The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-23
UNIFORM TIME.

convention at Chicago last week Is q
long step in the right direction. 1t
was there announced that companies
running $4,000 miles of railroad had
agreed to adopt the standard time land
the convention voted lat the new
system should take effect November
Is, or whenever The next time sched-
ule made by the different roads inter-
ested shall 60 into effect.
According to the new system. there
are to be only four standards IF time
for the whole country, and these just
one hour apart-namely, the seventy
fifth meridian, or eastern tine, and
nineteenth meridian. or central time
the one hundredth and fifth meridian,
or mountain time, and the one hun
dred and twentieth meridian. or Pacific
time. These are substantially Phila-
delpbia, ST. Louis. and Denver times,
the one hundred and twentieth merid-
ian being as near Carson City as any
other prominent point. New York
time is four minutes faster than tne
eastern or seventy-ifth meridian time,
and Philadelphia only Ole minute
slower. Chicago time is nine minu es
faster than the central. or ninetieth
meridian Tine, and st. Louis only one
minute slower. Denver is exactly On
the one hundred and fifth meridian,
and San Francisco just ten minutes
slower that one hundred and twentieth
meridian time.
The agreement as to use of eastern
or central time by different roads is
that ''all roads now using Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, To-
ronto, Hamilton, or Washington time
as standard. including roads run by
Portland, Providence, New London,
Montreal, Albany, Richmond and
Charleston time shall be governed by
the sevepty-ffth meridian or aestern
t1me,' and that changes from one
hour standard to another shall be made
at the termini of roads or at the ends
Of divisions. On the Pennsylvania
route, for example, the eastern time
would be used east of Columbia, and
the central time west of that point
the Baltimore and Ohio system would
use eastern time as far as Cincinnati
and the New York Central and Lake
Shore system as far as Cleveland. Be-
tween the nineteenth and the one
hundred aud fifth meridian, the chang
es of time are to he made on the Un-
ion Pacific at North Platte and Wal
lace, on the Burlington Missouri
River at McCook, on the Atchison,
Topeka Santa Fe at Coolidge, on
the Texas Pacific at Toyale, and on
the Galveston. Harrisburg and San
Antonio at Sanderson.
The adoption of this plan by the
railroads will naturally prepare the
way for a change of public time at cit
les and towns throughout the country.
As railroad time will be kept at all
stations, and doubtless correct by tele
graph at most of them, it will afford a
standard to which other institutions
will fird it convenient to conform.
The greatest divergence of railroad
from true time at any point will be
about thirty minutes at points nearly
equidistant from the seventy-ffth and
ninetieth meridians, and this differ
ence is not important enough to cause
a eeperate standard to be kept for 9th
er than railway purposes. Places
nearest either meridian may well con-
form in their standard time to that
meridian, 80 that the vexation of as.
certaining local time at different places
may soon be obviated. A man can
then travel ill over the country with
out having occasion to change his
watch he has only to remember that
noon in the east means II o'clock west