The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-09
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George Francis Train. jr. son of his IL
lustrious sire. is at the Knutsford The
son recalls none of the meteoric memories
that so off like pyrotechnics whenever
the name of Train is mentioned The
younger man IS alert and charged with
the polish and idioms of the modern age.
His very good style in habiliments would
probably nauseate the more famous
father, who affected loose white duck
trousers and white CATERS a coat of
oriental amplitude with flowing sleeves
one of those rolling collars with turn
over ends, betokening in its freedom some
neck-tie. A white Panama hat was
crowded down over the noble wealth of
snow white hair.
George Francis Train II. has all the
reverence that young man -Of this gen.
GRAFTON ever displays for the governor"
HE IS = great old man.. remarked the
younger Train. "Ecceneric. but he has
forgotten q whole lot that some of us
City. his home, which he will probably
never leave again until he is put away
under its sod. My father is an old old
man. Seventy-one years of life has al
ready been awarded him. He realizes
that the measure of his days has all but
been run. and is awaiting with that pa
tient resignation so characteristic of his
nature, for the moment when an angel
will lay its Summoning finger on the
silken white hairs. Yes, sir, he is a great
old man..
when the newspaper man refabrieated the
quaint picture that for many years has
been almost as much part of Madison
Square. New York. as its statuarv and
not a whit less noble. An elderly gentle
man whose swarthy face and white hair
seemed to mark him as a relic of equator
ial chimes. seated motionless upon the
same bench. every $50 days in the year.
if they happened to be sunshiny; the
leaves of a manuscript lying face upward
beside him on the bench; long slender
that lay on his lap: a fresh rose in his
buttonhole and a troop of children hang
ing about his TANKS, but never bothering
the quiet. kindly presence
THAT is he" interrupted young Mr.
Train. Everybody knew him. the chill
dren loved him and watched for his
stately step rs it came along the grav-
eled walk; If he was eccentric he was
Il great old man."
It was like an echo of that older New
York of the knickerbocker period to hear
the younger speak of the aged in such
a far-off, dreamy mood. In the coun-
tenance of the second Train there are
strong points of resemblance to the man
whose unaccountable actions. odd say
ings end peculiar trip around the world
made him a target for many a newspaper
josh. The Mr.. Train of this generation
is the travelling representative of large
San Francisco mercantile house. He left
the east two years ago to take up his
home in California.
Il like the place and the people," he
said; they are open-hearted and have
welcome for one who falls in with their
ways. They talk about mining every
where. There is more energy displayed
in this line than there has been for sew
eral years past, if you may believe men
engaged in the business, and we have
evidences that more eastern capital will
come TO the west this year than has
been sent out for r long time. General
for prosperity are good
In the very thick of the confusion of
arriving tourists at the Knutsford yester-
day afternoon modern John the Bap-
wilderness. Wild locustS and thyme
ccmmingled with his hair The few
things he wore are unutterable. As he
advanced the tourists gave way upon
either side for the new guest. He sur
veyed the other travellers with the haul
teur of a cosmopolite. and bracing him
himself like a prophet. This was his
speech:
Il look a little bit disarranged. but
what's TIL diff'?. Such is neither here nor
my name-H. T. Clark. I'm prize
fighter, an actor. and I'm away from
home. Say, were you ever awav from
home? You We're? Then you kin pre-
ciate the nervousness that I'm sufferin'. !
One used 10 aff1uence and whose never
gotten way from mammals apron |
strings before till now.
Say, dye hear me? Well will YOU |
listen? I'm here to financially address |
you. not on the living issues of the day. |
but the pressing needs of the hour and /
the man. Behold the man. Observe |
these garments critically and with the
eye of on artist Remember I'm yet of |
YOU. Would that I might be eating /
in back alley of the golden |
city. but | can't take the route Were !
you ever away from home? Then you !
may intelIigently diagnose the anatomy !
Of one. who comes wedding guest. /
not hidden to the feast. but whose apDe- |
lite would give YOU low bIt-hOld on will !
you listen-dont go way. you'll miss
something YOU never heard before / !
know I'm bit disdainful, but the Wis /
iom of many ways you may purchase