The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-05
THE TIME AND THE BANKS.
A Difference of Opinion Cropped Out in
the Clearing House Meeting.

A Diff srence of Opinion Cropped Out in
the Clearing House Meeting.
At meeting Of the Clearinghouse yes
terday the question of the time the banks
should Doe opened and closed. beginning
Monday, when the 10Th meridian time goes
into effect. was discussed. It disclosed
difference Of opinion. and the matter was
not settled. a meeting viii be held to-
day at l2.3) o'clock for the settlement OF
it.
Some Of the bankers sand the opening
time should be a. N. AMI the closing 2
D. m. They claimed that those were the
banking hours in an parts of the country
in which standard time is used. and stan
dard time is used pretty near everywhere.
other bankers said the opening time
should be 9.38 a. m, and the closing hour
should be 2.& p. M SO as to
hour. And they gave very good
reason Tor their view. Tlie .asln is this:
The time of closing the mails win De the
same on ana after Monday as it Is now.
II the banks are closed "a. y. n. the
merchants viii be deprived of u half hour
for collecting IN their drafts and prepar-
ing for the mails. This malt hour IS very
valuable TO them. In some respects it IS
the most valuable half hour oil tho bank
ing hours. To deprive them Of IL viii sub
ject them TO considerable Inconvenience.
on the other hand the . ana . people
say II thei- hours are adopted tho bus
mess community viii quickly conform
70 them. The matter will be settled To-
day one way or the other.
Savannah will have the same time after
Il o'clock Monday as New York, Wash
ington, Baltimore. Philadelphia. Rich
mond, Charleston and Augusta. When
the time time ball drops at T. o'clock
Washington time, from its staff on the
top of the cotton exchange Monday II
will mark the noon hour for savannah
That large portion of Savannahs popu-
lation which makes a habit of going to
dinner at o'clock will get 10 dinner just
twenty-four minutes sooner than the day
before, that Is. II Il Keeps the same
hours and the dinner hour is not changed
TO 2.30, instead of . O'Clock This is the
question which is now being discussed
by merchants and professional men as
well as the banks. Shall offices, stores
and workshops continue 10 open and close
at the same hours by the clock as at
present, or shall a half hour be added
90 the opening and closing time is be-
ing asked. If the same nominal hours are
used as at present offices, stores and
workshops will open and close just TWEEN
ty-four minutes earlier If thirty min
utes be added to the hours of opening
and closing in order TO equalze the
change in time this viii make the time
for beginning and ceasng work just four
minutes slower than at present I'VE are
all creatures of habit" said a business
man yesterday, land It is likely that the
major portion of the population Will fall
into the use of the same hours of the
clock to which they have been accus-
toned heretofore inside of a week or ten
n of factories and WOrkChOnI
where O'Clock is the hour for beginning
work Il may be that 1870 will be made
the hour as it is hardly light enough at
o'clock, eastern time, in the winter to
begin work"
The railroads will advertise the arrivals
and departures of their trains by both
times. This will be done very simply
without causing confusion by adding an
additional line for Savannah IN the pub
lished time tables, denoting one as rail-
road time and the other as city time.
The railroads will continue to run by the
sOth meridian time, however, and the
clocks in the depots viii use that time
Supt. Kline OF the Central railroad said.
when spoken to by a Morning News re-
porter on the subject, that he approved
the change in time made by the city.
II would have much preferred" he said,
that the city should have adopted goth
meridian time. That would have given
the city and railroads one time. The
railroads are compelled to run their
trains by standard time of the zone in
which they are located, and as all our
lines are in the central zone we must
continue to use central or 99th meridian
time. As a matter of fact though, all
the clocks in our offices ami workshops
are run by city time now, and will
doubtless be changed to conform to the
new city time. 1t is much easier to cal
culate an hours difference between the
two times than the difference of thirty
six minutes now existing, and for that
reason I approve of the change"