New Britain herald., 1926-04-24
DAYLIGHT SAVING
 STARTS TOMORROW
Clocks in Many Eastern States
 to Be Turned Ahead

New York, April ?i LP)--Clocks in wide areas Of the eastern states will gain q march on the sun tomor- row. Daylight saving time starts at 2 a, mo and will remain in effect until September ed.
 Changes in train schedules and steamship sailing hours will be made by some companies Al least one in- stance. railroad required by law 10 operate on standard time. will speed ID one nf it's crack trains, thus aiding passengers to catch rp with daylight saving time upon ar rival in New York.
 Two states Change
 In Rhode Island and Maasachu- srtts tho entire states will go on new time. Local option will be observed by cities in New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Ken. lucky, Delaware, Ohio, Illinois. Tn- diana. Michigan and Wisconsin. Every large city in New York will use daylight saving time, as will al- so Philadelphia.
 Some steamship lines will observe the new time. others will still quote eastern standard for the benefit of their clients from the west, The Cunard, White Star and United American lines will go on daylight saving. The United States line, how ever, will stay on eastern standard.
 New London Boat Lines
 The Eastern Steamship lines will open ther season Sunday on daylight schedules. The New London line boats which now sail at midnight will change to Ii o'clock, daylight saving time.
 While it is against the law in Con- necticut for q public clock to show daylight saving time, business firms in the principal cities will go by the new time. Towns where daylight saving will be observed include Hartford, Bridgeport. Derby, Green wich, Meriden. New Haven. New London, Stamford and Waterbury.
 Efforts are being made in Maine to rass a law similar to that Of Con- necticut forbidding daylight time. Only two cities in that state, Port land and Bar Harbor observe day light time.
 Cities in New Jersey to go on daylight saving time, are Jersey City, Atlantic City, Hoboken. Newark, Elizabeth, Perth Amboy, Passalc' 1rvington, Paterson, Hackensack, New Brunswick, Asbury Park, Tren- ton. the Oranges and Montclair'
 When the English inventor Of day light saving time recommended It +wentv years ago as being of benelt to the physique and welfare o' the neople he did not foresee the eltect it would have on railroads, required bv law to operate on standard t''lle'
 New Haven Road
 The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad will get around tho law by remaining on eastern standard time but changing its time tables 10 correspond with the hours used bv daylight time workers.
 The New York Central railroad will inaugurate daylight saving tune with a new train, christened the Dewitt Clinton. which will run pe- tween Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland ana Buffalo, making the trip In about 1G hours. Another change an- nounced by the railroad, affecting travellers from the southwest, is the speeding up of the schedule Of the Southwestern Limited q sister tram of the Twentieth Century Limited. Passengers leaving St. Louis by this train at a. III. will now reach New York at 1o;10 a. m. the following day.
 The New York Stock Exchange, observing daylight saving time. will open and close an hour earlier.