Frank Coffee

“ Longitude west, Greenwich time best, Longitude east, Greenwich time least.
On one trip I made between New Zealand and Australia, in the year of the San Francisco fire (April, 1906) , one of the passengers of the Moana was the noted American comedian, Willie Collier. We were traveling west, which means that we had to add about half an hour to every twenty-four hours' run. In other words, passengers traveling west on a fifteen knot an hour steamer, can lie abed half an hour later daily; while, if one is traveling east, he must rise half an hour earlier. ”

“ THE sketch below represents the view of the earth that would be obtained by an observer stationed in a balloon above the North Pole. The circle would be the equator. The rotation of the earth and the apparent movement of the sun are shown. ”