Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1902 — Why Old Sol Had The Pink Eye. [ARTICLE]

Why Old Sol Had The Pink Eye.

An unusual and for most people, an unprecedented phenomenon was the appearance of the sun early in the forenoon and late in the afternoon Monday. It was of a beautiful pink color, and was euffioieutiy obscured by the h&ze in the air that it could be looked at with the naked eye, without inconvenience. This pink color was variously accounted fur by local observers. According to some, the ladies of the 400, down in New York, were having a “pink tea” and the sun put on that color of garments in honor of that event. Others thought the ashes of Mt. Pelee had by this time circled the globe and cause the red color, as the ashes of the great eruption in the Sunda Islands, 12 or 15 years ago, produced the wonderfully brilliant sun-sets we had that year. Monday’s Chicago papers, however, gave a different and more reasonable solution of the phenomena, of thick haze and pink sun. It was seen there and clear across the continent to the Rocky mountains, aud was undoubtedly oaused bv the smoke from the great forest fires that have* been ragiog for weeks in Washington, Oregon and now in Montana.