Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-26
new STANDARD Time.
ITS ADOPTION TO-DAY THRO UGHOUT
TIE WHOLE NORTH WEST.
The City as a Unit to Adopt It-AIl the
Railways Issuing New Time Tables on It's
Basis-No Further Annoyance from Miss
ing Trains.

At noon to-day in st. Paul and through
out this part of the northwest the new
standard time will be inaugurated. The
new time was adopted last week by all the
cities in the east, as we'll as the different
railways, with the exception of the
Illinois Central and the Mich
igan Central, and they are now
wheeling into line. This system, which
has occupied the minds of some of the
deepest thinking men for years, is now an
accom- plished fact. Several years ago, Mr..
Sanford Fleming, engineer in chief of the
Canadian government, brought it under
their notice, and large amount of cor
respondenoe ensued with those interested
throughout the United States, principal
ly with Prof. Cleveland Able, of the signal
bureau, who, some five years ago, brought
it prominently before the government, and
it was formally adopted by the railroad
convention in Chicago month or two ago.
The system will be great
improvement over the old way, as
now all time pieces and the railways
will be alike, and not the old annoyance of
each keeping different times. The new
time is easily reckoned, as each degree OF
longitude is equal to four minutes, there
fore each fifteen degrees is equal to one
hour. The continent has been divided into
divisions, each containing fifteen degrees.
We at ST. Paul are in the central division,
being between the Goth and 1O5th degrees
of longitude. Our new time will be twelve
minutes faster than the OLD time, which
places us only three degrees east of our
former meantime.
In this city to-day the postofice will
adopt the new time, so all mails will close
and open from this date twelve minutes
earlier than they have formerly done.
After day or two this will cause no in
convenience, as all time pieces in the city
will keep the same time. At o'clock each
day the correct time will be received from
the observatory at Northfeld, Minnesota,
and better regulation of time will be
had than ever before. The ST. Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba Railroad company
have notified ell the employees of the road
to change their time to-day twelve minutes
ahead. The Chicago, st. Paul, Mime
apolis & Omaha Railway company,
which formerly was governed
by Omaha time, make a change ahead of
% minutes and 40 seconds, or ahead IL
minutes and seconds by st. Paul time.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st: Paul and
the Northwestern railways have also
adopted the new standard time, and the
Northern Pacific and all the roads center
ing at st. Paul will have the same new
standard time. This change will necessi-
tate the getting out of new time tables by
all the roads, and the annoyance of miss
inc, will ba avoided Tho nil
council and chamber of commerce have
adopted it.
BOUNDARIES OF THE DIVISIONS.
Following is a clear showing of the
territory embraced in the five divisions,
which any one can easily trace upon a
map:
The Central division takes in Manitoba
to the western limit defined by line
drawn due north of Fort Clarke, OAK, and
an eastern limit defined by line drawn
almost due north from Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, all that portion of Dakota west of a
line drawn almost due north ana south
through Fort Clarke and Bismarck; the
states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio; very small
western fraction of Pennsylvania, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Missouri, the Indian Territory, three
fourths of Nebraska, the whole of
Kansas excepting a small north
western corner), the state of Texas
Excepting few miles of territory off the
northwestern corner. Some of the promi
Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, st. Louis, In
vile, Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis
Kansas City, Cleveland, Omaha and Toledo
Central time is based upon that of the 90th
meridian, which is nine minutes slower
than Chicago solar time.
THE EASTERN DIVISION.
The division for eastern time takes in
the states of South Carolina, North Caro-.
lima and Virginia Excepting small slice
OFF the southwestern corner of each), West
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, District OF
Columbia, Pennsylvania Excepting n very
marrow western strip, New York, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Yer
mont, New Hampshire, Maine Excepting q
bit OF northern territory, and that por-
ton OF Canada between lines drawn due
north end south through-Quebec, and al
most due north from Detroit through
Sault Ste. Marie. Eastern time is based
upon the sey5Dty-fhh meridian, which Is
an hour faster than Central time, or four
minutes slower than New York city solar
time.
THE MOUNTAIN DIVISION.
The mountain division embraces ali that
portion of British Columbia lying west of
the borders of Manitoba, and east of the
18th meridian or Mount Head; that por-
ton of Dakota west of line drawn north
and south through Fort Sully and Bis
marck; onefourth OF the western portion
of Nebraska; small portions off the north
western corners of Kansas and Texas;
about two-thirds of Lower California-the
southern section; Arizona, Except
ing very small western
slice); New Mexico, Excepting cut off
the southwestern corner; Colorado, Wy
oming, Montana, Excepting small piece
off the extreme northwestern corner; the
southwestern portion of Idaho-about one
third the territory; Utah, Excepting a
small cut off on the northwestern corner.
Mountain time is based On the 105th me-
ridian, and is one hour slower than central
time.
INTERooLoEIAL DIVISION.
The intercolonial division begins at the
sixtieth meridian, short distance east Of
the extreme limit Of Nova Scotia, and OK
tends about two degrees 1yest If the =e,v.