The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-29
A MANTEL CLOCK WITHOUT DIAL.

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the Law and Order League. organ
lied to preserve the morals of the land
of steady habits. He succeeded in
causing such stir among the law
breakers of the Nutmeg state. that his
sudden and mysterious retirement was
the talk of the state. Those who had
shuddered at the appearance of the
Law and Order League secretary, as
law-breakers in New York tremble at
the name of William Travers Jerome,
the ''clock tinker of Lakeville" were
prepared for a surprise when Secre-
tary Thrasher refused to give his
actual reason for retirement and
merely said My time is coming"
Meanwhile the erstwhile guardian of
Connecticut morals has been busy by
himself among swinging pendulums,
revolving discs of numerals, metal
springs and electric devices, all Of
which he has evolved into the COM
pleted mechanism which the clock
thinkers of Connecticut, and even the
world have examined and pronounced
wonderful. The wonderful part of the
whole mechanism is its simplicity.
why didn't someone think of this
idea before?'' is the first half disguised
inquiry of the spectator as he watches
Mr.. ThraSher's rows of figures re-
volve with measured accuracy as the
figures of a cyclometer move along as
the bicycle puts miles behind it. There
is the same swing of the pendulum
back and forth as in the clocks which
descended from our grandfathers but
the familiar tick, took of the grand
fathers clock is no more, and the ticks
of the twentieth century time keeper
are scarcely discernible.
Instead of the spring to impel it,Mr.
Thrasher uses an electric gravity de-
vice which periodically impulses the
pendulum as it needs to keep it in mo-
ton. This is the nearest thing TO per-
petual motion have SEEM" remarked
one Yankee who had stood in amaze
ment before the new-fangled time
keeper Just think of it, I don't be-
lieVe l could rest easy at night if l
didn't have to wind my clock"
How did 1 happen to hit upon this
idea?'' remarked the inventor. We'll,
to tell the TRUTH I was in church at
the precise moment when the idea
passed through my brain. am sorry
to confess the sermon was not inter
esting to me, but in view of the re-
suit 1 am almost willing TO forgive
myself for this. l looked frequently at
the clock, but for some reason l could
not make out the time because of the
similarity between the color of the dial
and the hands. / had to catch train
after the service and was a good
deal interested in that. 1t was the
1922 train. My thoughts of the train
were in railroad time, and. suddenly
began to wonder why it wouldn't De
simpler If the face of that old clock
would tell me in palmer and simpler
way the exact time. instead of having
to figure it out That brought to me
the idea. From that moment on have
been studying to perfect il.
Thought 1t out in Church.
THE result of my study you see be-
fore you. 1 was always a natural me-
chanic. The mechanical notions came
easy, and though 1 admit ii was graz
ual, because had many other things
to do, the development Of my Sabbath
evening vision has worked out into
sure thing.
i am not willing to challenge Father
Time with a little prophecy IL I have
not already taken too many liberties
with the venerable gentleman. am
going to predict that within a genera
ton you Will see every railroad in this
country operating their trains by TINS
idea with central regulator controlling
every timepiece on the railroads OF the
country synchronized by means OF wire.
less telegraphy. That may SOUND
poastful, but mark my words, u Is
not idle talk. ] thoroughly believe thss
younger generation will live 20 see H.