The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-20
ONE DAY AHEAD.
George Francis Train Oh His Globe -Trotting
Tip,

NEW YORK, May 19-Citizen George
Francis Train came in on the Etrutia this
morning, sixty days from Tacoma, Wash,
on his trip around the world. He has
beaten all giObe-circling records so sound
" that he thought he could afford to take
a day off in town today. He will resume
his Journey at O'Clock tomorrow night
by the New York CentralrOute to Chicago,
where he will take the Chicago q North
western to Tacoma. He expects 10
reach Tacoma, which was his starting
point, next Saturday at noon, thus com
pleting the circle of the globe in siXty-tlve
and three-fonTth days. THE Citizen" IS
looking brown and hearty, and is greatly
clated over his achievement. He calls
himself Phineas FOgg, and says that in
beating the time of Jules Nerne's hero he
is now having his revenge out Of the nov
elist for having stolen from him the idea
of the novel, around the World in Eighty
Days"
That was my idea, " said he Il went
around the world in 1870 in eighty days,
and Jules Verne caught up the idea. and
made a fiction of it without giving me
credit But where's his eighty days now"
Citizen Train is travelling around the
world at the expense Of the husJlng young
city of Tacoma, which is enjoying boom
just at present and hopes to attract atten-
tiOn by Trains exploits.
The idea was The Citizens" He wrote
from Boston proposing it, and Tacoma
raised $1,000 to start him off. 5. W. Wall,
editor of the Tacoma Ledger, accompanied
him. They left Tacoma, March lS, at g
O'Clock in the morning upon the Canadian
Pacific steamer AbysSinia for HOkOhOma.
The Etruria was net at o'clock this morn
ing by the tug Devoe with some Of
The Citizens" friends aboard. Among
them were Milton G. ROch, general
eastern passenger agent of the New
York Central: il. A. Gross, general east
ern passenger agent of the Chicago q
Northwestern road; +. ID. Harrington,
passenger agent Of the same road: j. NJ.
Miller, who represented Tacoma, and re
porter. They had permit to take The
Citizen" off, and they got him at quarter
after O'Clock. Train was Jubliant when
he caught sight of the tug. He waved
huge helmet and shouted to his friends
that he was not going to stay IN town an
hour, and that $4,000 special train must
start westward with him at once. \ good
many passengers leaned over the steamers
rail and shOnted good bye to him as he
climbed down the side into the tug.
This is very thoughtful" said the "Citi-
Ken," shaking hands with himself heartily
for every one of the party that met him.
Half the British empire dresses in moth
ing but stove pipe hats and strings. This
Is a great ad. Tor Tacoma, IS not 1t? I'm
in splendid health"
ut is no novelty to me to circle the
earth " said "The Citizen" I've been
round before. Wall opened his eyes when
he heard me talk the language of every
county we went through. l speak twenty
different languages"
Train rehearsed his adventures to crowds
of interested listeners at the Continental
hotel this afternoon. Those who counted
up thedayS Ofthe tripon the calendar made
it sixty-one days, but the citizen
said that in cirCling the globe
westward you make one day, and that
must be deducted. Making this allow
ance, the trip had last sixty days and one
hour when Train stepped on the Nesey
street dock from the. tug this morning
He claimed that it was tifty-nine days be
cause the steamer was really due on Sat
urday night.
If Train had started west at o'clock to-
night. as he might have done, he would
have completed his journey in siXty-tour
days and eighteen hours. As it Is, he will
leave by special vestibule train at 6
O'Clock tomorrow night. reach Chicago at
o'clock Tuesday morning and Tacoma at
noon on Saturday.