The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-05-05
! REMARKABLE CLOCK
Cripple Spent Four Years Con-
structing Wonderful TimepieCe,
NOTHING LIKE 1T IN THE WORLD

ci,.as Weather Predictions and Con-
tinuous Show of Moving Pictures.
shows Niagara in Operation,
Naval Display and Uncle Sam TAX
inc a Walk.
A. an Easter surprise for it's pa
.rons the management of the Hotel
g Regis, in New York, recently pur-
.based unique and remarkable
clock for the main drawing room of
tho hotel. The clock was made in
little ohio town by crippled work.
man, who spent four years in it's
construction and whose only tools
we're scroll saw, jackknife and
file
Manager Gus. R. Schmidt of the
st. Regis, who heard of the clock in
the west, where he inspected it,
said:
twelve feet four inches high, four
feet four inches wide and twenty
nine inches deep. One large dial
gives the Standard time, while di-
rpctlv beneath it is a dial which
shows the changes of the moon and
gives the government weather indi-
cations for twenty-fOur hours in ad-
vance.
BY watching the clock one sees
handsome pictures of the ships in
the United States navy pass behind
glass The history of Christ is
shown from the nativity to the as
cension by pictures painted by the
maker.
An interesting feature of the
clock is a miniature Niagara falls,
with real water, the color of which
appears to change. Just below are
an electric fountain and an arch,
which produce beautiful effect
Flags appear on stats in front of
the dial and indicate the kind of
weather expected tWenty-four hours
in advance. The weather reports
are produced by a thermometer, a
barometer, a hydrometer, a spirit
level and a compass arranged on the
front of the clock.
The front of the clock is lighted
by fifty small electric lights, thirty
five of which are arranged around
the Niagara falls and electric arch
The history of the United States
from the landing of Columbus to the
present time is shown by ninety-six
paintings attached to a ribbon 1O8
feet long, which is moved by cleo
tricity. 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 a stairway, around the base of
the miniature cataract and electric
fountain to the other side, where
they ascend another stairway and
enter anOCner elevator. A minute
after the hour strikes fifty lights
appear around the dial, and a must
cal attachment is brought into play,
sending forth delightful airs. At
the half hour the cathedral gong
strikes once, and the musical attach
ment is started again.
An Illuminated picture on one
side of the dial shows Washington
crossing 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 il
Illuminated pictures, which appear
periodically, show the old battleship
Maine both before and after the ex-
plosion 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 portraits are in motion
and travel at the rate Of twenty-five
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 photograph announces
the occasion.
The face of the clock contains
piece of wood from every state and
territory in the union, including the
island possessions, and it took three
years for the maker of the clock to
collect them.
All the mechanism for running
ne clock is in the base, and includes
'tO feet of electric wire and 412
Electrical connections. The current
Is obtained from an ordinary cleo
ulc light connection