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meridian, which is one hour slower, would be

meridian, which is one hour slower, would be
used.
IN USE on THE RAILROADS.
| In arranging the time tables the railroads will
make the changes from one time section to an
other at the ternini OF roads or at the ends of
divisions. The western railways. whose termn
| are III Buffalo, Salamanca and Charlotte, are al
lowed to use the central standard as far east as
those points. The important places where the
| change OF one hour from eastern to central time
occurs. are Detroit. Buffalo, Pittsburg. Charlotte
, ana Augusta The change from central to noun
| tam time is male at Bismarck. North Platte
| wallace, Coolidge and others: from mountain to
Pacific time at Ogden. Yuma and others. In
| many cases the change of time. when made at
| tnese railroad points will not be at the exact
| place where the two time belts meet. On many
railroads. the line separating the two belts
| crosses the road at places where it would be in
| convenient to make the change of time and so
the place is shifted east or west to point where
there is terminus or the end of division.
CURIOUS FEArs OF TRAVELLERS
Ihis Will cause travellers to perform some curl
| Gus feats-as, for instance. leaving a place be-
| lore they arrive. 1t train arrives at Pittsburg
at O'Clock in the morning and five minutes
after the traveller starts for the west. he will
IND that according to the time table he has left
Pittsburg five minutes after Z O'Clock, or fifty
|
| will be that he left the belt of the eastern time
| standard and entered that of the central, there
| being difference in the two standards OF just
one hour. On the b and o. road the time used
"a n. "ashnston n would probably prevail as far
! west as Cincinnati The times of these four
standards are substantially Phadelpnia St
Louis and Denver times. the one hundred and
| twentieth meridian being as near Carson City as
any other prominent point New York time is
Tour minutes faster than the eastern or seventy
NTH meridian time. and Philadelphia only one
| minute slower. Chicago time is nine minutes
| iaster than the central or ninetieth meridian
tlIne and st. Louis only one minute slower.
Denver Is exactly ON the one hundred and fifth
| meridian, and San Francisco just ten minutes
| slower than one hundred and twentieth meri-
dian time.
HOW 1T WILL AFFECT WASHINGTON TINE.
The effect of the adoption OF such time stand
! ard in this city would be to advance our time
seven minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
When it is twelve o'clock on the seventy filth
| meridian it lacks seven minutes and twenty
eight seconds Of twelve here according to OBJ
servatory. time. A STAR reporter went up to
the Naval Observatory yesterday to ascertain
now the proposed new system was regarded
there
Il think that the system is an improvement
over the present one, remarked Commodore
Shuieidt as he put on his overcoat for trip to
the Navy department. ~ have promised to
furnish the time of the seventy-fifth meridian in
New York, and will do So"
Capt. Sampson, who was next seen. said:
1.-THE Naval Observatory has not determined
as yet to adopt this new tima, standard in any
time In New York and will do so. The Western
Union Telegraph company has been sending the
time to New York and other points at 12 o'clock
daily for years, and it can just well send the
time of the 18th meridian
How about the local time here?' asked the
reporter.
''We have been in the habit for years." was
the reply, 'of dropping the ball at IL o'clock
washington time every day. l suppose if we
drop it seven minutes earlier that very few will
notice it."
Are you going to change the time of drop
PING the noon ball?' continued the reporter
THAT depends on what the people here wish
IL does not make any difference to us. We can
ulop lt at one time Just as we'll as at another.
VI course. for our astronomical work there will
be no change in the time. and we will still use
the time OF the meridian over which our dome
is built
WHAT THE RAILWAY OFFICIALS SAY.
An inquiry at the railroad offices developed
the fact that the officials here had no informa-
tion what the companies intended to do
IF there is going to be change in the time"
remarked an official, 1--WE will receive the neces-
sary instructions from the main Office in due
season; but so far we have heard nothing"
On the pennsylvania railroad which is run on
Philadepha time. the new time will be only one
minute faster. while on the Baltimore and Ohio
which is run on Baltimore time. it will be six
minutes and twentv-three seconds faster.
Il see no objection to the adoption of this
new time here" remarked Mr.. Gait, the we'll
known jewelry. to STAR reporter. s'Itwould
certainly be much more convenient to have
uniform system. and the change is so slight that
it would hardly be noticed and it would GER
tanly affect nothing un1ayorably"
MI karr and others who keep regulators, eX-
kl,,f
seem to be any objection to the new system in
this city.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN BOSTON.
In Boston preparations are being made to
Introduce the new time on the 4th of November,
when the principal eastern railroads issue their
wihter tables, arranged according to the new
standard. The new time is 26 minutes slower
than the present Boston time. Cambridge OBJ
servatOry will send out the word to drop the
time ball at noon, new tine. The school clocks
Will be put right. The noon alarm of the fire
aepartment WI be correctly rung. and in all
probability all the watches in the city will in one
DAYS time have been adapted to the new
ruling.
ACTION OF SOME RAILROADS.
The railroads between Nashua and Montreal
and Ogdensburg made the change on the 9TH
inst. The grand Trunk line of Canada will adopt
the proposed system for the running of their
trains on Nov. 4th. The Western Union Tele-
graph Company, which drops time ball daily
in New York by telegraph from this city, will
adopt the new time.
His LOrdsllip in Chicago.
while in Chicago Lord Chief Justice Coleridge de-
ci1n TO inspect the making saving
gently, L eat sausage myself sometimes '"-E1eiange
To see your pig killers I'd rather not 90
Says to myself. says u.
Though you've little besides In Chicago to show
(Says to myself, says y.
And the sight, I'm afraid, might my stomach de-
range
For sometimes eat sausage myself for a change
And its composite parts are exceedingly Strange
Says to myself, says y.
The slaughter Of pigs regard as boar
Says tOmyself, says y.
And I'm utterly nerveless In presence Of gore
(SayS to myself saws II.