Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-18
prospecting finely. Mr.. Train II 20 b,

prospecting finely. Mr.. Train IN TO b(
congratulated on having such n practi.
cal. wide-awake manager, and Mira
Jones is in luck in having such q strong
card us the illustrious George Francis
Train.
Citizen Train, says the Scranton ReA
publican, supplements every lecture
with an application OF his argument to
the resources and circumstances Of the
city in which he lectures. This mans
name n few years ago was in every
body's mouth, the synonym Of courage,
energy, ability, aggressiveness and un-
limited fertility Of resources, and with
a remedy for every political i'll under
the sun. He has been Il great traveller.
is a typical American, has tho faculty OF
observation phcnomenallv developed,
remembers everything and has the fac
ulty Of telling what he knows In n way
thut commands attention and holds ii.
He Is an orator, a satirist, n brilliant
wit, eccentric in the highest degree,
aud is endowed with an INDISPENSABLE
magnetism. He is tho founder OF q
steamship line the Inauguration of street
tramways in England, ran the first
steamship line between Australia and
San Francisco and gave America its
first Pacific railroad. His mind is one
OF those curiosities which are developed
III lew upcS Oh inc world, II llgntnlng
thinker and cyclone talker.
TRAIN AS OMAIIA's PROPHET.
Twenty years ago MIR. Train visited
Omaha, Ncb. He p~rophesied at that
time that in twenty years 1t would have
q population of 100, 900. The most SAN
guine smiled increduously; to- prove his
Sincerity he invested largely, built a
hobel there in sixty days and has stead
fastly stood by the proposition ever
since. The twenty years have elapsed
and here is the result: Omaha contains
10000 prosperous people, 5000 skilled
workmen, nine national banks, twenty!
five miles Of paved streets; $50, 900 900
in bank deposits, 10000 children in pub
lie schools, sixty-seven churches, the.
third largest hog picking business in
America, largest smelling and refining
works in the world. Twelve hundred
mon making brick. Citizen Train
would have filed our paper with the
growth of 1887: Eight million dollars
in new buildings, seven hundred thou
sand dollars in street railways, twenty
three thousand increase in population,
eighteen million dollars increase in
wholesale trade. He says Omaha has
doubled itself: Population IN four years,
wholesale trade in four years, brick bus
mess in two years, grocery trade in
four years, hardware trade in two years,
lumber business in three years, hat and
cap business in three years, dry goods
business in two years, boot aud shoe
business in three years, live stock trade
in one year, bank deposits in four years.
saysthese roads run TO Omaha: Chicago,
Burlington 81 Quincy; Chicago, Rock
Island q Pacific; Chicago & Northwest
ern; Chicago, Milwaukee IL st. Paul;
Wabash, ST. Louis X Pacific; Sioux City
g. Pacific; Missouri Pacific; Burlington
& Missouri River; Chicago, ST., Paul,
Minneapolis 81 Omaha; Kansas City. st.
Joseph & Council Bluffs; Omaha Il Re-
publican Valley; Fremont, Elkhorn 81
Missouri Valley and Union Pacific.
He asked il we referred to the phe-
nomenal growth TO mail n copy of our
paper to the Omaha Herald, Omaha
World, Omaha Republican, OMAHA
BEE, Omaha Excelsior and Omaha
Waterman, which we do, with Kingston
Regards.
Citizen Train has two columns Of his
daily. Auto-Biog. in Places Telegram,
Harrisburg, and the only newspaper in
the country in full Psyche accord.
The Times welcomes Citizen Train to
Kingston and it shall not be our fuult
if. $50 far as type is concerned. we do
not make his holiday visit worth re-
peating.