, 1890-05-23


he left cheyenne. He talks at a race
horse gait. Volubility and variety are
notable qualities of his conversation. He
goes on and on, like the babhling brook.
His monologue is largely of a personal
nature. but stories OF travel, flashes of wit,
driblets of information, shafts of sarcasm
and bolts OF philosophy. with occasional
jags of vulgarity. are interpreted. Sen.
sation follows surprise and wonder
at the man becomes amazement.
He is a series of shocks. a regular
stampeded torch light procession.
His range is marvellous. his expression
unique and daring. With an alleged
genius aire he p~lunges into a maze of
words and throws to you sentence after
sentence 30 admirably constructed, 30
pithy and pointy. that you surrender for
the moment to his wild theories and give
assent to his improbable statements. The
beauty OF diction. the f~aultless %enuncia-
ton, the magnetic delivery. challenge
comparison and fairly euthrall the lis
tener.
MIR. Train raised from his pillow and
shooting up the window shade. admitted
the piercing morning light. He slipped
his feet into fancy pattern Chinese slip
pers and scrambled to the edge of his
berth. The picture then was one to i'm
press the memory.
Citizen George is over 60. He scarcely
reaches medium height and is pudgy. He
muscular and sunbrowned. A grand
head is crowned with white, curly hair,
which lends a youthful appearance
counteracted BY neither wrinkles, the
eyebrows OF age or an iron gray nous
tache. The eyes are Of an uncertain
color and just snap. The facial contour
is that of a statesman. 1t proclaims
primarily the thinker and carries the lines
that denote the lion courage required 20
execute bold ideas. Train would be one
of the men Of the age. an inscrutable
ruler, but for the displacement of n cog
In his mental machinery.
The perambulating advertisement OF
Tacoma wore a Chinese summer suit of
cotton. As he arranged the liberal folds
he cursed the celestials for their tardiuess.
The costume is innocent of buttons.
Train belted the blouse with a scarlet
sash of silk and topped his shapelv head
with a Turkish fez with dangling tassel.
de subsequently, produced a double decker
Sepoy hat On which was painted Around
the world in sixty days. George Francis
Train"
Train does not tolerate the physical
greeting. You shake hands with yourself.
Il haven't touched flesh with anyone
for fourteen years." said he. The cleo
tricity conveyed from body to body and
thus mixed, diluted and weakened causes
all the trouble In the world. Of course
you understand the philosophy of those
forces, my boy. Cosmos and psyche
have all to do with it and We are power
less.
This Cheyenne; you don't tell me SO.
| bad a hotel here in 1867 right near
where those smoke stacks rise. | made
speeches In front of it and prophesied
that the place would be a metropolis of
1000, 900 people. l made the town for
you. / made Omaha and own it yet.
They treat me dirty though and ] will
revenge myse II. When l was here l lee
tured once under the management of NJ.
A. Arnold. l talked for 800 a night.
He said: 1T is too much. People say
you are crazy; 1 answered: You just
give me the 800 and let them say what
they like"
I've set the world ablaze my boy.
She's burning with the sensation I've
created. L go around her in two months,
She can't go around me. That is stuff
and nonsense. Look at my press notices
from Hong Kong. Seven columns for
one man. That is fame. / am the origi-
nator. L made the trip in eighty days
over thirty years ago and Jules Verne
stole the idea from me. He is a ~plaguar-
ist and his fancy falls by my peerless per-
Torrance. l will go the route in nifty
two days this fall and take $50 reporters
along. This globe c%ircling is only a Joke.
It's just like loafng. l will make it in less
than sixty-fve days"
s. w. Wall, managing editor of the
Tacoma Ledger. and Trains kodak anne
n%uensis. was introduced. He is a we'll
known coast newspaper man who makes
the trip to get material for a book. Two
New York Sun representatives are
along.