Electric Clocks

I went tato the new Kolley building yesterday (which ia a very fine edifica of construction, and out of ICO seta of ofiSeoa ia said to hare but ten vacant), to examine tho electrio dials now being introducod over thia city. You may not have heard of this scheme, yet it ia vei-y peculiar, and is the iuvention of a Germán. A central clock, froin which the time is obtainod either f rom the naval observatory at Washington or from spocial calculation on the premiaos, furniehes by electrical connections, tho truo timo to a serios of diala m hotels, dwellings, on railroads, in shops, and there is no moro winding up of clocks at all. The room I entorod had on o of these big apparent clocks, in which were the two magnets that work tho hands, and on the walla were twenty or more different sots of dials, looking like regular clocks. Every five seconds tha hand of the big dial moved, and instantly tha long hand of each of the others made a jnmp also, tuis hand being the seeond hand, "nd going round the dial noieelessly, and as It made its round the minuto-hand stopped forward. Thero was, however, no clock work behind any of these dials. The monitor time-koeper set them all running. "Now," said the man who showed it to me, "we aro going to fnrnish time for twenty-five cents a month to everybody. We take one of these dials and put it up in a house, and sn insulated iviro passing around the bloek expedites it. There is a single battery cell in the big time-piece, and we have two of these cells to every tliroo monitor clooka. To furnish a great big time-pieco or dial, such as you see vonder, two or three feet in diameter, costs $1 a month. In short, persons and institntiona requh'ing accurate time need no more rely on the variations oí clocks and watehos wnich run down. This is the latest uso of eleetricity We can put 1,000 indicators in houses for 8,000, and at twenty-flve to flf ty cente a month they will yield us a net profit of more than 92, 600, which is 33 per een! Of coume, there are required inspectors, and certain ciTil eorvice."