The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-12
TELEGRAPHIC
Railway Time Convention.

Chicago, 1.-The annual railway time
| table convention began here this morning,
and is being attended by representatives
from nearly every important railway 10
the country. In addition to arranging
winter time tables, j: is proposed to take
definite action on the adoption BY rail.
roads throughout the country Of the pro.
posed plan for uniform time standards
The new plan has been termed the "hour
system" /. provides for standards off
ferir & from each other by exactly au
hour; leaving out the eastern and western
extremes Of the continent, there are east.
ern, central and mountain tinaee. The frat
will be employed from New Bru lswick
to the meridian of Detroit, the second As
far west - the boundary between Kansas
and Colorado, and the third line between
Utah and Nevada. It 10 proposed that
all railroads now using Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Toronto,
Hamilton, or Washington time % q
standard, shall be governed by eastern
or 18th meridian time, four minutes
slower than New York meridian. Roads
! now using Columbus, Saw snpa h, Atlanta,
Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Chi.
csgo, Jefferson city, st. Paul or Kaneal
city time, shall be run By she central OF
Goth meridian time, nine minutes
slower than Chicago time. Minneapolis,
st. Joseph. Galveston, Houston and
Omaha time, west Of this road, to be run
by mountain" time, or exactly that
Of Denver. It is stated the eastern dis.
trict standard time has been used BY all
roads between Boston and Montreal
since last Sunday with the possible
view of first testing the plan.
Mr.. T. r. Wright, general superin-
tendeDt Of the L. 3. s. n. s., wss called
to the chair, and w. T. Allen wss chosen
secretary. Mum Der Of delegates present,
sixty three. The secretary announced
that he had received affirmative replies
from the managers of $4,000 miles OF
track to the proposed uniform schedule.
The following Was submitted and
adopted:
Whereas, The managers of Is, 600
miles OF road have voted in favor OF
adopting the system of time standard ct
the lsst convention, We hereby pledge
ourselves to adopt the same and run
trains by il whenever the next schedules
90 into effect.
The only roads voting sgsinst the pro-
position were the Michigan Central, de-
troit, Lansing & Northern, and Detroit,
Grand Haven & Milwaukee. The reason
given by the former WAS that il crossed
. meridian and could not adapt its run
ming arrangements to the new plan at
present without great Inconvenience. It
was stated in the convention that the
road in question would soon adopt the
new schedule. It WAS decided that the
present schedule should remain in force
until November 18th, when new SEIZED.
ules will 60 into force. The secretary
read q communication from Commodore
Shufeldt, in charge of the naval OBJ
servatory at Washington, in which he
congratulates the convention upon the
change contemplated. and said that
while he thought . single standard would
be better from scientific point Of view,
he thought the present change a long
stride in the right direction. Commo-
dore Shufeldt promised the cooperation
OF the naval observatory in carrying out
the policy of the convention. He said
the observatory would change the time
OF the dropping lof the New York ball
to the mean time Of the seventy.ffth
meridian, and in addition would en-.
deavor to secure its adoption to local time
in the whole section in which it is to be
used for railroads. The observatory
would forrish the time of the seventy
fifth and ninetie:h meridian to railroads
hrougoon thu entire Country daily.
j. K. Edmunds, in charge OF the Bos-
ton observatory, telegraphed the con-
ven!ion as follows: The city, the railroads
ard the observatory only swat the
Affirmative vote of the convention before
fixing the date for changing all public
time in Boston.
The convention adjourned for the day
at 2 pm.