Confusion of Clocks

In accordance with an ordinance passed by the City Council last autumn (TIME, Nov. 18), Chicago's clocks were officially advanced one hour March 1, thus putting the second city of the land on Eastern Standard Time. Pleased were La Salle Street financiers at their synchronization with Wall Street a thousand miles away. More pleased was Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose morning Tribune thus gained an additional 60 minutes to gather news and readers. Thoroughly displeased was Publisher William Franklin Knox, whose afternoon Daily News had to postpone its huge market edition one hour.

The Stock Yards and the Chicago Board of Trade, however, stuck to Central Time because their spheres of business interest lay in that zone. The Chicago Federation of Labor, claiming that under "fast" time its members would have to grope their way to work in total darkness all winter, set out to get 500,000 names on a petition to have the time question put to referendum. And the railroads, whose 13,000 Chicago schedules had been thrown askew, awaited the outcome of an Interstate Commerce Commission investigation to determine on what time basis the carriers should operate.

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