Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09

izcrs and financial gCniuscs
He built the first street railway in Eng
land and during the civil war made a
reputation as an orator and dcbatCr in
England where he cspouscd the union
cause.
The Credit Mcbiicr was organized in
his house at No 156 Madison avenue,
which is now owned by his daughter, Mrs
GuluEcr. He says it was the original
trust. His schemes in connection with the
Union Pacific railway, in which he was the
prime mover. were ChimCriCal then, but
time has proved them. In Omaha. whore
he owned 5000 lots, now worth $50, 600 600
they were sold for noupaymont Of taxes
after he had been legally declared a lu-
natic-hc built a hotel in sixty days, and
called IL Cuzzcn's hotel because, when he
criticised another hotsl the proprietor
asked him why he did not build one OF his
own.
In 1870, when he went around the world
ia eighty days, he was already known as
radical. lie reached Marscillcs and that
proved that his coming was awaited.
committee hailed him as libcrator ana
asked him to become head Of the Com,
mune. He was taken directly to the
opera house, where 5000 people were wait
ing for him He writes:
house, packed with people from the stage
to the topmost boxes, l was possessed by
the French revolutionary spirit. The ge-
MUS and enthusiasm of the people had
swept me of my feet | was thenCeforth
Communist member of their Red Re-
public | felt this as soon as | walked
into the midst of their cheering and
ecstatic mob-for it was really a mob then
the germ of all great national movements
in France"
He really became the head OF the move
ment, with General Cluseret as military
leader. They took possession of the mill
tary fortihcations OF Marselles. lie buffed
a detachment of the Guard Mobile that
came to arrest General Cluseret. Mr..
Train goes on:
THE next morning | saw from my win
dow an army marching down the street.
thought it was our army and went out on
the balcony and began shouting Vive la
Republiquer and 'Vive la Commune! with
the people in the street. But there was an
ominous silence in the ranks of the troops
Then | saw the new prefect, NJ. Gent Gam
bettas man, riding in a carriage with the
troops Suddenly | heard a shot and NJ
Gent dropped to the bottom of the vehicle
Someone tried to kill him. but missed and
the prefect did not want to be conspicuous
again. an
THE troops came to halt directly in
front or the hotel, and saw that the Off.
GERS were regarding with anger the flag o
the commune which floatcd from the bal
cony. Orders were given, and five men,
firing squad, stepped from the ranks ant
knelt, rifles in hand, ready to fire / know
it was their purpose to shoot me. | dom
know why, but | felt that if | had to die
H.
possible. There were two other flags OF
the balcOny-the Colors of France and o
the United States. | seized both of these
wrapped them quickly around my body
Then | stepped forward and knelt in from
of the balcony in the same military postur
as the soldiers below me. Then | shoute
to the officers in French:
Fire, fire, you miserable cowardsi Fir
upon the flags of France and Americ
wrapped around the body of an American
citizen-if you have the courage.
An order was given, the soldiers re
turned to their places in the ranks"
The Citizen came home to run as an in
dependent candidate for president of tn
United States. When the Victoria Wood
hull affair came up he defended her an
published extracts from the Bible tina
landed him in the Tombs. He was place
in "Murderers' Row." with Richard Croker
John ]. Scannell and Sharkey-the Sharke
who escaped in woman's clothing.
His socialistic ideas began assertin
themselves more rapidly. He threw hi
money away and behaved most extrava
gantly. Then the courts declared him
n lunatic.
O For fourteen years he never spoke to
p, man or woman, but devoted himself to chi
Is dren, because he declared that grown pee
pie robbed him of his psychic force. Ever
a day he was in Madison Square. He ca
= call $1,000 young people-they were chi
NJ dren when he first met them-by name, ar
they love him to this day.
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