Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-09
DAYLIGHT SAVING
ORDINANCE GOES
BEFORE COUNCIL
Passes First Reading Without
Comment; Up Finally
Next Week
GETS GENERAL SUPPORT
Mayor Keister Asks Municipal
Approval For Idea Cen
orally Supported
GETS GENERAL SUPPORT

An ordinance authorizing
daylight saving in Harrisburg
each year was passed on first
reading by City Council to-day,
with no comment by any of the
Commissioners. 1t was present
ed by Mayor Daniel l.. Keister
and will likely be called for
final passage at the meeting next
Tuesday morning
The measure provides that each
year the standard time in Harris
burg shall be advanced one hour at
> o'clock on the last Sunday morn
ing in March, and shall be retarded
one hour at , o'clock on the last
Sunday morning in October.
An Aid to Business
The ordinance is similar to ones
passed by New York. Philadelphia
and other city councils. 1t was
pointed out to-day by officials of
Harrisburg and by businessmen that
because of the adoption of the day
light-saving plan in New York, all
business will be conducted there ac-
rording to the changed time, and
that for Harrisburg to attempt to
continue without changing its time
would cause confusion here.
The ordinance follows
The Ordinance
An ordinance fixing the stand
ard time throughout the city
of Harrisburg.
Whereas, The Congress of
the United States has passed the
repeal of the Daylight Saving
Law, statute which from
humanitarian standpoint has
contributed largely to the COM
fort of the great body of wage
carnerS in all the Industrial CEN
tors of the United States, with
out dctPaCting from a proper
measure of service to employers,
which has afforded the work.
man the opportunity to enjoy the
society OF his family by the
light of day, which has enabled
the brcad-winncr to spend more
time in the improvement of his
mind and body, which has given
an extra hour of air and sun
shine to the toilcr in the shop
and factory in the rccuperation
of health: and
effected through the mistaken
effort of the farmer employer,
inspired and augmented by the
ayaricc and ScltShncSS of the
lighting trusts throughout the
country: and
Whereas, The City Council of
the City of Harrisburg. voicing
tho sentiment of the overwhclm-
ing majority of those who labor
in the diversified industrial oc-
equations of this progressive
city, who have realized through
practical application the great
boon of ono hours extra day
light for mental improvement
and physical recreation. cnacts
the following ordinance:
Section 1. BE il ordained by
the City Council of the City of
Harrisburg, and ii is hereby Or
daincd by authority of the same,
That the standard time through
out the City of Harrisburg is
that of the SeVenty-1ifth merid-
ian of longitude west from
Greenwich, except that at =
o'clock ante meridian of the last
Sunday in March of each year
such standard time throughout
advanced one hour, and at >
O'Clock ante meridian of the last
Sunday in October of each year
such standard time shall, by the
retarding of one hour, be re-
turned to the mean astrOnom-
ical time of the ScVcnty-fifth
meridian of longitude west from
Greenwich, and all courts, pub
lie offices and legal and official
proceedings shall be regulated
thereby.
Universal Endorsement
In addition to meeting the APP
proval of businessmen, officials in
various industrial plants in the city
have declared themselves heartily in
accord with the daylight-saving
plan. In many of these plants the
employees have joined in the move
ment to petition Council to enact
the ordinance.
Quincy Bent, of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, is one of the Off
cials who had endorsed the plan,
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