Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-03-23

order TO make connections at distant
| points, u In an effort to serve the
| commuters to New York some of the
| roads are endeavoring to range a
| suburban schedule that will meet the
| requirements. But this is a difficult
thing to do without causing clashes
between ain A train dispatcher
has got to have his wits about him
every minute IL some of the trains
are being operated on standard time
and others on a schedule an hour
ahead. 1t would seem that the rail-
roads had enough to contend with
already without adding this burden
20 all the rest.
According to the New York Times
on Sunday the New York Central and
the New Haven roads will run their
trains on Eastern time to meet the
requirements of interstate commerce,
but the schedule of about twenty
five commuters trains arriving Mt
Grand Central in the morning and
about the same number at night Will
be run an hour earlier than usual.
The Lackawanna Is puzzled by
the fact that many of the commuters
on its road have Newark and Jersey
city as their destination and as
neither of these places have adopted
- Ja,TtoIA .,xfnn 4ha froino that
are u an hour ahead to suit New
Workers will be too early for the
Jerseymen.
In other parts of the state the con-
fusion is Just as great. OF the situa-
ton at Atlantic City the Philadel-
! phia Bulletin says:
'The Atlantic City Commissioners,
who are said to be considering the
adoption of a daylight saving ordi-
hour next Sunday morning, are in
something of the same situation in
which the Philadelphia stock brokers
and bankers find themselves, in
facing the problem of running their
business by New York time, and their
watches according to the Philadel-
'phia schedule. Confusion awaits
them, whichever way they turn.
"Curfew doesn't ring on the board
walk and the compromising hour at
night will not be required of the
throngs. even if the hands of the
official clocks gain a lap in their early
morning rounds. Daylight will not
be made any longer by the decree of
the commissioners, and the nights at
the shore are always just as long as
you choose to make them.
'But according to official an
n~ouncement, the railroad manage
ments in this section will base their
timetables on standard, or national,
time, for the purpose of adjusting
their service to the convenience of
the greatest number, and the pro
posed action of the Atlantic City
commissioners means confusion for
the majority of the summer residents
and visitors in the city by the sea.
whose comings and goings by train
will be chiefly between the shore and
Philadelphia, and regulated by the
present clock schedule. While the
railroad is not the final arbiter in
such matters, its timetable is an
authority which the majority OF va
cationists are compelled to recog-
nize.'
AS much as we would like to see
the hour Of daylight saved, 1t is fool
ish for any city or state to attempt
to set up u time of its own. We are
one nation. Interstate commerce has
Igot to be carried on and Il standard
time regulated from Washington is
absolutely essential.
1t is time the New York aldermen
were brought to their senses in this
matter. They seem to think that
Manhattan island is all there is ia
the United States; that the sun rises
in the East river ana sets behind tho
Hudson.
If everybody would stick to stan
dard time and let New York go hel
way it would soon be realized il
Gotham tina the United States as {
whole is greater even than the great
er city and the nonsense that il
causing so much confusion Will b.
ended.
In the meantime pressure shoul(
be brought to bear on congress to re
enact the daylight saving law tina
was In operation during wartime
While 1t may have caused inconven
fence to some, on the whole it work
ed to q great advantage.
First was erased the Hindenburi