The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-26
EVERY CLOCK I'd: 8.
f. s,yE
TO STOP FOR
HOUR ALTA. M.
Hundred Million People Will
Lose Sixty Minutes Time
During Night.
ADJUST. TRAIN MOVEMENTS
Change in Passenger Schedules
Produces Greatest Difficulty
for United States. ~

Washington, Oct. 26-All clocks in
United States should stop for one hour
at > II. N. Sunday morning, October y.
and then agin take up the procession
Of the hours. d,
The country will then be back upon
a sun-time basis, and finished with its
first seven months Of daylight saving
experiment. Some minor difficulty, in
transportation and industry will be
involved in this return to normal time.
but for most people. the change will
mean nothing more than an extra
belated return of the hour they lost
in March when clock hands were
jumped forward 60 minutes by act OF
congress, '3's
Practically, clock hands are set for
ward with less trouble than they are
set back, due TO the mechanical ar.
rangement of their interiors. The
average householder does not need to
be warned but it may be well, to m-
derstand that the best plan will be to
stop the clock Saturday night, and
start it right again Sunday morning.
The telegraph clocks-of which, there
are 10000 now in operation by the,
Western Union company, electrically
wound and set-will have TO be prop
erlyg adjusted by the tOinpanyS force
which is now planning to do the work
on Sunday, except in locations where,
the users are awake at night them
selves, and can be given special keys
| with which to do the setting. The
delicate master clocks which correct
! the $4,000 every hour will be changed
at the same time, as will be the gov
| ernment's radio and wire-signaling ar
| rangement which is the scientific bas-
is Of the time system. -.
Adjusting railroad train movements
proceeding over the time-changing
period will present the most difficulty
| Director General McAdoo has author
| lied a general order on the subject,
by which trains on the road will con-
time their progress until. reaching n
station, and there he held one hour.
At the same time, the complicated sys-
TEN Of train orders and train sched-
! ,lles is such that the railroad admin
istration general order specifically put
II up IL local Arrangements to use
their own discretion, and to protect
| train movements by other methods, il
! y
Sunday morning must find the rail-
4 roads throughout the five time belts
in the United States moving trains
on the regular schedule and In the new
time. 80 far as it is possible
Evidently daylight saving was a
i distinct success, for Chairman Baruch
Of the War Industries board asked
! congress to extend the hOur-ahead sys-
ten through the coming winter. The
!! senate unanimously passed a bill to
enact his recommendation into law
I Int the bi3l died in the house #
Senator Calder. who fathered TIL
law has declared that extra daylight
saved $2.0n0,G0O IN gas bills for the
people. The fuel administration esq
mated that on the seven.month basis
1,125.OO0 tons of coal had been saved,
to relieve possible winter shortage.
Definite reports from St Louis said
consumption Of coal had dr0pped 10
tons per thousand population.
These estimates were, worked out
by comparing the coal consumption Of
central stations with previous years.
to determine how much less electrical
energy and gas for lighting had beer,
utilized.
These were the demonstrable fen.
lures. and enthusiasts for the daylight
:: saving plan place no limit on the OK.
: ira health and enjoyment of life. Sc
cured by the masses Of people who
: found themselves free to use the out
doors under the sun for an extra hour
: after concluding work. Charles I.ath-
E9pl Pack, head OF the ;nationaI war
M garden commission. asSnrts thot ~