Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-03-08 | Page 10 | A Human Timepiece

A HUMAN TIMEPIECE i LEen L- L M Even en In these da days of scientific miracles few cities can boast a clock that walks talks laughs and sings Yet among the curios of Portsmouth Va is a l lad who has truly won the sobriquet Walking Clock H He can n measure the i fi fleeting seconds of f time without the aid ld of a dial clock watch sun moon oon or r stars stars This is human timepiece Is Albert Alpert Watkins Watkins a col red youth 1 15 ye years ts old He e asked how h he first out found that he could tell time without ut the le aid of a watch or or clock To this he replied that a a. little oven little ove a year ear ago S. S some one asked a clerk in a grocery st store re the time of day Before the clerk could I get out his watch he Albert said sixteen minutes past 10 which was verI ver- ver ed b by the watch To ascertain whether it j Was an accidental l guess or r a power I n tion that tha enabled him t to Perform rm the feat the neighbors gave him hun hun- red of Jests At each trial Albert with answered the exactness of a t H Grocery store Is his favorite favorite theatre for exhibiting g hl his wonderful o derf l Travelers policemen n and m men n of all of-all all classes with watches in their f ds crowd around him Someone what's the Hie time He g gazes zes heavenward ven ard all parts of of his eyes except the white then fops drops his head r and answers in no case has he been a second at variance with the best watch t Y- Y Iii inthe th crowd i The cult of traditional superstition is naturally suggested when it is I that he is the seventh child of his parents