The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-10-26
HAVE YOU THE TIME?
THE ODDS ARE TWENTY 70 ONE
THAT YOU HAVE NOT.
Some Of the Reasons why Most Time
pieces Are Always More OF Less Out Of
the Way-HOw Correct Time Ia R.ceiv-
cd Daily From Washington.

keep incorrect time. Ninety nine men
out Of a hundred are just in the ac; of
regulating their watches IN front of a
window that has a chronometer in it.
Ii you ask Il man the time, and his
watch is wrong, be is invariably going
to the matchmaker that very day TO
have it put i'll order. no one has any
idea of keeping tho correct time. All
believe that they have it III their peck
cts, and none ever gets it except at the
moment of setting his watch.
If yon have IL friend in the railroad
business and stop him i'll the street with
u friendly Hello, old fellow, what's
the time? You always have it ccrrect,''
he will haul out his tlInepiece with an
important air and give the hour in a
voice that SHOWS he knows what time il
is and that he is never wrong. A
square or two farther On you chance TO
meet another friend i'll .be same line of
business. You nsk him the time, receive
an alawoT, snllo to yourself and pass
m. There WAS ten minutes difference
| u z AANAil. lSNCiJ tiLL6 lilO btdlG-
house bell strikes IL hundred men pull
out their watches with % confident air
of being correct aud put them back
with an expression Of extreme surprise.
We all live, flourish and die in time,
but no IL keeps the correct immediate
record Ct tbs moments that beat ont
slowly md surely the limit of longevity,
An experienced jeweler and watch
maker, when asked the reason why so
few people kept good time. said that
nine-ienths Of tho causes of bad running
watches was due to carelessness and
irregularity in winding. A watch
should be wound at the same time
every day, and it ought to DO regulated
on one day every week at the noon
hour, when both hands come together.
The finest watches cannot be made per-
feet, and the best way to detect any
difference between the two hands ia to
reset them ut IL O'Clock, and if they
are not exactly together make them so
by holding the longer and winding the
hour hand up to it.
An expensive jeweled watch ranging
from $500 TO $1,000 is very seldom in
good running order simply because the
owner is afraid TO let a jeweler tamper
with it and does not dare touch it him
self.
lii d large city correct time, absolutely
correct time, is Il matter between some
dozen or two of men who follow almost
every stroke of the pendulum and cor
..uA aI~-s. xry,kt 40 nrrnb
daily regularity as Captain Cutie did his
famous %timepiece. Women are said 20
be tho most careless III the attention to
watches. A lady has a watch presented to
her by a gentleman friend and volun-
tarily promises to keep ii i'll the very
best running order. The gentleman
friend has lis nisgivings Oh that score.
out he gets the j~eN.cler toput it i'll good
shape a couple of weeks uhead and there
upon hands it over TO the lady. Now,
that watch has been running like a chro-
nonieter until the fair wnc gets hold
of it. The first thing she does is to no
tice the time in q store window, and rs
her watch does not agree with it she sets
it accordingly, putting the regulator
away v W OtiC nIthp. 4AA p fAN
forgets to wind it up, the next morning
she winds it up only half way for fear
of breaking the main spring and sets it
by another clock in the afternoon. Then
it Rms down inside Of eight hours, and
she thinks it is running wild-as it very
likely is, since she has put the regulat-
|. ing lever back and forth no less than six
1870 =, al1a .N,re IF a xunoty Aftpp
this she wonders why the watch is al
ways wrong and blames the jeweler.
Correct time into Philadelphia
every day at noon by telegraph from the
United States time observatory at Wash
ington, where the drop ball" makes
an electric contact that sends the signal
all wei the country. The first clock in
the city communicating with the obseIv-
atory wire is at the Maritime Exchange.
At So minutes after IL the hands Of the
clock automatically click into place by
the action of the magnet and the little
train of wheels attached to it. Thus the
" .iShington time ball becomes at once
tho authority for oil clocks and an i'll
fallihlc adjustcr. The s~tatehouse clocl
:. is wound and regulated weekly by al
expert tlronometer maker, who sets hi
own watch by Washington commitment
ed time and carries it Immediately t
Independence hall. Many large manu-
flcturers and business places where j
is necessary on account Of the number o
mon employed to have strictly consclen
tious time employ a man TO wind, keel
in order and regulate their clocks tn
year round, Clocks kept closely to III