Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-25

uiu not get 10 the station til the trnl,,
mad been gone about three or four
mnutes Those who did catch Il did
i,ot nave breath enough len To abuse
me conductor properly. The standard
uhlc was adopted ON about eighty
thousand miles OF railroad in ditltrent
parts OF the country at the same time.
and no accidents or Inconvenience ne.
suited thercfron, save In few eases
IKE that mentioned whore the railroad
lolks We're too duh tomale the change
properly.
TEXAS TIME.
as 'hat state Is In the central division.
" lus' the same Us che time nj Chicago
while Colorado New Mexico aud
neN,co, having Mountain time, are
ono hour slower than all tho Southern
STATES, except The Carolinaa and Nlr-
ginins. which being IN the Eastern al.
VISION OF time, are one hour faster
Than Fort Worth and Chicago stan.
dard Time. There IA Inst tlvp hours
difference hctween time In New Rruns.
WICK AMI California. The new timr
takes mes, OF Texas into the Centrn,
division, tut that part OF the Texns n
iaciitu railroad west Of Toyah Is i'm the
Mountain time, which ~ sixty min
utcs slower thnn Fort Worth, IL
seems odd that railroad mon
and others directly Interested
should not long hcfore this
have discovered the advIsabIlity
OF tho new scheme. IL wins brought
about lay the publisher OF the Nav
Nctk 0i,loial Railway Guide. In
some cities trains have heretofore been
starting and coming In on three or
four different kinds of standard time.
and |, was impossible for travellers 10
make accurate calculations on TINT ac-
count. AT best tho old complication
required vast dcal of STUDYING witlt- !
out certainty of satisfactory results.
Now when a traveller leaves pittshurr
going onst " it'll his watch set ut Chica. |
40 time hc viii know that he IN an ho1r
slow, and when coming the other way
he viii know that he Is that much mst. !
without any reference to local time. |
80 when going west ON the Texas \ |
Pacific with For, Worth time, the |
traveller will know that he Is one hour |
fast after leaving Toyah, and when
coming The other way with III Paso
Tine NE viii know that after passing
loyah he II In the Central divls-
ION, and Is Just one hour aet. Tho
new scheme IL pre-ominently n good
one, ns u does away with all differences
of time less than one hour. II divides
The continent up into four different
kinds of time, whereas there were
probably rs many hundred kinds here
lofore.
"fwENrY-FouR o'CLoCR.n
There has been considerable tall,
about the proposed change In the
manner az reckoning time, I. O.. be.
ginning AT ~ o'clock ut night aud
COUNTING up 10 tweniy-four. Ii would
% u much simpler plan lhnn the pres. ,
mt, and the funny sound of ~ o'clock
would soon become as natural and ns 4
flsy rs To say p. m, IL would do n
way With the nuisance OF "a. M aud i
p, m.,h which II must be confessed n i
luite Il serious one, especially II re- ,
iarded from a railway timetable
However, there IL moth.
ng else that could be gained by The .
'bange, aud II would entail n loss of | :
intold millions on jewellers and own !.
M of costly watches aud clocks. No |
roublo need be borrowed on that
core, however, as not oven the rail.
Dads Will think OF adopting that avs. G
EN- for good white 20 come. I'he q
hnpge nom local tostandard time wns y
slight one, causing no expense, aud J
ENG a manifest Improvement, while I
he proposed 2i-hour o'clock scheme
'ould be II irlghtiully costly thug, :
M Is In no danger OF being adopted. !