The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-01
TO ADOPT EASTERN TIME.
nat Is What the Council Proposss
Doing.

7"' q resolution or ordinance will h.
ADOPTED changing the time used in the
- rom sun time TO 10Th meridian or
ees.ein standard time.
- resolution viii probably also in
- - request 10 the railroads that they
So al .ue uine used by them in the city
-o-- 'ylh meridian used by them at
resent 10 18th meridian time i'm order
.--3- lhe time tables and clocks ,1sad nv
-4 an announcing the arrival and de-
clocks Al ~ the city
- tle dlference between eastern and
central time is one hour the request. il is
can De easily complied with by
-. Ialfoads. For instance.
IN now announced as leav-
ING at O'Clock would be announc-
et as leaving at O'Clock and in the case
oI the central and the two Florida rail
Ioaus the time would be increased inst
me hour after leaving the city. To the
an oaus running north the change would
" d very satisfactory one as they run in
the eastern time territory.
mayor McDonough said yesterday that
change.
The communication in the Morning
News from Hon. j. II. Alexander of An.
suS1d' on the subject puts the matter in
- proper night, he said. 1t explains the
uule question as il affects cities situated
a. are savannah and Augusta. better than
ANYTHING have ever read"
Inc question OF .he change from sun
tlne TO standard time was taken M bv
lle Morhing News last fan and a letter
nas addressed to President Purse of the
Doatd OF Trade urging that body TO take
oihcial action to bring the matter to tba
attention OF the city authorities.
APT Purse, after considering the mat
1eI' addressed letter TO Col II. s. Haines
vice president OF the Plant system. re-
qaestlng an expression from him as to
lhe position Of the railroads on the time
question ana as TO which time was pre-
-eIdple 1or border cities like Savannah
1otn OF sum meridian time. Col Hanes
reply which was recently received gives
very fair idea of the position of the
railroads on the time question. He saws;
nave never clearly understood what
was the cause Of the persistent OBJ
lection on the part of the City Council Of
savannah 10 the establishment of Stand
ard Time in that city which I believe is
the only place in Ehe United States
winch continues to use local time The
inconvenience which Col. Estill suffers in
MS newspaper business from the ex-
lstence of two standards Of time is large
~ shared by the hotel proprietors and
others who have business with the rail-
ROADS, ana l hope now that you have taxi
en- the matter up with your well known
indomitable energy and tact that YOU
VIII be able to secure the adoption OF
standard time by the city and thus re-
neve those who have business with the
railroads from the annoyance which they
now suffer and permit me to add that YOU
VIII relieve the city from the reputation
which II has abroad Of being rather old
fogy in this matter.
Both YOU and Col Estill desire that
If possible the roads leading westward
from Savannah shall use the standard
time of the 18th meridian rather than of
the 9Oth. We're they to DO so they would
have to select some point on their rail-
roads at which they would change
from one time to the other and
would thus establish for themselves
the very double standard of time
which IS now so annoying to yourself
and others in Savannah The railroads
running north and south and crossing
US west of Savannah would continue to
use the standard time of the 9Oth meri-
dian, so you see that this would give us
still further annoyance. This matter
was arranged by the American Railroad
Association, which divides the territory
of the United States into zones not con-
forming exactly to the meridians of lon
gtude informed between the 18th
and 90th meridians, but following them
as closely as the operations of the east
and west railroad systems would permit
For instance the division Of what is
termed the zone of the 10Th to the 90th
meridian begins at Erie, Pa, runs down
through Pittsburg, thence along the Ohio
river and along the Western boundaries of
West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina
South Carolina to Savannah. Circum-
stances compelled the r. q D. r. r. to
run their eastern time into Atlanta and
induced us to begin at Ashley Junction
instead of Savannah. The zone of the
90th meridian runs westward to FL Paso
from Savannah and it is fact that if
Savannah adopted the 90th meridian
time it would have the same time as that
in use in the entire country from the line
I have mentioned to the Rio Grande, in
which the largest population of the United
states is probably conferred, including the
great cities of Chicago, st. Louis. Kan
sas City, Omaha and New Orleans. The
question for the people of Savannah
to determine is whether they will call
their present 100 a. m. 7.2i by the 18th
meridian or 6.36 by the sOth meridian. We
find no difficulty in our shops in ringing
our bell at $50 a. m, thus conforming
within six minutes to the city time of 200
o'clock.
Now as to the legal aspect of the mat
ter; the state of Florida as you are doubt
less aware, has made the time of the Goth
meridian the legal standard time of that
state. and I have not found that the people
of Jacksonville on the extreme eastern
limits of that state have experienced any
difficulty in conforming to it. 1t is so con-
venient to use standard time that once
YOUR people become accustomed TO It do
not think that they will ever want to de-
part from it again. You can set your watch
bv the time of the S0th meridian, cross
the Atlantic with il and be just as GER
tain of making connection with the train
ont of Liverpool as you could out of Sa-
vannah. This you will admit is great adj
vance over the old system of having to
use the local time of every local railroad
tern,inus through which you passed
,This system of time has now been adopted
ali over Europe, except in France and
Snain. there being a patriotic objection
an tbe part of the French to using the
meridian of Greenwich instead Of that OF
paris and it is probable that at the In
ternational Railroad Congress which is to
Meet in London next June arrangements
Iii he made for its adoption all over
Asia and Australia"
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