The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
TRAVELLING CLOCK SEASON.
THIS rs TEE TIME WHEN SALES
ARE LARGEST.

For q Reason People Arc Starting On
summer Trips-Thn These Clocks Arc
. Favorite wedding Present-Cost
From $40 to s4S0--some Do Wonders.
The early summer Is the season when
travelling clocks are most in demand. This
is because people are starting on their
travels. Many travelling CLOCKS are also
sold for wedding gifts.
The travelling clock Is by no means q
fad or a fancy, but decidedly IN article
Of practical use. The finest travelling clocks
have eight day movements, though there
are many twenty-fou hour travelling
clocks.
Some travelling clocks have no strike;
and are simply time keepers. Among the
striking travelling clocks there are some
that strike simply the hours and the half
hour, and then there are some that, on press
ing q repeating button in the case, will
repeat the hour last struck; and there arc
still other repeating travelling clocks that
do wonderful things.
Here, for example, is one that stribes
the hours and the quarter hours, striking
the quarters with a double hammer. At
the first quarter this clock makes one double
stroke, at the second quarter two and at
the third quarter three double strokes;
with the double hammer there is no CON-
fusion Of quarter with hour strokes.
This clock repeats in a manner that
seems marvellous. On pressing the re-
peatinR button it strikes the hour last
struck and then II the first quarter has not
vet been reached IL strikes the minutes that
have elapsed since the hour. II one or
moro quarters nave passed It strikes the
hour, and then with it's double strokes the
quarters, and then the minutes that have
elapsed since the last quarter.
At any minute Of the night one may reach
out to this clock standing on q table at the
bedside and press the repeating button and
hear then the little clock strike musically
the hour and the minute; striking, muSoally,
because all striking travelling clocks have
pleasant, musical strikes.
Most travelling clocks are equipped with
an alarm attachment.
Travelling clocks-each being provided
with a leather case in which to carry it
are all small, some Of them not more than
three inches in height, though the greater
number are from four to six inches high.
They are found In hundreds OF styles, and,
as with 30 many other things, new styles are
constantly being added. In price they
range, for clocks Of the finer sorts, from
about $40 up to about S45o, ne cost OF all the
HlOI6 SToShD bOhb ~ viz R0i
lection OF their movements and in the
quality, style and artistic perfection Of their
cases, which might be OF the most elaborate
workmanship, but which commonly would
be without adornment other than such as
could be wrought in OF on the material.
There might be oun fine travelling clocks
with a circle OF rhinestones around the
dial; and other such CLOCKS perhaps with a
column Of rhinestones at each OF the front
angles Of the clocks case, and very, pretty
The travelling clock is considered pri-
marily as a thing Of utility only. and the
ally in demand. Here, however, simplicity
does not by any means signify lack Of
Among the finer travelling clocks there
are some with cases Of silver, and some with
cases Of glass and bronze, some in bronze
oases with silver panels wrought in relief,
some with decorated porcelain panels,
some with panels OF enamel in one or an
other color, and there are many, in many
STYLES, in cases Of bronze gilded, and among
ali the various clocks there are many that
would be considered as Of simple design
that are really objects Of great beauty.