The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-21
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Citizen G. F. T Gets Here with e Whole
Day to Spare.

From the Ne,0 York sun.
Citizen George Francis Train came in on
the Etruria yesterday morning sixty days
from Tacoma, WASH, on his trip around
the world. He has beaten all globe circling
records so soundly that he thought he could
afford to take day off in town yesterday.
He will resume his journey at e O'Clock
tonight by the New York Central
route to Chicago, where he will
take the Chicago and Northwestern rail
road TO Tacoma. He expects to reach
Tacoma, which was his starting point
next Saturday at noon. thus completing the
circle of the globe in 65sz days The citizen
is looking brown and hearty and is greatly
elated over his achievement He calls him
self Phileas Fogg, and says that in beating
the time of Jules Verne's hero he is now
having his revenge out OF the novelist for
having stolen from him the idea of the
novel "Around the World in Eighty Days"
"That was my idea,n said he. IT went
round the world in 1870 in eighty days, and
Jules Verne caught up the idea and made
fiction of it without giving me credit. But
where's his eighty days now?'
The citizen then went up town to his
usual headquarters. the Continental hotel,
and registered himself in blue pencil,
thus:
George Francis Train. Around the
world in 50 days. Spec al $50. 600 train
four days."
The clerk assigned him to room So in
honor of his achievement, and this pleased
the citizen greatly.
Citizen Train is travelling around the
world at the expense of the hustliag young
city of Tacoma, which is enjoying boom
just at present, and hopes to attract atten-
ton by Trains exploits
The idea was the citizens. He wrote
from Boston proposing it, and Tacoma
raised "a ,0O0 to start him off. S. w. Wall,
editor of the Tacoma Ledger, accompanied
him.
They left Tacoma March IS at 6 O'Clock
in the morning upon the Canadian Pacific
steamer Abysslnia to Yokohama, arriving
there in sixteen days. Train expected to
take the North German Lloyd steamer Gen.
Werder at that point for Hong Kong, but
it had sailed. Citizen Train was not at all
disconnected. He simply paid the agents
price TO have the steamer stopped at Kobe,
800 miles south. The agent telegraphed the
desired order, and the citizen weat to Toxic,
where he secured passports for himself and
Mr.. Wall from the American minister. He
went by train to Kobe. where the steamer
was waiting. This was done Just in the
nick of time, for the day after they started
was holiday, and the next day the govern
ment took possession of the railroad TO traus-
port troops. The Gen. Werder encountered a
terrific storm in the Japan sea, and lost a
day on the way TO Hong Kong. At Hong
Kong the citizen caught the North German
Lloyd steamer Preussen to Colombo, where
he intended to take the Peninsular and
Oriental mail steamer Arcadia to Port Said.
But here new EFFICIENCY arose. The Arcadia
did not intend to start for eighteen hours,
and Citizen Train had no mind to lose three
quarters of day. There appeared to DE
nothing to do but to charter the Preussen
to go on with him. This was no sooner
thought of than done, and the Preussen
took him through the SueZ canal. But here
the Arcadia, which was faster steamer,
overlook them, and the citizen and bis COM
panion boarded her, and in four days more
found themselves in Brindisi.
At this point Train became fearful that if
he depended upon scheduled trains and steam.
ers as originally INTENDED, he would reach
Queenstown too late to take the Etruria.
The citizen telegraphed for special train
and steamer for London. A special India
mail train took him to Calais in fifty-two
hours, and a special steamer carried him
over to Dover without the loss of an hour.
The regular trains took him to London and
Queenstown, where he found himself i'll
good time for the Etruria.
On the passage over the Atlantic. Citizen
Train made himself very interesting to the
passengers. He had huge bundle of big
maps Of Tacoma, and on the back of one of
them he had made an illustrated chart of
his trip. The chart needed a great deal OF
explaining, and explaining it became his
chief occupation. A big circle was the
central figure in the chart, and pictures OF
hotels, steamers, and Of the citizen himself
were pasted all over it. In the center of
the circle was this announcement:
Tacoma's Grand Victory!
Short Route, Europe to Japan! China! India!
Introducing rs, 900 900 Pan Americans to $780,
O00,0 Asiatics. Columbia! Cathayl
Dreams Realized!
Paris to Pekin twenty days.
After breakfast every morning Citizen
Train weat up on deck, spread out his chart
and began to explain it. He was at once
surrounded by crowd of passengers AT
meal hours he would stop explaining long
enough to eat the scanty vegetable repasts
on which he maintains an exuberant life.
His explanations were often varied by
learned digressions upon many subjects,
which entertained his hearers nightly Oc-
casionally he would devote few hours to
talking specially to the ladies in the cabin
but whether to men or women, Citizen Train
talked to some one every minute he wasa't
asleep. He wore brown suit and huge
two-story cork helmet, which looked like q
big mushroom or a little circus tent. 1t was
WHO, anu Qcu lIlSCTlpGlO1S III 8OOu-SiZ6Q
black letters on the front. The lettering on
the top story of the helmet spelled ont the
citizens full name. On its ground floor
was the motto: Round the world in sixty
days" Underneath this mammoth helmet
he wore a red fez. the unexpected appear
ance of which rather startled people when
he removed the helmet.
The Etruria was met at 6 o'clock yester-
day morning at quarantine by the tug F.
w. Devoe with some of the citizens friends
aboard. Among them were Milton G..
Roach, general eastern passenger agent OF
the New York Central; Il. A. Gross, gen.
eral eastern passenger agent of the Chicago
and Northwestern road; E. d. Harrington,
passenger agent of the same road; j. M.
Miller, who represented Tacoma. and some
Sun reporters. They had a permit to take
the citizen off, and they got him at 6:15
o'clock. Train was juhilant when he caught
sight of the tug. He waved his huge
helmet and shouted to his friends that he
wasn't going to stay in town an hour, and
that a $40, 900 special train must start west.
ward with him at once. A good many
passengers leaned over the steamers rail
and shouted good-by TO him as he climbed
down the side into the tug.
This is very thoughtful" said the citi-
zen, shaking hands with himself heartily
for every one of the party that met him.
Half the British empire dresses in nothing
but stovepipe hats and strings. This is a
great ad. for Tacoma. isn't its I'm in splen-
did boal+J,