The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-08
BUSINESS MAN AND LUNATlC.

present elder generation somewhat familiar He was
millionaire and statesman and fool the founder OF great
projects unreliable and declared lnatc for many years
year. he orphan and tended farm in Massachu
AT the age he drove market to Boston, every
day He relates he belonged in Waltam, who
the great Ralph Waldo Emerson then unknown to lecture
Mr. consented do for five dollars and
four quarts of for my horse.
He ran away from the farm grocery boy and finally
mercantile shipping house of Train Co.,
He developed propnses for
starting business schemes In spite of the conservatism OF the
when gold broke California 188 he induced
the building of those marvellous clippers which
world their swift trips around Cape Horn
Flying Cloud the passage San Francisco eghtsX
days 1852 profit of 100000 He upern
tended the building of forty OF these wonderful sea racers and was
years age He the
established Liverpool where he monopozed
carrying egran America by issuing
certificates through which the hmen America brought their
friends He applied quick method of loading and
unloading ships which saved much time though just OF age he
managed many of the prominent of England and
showed his disposition his foot everything for he had
limited Cheek He invented the lead pencil with rubber and
the method putting cellar By
binary vacation the States he followed
young lady whom he railway and she became his wife
He was then twenty-five years of age
After remaining Liverpool short time he returned to Boston
The gold fever had broken Australia He sailed for Melbourne
where he established commercial and began things
american fashionbut warehouses shortened the distance of the
city railway, imported ready
Boston started trade Yankee notions Some of his
oAmeca child might American SOIL He start
ed scheme for filling Tasmania with free egrans and
ceeded
Train always mixed up political affairs. It believed
him President of the Republic
Train tired of Australia and China and Japan He fore
ultimate development of the of the Pacific and he
determined the entire shipping interests OF Amer
This in 1855 He anticipated by nearly fifty
the bold scheme of Morgan which proposed grasp single
steamship of Atlantic
But he failed because ready and the minds of
ship owners were not quickened
travelled over Europe got the reputation being
in politics. and his money made him conspicuous He passed for
Carbonar Fenian International Spies watched him wherever he
of Queen Christina of Spain invest millions constructing
the Atlantic and Great Western railroad which the Erie line
The finished usual Train who lacked
judgment lost much of his profits He returned Europe visited Rus
interviews with his 1883 ap
peaed again England where spite of strong opposition he
troduced the street horse railways IN Liverpool he also built several
similar roads London the London people Dur
the Civil War he did great the United States by exposing
England the secret OF the Confederate blockade He
America Union speeches. He delivered
hundreds of places pointed
and eccentric talk
He building railway organized
the Credit Mober which financial political
sprung bought large tract OF land in Omaha then wilderness and
pushed the building of the road westward But his
finally him aside place 1870 he joined
the Commune France had trouble with ambea and thrown
into prison for days In NIaes he addressed 10000
munsts AT time he taken be but escaped
In 1872 he America independent
date for the Presidency He lived in Newport spent $4,000
week in entertaining his friends He made speeches
people to be hunbueged refused TO
accept him, and politically eccentric WAYS again
him trouble, and of New
city His relatives and friends now nerered and he was de-
cared be charge affairs During the
last of his life he has been happy luna
TIC FOR years past he could be the
Madison Square, New York He passed feeding birds
and playing with the children who visited park with
candies and had large clientele and girls
His head and with his rich curly attracted the
attention OF those who sroed through the Square living
in the Mills Hotel No He $500 Der week
and is conented than when spent $1,000 in his New
port villa He made flying trip 1876 and be-
reeves that this trip suggested Jules Verne the story
world In Eighty Days He later made the trip sxy-seven
and half days He jail fifteen times owing to his irren
sbe conduct He dedcae children because he loves