A traveller leaving Sweden would then know that his watch, if correct, shows exactly 10 minutes more than the clocks of the Danish railroad stations, and if he continued his voyage to Paris, he would know that the clocks of Paris are exactly 50 minutes behind the clocks in Sweden.

I have tried to explain the advantages of this system for the countries in Europe.  I am not able to judge if similar systems can be considered necessary in America and Asia.  It is possible that North America could be satisfied with one single normal time, which, if America connects this time with the European system, ought to be fixed exactly 6 hours behind Greenwich.  While starting from this normal meridian, it is possible to establish a more or less elaborate system of equidistant times analogous to the system which has been proposed for Europe.  The same can be said of the civil times of Asia, which ought to be connected with a normal time 6 hours in advance of the time of Greenwich.

Africa ought to belong to the European system.  The French civil time could be adopted for Algeria and Tunis; the time of Denmark, Germany, and Italy for Tripoli; for Egypt the time of Russia; the Spanish time for Morocco; at the mouth of the Congo where, no doubt, sooner or later, an important centre of civilization will rise, the meridian of Sweden and Austria could be used; the meridian of Hungary could be adopted for the Cape of Good Hope.

It will not be possible to connect South America and Australia with any of the four cardinal times mentioned, but some other combination, into which it is not necessary to enter on this occasion, can easily be found.

The PRESIDENT.  If the Chair hears no objection, the pamphlet referred by the Delegate of Sweden will be printed as proposed.

Mr. LEFAIVRE, Delegate of France.  Mr. President, I move that the Conference adjourn until Wednesday, at one o’clock p. m.

The motion was put and agreed to, and the Conference thereupon adjourned at 4:30 p. m. until Wednesday, the 22d inst., at one o’clock p. m.

VII.

SESSION OF OCTOBER 22, 1884.

The Conference met pursuant to adjournment in the Diplomatic Hall of the Department of State, at one o’clock p. m.

Present: 

  Austria-Hungary:  Baron IGNATZ VON SCHAEFFER. 
  Brazil:  Dr. LUIZ CRULS. 
  Chili:  Mr. F. Y. GORMAS and Mr. A. B. TUPPER. 
  Colombia:  Commodore S. E. FRANKLIN. 
  Costa Rica:  Mr. JUAN FRANCISCO ECHEVERRIA. 
  France:  Mr. A. LEFAIVRE, Mr. JANSSEN. 
  Germany:  Baron H. VON ALVENSLEBEN, Mr. HINCKELDEYN. 
  Great Britain:  Sir F. J. O. EVANS, Prof.  J. C. ADAMS,
      Lieut.-General STRACHEY, Mr. SANDFORD FLEMING. 
  Guatemala:  Mr. MILES BOOK. 
  Hawaii:  Hon. W. D. ALEXANDER, Hon. LUTHER AHOLO. 
  Italy:  Count ALBERT DE FORESTA.