Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-21
TRAIN A HUSTLER.
The "Psycho" on His Globe
Girdling Journey.
SHORT STOP AT THE GARDEN CITY.

He Raises Cain Because His Orders Were
Disobeyed, but Feels Better After Buy
ing Out the Station Lunch Counter for
the Benefit of Emigrants and Loungers
How the Remarkable Old Fellow
Looks, and a Specimen of His Talk.
CHICAGO, May 21.-George Francis Train
arrived here on the Lake Shore at 9 p. m.
yesterday and left on the Chicago and
Northwestern for Tacoma two hours later.
| A large number of newspaper men and
Others met him at the Northwestern sta
| ton. He raved violently because his tele-
graphic orders that the dining room be
| Kept open had not been obeyed, and then
soothed his feelings by buying out the
lunch counter for the benefit of the loun-
gers and emigrants in the station.
Personnel of the Party.
George Francis looks still just as natural
as life. He himself is tanned by the suns
| and his clothes bear the dust of a score of
countries, but he talks just as fast and
| just as much as ever, and in the same
strain. He was accompanied in his flying
| trip by S. w. Wall, formerly managing
editor of The Tacoma Ledger. This gen
| tieman makes the trip for the purpose of
| gathering material for book, but the
citizen has chosen to call him his private
| secretary and Kodak amanuensis" In
New York Messrs. Hoy and Kellogg, of
The Sun, and Mr.. Beard, of the New York
Central road, joined the party.
A Look at George Francis.
| Train himself was dressed in style so
| unique that none but himself could have
| devised it. His clothes We're of odd pat
tern, and as dusty as country road. He
, wore shining patent leather shoes. the
| tops of which he concealed in pair of
CATERS about the color of yellow dog
About his waist and in lieu of suspenders
he had tied flaming red sash, and cover
ing his long flowing gray hair was his
double decker" hat about the size of a
| bushel basket. On the upper deck of the
hat was printed in big black letters,
| George Francis Train" and on the lower
deck was the rest of the inscription,
| Round the world in sixty days"
| Shakes Hands by Proxy.
| To the newspaper men who met him the
Psyche said: Il make my respects to you,
but clasp your own hands, please, and |
will do the same. l never shake hands
| with any one, you know I'll introduce
you to Wall. He's my private secretary
| and the greatest shaker you ever saw Did
have good trip? Well, there never was
a better one, and have broken the records
all TO smash just think of i'll Isn't it
| marvellous thing? Here, i started from
| Tacoma siXty-one days ago and now I'm
| around here again faster than was ever
done before. I've not only broken the rec
ords, but have shown Jules Verne what
| dolt he is
| Worried Over n Lost Dav.
| "He wrote a big book of fiction on
Around the World in Eighty Days and
have gone around, in fact, in a little
over sixty. And, besides that, | lost a
| great deal of time that could he saved on
| a second journey. could make this same
trip again in fifty days, and do it without
a struggle. To cap the whole thing /
| dropped a day somewhere in the Pacific
ocean. Just think of it, when it was nv
birthday, too, I'm going around the other
way to see if | can't pick that day up
| somewhere.
His Hash Didn't Agree with Him.
| Lots of funny things have happened on
the trip People didn't know what to
make of me- They couldn't believe Ey-
erybody used to think that this world was
a big concern, but 've made it look mighty
small. I've talked japanese in Japan,
Chinese in Yokohama, and Arabic to the
Arabs. While Wall there would be ar
| guing with lot of porters I'd step up and
tell 'em what we wanted in "A minute, so
they knew what we wanted and ran and
| got it. Haven't slept in a hotel but twice
| on my trip. The food bothered me a good
| deal, and don't feel Just like myself
| I've been eating the stale vegetables of
| dozen nations.
Thing That VI ade Him Weep.
But got even with them all turned
| them all up topsy-turvey and made them
think my trip was the marvel of the age
| And so 1t Is. One thing made me weep,
| though, and that was that wherever
| went failed to find the American flag. It
| made me almost ashamed of the country
but I've an idea how To remedy that.
want the Chicago Worlds fair commits
| sioners To take up this idea of commerce
and scatter American flags the world over.
They can do it. I'll help them. and Wen
| show this little world that the flag isn't
| dead yet.
| yes, had that telegram from muse
| UNI manager asking me for an engage
ment but | telegraphed back and told
| him that | would never lecture again ex-
| cept TO advertise the Chicago fair. And
have another scheme for the fair, and it's
| a big one. / want to take party of $50
1
world with me can do the whole thing
| in fifty days at SO day. That would be
the biggest thing ever thought of. Just
| get around little and let the world know
we're alive and see how they will come to
| the fair.
Around the World in Fifty Days.
| Here's my programme. Isn't il a good
one? Here you have the whole thing.
| Chicago Worlds fair excursion; fifty
days at sl0a day. Five hundred passen
gers, that's $250,OO0 Then we'll travel in
| special steamers, special cars, and have
balls, OPENS, theatres, and debates every
day. Concerts, operas, salt water baths,
brass bands, and libraries just think of
| it,. There will he ample time to Kodak
| everything, and any one who goes with
me will get more education than Greek
| and Latin books would teach them in a
| lifetime" And in few minutes the
| globe eirdler was off for the far west.
American Medical Association.
| NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 21.-The Amer
| lean Medical association convened in an
nual session at the Theatre Vendome in
this city yesterday, with 500 delegates