The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-03
THE DEMENrED TRAVELLED.

PuyalIup Commerce.: George Francis Train
has been thrown aside very much like . sucked
orange Two months ago everybody pressed
forward to shake his hand and wish him God
speed. and no adiectives were too rich TO lavish
on him in Newspaper puffx He has done what
he agreed to do - near - he could. and results
OF others rows should not be charged against
him. His lecture and reception, Monday. were
very poorly attended. II was IN ideal Train lee
ture-no conservative line of argument OK
tremely inconerent and consistent in nothing
except the great good opinion he has of him
self. The stage was Uttered with his belongings
which he scattered into the widest disorder be-
fore the end Of the lecture.
Coupeville Sun: Psychotrain, who started out
from Tacoma to beat Nellie Blys time around
the world. has returned and flattened out He
only succeeded In shortening the time by few
days and 1t seems 70 have riled the greatest Of
crankA Taking al things into consideration
the plucky little woman beat him. anyway
Miss Nellie Is young lady who has. before her
famous trip. scarcely been outside the confines
OF her native state. She had to contend with al
the little difficulties attendant ON Q woman Who
travels without escort, while Train has had ex-
perience In travelling fof years and knew just
how to go 1t It
Gibraltar Farmer: while on the way from
Portland Train denounced Tacoma ~ dead and
said Astoriais the coming city. At Portland he
could hardly be persuaded to proceed to Tacoma.
While the crowd was ct the Tacoma depot,
Deputy Sheriff Jack Mcdonald had IN insane
man, taking him from Seattle to the steilacoom
asylum. He called himself John the Baptist. I"
He supposed the demonstration was Ill in honor
of himself, and the crowd mistook him for Train
and cheered. while the insane man pranced and
snorted with self admiration
Union City Tribune: II has been our misior.
tune during life 70 run across George Francis
Train, and TO listen to his rambling incoher.
ences. In what way he can represent Tacoma
for its benefit Is something unimaginable.
II would rather seem to strangers who did not
know the uon6G1 Of that city, that he was rep
resenting hrst-class lnnatic asylum and was
posing himself a. the worst subject He will be
home next week, and his friends win hang ON
his utterances and egotisms with . sublime en-
thusiasm.
Olympia Standard: George Francis Train ar
rived ct Tacoma from his around -the-world
trip Saturday evening. He made the passage in
sixty-six days. His arrival created little en-
thusiasm outside the Ledger office. and his lee
ture Monday night was mainly to empty seats.
The more sensible people Of Tacoma are dis
gusted with the persistent EFFORT that has been
made to hang the fate Of the City Of Destiny on
crsnk's coattatlA
Helena Independent: Does not that Tacoma
paper that sent George Francis Train around the
globe and brought him home In safety know
. nuisancef The man who pulls Train out Of
that repoee that nature thoughtfully provided
for him, and turns him loose on long suffering
public, ought to be compelled to associate with
him for the rest OF his natural life.
Montesano Videtse: George Francis Train was
wild with anger on his misunderstanding that he
had been slighted by the Northern Pacific and
the people of Tacoma 1t Is said that only after
considerable urging could he be persuaded
from stopping in Portland. His rawlings were
those OF IN insane being-not of the brilliant,
versatile and gifted Train Of few years ago.
Pendleton Tribune: George Francis Train IL
thoroughly disguised with Tacoma and her peo-
PIE for not providing him with . special train
from Portland, and, to wind up the affair, they
did not turn ont en- masse to hear his opening
lecture about his globe trotting tour. conse-
Qnently the famous crank is crankier still.
Cheney Enterprise; The Tacoma Ledger has
succeeded in showing George Francis Train,
chief OF cranks. around the world in sixty seven
and one-half days thus distancing all previous
records George Francis will probably take up
his residence I'm Tacoma until the police of that
city become tired OF his rawlings and give him
the twenty hour notice.
Edmonds Chronicle: Now that George Francis
Train has arrived home safe from his trip
around the world, and has shown to our friends
abroad what freaks n4ture IL capable of pro-
ducing, there Ii bat oae engagement left open
for Georgie, and that is the dime museum. Az
subject he has no equal
The Tacoma Ledger announced come time ago
that IL would give . round TIP pass over the
Fern Hill railroad to the person who guessed
nearest to the exact time OF Trains journey.
There were no guessers. and the contest is off,
Whatcom Rsueftle. George Francis Train. the
eminent crank, has arrived at Tacoma. cursing
the Northern Pacific and Tacoma Tacoma, be
says is dead. strsngled by the Northern Pacific,
and that Astoria is the coming town.
Blaine Journals The proudest experience OF
Train in his journey around the world was
when he could swear ct the Chinese railroad
hands in Oregon in their own language.