-
said dome, at a distance of about
eight feet (rneasured by the naked
eye) from a pale-looking section of
the moon that hung YEARLY from an
other invisible joist or cross beam or
something of the kind. For more than
an hour 1t perched there as If it &C
tually belonged on the job regularly,
and not another star came out to per-
suade 1t to quit or demand extra
wages for overtime.
1t proved a great curiosity to that
portion of the population that came
uptown about noon. Early Christmas
shoppers, policemen, Automobiles,
messenger boys, store folks, loungers,
lawyers and laborers-all ceased their
several vocations for a time and took
a look at the noon-time star and it's
pale companion. Forsyth street via
duct, the Whitehall viaduct, the tall
buildings and even the sidewalks were
transformed into temporary observa-
tories from which to view it.
Only one or two individuals were
observed to pass up the heavenly won
der as an everyday occurrence. One
portly gentleman on Marietta street
elbowed his way through a crowd in
front Of the city hall building and got
half q block away before he paused
to rubber in the direction the crowd
was looking. Then he snorted audibly,
glared at the strained necks and up
turned countenances of the assembled
populace and muttered:
Any old fake advertising scheme
can get a crowd in this town"
An old lady with a basket of gro
ceries on her arm got In the crowd
0C1OA SAiO lOAlSC1 I, ana dICSr TAKING
a sly peek at the heavenly wonder de-
clared 1t was unearthly and let it go
at that. The fact that she was liter
ally correct about it didn't seem to
strike those who heard her as any
thing remarkable, until a wag in the
bunch attempted to deny it.
1T isn't unearthly," he exclaimed
amy more SO than a flying machine
is heavenly"
Whereupon several highbrows took
up the subject and were still engaged
in discussing it at the hour of coins
to press.
The colored folks didn't relish the
sight Of the star in daytime at all
They expressed their fears in wide
eyed contemplation of it, and scores
Of them sought indoor refuge from
whatever baleful influence it Nigh,
have. Cooks and housemaids were
particularly superstitious and more
than one of them seized on the occa-
sion to take an afternoon of from
work. The holy rollers, roof-jumpers
cloud riders and other organizations
whose rituals are founded on the an
tics Of the heavenly bodies, have moi
been heard from as yet
Local astronomers likewise have
withheld their technical opinions from