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Show BERLIN HAS mm Clocks Are to Be Regu- H lated by the New H Energy ! H Berlin, Jan. 27. The trend , toward ! jH consolidation in industry and the'dfs- H placement of small' factories and es- i jH tablishments by large ones, which' no- I jH whore has been more marked than I in Gormany during the past forty years is brought out by statistics just pub- i IH These show an actual decrease in I the number of plants in some of tho ' H leading industries in Gormany, while i H the aggregate product has been mul- tiplied many times. The number of works producing crude iron has de- i H creased since 1873, front 244 to 09;4 IH and the number of blast furnaces from I IH 379 to 303, yet thc average annual IH output of each establishment has ris- . IH en from 9,182 tons to 149,430 tons, and jH tho total production of pig Iron from IH 2,240,000 tons to 14,793,000 tons. IH In 1S70 tho amount of coal pro-, duced by the 220 mining companies H averaged only 53,093 tons per com- H pany, but in 1910 the average was 430,- 590 tons for each of 31S 'companies. H In the beet sugar industry, though H the entire production of Germany has H risen from 256,412 tons In 1875 to 2,- H 512,928 tons in 1910, the number of I H factories increased only from 333 lo H 354, but their average annual output ' H increased almost tenfold, from 770 tons f H to 7.09S tons. The greatest change oc- ' H curreu in the brewing industry, the H 13,030 breweries of 1S74 "being now represented by only 4,329. Each brewl H ery produced only 109,000 gallons of H beer in 187 1, but now the 4,329 es- jH tablishments are averaging 3,287,400 H The regulation of all tho public clocks by wireless energy is the pro. H grosslve and ambitious plan just H adopted by tho secretary' of the im- perial postoffico department. H According to tho project of thc in- ' ventor, an electrician named Ferdi- , nand Schneider, which has received H thc support of the military and naval H authorities, a central station will ho ) H erected near Fulda, centrally situated ) H for tho whole empire. It will have a H tower 325 feet high, from the top of H -which thc electric waves will be dis- H charged at one minute Intervals, afr IH fecting the hands of all the clocks 'in M tho system. Three clccks vrfll becmT - P'PPB ployed in th central station, switch 4 fB ing in interchangeably' to guarantee j I M absolute accuracy. ' I JH It is planned lo 'have only one re- J J j H celvlng clock in each town, other tim M pieces in tho same placo being con- f f M ncctod with it on tho ordinary elec- A M trie circuit now in use. ITV j Preparatory steps have already been j I i M taken toward erecting the central es- j j tabllshmont at Fulda. The inventon ' J k M guarantees that tho system will work) i I t M with absolute accuracy and that tho ' r J waves oannot bo interfered with byi H those of othor wireless stations. Tho j , H service, it is thought, owing to tho , I H great number of clocks which can bo ' I 'M controlled from tho ono station, will J -H be comparatively inexpensive and tho H obvious advantage of absolutely uni- H form time throughout tho country has H also, it is understood, appealed, to the 1 j H postoffico authorities. ' j jH |