Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1898 — The Clock Will Start. [ARTICLE]

The Clock Will Start.

The clock in the court house tower, which has been right only twice in every 24 hours heretofore, will be right all the time after next Wednesday, it is now confidently expected. M. J. Kenroy, of Chicago, representing the Johnson Temperature Controling Company, is here, putting in the rest of the machinery of the clock and the automatlic temperature controling apparatus and it is now thought that everything will be ready to start the clock and temperature controling machinery, by Wednesday. The clock system encludes not only the large dials in the tower by a separate dial, all keeping exactly the same time, in each of the court rooms and county offices. These are already in position. As before stated the movements of the clock are regulated by air pressure, and the air is pumped by water-power, and hence nothing could be done towards starting up the clock until tho water supply was provided. The water motor and air pumps are located in the janitor’s room in the basement floor of the court house.