Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-23
DAYLIGHT SAVING
BEGINS NEXT WEEK
Set All Timepieccs Ahead One
Hour Saturday Night or Sun
day Morning.

Don't forget to set your clocks and
watches up one hour Saturday night or
Sunday morning, as the Wilmington
daylight saving ordinance goes INTO ehcct
at that time.
This ordinance was practically forced
upon Wilmington when New York state.
and especially New York City. the Imam
cial and business center of the country,
adopted and insisted on daylight saving
time MANY Wilmington firms have bust
ness dealings with New York houses
and during the las, month. while New ork
had had daylight saving time and VIII
mingfon has not there has been much
inconvenience. Besides. over % per cent
of the people of Wilmington are demand
ing dalight saving time. At all the meet
ings held bv CITY Council on the subject
there were only three persons who opposed
II.
There will not be the confusion tnat
some imagine, because long before the
war Toledo. Detroit, Cincinnati and other
Western cities had what is known as
summer time" and traveller arriving
in that city at 10 o'clock in the morning
would find that as soon as he left the rail-
road station it was ii O'Clock. All city
clocks, both of official life rs we'll as
mercantile and industrial clocks were put
np an npuT III apTli anu put buCh an iiohi
in September. ANY person who has
travelled that territory knows that it
caused no inconvenience once the person
knew that the city had what was known
as railroad time and city time.
Practically all the plants IN Wilmington
have agreed TO daylight saving time, and
If the Wilmington ordinance had been
repealed they were going TO go TO work
an hour earlier
Ii was said at the T. & r.. offices this
morning that the road had under con-
sdcration the matter of changing the
schedules of some of the trains TO con-
form TO the new time in Wilmington, but
that il had not been determined yet who-
ther or not any change would be made.
No information could be got from the
b. & O. offices.
MAYOR ISSUES PROCLAMATION.
Mayor Taylor has issued the following
proclamation:
In accordance with the daylight
saving ordinance passed by City Council
which is effective Sunday, April 25
all citizens are called upon TO move
their tmepieces forward one hour on
that date. The city offices, the banking
institutions and all public offices will open
and close in accordance with Wilmington
time. In order TO avoid confusion it is
important that all of our citizens should
operate in accordance with the ordinance
until September 20, the date provided
for the change back to standard time"
MUCH COOPERATION.
James l.. Stein. secretary of the
Manufacturers Association, saws the
association SIS awhole will move its clocks
ahead. This includes the Harlan plant.
Pusey Il Jones, American Car and
Foundry Company and other big in
dustries.
The Wilmington and Philadelphia
Traction Company announces that all
cars operating in and entering Whining
ton will be operated on daylight saving
time. Cars will meet the trains due at
the French street station at 1902 and
02 a. M, old time, 1t was announced also
Under the new time, these trains will
arrive at .02 and 2.02 a. m.
The schedule of the Philadelphia boats
of the Wilson Line will not be affected
by the daylight saving change here. They
will maintain their schedule as now under
standard or old time, as there is no
change IN Philadelphia, and the railroad
are operating under standard time. The
Deep Water Point boats will be affected
by the change in time here. because the
plants OF the du Pont Company at
Carney's Point and at Deepwater Point
Will operate under the daylight saving
system. This change will cause the
Deepwater boat now leaving here at 7.l5
10 leave at els instead.
As has heretofore been announced by
the railroads, they will continue TO operate
under standard time All trains will
continue to maintain their regular sched
ules. il is said. except two workmen 5
trains TO Edge Moor. These trains make
round trips morning and evening for the
benefit of workmen In Industries at Edge
Moor.
Ii was stated by Mr. Stein last night
that an effort would be made to get a
change in the schedule OF No. 422, arriving
here at $50 a. m from Baltimore, to get
II to conform to Wilmington time, as IT is a
local and carries many Wilmington work
men from Perryville north, but inquiry
at the railroad offices this morning could
get no information a. to any contemplated
change IN the schedule Of this train.
Owing to the fact that the railroads
will continue to operate their trains under
the old time. the Wilmington postoffce
will maintain the old time as regards
collections and deliveries The heaviest
mail for Wilmington gets here about 8 from
Philadelphia and New York, and 1t is
about all the force IN the Office can do to
tei II ieauS ioi iie tai'ieiS ty Q CiOch'
A change Of time by running the clock
ahead would tend to confusion in the
delivery OF mail. a. this mail could not be
got ready for the carriers In that time for
their first delivery. In any event the
local postoffice could not make any change
IN time without orders from Washington.
and the Postoffice Department there is
not likely 10 take notice In local daylight
saving plans.
Some confusion is expected to result
among the people who live in towns close
by, such as New Castle, Newark, Delaware
City. Statnon. and other places. but it is
expected they will soon become accuston-
ed TO the change. 1t will be necessary
for them to have one time schedule for
their homes and one for Wilmington.
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