Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
on its roadway and its outfit Irish
labor got the stampsl

on its roadway and its outfit Irish
labor got the stamps!
Bankers wouldn't bank!
No confidence in Credit Mobilior.
Union Pacific uphill work.
M~illionaires gave IL wide berth.
Omaha could not grasp it!
New York too small to see it.
Augustus kountz lost q great chance.
This life narrative of the best known
association on the globe is so different
from its reputation.
Train-My Financially plans subsequently
adopted in Building 10000 miles of rail.
MOSES TAYLOR ASKED TO JOIN.
Reporter-Did you say the great cap
~italists had no faith in the speculation
G. +. T.-Not a particlel | wrote a
score of old banking friends to Join us, in
letters like this to Moses Taylor, after
building the first section:
OMAHA, January, 1866.
Dear Moses Taylor: Forty miles road open
Twenty more in February! Hundred on timel
Then two hundred a year! In five years will
join Central Pacific coming this way at Ore.
gon! 'Tis an immense national enterprise,
and the speculation is an individual bonanza
Will you join me with 500, 900 (one-sixteenth
contract on inside ring? You lost the presi.
dency when l offered it to you the day before
election, through lack of faithl Don't lose
this contract (gold mine) through a similar
lack of confidencel See Lowe! Stokes! Sloan
Phelps! and ask if l shall save them q share in
the most creditable, national and profitable
enterprise afoatl Answer Immediately.
The Boston men also got letters of this
tenor. My first remittance on contract
came from my two decade friend, VIM.
T. Glidden:
BosToN, 1864.
My Dear Train: Enclosed is check for $50.
900 half to my credit, balance to Williams :
on Pacific CONTRACT! Can't you spare me S25,
600 for Prince Grinell, who is q Prince of a
fellow. VIM. L. GLIDDEN.
Nat Thayer was too disguised because
| turned him and Michigan Central
Brooks out of directory to speak to me.
John Elliott Thayer was the man who
suggested that my share in firm of Enoch,
Train e Co., in 1862, should be not less
than $4,000! He was the only man that
demoralized me on custom house matters.
| struggled his silver banquet service
ashore in the Ocean Monarch; but l did
not know any better then!
H 1RoN KING.
How few are aware, except "the argo.
nauts, that Citizen Train is on record in
typed speeches as pioneer of our whole
railway system west of the Missouri as
well as western Iowa.-[ED. BEE.
Oh, yes! I, who land from old France,
OF "prairie teams" in rail advanced"
In dozen states | mapped the scheme
That built the roads to change the scene.
Ask Nebraska who first laid town,
Their iron rails from town to town?
Ask Colorado-Denver men,
If they ever heard rail the name of Train?
Ask Kansas who first built their rail
From Wyandotte through "Pawnee vale?"
My sixty thousand dollar check"
Saved st. Louis railway men from wreck!
Hallett was bankrupt and my cash
Saved Kansas Pacific railway crash.
ED Learned" tried to steal the road,
But had not force to WELD the load.
Canada Ross" and Carter, too,
In Kansas tried to put on the screw.
Leavenworth knows now, to her cost,
How much her cold reception cost.
Had citizens then held faith in me,
Rail terminus would have made town free;
Two hundred thousand paid Fremont,
Stone, Isaac, Mcdonnell, Ewing, Font.
On Pottawottamie Indian lands,
Placed Kansas road in Hallett's hands,
And | arranged with Hallett there
To rail the state as millionaire.
Then from Saint 10 to Omaha,
With Phelps and my father-in-law,
That road was built at early day.
To open VI the harvest day.
G. n