Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1914 — Joker Scares Whiskers From His 25 Employes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Joker Scares Whiskers From His 25 Employes

NEW YORK. —John T. Fay came home the other day. He keeps an oyster and chop house In One Hundred and. Twenty-fifth street, and up to the (time of his return had about thirty waiters and kitchen helpers in his place.

but when the proprietor entered and looked about he knew something terrible had struck the place. "John!” he called. "Jake! Jim!” [They were his oldest men. Some Jhad been in his service for twenty years and naturally the proprietor wished to give them a cheery greeting on his home-coming. Three men stood before him. He didn’t know them. He took several looks, turned to his books for a'few moments and once again called the men.

“Here we are,” they answered in chorus. Mr. Fay took a good look. “Wnht th’” —. He looked hard at the men; then at his other waiters. It ■was apparent that something revolutionary had happened. It was an avalanche of whiskers. The men led Mr. Fay back to the kitchen. There, In conspicuous place, was a sign reading: one will be allowed to wear a mustache here in the summer.” Mr. Fay took another look. Not one of his faithful old employes had a mustache- When he started away for a few days’ vacation they had all kinds of adornments. The joker had scared all the employes and within the last few days the barbers had shaved clean just twenty-five of the employes in the restaurant. “I never gave such an order,” said Mr. Fay, who is almost afraid now to come to his restaurant for fear some one in revenge will kidnap him and put him in the same class as his bare-faced staff.