The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-02-01
HA VEtYOU TIE TIME !?
THE odds ARE. TWENTY TO Oks
THAT YOU HAVE NOT.

Some of tho Reasons why Most Time
pieees Are. Always More or Less Out OF
the way,,;How Correct Time Is Reoeiv-
cd Daily From Washington. :
Ninety nine men out Of a hundred
keep incorrect time. Ninety nine men
out Of hundred are inst in the act Of
regulating their watches in front Of
window that, has thermometer in it.
II you. ask man the time, and MS
watch is wrong, he IS invariably going
to the matchmaker that very day 10
have it put in order. No oneAas any
idea of keeping the correct time. AL
believe that they have it in their peck
eta, and none ever gets it except at the
moment Of setting his watch.
II you have friend in the zailroad
business and stop him in the street with
a friendly "Hello, old fellow, what's
the time? You always have it correct"
he will haul out his timepiece with an
important Dir and give the hour in a
voice. that shows he knows what time it
il and that he is never wrong. A
square or two farther on you change to
meet another friend in the same line of
business. You ask him the time, receive
an answer, smile to yourself and. pass
on. There was ten minutes difference
between them. Every time hesstate~
house bell strikes hundred men pull
out their watches with a confident ar
Of being correct and put them +back
with an expression Of extreme surprise.
We all live, flourish and die in tine,
but no one keeps the correct immediate
record Of the moments that beat out
slowly and 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-tenths of the causes of bad rum: ing
watches was due to carelessness and
irregularity in winding. A watch
should be wound at the same time
every day, and it ought to be 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 is to
reset them at 10 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 jeweler tamper
with it and does not dare touch it him.
self.
In o large city corr ect time, absolutely
correct time, is matter between some
dozen or two Of men who follow almost
every stroke Of the pendulum and cor
rect their chronometers with as much
daily regularity as Captain Cutie did his
famous timepiece. Women are said to
be the most careless in the attention to
watches. A lady has watch presented to
her by q gentleman friend and yolun-
tarily promises to keep it in the very
best running order. The gentleman
friend has his misgivings on that score,
but he gets the jeweler put it in good
shape couple Of weeks ahead and there
upon hands it over to the lady Now,
that watch has been running like a chro-
nometer until the fair owner gets hold
Of it. The first thing she does is to no.
tice the time in q store window, and as
her watch does not agree with it she sets
It accordingly, putting the regulator
! away over to one side. That night she
forgets to wind it up, the next morn ng
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 runs 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 si1
times in the course Of q week. Ate,
this she wonders why the watch is al.
ways wrong and blames the jeweler.
Correct time comes into Philadelphia
every day at noon BY telegraph from the
United States time observatory at Wash
ington, where the drop ball" makes
IN electric contact that sends the sigma!
ali over the country. The first clock in
the city communicating with the observ.
atory wire is at the Maritime Exchange.
At IS minutes after II the hands Of thu
clock automatically click into place By
the action Of the magnet and the LITTLE
train Of wheels attached to it. Thus thu
Washington time ball becomes at onct
the authority for all clocks and an in
fallible adjuster. The statehouse clocl
10 wound and regulated weekly by ar
expert chronometer maker. who sets hi
own watch by Washington communicat
ed time and carries it Immediately t.
Independence hall Many large manu-
facturers and business places where il
10 necessary on account Of the number q
men employed to have strictly conscien
tious time employ man to wind. keel
In order and regulate their clocks thu
year round. Clocks kept closely to th'
mark in this way are very seldom il
reed Of extensive repairs, and like intel
igently regulated watches have lei.
tendency to 60 wrong. .
| The Washington observatory clocl
rupe for years together and has neve