Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-23

Hamlin Garland, talking the other
day of the pleasure an author has in
his work. said that his satisfaction
does not begin until he gets his pages
back from the "typist,' in a clear and
clean copy of what, when it left his
hands. was a vicious tangle, most il
legibly written. But then begins the
revision, a slow, tedious, droning
process. often repeated, and very ex-
hausting TO the author-in Mr.. Car
lands opinion, drudgery of the most
unrelieved sort. II get no further
pleasure out Of it," said Mr.. Garland,
until about six months after 1t is
published" Mr.. Garland has recently
been approached by several theatrical
managers in relation to dramatizing
his last novel. THE Captain of the
Gray Horse Troop which seems to
have appealed to them simultaneously
through it's apparent dramatic posi-
bilties.
George Francis Trains light cannot
be kept long under bushel, whether
in a Mills hotel or in more conspicuous
places uptown. He will be heard OF
again in his pointed manner through
his autobiography, which the Apple
tons have on their list for fall publica-
ton. He calls it MY Life in Many
States and in Foreign Lands. Written
in the Mills Hotel in My Seventy
Fourth Year" During the summer a
stenographer has been going to Citizen
Train for a visit of two hours every
day and taking from his dictation as he
sat on his bed. He occupies a corner
room in the top of Mills Hotel No. l,
in Blocker street, the walls of which
are covered with portraits and other
pictures culled from the daily journals.
There he spends a large part of his
time reading the newspapers, which he
devours omnivorously. Citizen Train
has had so many and varied expert
ences that he has found it difficult to
condense his narrative into necessary
limits. The s-enographer has been al
most overwhelmed with them, and has
been surprised to note the facility with
which he has recalled miner events in
every part of his life. Some weeks
ago he prepared an abstract of his
autobiography, which gives bewilder-
ing picture of his activities, thus:
CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY BOILED DOWN
400 FACES IN 200 WORDS.
Born 3-24-'29. Orphaned New Or
leans. SO. GTather, mother and three
sisters-yellow fever). Came North
alone, four years Old to grandmother,
Waltham. Mass. Supported self since
babynood. Farmer till IA. Grocer
boy, Cambridgeport, two years. Ship
ping clerk, IL. Manager, Is. Partner
Train & Co.. 20 Gncome, 100000. Bos-
ton, % ($15000). Established G. +. T.
81 Co, Melbourne, Australia 49,
Agent Barings, Duncan & Sherman,
White Star Line Gncome, $95, O00).
Started forty clippers to California,
40. Flying Cloud. Sovereign of the
Seas. Staffordshire. Built D. & G.. w.
r. t., connecting Erie with Ohio and
Mississippi, 400 miles. Pioneered first
street railway. Europe, America, Aus
tralia. England, Birlenhead, OAR
lington, Staffordshire London. 800
Built first Pacific Railway GU. P.),
'62-'69, through first trust, Credit
Mobilier. Owns five thousand lots,
Omaha. worth S30,OOO,0OO. Fifteen iails,
without a crime). Train Villa, built
at Newport, '6S. Daughters house,
1876 Madison avenue, go Organized
French Commune, Marseilles, Ligue du
IL
trip around the world in eighty days
Jules Verne. two years later. wrote
this up in fiction. Cornered lawyers.
doctors. clericals, by quoting three
columns of Bible to release Woodruff
Claflin from Beecher, 10. Now Iunatfc
by law, through six courts. Now liv-
ing in Mills Palace, SO, against $4,000 a
week, at Train Villa. Daughter al
in
Played Carnegie forty years ahead
Three generations living off Credit
Mobilier. Author dozen books out of
print wide Who's Who" "Allibone,"
Appleton's Cyclopaedia). Four times
around the world. First, two years.
Second. eighty days, 20. Third. sixty
seven and half days. 80. Fourth,
sixty days, shortest record. 90.
Through Psychic Telepathy, am doub-
ling age. Seventy-fourth year young.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
Mills Palace.
President DriftwOod CIuh 156O SoIya14