Pennsylvania Railroad Time

There was a time when folks used to Bet their watches by tbe town clook. Nowadays the railway timepiece seems ;o set the pace. There is so much travelmg and so many have to catch trains ;hat men try to keep railroad time. Few thiuk, however, how difficult it is to keep that same railroad time straight. A bad watch or false time, even to the extent of a minute or two, might easily involve the destrnction of a train and many lives. Conductora and engiueers not only ninst have good ;ime keeping watches, but they must ïave a very accurate standard of time io go by. All clocks vary, but most clocks vary too ruuch for railroad aocuracy. All over the great Pennsylvania sys;em the clocks are regulated every 24 ïours by telegraph from Altoona, where ;hey get the standard time in secouds froru Washington. The conductors and engineers running out of Philadelphia ;et their time from the clock in the ro;unda at the Broad street station, the )ig one in the center just outside the waiting room, which occupies the same osition in the new station that it die! n the old. This clock, which cost ovei 5400, is considered a wonder and in the old statiou seldom varied more than two seconds in the 24 hours. It has not )een doing quite so well since taken down and put up again, but is improvng and is so inuch better thau any other clock known that nobody thinks ol changing it, and in all probability in a ittle while, when it gets accustomed te ts position and surroundings, it will come as near perfect accuracy as it evei has in its