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job for another year because of

the coronavirus pandemic.

The Baltimore Sun reported

Tuesday that Karen Salmon

agreed to extend her contract.

She previously said she would

leave her post June 30.

The maryland Board of

Education said Salmon’s new

contract runs through the end

of June 2021.

“We are grateful that Dr.

Salmon has agreed to continue

serving maryland’s Students

during this national crisis,” t he

board said in a news release.

Salmon is a former Ta lbot

County schools superintendent.

It is unclear when the board

with resume its search because

of the coronavirus outbreak.

— Associated Press

about 2:45 a.m. in the 1100

block of South Charles Street,

police said.

City Council member Eric

Costello (D) said police told

him that Wilson was killed at a

short-term apartment and that

he was hosting a game night

when two people entered and

demanded money.

Wilson, according to his

Instagram and facebook posts

and videos, routinely hosted

parties around the city.

— Baltimore Sun

State schools leader

t o stay for extra year

maryland’s state schools

superintendent will stay on the

monoxide was confined to one

apartment, officials said.

The victim was not named.

— Martin Weil

maryland

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was live-streaming

A 24-year-old man who was

shot to death early Saturday in

Baltimore’s federal Hill

neighborhood was hosting a

“game night” party at his

apartment and streaming on

facebook Live when his

attacker scaled the property’s

fence, according to a review of

the video and a woman who

attended the party.

Ernest Wilson III was shot

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switches: switches in offices,

stairwells, storerooms, break

rooms and loading docks.

As the Howard Co. advised:

“Care should be taken that the

termination of the wires should

be in such places as to cause the

watchman to explore as much of

the premises as possible.”

Every time the watchman

depressed a switch, the pencil

would make a little mark on the

paper disk slowly turning on the

clock back in the boss’s office.

Explained the Howard Co.:

“The watchman in this manner,

passing around from station to

station, successively, makes

TELEGrAPHICALLY his own

record of duty done, showing the

time of each visit to each station,

as well as the time occupied

between the stations; and of

course the whole time taken up

in making the entire round, and

also in going all the rounds.”

We don’t use the clock that way

now, of course. Working from

home as we are, neither of us is

ever late for work or derelict of

duty.

But the Electric Watch Clock

must be wound. Every week, I

unlock the door on the front,

then use a key to ratchet up the

heavy, cylindrical weight that

powers the pendulum. I adjust

the minute hand if it needs it,

though often, remarkably, it

doesn’t.

Before I shut the door, I

breathe in the smell of time. It

smells like oiled brass and

varnished wood. It smells like

yesterday, taking me into

tomorrow.

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describes the timepiece as an

“Electric Watch Clock.”

It sounds like a contradiction

in terms. Is it a watch or is it a

clock? And, anyway, it’s not

electric. A big, swinging

pendulum powers the

movement.

No, what was electric about

this clock was how it watched the

watchers. This particular clock

was built, the Howard Co.

explained in a catalogue, “for the

Detection of Delinquent

Watchmen on Night Duty in

factories, railroad Stations and

Public Buildings.”

In the center of the clock —

below the dial — is a bundle of

gears with a pencil-tipped

pointer that sits atop a rotating

paper disk divided into 12

quadrants. This mechanism

would originally have been

attached to wires strung through

a workplace.

The wires were connected to

covers the face and insert a key.

Directions glued to the inside

of the back door explain the

importance of leveling the clock,

reminding owners to “listen for

an even beat of the tick.”

I love that phrase: an even beat

of the tick.

In the dining room is a french

clock in fancy burled wood, the

movement suspended between

columns that make it look like a

roman temple. It was passed

down to my L ovely Wife by her

parents, who collected clocks and

watches, the more interesting the

better.

The most interesting one is

mounted on the wall in the living

room. This clock — five feet tall

and about 20 inches wide — was

made in the late 19th century by

the E. Howard Clock Co. of

Boston. A tarnished brass plaque

visible through the glass door on

the front boasts of the various

patents the company held and

Here’s a question I
never thought I’d
ask myself: What
does time smell
like?
To me, time
smells like the
inside of the old
clock that hangs
on our living room
wall.
I’ve been thinking a lot about
time lately. These days, it moves
in strange ways: quickly, because
a disease managed to girdle the
globe in a virtual eyeblink;
slowly, because the stay-at-home
orders we’re under make the
minutes pass at a glacial pace.
We’re like convicts serving a
sentence of unknown duration.
Every evening, I mentally cross
another day off a calendar in my
mind. And every week or so, I
wind the clocks in our house.
There are three, three that
require winding anyway. All the
others are plugged into sockets or
run on batteries. There’s an Apple
Watch on my wrist, too, and a
clock on the cellphone in my
pocket. The hours also pass in the
corner of my computer screen.
These modern clocks mark
time digitally: seamless and
silent. The other clocks, on the
other hand, mark analogue time.
I hear the satisfying tick of metal
on metal. I watch, hypnotized, as
pendulums swing. Two of the
three chime on the hour and half-
hour, a delightful cacophony.
one clock sits on the living
room mantel. The simple case is
wooden, about a foot high,
rounded on top. It’s a cheap,
mass-produced clock, probably
from the 1930s. I bought it at a
flea market when I was 15. It cost
about 10 bucks. To wind it, you
swing open the glass door that

Sounds, smells of an old clock stand the test of time

John
Kelly's

Washington

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a 19th-century clock, built to keep watchmen honest, marks time in

John Kelly’s living room in Silver Spring.

tHe district

Carbon monoxide

from stove claims life

A woman died Sunday after
apparently being overcome by
carbon monoxide in an
apartment in Northeast
Washington, authorities said.
The woman died after being
found unconscious in an
apartment in the 100 block of
Kenilworth Avenue NE, the D.C.
fire department said.
The carbon monoxide came
from a stove that was left on,
the fire department said.
other residents of the
building were to return after it
was ventilated, according to the
fire department. The carbon

local digest

E. Bowser (D).

— Moriah Balingit

and Spencer S. Hsu

maryland

Public defenders call

for some releases

Leaders from maryland’s

office of the Public Defender are

asking mary Ellen Barbera, chief

judge of the state’s court of

appeals, to use her emergency

powers to “enable and expedite”

the release of people confined in

the state’s prisons and jails.

The letter, sent this week, is

separate from a petition filed on

friday that sought the release of

juveniles currently in the system,

and outlines the risk that

incarceration poses to this

particular population. “many of

those who are confined in or

work in these facilities are in one

or more of the high-risk

categories identified by the CDC,”

the letter stated.

As of friday, two additional

inmates and 10 civilians had

tested positive for covid-19

within maryland’s sprawling

prison system, officials said. That

brings the total confirmed

positive cases from the state’s

prisons to 15 — three inmates,

four correctional officers and

eight contract workers, officials

said.

Among the measures sought

under the chief judge’s

emergency powers are directing

judges to release people pending

sentencing or appeal if doing so

would not unreasonably

jeopardize public safety; and

removing time barriers to

seeking sentence reconsideration

for highly vulnerable individuals

— those over age 60 and/or

infirm — and for individuals

within 90 days of release.

— Lori Aratani

tHe district

Four more inmates at

D.C. jail test positive

four more inmates at the D.C.

jail have tested positive for the

novel coronavirus, a city official

said Sunday, bringing the total

number of confirmed infections

among inmates to 18. Seven of

the jail’s correctional officers

have also tested positive for the

infection, an attorney for the

union that represents them said.

The outbreak has spread as

advocates urge jails and prisons

across the country to release

those who are accused of minor

crimes or are medically

vulnerable — such as those who

are elderly or have underlying

conditions.

The city’s Public Defender

Service has joined the American

Civil Liberties Union in a federal

class-action lawsuit alleging the

city has not done enough to fight

the outbreak within the jail,

which houses about 1,600

inmates. The city would not

comment on the pending

litigation, but noted that it was

making preparations.

The jail quarantined in

isolation units those who tested

positive. The four new infections

include two men who were

housed in a unit where an

inmate had contracted the virus,

a man who was previously

housed in another building at

the jail, and a woman whose unit

was quarantined after an inmate

there tested positive for the

coronavirus.

According to the latest figures

supplied by the city, 126 inmates

are quarantined, including those

who have come into contact with

inmates who tested positive for

the virus and recent arrivals to

the jail, said olivia Dedner, a

spokeswoman for mayor muriel

coronavirus digest

that they have,” Quiroga s aid.

Some employees lack p aid sick

leave and, if undocumented, do

not qualify for unemployment

benefits.

“You have a lot of people out

there who are looking to walk

into poverty,” s he said.

The soaring n eed will strain

local governments’ budgets and

stymie leaders’ desires to help l ift

the less-advantaged.

one of Bowser’s s ignature

goals has been “inclusive

development,” which promotes

both economic growth and

reduced inequality. With a

recession underway, t here will be

less revenue to devote to

affordable housing, e ducation,

job training and similar

programs to advance that goal.

“There’s a chance that she’ll

cut a lot of programs that a lot of

low-income workers really rely

on,” s aid the fiscal p olicy center’s

Crawford, who would prefer t o

see taxes raised on the well-to-do.

A silver lining for the region is

the expectation that it will suffer

less than other metro areas.

“The fact that the federal

government accounts for about

30 percent of our economy w ill

help,” s aid Jeannette Chapman,

director of George mason

University’s Stephen S. fuller

Institute.

recovery is a long way off,

though. In j ust the past three

weeks, Chapman has lowered her

forecast for the region’s e conomic

performance for 2020. She had

been projecting a tiny increase of

a tenth of 1 percent. Now she’s

projecting a contraction of eight-

tenths of 1 percent, and worse if

the health crisis l asts beyond

June.

“ recessions typically are

hardest for lower-income

households to begin with, and the

nature of this recession

exacerbates that dynamic

because of its speed and severity,”

Chapman said.

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appointments to pick up

groceries at i ts 9,000-square-foot

warehouse in manassas. It

normally schedules n o more than

32 in an entire day.

The organization received

requests for emergency cash

assistance f rom 300 people in a

week and a half. The average

request was for $1,600, mostly to

pay rent.

“What this brings t o light is

there really are so many people in

this region that are living

paycheck to paycheck and are

vulnerable,” President Stephanie

Berkowitz said. “our staff has

hundreds of examples of people

who were back on their feet, and

the crisis arrived and now they’re

struggling again.”

Small businesses that rely on

foot traffic are another casualty.

Nicole Quiroga, president of the

Greater Washington Hispanic

Chamber of Commerce, said her

group includes many r estaurants,

small retailers and service

companies that can’t s urvive a

shutdown of more than a few

months.

“They don’t h ave much money

on hand to continue with the

employees and other expenses

mother of two daughters. Her

new mortgage is $1,400 a month.

“I’ve been working so hard to

buy my h ouse, a nd now we don’t

know what’s going to happen,”

she said.

L uster said she has applied f or

unemployment twice, without

success. Without it, she said, “it’s

not probable I’ll have enough to

pay r ent and groceries.”

N amyalo said she is down to

her last $100. She used her final

paycheck for groceries and her

phone bill. Before t he layoff, s he

had used $3,500 in savings to pay

off other bills to improve her

credit score so she could buy a

house at t he end of the year.

The loss of pay during the

layoff is “something that is really

going to affect people like myself

for months after we reopen,”

Namyalo said.

As h ard as it is for the hotel

workers, they are fortunate in

that the union arranged for them

to keep employer-paid health

insurance.

many i n the region are turning

to charities for help.

Northern Virginia family

Service reported getting 50 calls

an hour from people seeking

A disproportionate burden has
fallen on middle- and low-income
residents partly because many
work in service jobs where they
interact with the public in
enterprises now shuttered by the
need for social distancing. These
include hotels, restaurants, bars,
ride-sharing, and many shops
and retailers.
By contrast, many higher-
income residents in professional,
tech sector or federal government
jobs can telework. They also tend
to have more savings, which
provides a cushion.
m artha ross, a fellow at t he
Brookings Institution, s aid the
Washington region has a bout
950,000 low-wage workers —
37 percent of the workforce. She
defines low-wage workers as
those earning $19.11 an hour or
less, with a median pay of $12.06
an hour.
“If you look at t he occupations
they’re in, they’re really
vulnerable,” ross said. The most
common was retail clerk, and
others included cooks, food
preparers, and food and beverage
servers.
“These a re all folks seeing their
earnings e vaporate,” ross said.
“These a re jobs that typically do
not offer paid leave. They
frequently do not offer health
insurance.”
of 7,200 members of the
region’s h otel workers union,
97 percent are out of work,
according to John Boardman,
executive secretary-treasurer of
Unite Here Local 25.
They include Bautista, Luster
and Namyalo, the three women
mentioned at t he beginning of
this article. All three have applied
for unemployment insurance,
but none has been approved yet
because the bureaucracy is
overwhelmed with a record
volume of claims.
“Everything changed in one
day,” s aid Bautista, a single

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Gap between haves, have-nots becomes more stark

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laid-off workers are being encouraged to apply for benefits online,

but an overwhelming number of cases has slowed down the system.

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