Show I Interviewing C P Hunlinglon The late Collls P Huntington was tin easy man to Interview said an old reporter last evening but at the same time he was exceedingly cautious and never talked at random My first I I encounter with him was In San Fran 1 i cisco J was sent to ask him about some railroad connections that he was I supposed to have In contemplation and when I was llnally ushered into his private pri-vate oflice I found him seated at a table ta-ble dictating letters to a couple of stenographer I can spare you only ten minutes he said pleasantly but well try to make that cover the I ground What Is your Hrst question I put it in as concise a form as possible possi-ble Uminm said Mr HuntIngton musingly lets have the second I took that of course as a refusal to answer the first Interrogation and passed to the next point All right lie said now for the third That was discouraging but I gave it to him as briefly and clearly as I could and l to make a long story short he completely complete-ly I exhausted all my Inquiries one after af-ter the other without giving me a single sin-gle reply You may well believe I was thoroughly thor-oughly depressed and disheartened and was about lo beat a retreat when to my great surprise one of the slcnog raphers handed over a memorandum which he had been quietly taking of each question and Mr Huntington pro ceeded to answer them seriatim He wasted no words but covered every point with the utmost nicety and precision pre-cision When he concluded I read over my notes at his request and he pronounced nounced them all right Mr Huntington Hunting-ton I said glancing at my watch I see we have still nearly half a minute left and with your permission Id like jto nsk you something on my own accounts ac-counts What is I It1 said he looking surprised I am curious to know I replied why you made me ask all my questions before giving me any answer an-swer The old magnate smiled and by h the way he had a very genial smile puckering up a thousand little wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and seeming seem-ing to relax all over Thats easily explained ex-plained he said 1 wanted to llncl out what you were leading up to before 1 I committed myself1 New Orleans TimesDemocrat |