Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-02-26

~ ;pia iaae e. that g. ostro'
l. - - o o,ant | aha,id w .Iaaad
IN tbo framework of the old one. A
Strossbnro watcbmaker named Scbwil-
oua ,yos ontrnsted With the undertak-
2;no and v;tb;n four years he finished
The un;ono mechanism which stands
TO-DAY tbe wonder and amusement of
natives and visitors Not only does
this clock keen the time from day to
dav but II rms from wear TO wear
without the intervention of anv clock
maker Resides tb;s its face CON
tains disk indicating all the variable
HOLIDAYS of the wear Faster. and 40
on. II reoulates itself in the lean
wears II gives the nboses of the
moon. the eclipses the eou;noxes and
the revolutions of all the planets of
the solar system. The fineness of the
structure can be understood when it
is known that of the seven golden
balls, of different size. representing
the planets, the nearest to the sun,
Mercury, takes eighty-eight days to
make the circuit of its orbit while
Saturn only can complete it's course in
1747 days, or nearly three wears. saws
the PHILADELPHIA telegraph.
Tho ent;ro oobon;s,r -, .L
calculated would rrn nn+;I tha go
eeeo Il tbe hrass ond o+har ,at.I af
which IL is built do not wear ont in tho
meantime This wonderf,,l oontr;r1
ance is unfortunately in n dark place.
where those who constantly wish TO
view it well are scarcely able to do 30.
Its site is wing, which can be en-
tered through the Cathedral proper or
a portal, which directly leads tbither
from outdoors. The time of greatest
interest is Mt noon each day. though
there are little performances at every
quarter hour. At noon is the time
the cock crows, and that is what eyerv
one wants to hear. The interest never
seems to wane. For an hour before 70
o'clock, day after day, crowd gath
ers in this corner, waiting for the ex-
hibition. This early arrival is partly
in order to get good place, and part
ly because the clock keeps solar time.
which now is half hour behind ordi.
nary Strassburg time. Here are tour
lists, soldiers, nuns. bridal couples,
peasant women with baskets, bows
with bundles, who have run in from
the street to get another look at the
thing. Now. it is only half hour
until the performance; will the room
hold any more?
Tho beodles lilo .ba stra.. o.
drctors ora snra tboro ;s -.
go, .s,,, front or ro.ho "a;
ooso hoh;nd ,rho, uara a. -
Of thar ma;astv and haoL the noa,Io
srroa St;iI ,nnra oro oau,;n r.
na+inos whn na,au co., w. .;I .he
s;nbt and ,vho Lnow ha,.or ahout az
variance in the times. are now drop.
ping in-mothers with babies. business
men from around the corner. and
everybody else. There is not space to
sneeze. Now there are only five min.
utes until the rooster crows. Maybe
he will not crow to-day. Everybody
Is looking at the clock. Don't wink.
Now comes the fateful minute. In
the very centre of the big monument
to the clockmaker's ingenuity is a
gallery. Here stands Father Time.
representing Death. He has about
him, ON revolving plane, four figures
Childhood, boy; Youth, young
hunter; Manhood, fully-armed
knight; Old Age, a gray-haired man,
clothed in the skin of beast. Child
hood had struck the first quarter hour,
Youth the second, Manhood the third
and Old Age the other hours of the
day but now at noon it is Deaths
own chance The four figures come
out in view before him, while, with a
grim hammer of bone, he sounds with
twelve strokes the death of another
day.
l;ttIo forre down or tho f.s
the clock now has his tnrn and w;th
n little shake reyersos b;s bomr .,.sa