The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04
Old Time and New Time.
SALT LAKE CITY, May Sd, ..

Old lime and New lime.
SALT LAKE CITY, May Sd, 'S4.
! Editors, Herald:
! viii nobody cay word in fayo
of the old time? Il seems altogethe
too bad to cast off without crate
full or an appreciative word, an olc
friend, a very old, faithful, anC
once highly valued friend, q friend
for generations after generation
past.
This must be fast age. People
are certainly getting very fast. Thes
do not sing
Backward turn backward, o time II
thy flight"
Oh no. Gut this is more like thf
way Of things nowadays
"Time, fy with greater speed away,
Add swiftness to thy wings"
Yet why should he? Has he net
celebrity enough already? l don't
want him,to fly any faster than of
yore. TempuS fUgit and do not
see any necessity for him to .fitgjt
any faster than his usual pace. We
! shall all get to the end Of our jour-
! new soon enough for u.s. But II he
vent 60 any faster there are &C
tually those who are ready to give
him q kick behind to help him along.
Indeed, they have done that very
thing already and advanced him
! thereby hall an hour or nearly that
with us. As a Dutehman might
say, what for I'D they do that?
DON'T know. II is notion, a hobby
with some people,
There are people, many people,
who could not get up soon enough
with the cid time, and how they are
going to get up and keep up with
the new time, especially in the short,
cold, stormy days OF winter, is not
for me to say. Perhaps that class
think to hamor their take-it easy
dispositions in this way--to get up
and go to work by the old time, and
to quit work and go TO supper and
bed by the new time. no doubt
many sly and dilatory raseals would
be glad to cheat time ard other
people in that cunning and under
hand way. Bat it ought Rot to be
allowed.
Well, what of the new time?
Many people say they cannot under.
stand it. All the people on and
from 81 imaginary north and south
pole line situated a few miles east
of Denver, thence thousand miles,
OF lesS, westward, are to have
one time. and that the time
Of that said line t'other side Of Den
yer. At that imaginary line there is
q rise of an hour all at once in the
time for all people thence eastward
q thousand miles or less. at an
other imaginary line, a thousand |
miles or less west Of Denver, there |
Is step down of an hour for all the |
people themes to the Pacific coast.
D what a fall is there, my country
men! Then you and I and all OF US
10 fall, or should be likely to do so if
We sat astride of that sharp edged
western line like a doubling politi.
ian on a fence, unless we were
most accomplished balancers.
This new time is called STAN
lard mountain time. Who
ares about mountain time, one
yay or the other. az q name?!
But this word standard Is a rank
nisnomer. This new time is no
tsndard at all to as, nor to anybody
lse, except to those fortunate or
beings who live on that
north and south pole line
90 miles east of US, that long, thin
freak of longitude, and even they
aust be exactly on that line, for,
'eing purely imaginary line, and,
Ike. a mathematical line having
sngth, but neither breadth nor
hIckness, they must not be on
ither one side or the other. By
1e by, we may in some sort con-
EIDE thickness or depth, purely i'm
ginary though, but not breadth, to
his imaginary line, for, while it
oes not matter, as to the time of
ay or night, whether people stand
q the line on the earth, or on the
anne line miles above the :
arth, it does decidedly matter.
orologically, whether they stand
q the lines or q distance east or
'est Of it, and especially east of it,
on which eide of that finer than I
oesamer line they stand. 1t will
lake difference of an hour in the
eW time to them whether they
.ano a foot east or q foot west of
laI line, yea an inch or less will
IL. 1t may, as to dates, make T
lneIence OF day, a week, a S
,onth, OF year to people, whether
icy stand east or west Of that bee
ne or rather it may cause quarrels o