| Show CLOCKS WENT ON STRIKE but it waa was in philadelphia aj acre berls W was pit it much worry over 7 ardy Time timepiece pieces several thousand philadelphians ians peering from trolley car windows at of familiar clocks on familiar build augg wondered won derod what in all con science was the matter with abo home alarm clock or if there w was as nothing the matter with the alarm alami clock what in all conscience the old man at nt the offiel would say ay when they dropped in three quarters of an hour early for that eight c appointment ae As a matter of fact there was nothing the matter with the alarm larin clock and the thousands elid slid a into their typewriter chairs or on to their bookkeeping bool keeping stools juet inside the usual seconds the real trouble was thai that fulla thousand philadelphia street and factory clocks had stopped near a ra in they were the ali timepieces which are regulated by western union telegraph wires frum the tile united states stat es observatory atory in washington and water had bad somehow leaked in and let the current out of tho the wires new circuits were ir cr ranged which set all the clocks gon again by oue in the affet noon Ilu philadelphia ladelphia public ledger iager |
