The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-03-29
4 rroNnERFI1L PRoMENApE.

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A promenade inside watch that IS
ALI the while doing its ordinary outy
of telling the time is pleasure IN
store for visitors to the forthcoming
ST Louis exhibition. 1t is even stat
cd that a small restaurant, With wait
ers. cooks and the ordinary parapher
MALTA of such an institution, is to De
located inside this monster timeplece.
The watch is already in course Oh con-
struction. It's dimensions, as quoted
by the Chicago News, are, Tor tlllle-
niece. enormous. the diameter belng
nearly seventy-five feet and the height
more than forty feet.
Tiny staircases will be scattered
throughout the watch, and there VIII
no spacious galleries, where VISITORS
may pass and repass with ease. Inc
wheels will be SO well protected that
no one can suffer injury either to per-
son or clothing.
The wheel known as the balance
wheel" will in this monster watch
weigh a ton, while the so-called mar
spring will be considerably thicker
than rolling pin. Approximately two
minutes will be consumed by dhe
swings back and forth of the wheel
above mentioned. This wheel will be
pivoted on two huge agate blocks.
Needless to say, the handspring OF
this extraordinary watch will be en-
ormous. Three hundred feet will hard
ly measure it's length, and it is to De
made of ten spring steel bands, two
inches thick, bound together, as IL
would be impossible to roll so large
piece.
When finished the watch will lie on
It's back. It will possess a polished
metal case similar to those used Tor
| watches Of ordinary dimensions.
TELEGRAPHING THE TIME.
How We Set Our Watches by
Star" IS told by w. S. HARDWOOD in
St. Nj. holas. It is three minutes to
9 o'clock at night. The official in
charge of a great observatory, the
Goodsell Observatory. Mortified, Min
nesota, is preparing to send out the
time to the people living in his section
of America. For sixty seconds he
rattlcs away on a telegraph-instru-
ment at his desk, spelling out the
word time, time, time" then he waits
an instant. Then he turns to his tel
egraph key again. Eleven thousands
of miles of wire are open to him; ne is
RULER of them all. Every telegraph
instrument in all the vast territory
Of which the Goodsell Observatory is
the center is silent; every operator
has taken his hand from his key;
throughout the whole length OF these
thousands of miles there is strange
silence.
The seconds are slowly ticking
away. Above the head of the obserV
err there is q great observatory CLOCK
At precisely two minutes to nine, al
ter the telegraphers all along the mile:
of wire have been notified and have
withdrawn their hands from the keys
the wires are switched into a con
nection with the very clock itself, anC
along the eleven thousands OF mile:
there is no sound but the tick, tick
tick of the observatory clock. Ever!
beat Of the great arteries of commerce
is stopped: every throb of the news
Of all lands going out night by nigh
!, over these wires from the great hear
of the world ceases; even the sad mes
sages of death and suffering, as wei
I1ttt
babies born and young folks marrie'
and reunions of friends promised
: all these must wait while the grea
clock on the wall makes itself under
stood in the language of time and etel
nifty over these many thousands @
miles.
Something strangely solemn is i
ones thoughts as he stands besid
, the Observer amid the silent second
: while the clock ticks on. Whoeve
is listening at the wire along it
course. waiting to set his watcl
whether he be railroad en-
ployee or some man in a larg
jewelers. establishment where tn
Deople go to get their timepieces reg
e lated, knows the system, and know
S that there is a sudden pause just b.
i fore the exact stroke OF o'clock
2 broken beat in the ticking. Then a
y carefully note their timepieces as tn
6 clock in the observatory ticks tn
}. . o'clock second. Thus they can tie
/ TO the second whether their. watche
t are fast or slow or precisely right.
2 attached to the clock is a simp
r device.-a wheel with teeth in it,
6 located behind the secondhand, whic
d breaks the current at each even Sc
: ond. Thus the clock is ticking tt
It time over the whole stretch OF VIII
!. covering the thousands of miles OF tie
ritory in the field of this particul'
/. observatory.