Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 10 | It's Sunset Gun but it Does Not Fire at Sunset

Its It's Sunset Gun Gill But It H Does Not Fire al Sunset Earnest quer query When is lIS a sunset gun Jun not a 8 sunset ft gun un Dead earnest answer When the daylight sa ln savings 5 plan Is In vogue Proof Proof- Up at Fort Dou Douglas las they have ha a three-inch three field piece which booms forth sonorously from it its concrete concrete concrete con con- crete b bass bas fI pr c every afternoon or afternoon or even even- Jn ing It is sometimes called quite frequently that is almost alwa always the sunset gun un But Rut with the war waging wag ing Ine- world wagging alan along the dali daylight ht schedule the lie Is fired with saving saing t u I gun sun h h th i. i 1 sun MI u WU setting I period ix Is It not so so The almanac proclaims that hc sun min will t set at the glad lad hour of or 5 5 say a ay for the tho sake Bake of ar argument But the chronometer b by which that hour Is s arrived d at everywhere Including the fort fort is III an hour haur ahead o of the honest to Adam moment Hence when the sunset gun un booms forth Its message of ar cheer and good goodwill goodwill will to K Bill of oC Potsdam Its It's sixty minutes ahead of or the glorious orb in which K Bill is socking seeking to find a place already yet et once ance