Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-05-21
GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN.
His Flying Trip Around the
World.
BEATS ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS.
A Breezy Chat With the Cham
piOn GlObe-TrOtter.--HOw
He Made Time.

way of the aniipades. He says he
is still George Francis Train; that
he feels twenty years younger; that
he lost his birthday, March oath, at
the lS0th meridian, and that he in
tends to make the grand circuit in
siXty-f,ur days. fhen the smash
will come.
Citizen Train has a story TO tell,
and he told it yesterday with a
verve and snap which made his
hearers tingle for some of the same
electric experience.
He arrived at two o'clock this
morning by the steam ship Etruria,
and when he awoke two hours later
he found q tug bobbing in the bay
with q party of his friends aboard
ready to take him ashore. He gave
whoop of appreciation, and, with
fez stuck jauntily upon his silver
hair and a red silken sash about his
waist, he rushed down the side OF
gangway and leaped ten feet into
the arms of his friends.
Just in time 10 see the grand
smash" he calculated. Who's die
tator?" When informed that the
country was still safe he shook his
own hands with everybody a la Chi.
nese and fell chatting.
"You know all about my leaving
Tacoma" he said. "Of course, the
whole country knew it. Then be-
gan my adventures. l intended to
take the General Werder for Hong
kong, but they told me that / had
missed her by two days. Where is
she?' l asked. She's at Kobe,
they said.
IL saw it was special train ol
nothing, and so went to our Con-
sui, Clarence Greathouse, and said;
Look hear, Greathouse, | must
have Il special aud get passport
right away 'Must?' He laughed
at me, and told me it was impossible
to get one in less than three days.
'Who can give it to me?' Il asked.
The Micado, he replied Alright,
I said, shooting out ofthe door, Pm
off for Toxic
There | ran against John F.
Swift, our minister. | said: swift
get me a passport; | want it in TWEEN
ty minntes.' Can't do IT. he said
Get 1t = l shouted, 'or I'll bust youl
old empire Set them a-going.
They sent messengers everywhere
for the ministers of foreign affairs
and before twenty minutes were VI
| had up passport and was off
You'd have thought that | owned
the whole japanese shebang.
"Whiz We went back to Yoka
hama, and there | found that my
friends had got big dinner ready
at the Grand Hotel. Phew What
speeches | made ! And the next
day the Yokohama press printed a
page and a half of them. That was
fame
"Then we were off for Kobe. Il
was on a special train, with ven
/ geance, too. You see that day haC
been set apart for a grand review OF
the imperial troops, and all the
lines were held by the government
to transport soldiers; but my trair
went through, and what do you
think, we were right ahead of the
emperors train. Well, wore my
double decker ecru hat, witt
George Francis Train, around the
world in sixty days, painted on it
and | was dressed as European
and I'll be hanged if at every statloT
we came to the people didn't whooI
and cheer and PROSTATE themselves
They took me for the emperor
Well, | went out and bowed, an'
the troops presented arms, anC
there was the deuce to pay al
around.
At Nagaski saw some of thos'
lovely Japense women. We'll,
came near missing the boat. n,
wonder Europeans WHO go ther
don't come back, except dead
Those women simply court "A fellow
50 hard that he can't leave.
while at Colombo heard tina
Arab Pasha was there, aud ! mad
up my miud 10 see him. SO pu
on fez aud wound this silk scar
around my waist and looked like
regular Egyptian rebel. / went 4
his house and they told me that hi
'Highness' Arab Pasha was at hi
prayers. shouted: What th
devil do care about his prayers
Bring him up aud let me look a
him, or IN smash you The!
wouldn't do II, aud didn't want L
smash the poor devils out Of mer
curiosity.
by the way" aud here Citize
Train looked truly proud, ave 90
fine collection Of hats here bough
one In every port. / am as psych
cal as ever, aud when get back I
Tacoma Im going 10 begin n sere
! Of tours around the world In beha
Of the Worlds fair in Chicago, sin
ply to show the people, who squi
! on Plymouth Rock that they don
own the whole world -
What a Pity