Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-11
WONDERFUL C; CLOCK MADE BY CRIPPLE Gives Weather Predictions and Continuance Show
 of Moving Pictures.
PLAYS FINE MUSIC
Shows Niagara in Operation, a Naval Display and Uncle Sam Taking
 Walk-St Regis to Have 1t.

New York. April 10.-Negotiations are under way by the management of the Hotel St. Regis at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street for the pur- chase of what is said to be . unique and remarkable clock which the man. agement hopes to havesin the hotel as an Easter surprise for it's pat rons. The clock was made In a It, tle Ohio town by crippled workman who spent four years in it's construc- ton, and whose only tools were a scroll saw, a jack knife and file.
 T have just returned from the West, where l heard of the clock, and after an inspection of ait offered to purchase or lease it. The offer met with favorable consideration and expect to have it here for Easter" said Manager Gus R. Schmidt yester- Jay. The clock Is wonder. It is twelve feet four inches high, four feet four inches wide and twenty-nine inches deep. One large dial gives the standard time. while directly beneath 1t ie, a dial which shows the changes G the moon and gives the Govern nent weather indications for twenty four hours in advance.
 By watching the clock one sees handsome pictures of the ships in the United States Navy pass behind a Slass. The History of Christ is shown from the nativity to the ascension by pictures painted by the maker.
 An, interesting feature of the clock is a miniature Niagara falls, with real water, the color of which ap- pears to change. Just below is an electric fountain and an arch which produce a beautiful effect. Flags ap- pear on staffs in front of the dial and indicate the kind of weather expect cd twenty-four hours in advance. The weather reports are produced by a thermometer. barometer. hydro meter, spirit level and compass arranged on the front of the clock.
 The front of the clock is lighted by fifty small electric lights, thirty Ave of which are arranged around the Niagara Falls and electric arch. The history of the United States from the landing of Columbus to the pres ent time Is shown by nlnety-six Daintings attached to ribbon 10S feet long which Is moved by electri- city. When the clock strikes the hour the figures of Uncle Sam and the Goddess of Liberty pass out of an electric elevator on one side, down . stairway, around the base of the miniature cataract and electric foun- tain to the other aide., where they as send another stairway and enter an other elevator. A minute after the hour strikes fifty lights appear around the dial and a musical attach ment is brought into play, sending forth delightful airs. At the half hour the cathedral gong strikes once and the musical attachment Is start el again.
 "An illuminated picture on one side of the dial shows Washington cross- Ing the Delaware with his army. Three boats are portrayed with Washington standing in the first one. This scene is repeated every hour and forty minutes. Other illuminated pictures. which appear periodically. show the old battleship Maine. both before and after the explosion In Havana Harbor.
 On the back of the clock is dis played the Lords Prayer. inlaid with 312 pieces of wood. Pictures of American poets, musicians. and the Presidents also appear on the back All of these portrays are in motion and travel at the rate of twenty-five feet minute. Pictures of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and Mckinley are shown, and at the hour of their death light appears on the face of the clock, while a phonograph announc- es the occasion.
 The face of the clock contains piece of wood from every State and territory in the Union, including the island posaessiions, and it took three years for the maker of the clock to collect them.
 All the mechanism for running the clock is in the base and includes GAO feet of electric wire and 412 feet cleo trical connection. The current :S ob- tained from an ordinary electric light connection"
 The clock will be set up In the Hn3in drA AXing rnoxu Ok &ho h<,Anoa