The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-23
IMPORTANT TIME CHANGE.
Changes i'm the Time by which the
Railroads of the Country are
Run.


Railroads of the Country nre
The changes made on Sunday, November 1S,
in the time by which about all the railroads in
the country are rum cannot be brought about,
at the best, without considerable friction,
says the Scientific american. In Boston, for
instance, there is no little opposition to the
putting of clocks and watches back some
seventeen minutes, as will he necessary under
the new provision for eastern standard
time but orders have been issued for many of
the pubic clocks in that city to be so regu-
lated, and, as the whole railroad system of
the Eastern States will be controlled by
this standard, the prevailing opinion seems
to be that the innovation will be generally
accepted. There may be some who will at
first carry the two kinds of time, the "stand-
ard" and the true, as can be readily done by
having two minute hands on a watch; this is
now frequently practiced to keep both New
York and Boston time, by those who travel
much between the two cities In New York
city. where the change required, calls for
putting back the true time only four min
utes there will probably be less opposition to
the adoption of the new standard, but it may
be readily conceived that great confusion
will inevitably be caused wherever it is at
tempted to use the two kinds of time stimuli
taneously
By the adoption of the new plan there will
practically be only four standards of time
throughout the country, instead Of forty
nine, as at present. The timetables of many
of the railroads will also have to be changed,
as well as the clocks, in order to facilitate the
making of connections between lines affected
over considerable distances east and west
The following list of changes has therefore,
been furnished by Mr.. w. +. Allen, secretary
of the railroad conventions which decided
tl,n of yctn md
letter denoting that the clock is to be set
ahead and the letter that it is to be set
back:
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, east of
Dodge City, clocks only, 8 minutes f.
Atchson, Topeka, and Santa Fe, west of
Dodge City, clocks and schedules, 81 minutes
Baltimore and Ohio (we.t), both clocks and
schedules, % minutes, s.
Boston Hoosac Tunnel and Western, both
clocks and schedules, minutes, s.
Boston and Albany, clocks only 10 min
utes, S.
Canadian Pacific eastern division), clocks
only, 6 minutes, s.
Central Vermont, both clocks and schedules,
~ minutes, S.
Chesapeake and Ohio, both clocks and
schedules, s minutes, f.
Chicago and Alton clocks only 9 minutes, s.
Chicago and Grand Trunk both clocks and
schedules, 9 minutes, S.
OleNeiduu 1O!uIuDuSJ SlICluHhul, duu liz
dianapolis both clocks and schedules, % min
uteS, S.
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
clocks only, minutes, s.
Delaware, Lackawanna. and Western. both
clocks and schedules 4 minutes, S.
Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, and Louisville,
both clocks and schedules, % minutes, S.
Freehold and New York, both clocks and
schedules, 4 minutes, S.
Hartford and Connecticut Western clocks
only, minutes, S.
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, both
clocks and schedules. 2S minutes, S.
Lehigh Valley. clocks only, minute, f.
Louisville and Nashville, clocks only IS
minutes, S.
Missouri Pacific, clocks, schedules at st.
Louis only, minutes, S.
New York, Lake Erie, and Western, clocks
only, minutes S.
New York Central and Hudson River,
clocks only, 4 minutes, s.
New York City and Northern, clocks only,
minutes, s.
New York and New England least of Con-
necticut). both clocks and schedules, IA min
utes S.
New York and New England lin Connecti-
cut, both clocks and schedules, minutes, s.
Pennsylvania, New York division, both
clocks and schedules, minute, f.
Pennsylvania, all divisions except New
York, clocks only, l minute, f.
Philadelphia and Reading, both clocks
and schedules, / minute, f.
Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg,
clocks only, minutes, S.