The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES MURDER SAYSNOTF
CHRISTMAS TREE SHINES
IN SAN CARLOS COURT IN
ALL COLORS OF FAIRYLAND
It Will be Alight Each
Evening During the
Christmas Season

The Christmas tree blossomed last
night at San Carlos court in all the
colors of fairyland-gold and purple
and crimson and azure, and rose and
amethyst, twinkling out from the
great green tree set in the centre of
the square like the very spirit Of the
Christmastide, and when the voices of
the carolers rang out upon the still
night air, men grown grey, mothers
and fathers grown away from the
joys Of childhood, young men in all
the strength Of their manhood and
maldens In the flush of youth and
beauty, thrilled to the music that
carried one back in thought to that
time when on far Judean hills the
Shepherds, watching their flocks by
night, heard the triumphant Christ
mas song which has rung down all
the ages.
Perhaps never before In all the his
tory OF Pensacola has the Christmas
spirit been SO beautifully expressed as
at this Christmas season, and to one
OF the young men who has worked so
faithfully each year for the st. Mich
olas Doll and Toy fund must the
credit be given for the beautiful idea
OF the Christmas tree which will be
al1ght each evening during the Christ
mas season, and on Christmas NIGHT
will blossom in all its splendor of col
or until midnight. It was to an in
spiratlon OF Miss Ada White that this
beautiful tree is due, and It was in
the Pensacola Electric Company that
Miss White found the ready coopera-
ton which has made this Christmas
tree possible. The Pensacola Electric
Company has made this tree its con-
tr1bution to the Christmas season.
and surely no lovelier gift could have
been made to the public, than this
blossoming tree, wreathed about with
the coiors Of Christmas, wit hat its
very tip the white glory az 4 light
that shines SO purely and so brightly
as to remind one of that first star that
shone to tighten all the world with
glory.
For three years the st. Nicholas
Christmas work has been carried on
faithfully in Pensacola. And each
season this work has broadened and
taken deeper hold on the city and
its people. The first year MANY
people were interested in this work.
the second year Others came in to CO.
operate, and this year it has grown
SO broad and reached out SO far, that
suddenly the people have awakened
to realize that it is their Christmas
work. not the work of one here and
another there, but the work off the
people of Pensacola. And they have
comes suddenly to realize something
more than this. And that is that
they are not doing nearly as much
for this work, as the work is doing
for them.
For as they have given TO those
who have less in worldly goods, they
have found wider meaning to life,
a sweeter spirit, deeper Joy, and
the Christmas tree, set in the center
of San Carlos Court all ajewel with
its Xmas lights, with the Xmas songs
ringing out upon the beauty of the
mighty touched one and all with new
sense of the meaning, and the glory Of
the Xmas season. For, after all, Il
is not all giving and taking. It Is not
all tinsel and song, though these are
the beautiful outward, visible signs
of the inward, spirit that irradiates
the world. 1t is the Spirit of the
Christ Child. The beauty of service.
It was this that set the Christmas
tree, all aglow, in Sar Carlos cour.
last night. It was this that garlanded
it about with shimmering silver, and
decked it in the myriad colors that
shone from every bough. It was this
which put it into the heart of girl