Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-25
NEW STANDARD I[MG.
ITS ADOPTION TO-DAY THRGUGHOUT
THE WHOLE NORTH FESr.
The City as Unit to Adopt It-An the
Railways Issuing New Time Tables on its
Basis-No Further Annoyance from Miss
ing Trains.

ing Trains.
At noon to-day in st. Paul and through
out this part of tho northwest the new
standard time will be inaugurated. The
new time was adopted last week by all the
cities in the east, as well 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
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
respondence ensued with those interested
throughout the United States, principal
iy 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
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 105th 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 Mortified, Minnesota,
and better regulation of time will be
had than ever before. The ST. Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba Railroad company
have notified all 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 II
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
ing connections will be avoided. The city
council and chamber of commerce have
adopted it.
BOUNDARIES OF THE DIVISIONS.
Following is 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 a line drawn
almost due north from Ssult Ste. Marie,
Mich, all that portion of Dakota west of q
line drawn almost due north and 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 small north
western corner, the state of Texas
! excepting few miles of territory off the
| northwestern corner. Some of the promi
| nent cities in the central division are: st
Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, st. Louis, In
| dianapolis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Louis
vile, Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis
Kansas City, Cleveland, Omaha and Toledo
| Central time is based upon that of the 90tl
meridian, which is nine minutes slowe
than Chicago solar time.
THE EASTERN DIVISION.
| The division for eastern time takes il
the states of South Carolina, North Caro-
lima and Virginia Excepting a small slic
| of the southwestern corner of each), Yves
| Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, District c
Columbia, Pennsylvania Excepting yer,
narrow western strip, New York, Rhod,
Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts,, \ eI
mont, New Hampshire, Maine Excepting {
bit of northern territory, and that por-
ton of Canada between lines drawn dut
north and south through Quebec, and al
most due north from Detroit through
Sault Ste. Marie, Eastern time is baset
upon the seventy-ffth meridian, which i
an hour faster than Central time, or fou
minutes slower than New York city solar
time.
| THE MOUNTAIN DIVISION.
The mountain division embraces all tina
portion of British Columbia lying west 0
the borders of Manitoba, and east of tn
115th meridian or Mount Head; that por
ton of Dakota west of line drawn mort
and south through Fort Sully and Bis
marck; one-fourth of the western portion
of Nebraska; small portions off the north
western corners of Kansas and Texas
about two-thirds of Lower California
southern section; Arizona, Except
ing a very small wester1
slice); New Mexico, Excepting a cut Of
the southwestern corner); Colorado, Wy
oming, Montana, Excepting small pisc
of the extreme northwestern corner; tn
southwestern portion of Idaho-about one
third the territory; Utah, excepting
small cut off on the northwestern corner
Mountain time is based on the 1O5th me
ridian, and is one hour slower than centre
time.
| INTERCoLosTAL DIVISION.
The intercolonial division begins at th
!. sixtieth meridian, short distance east c
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