The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-06-02
sneclal Correspondence.


New York. May 30.-Several thou
sand men will be laid off by the New
York Central Railroad with the begin
ming of June, not only in this city,
but along the whole line from New
York to Buffalo. Office employees and
men on the working of the line will
have to go. and the remaining force
will have the work TO do. The man
ayers say there is not so much work
10 be done, that business is Slacken-
ing in all lines, and there is general
complaint in all lines of business that
this is so, and so there is less bread
and butter TO be given out to labor
ing men and clerks. AS wages are
much higher than they have been,
the Temptation to cut down is in
creased. Difficulty in obtaining money
is ascribed by some as the reason the
work is being diminished, and that
grfat improvements are being retard-
edtor cut OF altogether because rail
roads have been so discredited that
they are no longer strong in the
money market nor favOrite with in
vestors as they used to be. Conse-
quently retrenchment is the order Of
the day, instead of the spreading en-
terprise that characterized all railroad
lines but 2 few short months ago.
The public utilities bill is not consid
cred an inspiring cause for the i'm
mediate well-being of the roads One
officer of A railroad said that il the
public utilities bill went into effect,
all it would let the railroad men do
would be to sign the pay roll.
White Shoes Going Out.
Summer women clad in snowy white
arc TO be mOurned among the good
things that are gone. With the pass
ing OF white gloves, white shoes seem
to be put on the list prescribed.
Fashionable shoe-dealers say that only
very Indifferent persons are buying
white shoes. Those who do so are
brave, and proclaim that they show
the modes of summers ago; but they
must be brave indeed to wear the
shoes outside their own homes. Pale
gray in the shoe is the very thing. or
lemon-colored kid or golden brown
suede. Young girls are wearing the
yeilows, and more advanced matrons
shoes which are made to match their
latest gowns. Mrs. Reginald Wander
bilt is partial TO patent leather low
cuts, with fawn-colored spatS. Mrs
Dewey, when here last, wore pale
Green, made to match her gown.
Shortcake Curiosity.
A manager of a restaurant said re-
Gently that he was contemplating
having detailed description of the
strawberry shortcake which they
served put on the menu card. For
nine customers ont of ten asked the
walters a dozen questions regarding
this particular thing. and once in a
while they called the head waiter to
come and be put through the thirty
third nn0rnn ghnnfnalsA
Everyone, said the managers,
seems to have a most distinct mem
DRY of strawberry shortca1le that
they have eaten somewhere about one
hundred years ago. One will say:
now, is yours made of biscuit dough.
and another will demand that il shall
be made of pic crust: and some want
II sweetened. and some don't and half
the folks act like cooks with bad
memories, and the other half try to
send out receipts TO the chef and al
most drive him mad, and, altogether.
I've come TO the conclusion that there
must be as many ways TO make a
shortcake aSsthere are people in New
York, and when the season for them
is over l shall be mighty glad. All
have to say is that if the people felt
half as strongly about other things as
they do about shortcake we would
have to show diagrams of everything
on our menu card.
Latest Hirsute Folly
Even though a woman's own hair
Ia very heavy and beautiful, the milli-
ners are in league with the hairdress-
ers 10 force her to- wear the store
kind, The latest creation in head
gear from Paris, called the haystack
nat, requires the hair TO be dressed
high. thick pad must be pinned
on the crown. of The head, and over