Show from the daily of october 1 THE KING OF CLOCKS the san francisco chronie designs aa a crowning ornament to its balen did building a clock surpassing in size any timepiece on the continent honor hai heretofore been held by tho depot ot the central railroad 0 kew jersey whose clock has a dial face over foai acen feet in diameter and is visible from almost any portion of lower new york dwellers of the metropolis may gaze upon numerous other time pieces of colossal size among others those in the tower of the produce exchange the new york tribune building and the fsmith gray building in brooklyn all of these are dwarfed however by alie western ft onder a of which is thus given in last sundays chronicle each dial Is double an outer dial sixteen feet fix inches in diacek r and an feet six inches in diameter the larger Is copper with hlll ed numeral dots and diamonds oi cant anu which will be by day only the smaller dial 1 0 ground ganos and the numerals on it hlll only be visible at night the numerals on the colix r dial are all inches in and the gauw dial twenty inches 1 hoac on the larger face blaud out in delit relit on the from aliu being gilded will how up clearly on he block painted topper dle dl e those of hie krould glass alala are inside the tower and w can only be keen when ills dark outside and there ix a strung unlit be hind each lace the numerals then up black on alie aco of the clock trie lights are to bo used throughout the building all of the illumination for till loner will be readily the copper dial la in six pieces and the are in ahe latter are euplio ned in frames u alch alone elgh pounds the hands are so that SL do not inter ere u ath ho reading of the time either by day or by night the minute hands arc long and about while the hour hands are each live and half feet long and thirty pounds each the bands on all the dials are to be set lm by means 0 a gearing lim ben especially or the clock A key ills on to a work which a wheel on he arbor of the clock and by mcana of an marking on dine the tit liila cm be biml to a a remarkable performance on so large a lock all of the bands u be carefully balanced and heavy as they an will be as light as lie dilca being to put no i train on the mechanism alie motive lor this large alok 1 a weight of and so billni lhnn b the smaller clock at the new ji hsei debol the pendulum of the mill be a compensating one made of zinc and braal RO oa to adjust to a the illbeg to changes in tern rier alie w light at the end of the our teen feet long rod ill be pounds and the mechanism of the clock is to stand six acet and one inch high and to weigh SOW all of the gearing wheels are to be of bronze and the pinions of cost ing strength and lightness the assert that alie lar laUon in the clock will bot be two seconds in ft month big bens famous clock at estma n sacr has a dial eight feet in diameter require halt an hour to wind up and has to be wound three times w cek by tw 0 brawny laborers the new clock here described can by a child once lit about thirty or in one of the time the clock |