The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11
Special t. The Journal.
GREEKS.


New York, Aug. 10.-The straugest
Of all restaurants has just been open
ed here. 1t even beats the cafeteria
where you pay for the pleasure of help
ing yourself, and the 'baled hay
lunch rooms or "grasseries" patron
lied by vegetarianS 1t is a little
place with thirty-five tables, each one
numbered and having q telephone Oh
its own The customer comes in, sits
down at one of the tables, picks up
bill of fare and then telephones
his order to the kitchen. The clerk
in the kitchen repeats the order and
by and by the waiter appears and
serves it.
In Oyster Traffic.
The telephone has practically revo
Iutionized the wholesale oyster bust
ness I'm this city. In the old days a
big feet of oyster barges used to come
up the bay to the North River piers
and dispose of their cargoes at the
water side to stewards from the big
hotels and restaurants. This year the
oyster barge was a rare sight for the
business is now conducted over the
telephone. The steward telephones
to the planter and the shipments ar
rive by express Practically all the
orders for out-of-town delicacies, such
as Chesapeake Bay shell fish and trout
from the Northern lakes, are sent out
over the long-distance Bell lines run
ming out of New oYrk.
But the interesting telephone de-
veIopments are not by any means con-
fined to New York. At a town meet
ing in eastern Massachusetts recent
Iy those who were slow to vote were
called ND by telephone and urged to
hurry to the polls. In one instance, a
party in an automobile went after one
of the delinquents to get him to vote
on their side Meantime, represen-
e on luaM AIRED Iaulo Gun 10 eApBl
neighboring pay station and got nm
on the telephone and made him prom
Use to come down and vote for the
other side. Every year the telephone
plays a larger part in politics.
In the Election.
Naturally, when a man gets used 10
the telephone when he is running Tor
office. he makes good use of 1t after
his election. There was a striking ex'
ample OF this when. during the spring,
Governor Lea of Delaware met with
an accident which confined him TO
his house for a time. This did not
bother him, however, for though he
was at Wilmington and the legislature
was meeting at Dover. some fifty miles
away. he kept in touch with the latest
DEVELOPMENTS in legislative affairs by
means of long distance lines. and in
this way he also transacted all the
routine business connected with his
office.
Chess by Phone.
Playing chess by cable has now
been superseded by telephone chess.
This novel idea, it is said, had its In
PRODUCTION in the South, the contest
ants being chess experts representing
Atlanta, Ga, and Birmingham, Ala
Telephone men, by the way, have a
great deal to say about the enterprise
of the South. While it is true that
the telephone is a Northern Invention
and met it's first successes in New
England, nowadays telephone progress
is universal. Statistics of the phone
system show that no section of the
country is ahead OF the South IN the
use of the long-distance telephone
lines.
Headed OFF Runaway.
On the other hand, no section OF
tho country has a monopoly of quick
wit in conjunction with the telephone.
From a prairie town in Iowa comes
the story of a farmer who left his
little girl sitting in the carriage out
side the house one day while he re-
turned to the house to speak to his
wife. and when Gle went out again he
saw the carriage disappearing in the
distance, and his little girl clinging
to the seat and paralyzed with fright.
Cool as the proverbial cucumber. the
farmer went to his telephone and
called up a friend living a couple OF
miles down the road and told him
about the runaway, and asked him to
stop the horse if he could. The friend
himself showed quick wit by telephon-
ing to his hired man half mile fur.
Their down, the road, and then he went
out on the road just in time TO cap
ture the runaway
Over 1850 Miles.
Perhans the most remarkable tele-
phone feat of the present year was a
call that came all the way from Jack
sonvflle. Fla. to Detroit. The call was
made by county official, who was
anxious to hear something about the
condition of his son who was sick
This conversation involved the use
of 1850 miles of line. the connections
being made by the several Bell tele-
phone companies doing business along
the route. DR.. J. F. Clark, one of De-
troit's prominent physicians. was the
subscriber called. and he reports that
the INQUIRIES came to him As distinct
" as though the speaker were in the
next room instead Of in Florida
For Chinese Only.
TeIephone men are rather expecting