The evening world., 1889-04-24
CITIZEN TRAINS FAST.
He Hasn't Eaten Anything in Six
Days and Ia Still Starving.
Psyche, he Says, Is Forcing Him on TO
Abstain from Food.
He IL Losing Two Pounds a Day, and
His Doctor Says 1t Will Kill Him.

Citizen George Francis Train Ia in the midst
Of q severe pervasive fast. Lent Is over, but
Psyche has not permitted the Easter hilarity to
withdraw him from his path OF abstinence.
III EVENING WORLD reporter was taken up TO
the modest room on the sixth floor Of the Cont
mental Hotel in which Citizen Train nests for
that small portion of the time in which he is not
in the open air. Mr.. Train was still abed. He
wore o nightgown trimmed with red. and
over it q blue sack coat. lie was backed mp by
pillows, and resembled a transplanted Sultan.
Good morning, cried the Sage Of Madison
Square. "Shake your own hand, he contin-
ued, clasping his left hand with his right in
warm greeting. II haven't shaken hands with
any one for fifteen years."
Mr.. Trains famboyant beard was gone. Only
the iron-gray mustache remained. His face
was palpably thinner but just as hardy a
understand you are fasting. Mr.. Train,
and I came to. learn your motive for this alb
%stinence, " said the reporter.
whyS why, because I weighed ise poHPds,
and every pound of adipose is two pounds OF
s bs III. tas am f sss sh to I s2sas p PiGTsTts sR i%v SiRsd
began on the 18th Of the month. But for
cents worth of LyonnGise potatoes and bread in
evening. Twenty-Five cents a day for my food
dn %TT Sj Ssfiff' e ssG - ! fr psand for VI f'y gSi sq a.. I'll
G Miiisrs ssS 70 j i viii Il xiii hiiPi %yssIf.% you 'o'' Dr.
How long DE- you intend to keep up this
- don't know, L have. no control over what
do; am impelled by Psyche; don't know
Of me, and Mr. !. TrHip SfbssntT mindedhly' sraSped
on his person, got this rot from talking Ia
Grown-up people who do not live as / do. They
gormandi2e and drunkenize. l talk now to
o"TneyE,ys given mp calling me 2 crank, =" said
crank than ever. ,G(rown-uP folks don't under.
dren understand me at sight,
am 0 mystery to myself. Ont OF ID, 600
children never had one go back on me. love
children.
I'm the morning I go out to my seat in the
them Yesterday, The policeman is kept busy
"Po You q drink * anything, n F Trpsin'9"
h "TOr t the 1t FIRST four dH r. I f aidn't . drink G, a DRIP.
' ?SFdi You 20 RfS noW deso'mp %sidGa'n is 'd dest Rla''RSe Now
I drink a tumbler OF water every day.
IL do9't feel any hunger: am all right s5;
spend most Of the hour which give to it in the
am so conscientious about my fast that ]
wouldn't eat a peanut in the park the, other day
when cracked one for one OF my children"
when you get through ?" said the reporter.
that I shall live all the rest Of my life on that.
him up e His fast; He oOnld9't have gon!
sit on my bench and absorb psychism. He tried
mandizing and drinking the moment he go
cent OF scorn.
Now he's going to do the Indian business
he does he. will not come. out alive; Mark M
words! II is q trick in India, and l know it ant
"Thls, Centennial" Mr.. Train went on Il
say, irrelevantiy but, prophetically, lis goinl
to be a fzZle, and Jay Gould will bust up il
HThere's yellow fever in the air. I am no
doiNg this for notoriety or for money, but fol
self preservation. That is the first law of being
/ sit here and write things like this. " and Mr.
"Iii read it to you. II THE EyENING WoRLI
only knew enough to get such things az this IL
guarantee an increase of 200, 600 papers befor,
All these sudden deaths come from adj
pose, " and then MIR. Train. with immense ardor
read q poem on the Oklahoma Boomers, a YER
SPIRITED tied - o91Hmposition which which sec seemed led NOR
than it does to the eye when reduced to COLI
"hNfhere, Not an erasure or interjeeted wor,
I shouidn't stop II I ifeit' impelled to go on.
entailed idiot is afraid Of death. Why SHOULD
well, some people are afraid OF. beinI
damned, said the reporter, with orthodox sim
"Those, are the entailed idiots. They don
'4&Ga Mr. fr al Rf 7, 's stlEl fa ssSihns to prove the thing