The evening world., 1904-05-07
Mly Seven Of TWenty-Seven
\ Rublo TlmepIeoes from Bat.
teryto FftIetipS Street Are Ab-
solutely Correct.
FROM 80 SEc0NDS'T0 SIX
MINUTES VARIATION.
Produce Exchange ExactIyCor-
rect, While Trinity, St. Paul's,
City Hall and Many Other
Prominent Clocks Are Wrong.

naioing ltgelf Ielt IN our city streets.
This time the lax, irregular behavior
N street clocks has received the ban
R censorship.
1t Is q fact, strange but true. that the
timepieces put UP along our public high
ways for general convenience seldom
agree as to the hour OF the day or
night. either. for that matter.
Those who have tried to catch a train.
relying upon street clocks for the time,
nave good cause to deplore the Gross
frregularity In the conduct OF public
clocks In general.
a minute isn't much in the way Of
time. but the want of Il NAV lose n
raln, and everybody knows what a
chain OF disasters may follow In the
wake OF mislaid train. The wearIed
commuter. late in arriving home. finds
mat his excuse does not find ready cre-
dence, and that the tale OF the clock
10 apt to be classed with other fabrlca-
lions of like nature.
In London a law recently has gone
into effect requiring that all street
clocks shall agree with Greenwich time.
or else the permits for them will be cam
relled.
Broadway Clocks Don't Agree.
Thinking that similar law might be
made with good effect IN New York, The
Evening World yesterday made a sys-
esmatic and exhaustive comparison Of
ehe clocks along Broadway, from tho
battery to Fiftieth street, in order to
ascertain Just how near each one came
20 standard time and In what degree
fney varied one from the other.
IN comparison of twenty-seyer,
CLOCKS seven were found agreeing with
standard time. The others varied from
thirty seconds to six minutes from
standard.
reporter from The Evening World
with watch specially regulated and set
according to the Western Union teleL
graph chronometer. started from sbe
battery on a still hunt for tagging or
neelng minutes.
The clock in the tower OF the Produce
6xcnange was found to be behaving
with the utmost regularity aRreeint,
sxacuy at 1.S2 p. NJ. with the chronome.
At old Trinity discrepancy of two
time was L41h.
The street clock in front Of the Mer-
.SSh San9ie NE safe Deposit Company, at No.
correot ecoadway' tdy' registered Las, against
The clocks in the Equitable Building
esreed perfectly with the chronometer
Old st. Paul's clock. at vesey street
anG Hr9advay, was pretty steady. b0in.
only half q minute ahead OF regulation
time. at 1.57,A.
City Hall Clock Fast.
AZ the Postal Telsgraph Building, cor
tho clock on the sidewalk was Exactly
with the chronomoter at 2O6.
A. 2oS the clock on the City Hall
* clock on the sidewalk between war-
rem and Chambers streets was lust one
minute, too fast. giving the time as
On on the i"F'eSa to%es OF Of dits lie New York Life
Pnilding the clock boldly proclaimed
the time at 2.13t as PIG.
"A street clock near the corner Of
Broome street told the truth at 226.
Also accurate was a clock between
Prince and Houston streets at 2.39is.
Just below Eighth street, on the east
was found to be three minutes fast at
Near the corner of Broadway and
ono minute behind the game NJ 2.42
At Tiffany's the reporters watch
was again compared with standard
lime and found to be exactly correct
It 24s.
Fifth Avenue Hotel Clock slow.
On Broadwy. nenr the corner of
Seventeenth street another clock was
found to be correct at 2.55.
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel. in front
Of the ONCE, stands clock which
dreds and thousands of human beings.
behind the times at 1.5sik..
In the one-time heart of THE Tender
lAtr at w.
broadway. there is a clock which for
absolute integrity. and regularity ot
conduct eannot be l., exeeelled by any
.bsI. ihrcR it was ee 20 exactly and @ innocentiy
on time that one looked carefully In
its face for, some hidden meaning. Its
countenance was open, however. Its
The clock in front of the Fifth Ave-
nue. Theatre was also suspiciously ac-
o1sate IRA fhs exaIGtly aIn,Sn At Dime ssHirr. Nj
Thirty-second street and Broadway. a
discrepancy was observed In the tima
of the clock In the tower Of nearly
two minutes from standard time, the
clock registering 3.0i against correct
The hands Or a big department store
,Stes past three, when the chronometer
registered five and hair minutes past
The clock in the Herald Building told
Between Thirty-slxth and Thirty
seventh streets a street clock also pro-
claimed its veracity at S.O1.
Opera-House Clock a DeceIver.
But for bold mendacity the tlmepleoe
In front OF the eMtropolitan Ouera-
House takes the lead. At exactly SOgA
p. NJ by the chronometer this CAV de-
time ss 3.15h. Evidently the atr1os-
phere OF this locality accelerated even
the clock.
rapidity was noticed.I The clock in the
tower at S.55 told n story OF 1858, a dis
crepancy OF three minutes.
When one considers how much may
be lost and won In three minutes the
situation becomes serious.
Ae Forty-seventfl street and Broad
way there was discovered q miracle
q clock that was one minute slowl At
sss P. n. this clock gave the time as
At the oar-barns at Fittieth street
ana Seventh avenue. q clock. evidently
S1th ths idea OF Keeping things moving
- . time. told 8 tale OF half a minute
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