Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-08
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN

surrounded last night in the club by
coterie of leading gentlemen of this
city, who listened with rapt attention
| TO Mr.. Trains talk about cranks.
| talk that showed his wonderful read
ing and experience and the remark
able retentiyeness of his memory. He
is the guest Of New Whatcom, and the
New Whatcom department OF the
HERALD this morning tells Of what
he is here for. That city is doing u
good thing in sending Mr.. Train on
another trip around the world. 1t
will be the best piece Of advertising
Whatcom has ever done, and it will be
a good thing for Bellingham bay
altogether.
There are those who make light of
George Francis Train and call him a
. lunattc. He is certainly very eccen-
trio, but he is nevertheless a man OF
= wonderful brain and has done some
wonderful things that have nightly
advanced the world. He originated
the idea of the Union Pacific railroad,
which was the first of the transcOnti-
mental railroads, and the development
of the west that this idea led to is
immeasurable. He was the originator
of the Credit Mobilier; he established
the first line of clipper ships running
from this country to Australia; he eS-
tablished in that country the famous
commercial house of Caldwell, Train
& Co., and was the head Of similar
establishment in Boston. quoted
from Appeton's Encyclopedia of Bio
graphy is the following extract con-
corning Mr.. Train. Gle made vigor-
Gus efforts to introduce street rail-
ways into Birkenhead and London in
1859, but met with violent opposition
and was unsuccessful. He lectured in
Great Britain and Ireland before large
, audiences, especially in the lattel
country, and, although his mannel
and language were singular, his saI
casms on English society were Otter
incisive and eloquent.
: Mr.. Train is the author of man,
books. Among them "An American
, Merchant in Europe, Asia and Aus
tralia," "Young America Abroad,
Young America in Wall Street,
"Spread- Eagleism," Every Man Hi
Own AutOcrat," "Young America Of
Slavery" observations on Stree
: Railways" Irish Independence,
Championship of Women" etc, etC
When Mr.. Train returned from hi
J, trip around the world last May, tn
=, FAIRHAvEN HERALD printed an ed
, tOrial sketch Of Mr.. Train, and in tn
sketch gave an incident of his career
: which by request of large number q
persons who were assembled at tn
Cascade club last night, is reprinte
- here. The pen-picture by Mr.. PREF
:. tice is epigrammatic and forceful, an
=, the entire incident was supplied froI
. the memory Of this writer who wa
Mr.. Prentice's amanuensis at tn
- time. The date of the HERALD COZ
!, tanning the article is May q, 1890.
- Away back yonder in the COS, Traii
'0 with Susan b. Anthony, Cady stanton
lie Anna Dickinson and other woman
If rights champions visited Louisville on a
equal suffrage crusade. While in tina
Is city Train called on Mr.. Prentice, th
10 editor of the Louisville journal, at h
"sanctum' in the Journal building
lie This was long before tho consolidation
C. the Courier and journal. Mr.. PrentiC
was engaged with his amanuensis shellin
out copy" for the Journals hoppe
ne when there came rap at the door
4 vigorous rap. The amanuensiS opene
u the door, and there stood one of the hanC
ne soonest men he had ever seen. A ma
10 somewhat above the medium size, yuunj
bright looking and debOnair. His ha
~ was dark aud heavy and his only beal
4 was a symetrcal and wel-kept mou,
tache. His hat was becoming baC
ie SLOUGH. his coat of the Old-time blu
ir broadcloth, pigeon tail cut. with fla
= shining brass buttOns the vest was
w heavy white flannel,or something OF thj
G. nature, and black dOeslUn pantalool
NJ with patent leather shoes, completed I'll
~ costume Of this gentleman, who had Il
ne bearing OF o cosmopolitan. lie gave u
% amanuensis his card, which read, "Georl
- Francis Train. CiUiS AmeTicdnUS Sun
III the last three words written in blue
or red pencil. Train was introduced to Nj
Prentice and for an instant seemed thu
d. der-struck. Doubtless he had expected
is see a very elegant and distinguished lool
ing old gentleman. Instead he saw OF
who was near to being "a lean and sill
al pered pantaloon," a man prematurely o
IL with long iron gray hair and beard, Il
latter tied In wisp with piece of colt,
nj Irvine, man dressed In torn yarn Jack,
al commonly called a "wampus," a bla,
vest stained with tobacco Juice, black al
ny shiny pantalOOns, with his feet In a ia
nd of slip shod shoes. This was George
:, Prentice, the famous editor, wit and DO
81 OF the Louisville journal, who was neve
ra- theless distinguished looking because
Nc his wOndrous eyes and 0verhanging for
20 head. The two fell quickly into conve
fe- satOn and were soon en- rapport. After
no visit Of perhaps half an hour Train wit
drew, and then Mr. Prentice said TO
by amanuensis: Write and / will dictate
In paragraph concerning Mr.. Train" Wit
:, out going into the peeuliarities of |
NJ style or dictatiOn, in which he alwa
)li- gave out the punctuation marks as
h. went, thus making the proceeding Qui
'io droll to a stranger, the paragraph, or DE
ess picture which he dictated is herewi
all given:
az "A locomotive that has run off I
of track, turned upside down, with the co
.hp catcher buried In a stump and the whe
making thousand revolutions mimi
A kite In the air that has lost Its tail
nj human novel without hero--a man W
climbs a tree for birds nest, out on
Dry limb. and IN order to get IL saws the lii
es, of between himself and the tree. A 81