New-York tribune., 1918-03-30
Daylight Saving
Goes Into Effect
Here Tomorrow
City Sits Up Tonight to
Usher In Nation
Wide Plan

Vocal and instrumental music in
Madison Square, which will be special
ly Illuminated tonight, Will contribute
to the festivities attendant upon ad-
vancing the hands of the clock on the
Metropolitan tower when the daylight
saving becomes effective.
Beginning at II o'clock tonight
three hours before o'clock becomes
o'clock-the Community Chorus, un-
der the direction of Harry Barnhart,
will sing. There will be music by the
Borough of Manhattan Band and by
the Police Band A detachment of sol
diers will drill in the park.
Saturday night after-theatre crowds
will find a midnight military review
In the square far more elaborate than
any roof entertainment. Several sur
prise features are promised for the
patriotic mass meeting which will in
augurate the daylight-saving regime.
Reception to MIR. Marks
In the Aldine Club, west of the
park, a reception will be rendered
Marcus NJ. Marks, chairman of the
Sational Daylight Saving Movement.
IN the reception committee are Don
Seitz, A. c. knothe, DR.. Albert Shaw,
0. s. Marden, DR.. Christian F. Reis
ner Walter. Stabler, Franklin Simon,
Abram I. Elkus, James w. Gerard,
FeliX Warburg, Oscar S. Straus, Erwin
Wardman, Thomas F. Smith, Henry
Morgenthau, DR.. Stephen S. Wise.
Alexander Webb, DR.. John Wesley
Hill. Frederick G. Lee and General
White. of the British Recruiting
Mission.
At midnight the tower on the Metro
po.itan Building will be darkened, be-
cause 1T Will require two hours to ad-
tour-diai clock in the world. Two
hours later the tower will be illum
med and the clock set at 3 O'Clock.
Marcus NJ. Marks. who two wears ago
began the campaign in America for the
adoption of the daylight saving nlan. in
operation in twelve European coun-
tries. will officially advance the time
one hour AZ the Aldine Club, 200 Fifth
Avenue, following the reception in his
honor. no Among the guests expected to
be present are Governor Whitman,
Mayor Hylan, Lord Reading, Henry
Ford, a representative of President
Wilson. and William Archibald Fcrgu-
son. one of the leading sponsors of
daylight saving
At. st. ePaul's Chapel the usual Sun
day service for night workers will be
held at $3.50 a. m. Promptly at 2
O'Clock the hand Of the clock on St.
PauPs tower will advance one hour.
obvlatlng the possibility Of holding
ing.
In Montc!air, n. j., where there is
less night life than in Manhattan, the
curfew, which from time immemorial
has sounded at 8 O'Clock, will be rung
at o'clock tonight. Mayor Louis +.
Dodd has ordered that The bell be
sounded one hour earlier, SO that his
townsmen may set their clocks and
watches ahead and awaken Easter
morning IN time to so to church on
the new daylight schedule.
Arrangements arc being made by the
Western Union Company. the Magnetic
Company, Inc, and the Howard Clock
Company to advance the large clocks
operated by them with as little contu-
lion rs possible.
Railroad trains will move as usual
on their regular time tables. The ad-
vGNclnm OF the clock one hour will
make all trains in motion one hour
late, and railroad men Yesterday ex-
would be able TO make up the delay be-
lore arriva! at their destination.
Little Confusion on Trains
No trains are scheduled to leave New
y ork between . and 3 o'clock Sunday
morning. so no confusion will arise
Railroads have adopted the general
rule that ali trains scheduled to leave
terminals before . o'clock in the morn
ing will leave Sunday on the old time
and all trains due to leave after 3
o'clock III the morning viii leave Sun
day on the now time.
However. miikmcn may be an hour
late to-morrow morning. being gov
erncd by the incoming trains. which
will have started on the old schedule
and will probably not have gained the
hour lost by the change in time.