The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-28

at the fair increases apace, Thus for
this month it has averaged over lO7 800
paid admissions per day rs against an
average up to Angus. OF only about
10000 per day, Yesterday there were
100000 present, which, with the excep'
ton Of tho fourth OF July, is the great
est record yet made. 1t was Illinois
day, which accounts for the sudden
Jump in the figures. Other states will
have their days. and there will be on
said days these large and sudden in
creAses in tho attendance, 81 that the
average daily admissions from this time
on will be rising average, Just as 1t
was at the Philadelphia Centennial
throughout the months OF September
and Octobet, 1875.
The fact that the harVests are over
and the summer about ended, and that
the country people are free to come to
the fair, explains tho increase in the
attendance. At least it does to every
body except George Francis Train, who
claims that he did it with his little
Ratchet in the shape OF his little
psyche" You and all OF your readers
have heard OF "Citizsn" Train and his
''psyche." Well, he is here at the fair
as the guest OF Bohemian organiza'
ton known as the Whitechapel Club,
and, under tho auspices OF this club,
the Citizen, who dresses In white every
day, and has white hair, has been
hauled to the fair by white horses and
landed ut the White Horse Inn. lie
struck the fairabout twenty days ago, in
its nadir OF depression, aud proclaimed,
like Joan OF Arc, that he had come to
raise the siege, and save the credit OF
Chicago and the good name OF the
United States. He,and psyche" came
and saw and conquered-"psyche" be-
ing his mysterious alter ego, which, in
common with Socrates and some other
great people, he possesses.
This is the same familiar spirit that
enabled the woman OF Endor to
raise the gnost OF Samuel. lie told
the reporters who met him on the
train beyond the suburbs that he had
come to save the fair and now he
says to them with all the confidence
and importance Of the rain makers
who got 500 the other day because q
rain followed the bursting OF their
bombs amidst the clouds OF central
Illinois, ~ told you SO, l told you l
had come to save the fair-me and my
'psyche'-and now behold, we have done
1t; we have raised the siege; we have
saved Chicago financially, and saved
the reputation OF the United States. "
Referring thus to Citizen" Train and
his mission OF salvation here reminds
mo OF his visit to Wheeling twenty
years ago. Do you recall that lecture
OF his at Washington hall; that illus
trated lecture wherein, by the aid OF a
piece OF chalk and u blackboard, he
showed how Chicago was to be de.
stroyed by an upheaYal and overflow OF
the lakes and how the then embryo city
OF Omahs, was to become her successor
The Citizen was then supposed to be
rich in Omaha real estate and in
the debris of Credit Mobilier stock &C.
quired through his connection with the
Union Pacific railroad. That crazy
sensational lecture OF his was after the
pattern OF his deliverances here. At
the close OF it he left the stage and rush.
ing to the door stood at the head OF the
stairs and shook hands with everybody
as they passed out, reminding them
that he was candidate for the presi-
dency and the only man who could save
the country from the hands OF the spoil
ers Of the Two old parties.
MORE LIKE HIM.
But enough about Citizen Train. i
had no idea OF taking up SO much space
concerning him when referred
to his claim that he had come on from
Now York and turned the tide in the
fortunes Of the fair. With all his crazy
egoism, however, no visitor at the fair,
since Eulalia's visit, attracts so much
attention. This may seem strange since
he is nothing more nor less than an!
other crazy ~. NJ" but it is fact.
People come back from the fair in the
evenings telling OF all they saw during
tho day, and chietest Of all is the fact
that they saw George Francis Train.
This mention OF him reminds me that
there Is congress OF just such people
sitting here at this time, and am only
surprised that his name does not appear
in tho daily record OF their proceedings.
1t is called psychlcal congress, and Is
composed OF noted, or rather notorious
people, who believe in all that mystic
brood OF isms that center in so.Called
mind reading, ctRirvoyanCe and spirit
ualism. These queer people are read
ing some curious paper: to each othOr
detailing alleged phenomena OF mirac-
ulous character. For instance, Judge
Daley from Brooklyn. n Y, on Wed.
nesday last, read minute and circum.
stantial account OF q bed ridden invalid
OF that city who Gun SEQ aud tell what
going on miles away. When heI
friends call TO 500 her she astonishes
them by telling them OF the time oil
their departure from home, how and
where they stopped by the way, who
they met and all they did before reach
ing her bed side. Other people told Of
othor Incredible phenomena, Quite @
breeze was created yesterday by an In.
trudor aud unbellever who offered TO
put up s, 900 against 500 that he could
write o sentence, 10 DO scaled up In d
box, that none Jof them could read by
any Of their alleged mystic or phonom.
email proCessos No takers OF tho offer.
His Intrusive rudeness. however. got
him into fight with the secretary oil
tho congress, and in tho course Of d
hand TO hand scrimmago tho secretary
got black eye from tho intrud0r's fist
which Is Just con trariwise from the way
II ought TO have been and the way Il
would have been Il could haVO con.
trollod the usually what tho poor sec,
rotary aud his friends call Il spirit
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