The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-07
At THE TOP OF BIG DUKE.
The City Clocks Will Be Set Ahead al
1895 This Morning.

At That Hour Sun Time viii Be Done
Away With and Savannah VIII Run
by 18th Neridian-Churchgoer Don't
Like the Idea Of Services at 1880
O'Clock = How the Hotels WIN Fix
Their Clocks.
Savannah viii begin the use Of fast time
to-day. AT 1875 o'clock this morning by
the present time the big duke viii tap
once, the time bah on the cotton ex-
change VIII fan and the hands OF the
clocks on the city exchange. the court
house and the Independent Presbyterian
church viii be moved up TO Z o'clock
This look--hh a clear loss Of twenty-four
minutes somewhere. or rather that is
what BE- win amount 70 10 shop keepers
and manufacturers unless the working
hours are changed to-day Pretty much
everybody in the city has decided to use
the new time and everything viii be run
ming an right by tomorrow.
The change does not relieve the city Of
the double standard time, but il makes
the calculation easier. as there viii now be
just one hours difference between the
two times The railroads and hotels viii
continue to use Goth meridian time. but
placards 10 this effect VIII be placed above
clocks running by Il, stating that it is
one hour slower than city time. Mr. Pow
ers Of Watson & Powers of the De Soto,
was asked what they would do about the
change
We shall simply run two clocks" he
replied. The clock in the office viii re-
main at railroad time, as at present, and
the card announcing this fact will con-
unue just where it is. The clock over the
mantel in the lobby will be run by city
time and card announcing this fact
placed above it. We are well satisfied
with the change. You have no idea what
a bother it was to explain to guests the
difference in times here. AS the majority
OF our guests come from New York and
other cities in the eastern time belt their
watches are set by 18th meridian time
when they arrive here. One of the first
things they notice is that the clocks in
the hotel are an hour ahead of their time
and that the city clocks are just between,
twenty-four minutes slower than their
watches and SO minutes slower than the
uottA LiIHt. Nhlufduy tney asked Tor an
explanation and no matter how much we
explained, not one man in ten could get
IL exactly in his head why the city time
was twenty-fOur minutes ahead of his
watch and thirty-six minutes slower than
the hotel time. Now when we are asked
for an explanation of the difference in
time of our clocks we can simply say that
one clock is run by 18th meridian or New
York time. and the other by 90th meridian
or central time. Every intelligent man
understands that there is an hours differ
ence in the time Of the two zones"
1t was given out in some of the churches
yesterday that on account of the change
in time, the morning service would here
after commence at 1870, instead of II
o'clock as heretofore. Many Of the church
members object TO this very seriously.
They say that, as their dinner hours will
conform to the new time it will throw
things out of gear If the church services
are put a half hour later than heretofore.
If anything, they said, the time for begin
ming service should be moved up half an
hour and that l0:30 would be better hour
at which to begin service than il 80. As
the whole city will conform to the new
time, there is no reason why the churches
should not fan in line. There will, of
course. be some friction for the first few
days, but before the week is passed peo-
Pile will have forgotten that there has been
any change in time.