Show LONDON9S MONSTER CLOCL Recently Hung at the Great Eastern Terminus Accommodates I Accommo-dates a Dinner Party of Sixteen in its WorksWeighs Two Tons and Swings from an Iron Bar J London Jan GOne oC the most gigantic gi-gantic clocks erected in recent years has just been swung at the London I terminus of the Great Eastern railway I This stupendous piece of mechanism operated by electricity may almost claim to rank as the worlds eighth wonder A day or two ago a paryt to mark the finishing touches which had been lent to the great timepiece took dinner din-ner In the Inside of the work and as they were fltylish London folk several of them being ladles fashionably attired at-tired It Is obvious that It arts not necessary to do much squeezing In order or-der to seat the party wall on table and HO forth The clock Is I second In size to Big Ben and Is regarded by visitors to London almost au one of the sights 1 of the metropolis just now on account of Its novelty Oloekmakois nay that it la Londons biggest clock and that It should not be compared WIth Big Ben which Is simply a machine > Of Course they know all about such thing The clock Js a wonder anyway and has become one of the Institutions of the bluest city In the world It is a massive affair composed of solid iron and steel weighing two tons and measuring tent one feet In diameter It Is hung under the dome of one of the largest passenger stations in London Lon-don so as to be visible from all Its eighteen platforms lie building of the clock occupied a period of twelve months and Its makers say that it Alll last centuries I A person wfth a philosophic cast who cior I had read Of Lord Macaulays New Zealander Zea-lander standing on tho ruins of London bridge might couple the possibility of subsequently llndlng portions of tho clock among the ruins Between now and then however there will be many things seen by the great clock of more or less I moment no doubt The Boer of the twentieth century after having swallowed up allot all-ot Africa may cast a covetous eye tit the right tight little Island 1 which once bullied him so much and take a notion to annex It together with the clock But those arc idle fancies and something some-thing about the clock Itself will be of more Interest to the public The big clock like everything else big and active has a brain which Is nothing lens than an ordinary pilot clock set up on a neat shelf in the telegraph department which Is tho most important part of the establishment establish-ment as It regulate everything going on with a businesslike not to say mathematical nicety By means of telegraph wires the big clock Is connected con-nected with twenty other clocks in the terminus and the variation of a few second between either of them Is thus promptly corrected It Is cleaning day Inside the big timepiece time-piece every six weeks and the operation opera-tion has to be performed by a clockmaker clock-maker of experience The mechanism of the clock Is simply sim-ply marvelousand has engaged the best talent in London In the watchmaking line in ilH construction for twelvemonth twelve-month as I have before stated In many ienpocts It Is the most wonderful clock In tho world but It would take I an expert in clocks to expound those details Tho timepiece is swung on heavy girders which have been built Into the roof of tho depot to accommodate it The heavy bars and rings upon which it hangs arts a study in them selves and It is doubtful if anything like them were ever cast before Owing to the troUble which has re sulted in other clocks from the reflec i tion thrown bv the hands when the I electric lights are turned on and the consequent mistakes that people have made In time there Is I no glass used In front of the opal dials The hands I however arc so massive that no hurri I cane will ever blow them off although the mechanism of the works is as dell cate as that of a 500pound chronometer and the entire masslve arrangement can be swung by the slightest touch on Its Interior The hanging of the monster was a I feat of no small magnitude and to I protect the delicate work In its I interior It involved considerable mechanical skill The clock was brought Into the ter minus on two of the heaviest railway trucks and place exactly beneath the r placo from which it was to be SU3 uendid 1 Then ensued the most careful string I 1 I Ing of It Into iron ropes That was over r I I 1 given to a huge mechanical apparatus before and after some ten hours of I tugging and hauling and puffing and blowing the Titan was In Its place tick lag away serenely l view of the vast multitudes who throng the terminus I night and day A comparison of It with the world i renowned Big Ben shows that the lat Ipr is still the colossus among clocks although Its mechanism is i of course t antiquated and It Is more valued as 11 an historical landmark than as a time r + piece pieceBenny is twentyfive feet high I while the cloakroom itself Is twenty eight by nineteen feet in area and the bellroom 200 I feet from the level of the I street The winding is accomplished i by means of selfacting apparatus op I perated by waterpower The dials art twentytwo and a half feet In diameter r and the weight of it four tons |