Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-10-10

washington Time as standard, based up0n4neri
dams east of those points, or adjacent thereto,
shall be governed by the seventy fifth meridian
or eastern time -four minutes slower than New
York time.l This includes roads run by Port
land, Providence, New London, Montreal, AL
bany, Richmond and Charleston time in addi-
ton to those specifically named above.
.. That all roads now using Columbus, Savan-
nah. Atlanta, Cincinnati. Louisville. 1ndanapo-
lis, Chicago Jefferson City, st. Paul or Kansas
adjacent thereto, shall be run by the ninetieth
meridian time, to be called Central time. one
hour slower than eastern time, and nine min
utes slower than Chicago time. This includes
roads run by Macon, Rome, Nashville, Selma,
Mobile, ST. Louis. Vicksburg, Dubuque, Mime
aPotis, st. Joseph. Galveston Houston and
Omaha time. in addition to those named above;
also, the Union Pacific to North Platte and Wal
lace; the Burlington and Missouri River to Nc
Cook; the Atchson, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
way to Coolidge; the Texas Pacific to TOyah.
and the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
to SandersOn.
8. mat west OF the abOVe-named section the
roads shall be run by the 1O5th and the 12Oth
meridian times respectively, two and three
hours slower than Eastern time.
4. That all changes from one hour standard to
another shall be made at the termini of roads or
at the ends of divisions.
If this scheme is approved at the railway time
convention to meet In Chicago on the nth of
this month. there is no doubt that the railroads
Of the country will make the change and in ac-
cordance with their request the time-balls in
large cities will be dropped at the railroad noon
instead OF at the local noon.
Mr. Aliens chief reason for not taking the
noon of New York as the standard for the east
ern district is that between noon at the seventy
fifth meridian, which is the noon chosen for this
district, and the Greenwich, England noon is a
difference of just five hours so that the vessels
In eastern ports, most of them depending upon
Greenwich time, will easily make their cacula-
lions; also that if New York time was chosen as
standard time Boston and Philadelphia would
reject the scheme out of pure jealousy. The
| result Of dropping the time ball all over the
eastern district at the second the sun passes
over the seVenty-1fth meridian will be that noon
In New York will be four minutes later than it
is now; in Boston, sixteen minutes later: in
Philadelphia, one minute earlier; in Washington,
eight minutes earlier; in Buffalo. sixteen minutes
earlier; in Hartford Conn, nine minutes later:
in Charleston. S. c., twenty minutes earlier;
in Portland. Me-, nineteen minutes later, etc.
Upon passing into the next time belt in which
Chicago time now controls the movements of
many railroads, the difference will be one hour
exactly; the next change will be of one hour
more, covering the great western plains east of
the Rockies, and again of an hour for the next
district, comprising the Pacific coast Thus.
when the noon time ball drops in New York it
will be II O'Clock in Chicago 10 o'clock in Dem
yer and 9 o'clock in San Francisco The exact
local solar time in each of these cities would be
! at the same instant: New York, 1904 D. M;
Chicago, 11:O9 a NJ; Denver, 10 o'clock a. M;
San Francisco, $50 a. m, so that it will be seen
that the difference Is not very great.
THE SUN Is NOT ALWAYS ON THE MERIDIAN
Few persons know that when our accurate
timepieces and watches mark noon the sun is not
exactly In the meridian except upon four days of
the year. April Is, June Is. August 81 and De-
cember a. In the middle of November the sun
| is sixteen minutes ahead of it's time, and in the
middle of February fourteen minutes slow. Not
one person in million would perceive the
change if all the clocks and watches were stimuli
| taneously made half an hour faster or slower.
Circulars have been sent to all the RAILWAYS In
the United States and Canada asking if they
will enter into an agreement to abide by the
new arrangement, and the officers of Is 600
! miles out of a total of 10000 miles have con-
sented. Many of the lines not heard from are
| local lines, which will abide by what arrange
| ments the through lines make. Next SUNDAY
the following railroads will begin running on
standard timetables having for basis noon at
! moment the sun passes the 18th meridian: Bos-
ton Concord and Montreal, Montpelier and
Wells River Central Vermont. Concord and
branches. Concord and Claremont, Northern IN.
ID. }. Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain, Boston
and Lowell, Southeastern. The following roads
Will adopt the system, provided that the Cam
bridge Mass, time-bal, which gives the time to
Boston, is dropped at the noon of the 18th meri-
dian instead of at the local noon: Boston and
Albany; Boston and Maine, and Old Colony.
If the system Is adopted all over the country
and there Is but little doubt of it's ultimate
adoption, or of some modification of it. instead
OF ffty-three standards Of time the UnitedStates
will have four.