Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-06
Y. WHITW~RE.
Publisher aBd Proprietor.
CRAZY GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
Tho InimitRbls Comm u ting on the
Death OF vand6Eblli.


Editor-Well, Mr.. Train, the
flags are at half-mast at last. No
mistake this time. The Commo-
dore is really dead.
Mr.. Train-Eight months dying!
What magnificent vital power.
knowledge Of diet and Turkish
baths would have given fifty years
more of life. AS it was he killed
two doctors out Of FIVE and tired
out preachers, reporters, family and
public. They are all glad the agony
is over. How odd to see him 20
off bible mad at last when he tried
to be a skeptic for a score Of years!
"Nearor, my God, to thee" WAS
the last song, and "Father, Son and
Holy Ghost" his last words. What
"a jubilee for Deems! What a har-
vest for doctorsl What a gold mine
to the lawyer! What a relief to his
relatives ! The press and the stock
exchange! How glad everybody
seems to-day.
The incubus of Cresus is off the
public at last. These awfully rich
men retard evolution
The property gobbIer, Astor,
died November, 1875. The tape
gobbler, Stewart, died April, 1876,
and now the railway corporation
sobbler, Vanderbilt, dies January,
1877; all within q twelye-month in
the Centennial year! The land
king, the cloth king and the rail-
way king age is ended. Thus pass
away the last Of the holy trinity Of
hundred millionaires. All dead
and nobody sheds tears. You could
not sell the whole outfit in the
flesh to-day at public auction for
ten millions. These misers gobbled
nearly all their gold in the half
century. While cutting the pound
of flesh from the rich they squeezed
the drop of blood from the poor.
When they gave anything to chari-
ty, it was done as advertisement, a
moral insurance policy.
These Shylockswere three Dutch,
Teutonic and Celtic squatters on
New York city. They squatted
and waited. The city grew and
their statue increased with it's
growth. Neither Of them we're
painters, poets, authors, sollptoFs,
orators, statesmen, inventors nor
heneractors. Possessing everything
to make them beloved, they were
three floating iceborgs in the
paleocrystip Qpa of avarice. They
enjoyed the battle for gold and fat
tened upon the booty. Neither Of
them ever saw q Turkish bath.
EditOr--WhO will be Mr.. Van.
derbilts pail bearers, Mr. Train2
Mr. Train-0f course the New
York Mutual Admiration squad,
who are always on hand at three
millionaire shows. Years ago Van
derbilt appointed ten friends. They
are all dead. lie seems to have
outliyed everything, and dies at
last before the announcement Of
the New York Central bankruptcy.
He was an active business man
twenty years between his two mar
riages. The first in 1885, the last
in 1869. lie was the champion
corporation "bncker, stock waterer," ="
opposition advertiser and stock ex.
change washer" of the world!
His forty years battle between
his rectum and his bladder was on
outrage on common sense, but typi
fies the ignorance Of man on the
laws of life. lie surrendered hil
intidclity to DR.. Deems, but not hil
strong cigar, This proves the
weakness Of his biblical conversion
and the strength Of his appetite,
Just think OF Dr. Deems roasting
oysters on his bedroom coal fire a
midnight for o dying mans supper
His loving doctors, Lindsy, Hunt
Elliott, Bodenhammer, will prob
ably charge the old man 300, COZ
for curing him till he died Tht
commodore prolonged his own liz
by yampiring two Of his six phyKi
clans. Hunt and Geischert. to death