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Show or Inllnlto lMtlencc. Some mon aro great In silence, sorao aro grand In talk. Tho Pennsylvania Railroad company has a man In chargo of its bureau of information In Jersoy City who nnswora on an average 10,000 questions n day, and tho person does not live who has seen his feathers rumpled. Remarkable maul Tho traveling public can ask moro fool questions than any other publio on earth; but to interrogate stupidly, foolishly, Idiotically or othorwlso Mr. R. B. Caldwoll Is to discover a reversal of tho Biblical Injunction to answer a thick wit according to his asinlnlty. Over 300-trains go and come dally at the Pennsylvania station, and all these Caldwell must havo at his tongue's end, as well aB a completo map of tho universe. Caldwell Is evory ono'a main dopend-eaco. dopend-eaco. I hnvo hoard people lnqulro after lost parcels. I have heard others ask: "Havo you scon a man around hero looking ns If ho expected to meet somo one?" "Did a long, thin chap with cyo-glassoa leavo a message hero for mo?" "Did a young woman with a child tell you ehe expected her husband hus-band to sri'lvo on tho Chicago limited? I'm tho man." Caldwolj 'knows at Bight every politician that travels, every prominent man m public life, overy regular and nearly1 overy Irregular pn-tron pn-tron of his road. Bolng a man of var-lad var-lad knowledge he is In demand among his fellows vihen arguments wax hot. In political forecasts ho has an unheat-en unheat-en record. -New York Presa. |