Daylight Time Causes RR Confusion

Depending on which timetable you read tomorrow, the 4:15 train for Springfield will leave at 3:15 or 4:15 p.m.

The reason for this is that the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad will be the first major line in the country to operate its trains on Daylight Saving Time. In other words, it will move all trains up an hour tomorrow and move them all back again next fall, instead of just reprinting the timetable in the normal manner.

This is designed as a measure to simplify travelling for the public, and for that part of the public that never moves from southern New England things will indeed to easier.

But for those who must leave the New Haven for connections with any other railroad, enormous troubles may arise, of which figuring out the right hand to look at on the new three-handed clocks is the smallest of worries.

The Boston and Albany and New Haven Railroads will schedule the same train at different times. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which operates certain of the New Haven's trains through to Washington, will have them leaving New York an hour before they have arrived. And people trying to make connections between the South and North Stations in Boston will presumably have to cross the city in a minus amount of time.

Actually, this confusion exists only on paper. The 4:15 train for Springfield will really leave at 4:15, Daylight Time, and 3:15 Standard. The solution is to look at only one timetable.

Clocks are to be set ahead one hour tonight in celebration of the annual Going - on - Eastern - Daylight - Saving - Time - Day. The appointed hour for the change is 2 a.m. But Radcliffe just to be different, and to save its students probationary embarrassment, will make the shift at 6 a.m. instead.