San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-30
Rural Communities to Re-
joice While City Dwell
lers Regret.
CHANGES TO BENEFIT
Sporting Goods Sales to Be
Curtailed Materially,
Is Belief.
By ]. C: ROYLE.

New York, Sept. Robustness and
industry Throughout the United
States will be less affected Monday
10y the return to standard time in va
rious communities than at any siui-
lar period since daylight saving WAS
introduced.
In general the rural communities
will rejoice and the city jewellers will
view the change with regret.
The principal activities to be af.
fected, will be the moving picture
theaters, the banks and the stock.
| bond and commodity markets.
Above the mourning cry Of thu
golfer, deprived of his extra hour Oh
the links, will arise the joyous shout
! of the movie theater manager, who
opposed the daylight saving plan as
| vigorously as the farmers,
"For every hour of daylight gained
! in the afternoon, we lose an hour OF
business" said one Chicago theater
owner.
in districts where children form
the bulk of the audiences the loss is
greater than that"
| Many people in the South and
| West where standard time has been
observed will feel that the change
will remove source of irritation and
probably materially increase the trad
ing in stocks, cotton, grain and other
commodities.
| In the smaller towns in those sec.
tons, telegraph operators normally do
not go to work until 3 a. IN. and
close their offices from II to p. m.
Affects Stock Market.
| As the stock and commodity mar
Ekts have been advanced to conform
to the daylight saving hours of New
York, this tact taken in conjunction
with the difference in time in the
West has deprived traders of early
market news and facilities for trad
ing or getting quotations..
| With the change grain and finan-
cial markets will return to normal
hours.
This will affect, for example, mar
kets in St. Louis, New Orleans, Kan
sas City, Cleveland and Chicago, al
| though in the first three daylight saw
ing time wos not generally used.
In some cities like Rochester and
Philadelphia, banis and brokerage
firms were the only houses TO observe
daylight saving, although in Cleve-
land, the banks remained on standard
time.
Railroads operating suburban trains
in and out Of centers like New York,
ChicagG Boston and Philadelphia,
have issued revised tire tables for
their short haul passenger traffic and
expect no difficulty in effecting the
change.
Through trains maintained on
STANDARD time will not be affected in
any way.
I'VE will put suburban trains back
lon standard sch dule just rs easily
as We put them on daylight saving
schedule last May" said an official
Of the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
road.
"Not a minute will be lost and
mighty few passengers will even miss
their accustomed trains.
RAILROAD employees in the stations
will be relieved of terrific amount
of explaining"
In the steel centers where daylight
btNh III thN
change to three eight-hour shifts and
the abolition of the twelve-hour day,
has relieved the time schedule of any
Especial significance.
The day and night operation of fac
tories and plants in other industries
under the spur of increased produc-
ton has had similar effect.
Pie change in Detroit and other
Michigan manufacturing centers will
make little difference because most of
them run on daylight saving time the
lyear round.
| During the summer months, De-
troit time is slower by an hour than
New York time. but during October il
is same as New York, in spite of
the longitude.
Detroit daylight saving time when
representatives of the larger indus
tries got together and arranged work
ing hours so that no two large plants
in the same locality begin or cease
work ut the same hour.
On the west side of that town for
example. some plants open Mt and
others at fifteen-minute intervals I'M
til o. with a corresponding difference
in closing.
Congestion Is Avoided.
This has prevented crowding of
street cars and congestion of streets.
With some plants like the Ford fac.
tories working three eight-hour shifts
there is an almost continuous pro-
cession Of men going to work and
coming off.
1t is found that by using daylight
saving continuously every workman
in the course of year got an equal
amount of daylight recreation whether
he worried on an early or late shift
This is not true under standard
time
Merchants and mail order houses
expressed the belief today that bust
ness would pick up with the change
as many of their customers from the
country resented the hour lost when
thev came to the city to shop.
The sale of sporting goods. especial.
=, " golf equipment. is expected to fall
off somewhat. especially in the Bos.
ton section.
: The effect on electric lights and
gas consumntion will he moderate.