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Show THE LIBRARY RESEARCHER Men Employed by Cranks to Delve Into Musty Tomes for Information. In-formation. Says tho Now York Times: In the reading rooms of the New York public libraries one may bee almost anv day mysterious, often seedy-looking persons per-sons surrounded by musty tomes, making mak-ing corioua notes. These Individuals' aro lrcquontly the subject of remark. Who imploys them, and whore aro their notes published? Tho explanation explana-tion lj that most of theso mysterious persons aro experts in research, and at least two ot them aro able to bcrapo together $1,500 a year, but they are the very princes of their profession. They are not seedy. Iloth are highly educated, edu-cated, cultured men paBt middle age, and vera at one tlmo wealthy. There Is'n vast multitude of cranks In our country, and as most of tbem are people of moans, thoy aro often of use tb the needier members ot society. Many Ulrary researchers receive a good slice of their yearly income from these cranks. Thus some unknown gentleman lias conceived the Idea that Qtbbon'b Decline and Fall of tho Roman Ro-man Umpire Is crawling with errors, and .no has been employing for some timo three library; researchers at a salary sal-ary of $20 a, week each to make a systematic sys-tematic examination of every statement state-ment ot fact in that mighty work find collate all the eIdence obtnlnablo on each work! Another gentleman has a peculiar Idea about the head ot Paul Jones and, contemplating a treatise on tho Mibject, ifi paying a researcher a good salary to ransack every book in tho New Yorjt public llbrarlos likely to yield a grain of Information. |