The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-19

| two Mr.. Train had launched forty OF
these trading vessels. At the age OF
! twenty he was a partner of the firm.
with the management of 81 Liverpool
! branch and an income of 100000 a year.
! According to his own figure, he was re-
| ceiving $4,000 at the age of twenty
two, and few years later had an in
/ come of $95, 900.
/ Mr.. Trains participation in the Com
! mune in France was the result of
chance He arrived at Marseilles on his
/ eighty-dayS' tour of the world, and was
hailed as t'liberator'' and invited to
| join the revolutionary movement. He
addressed an immense audience in the
| Cirque. rousing it to a pitch of frenzied
| enthusiasm. Here is a vivid incident
| which he relates:
| 4 saw from my window an army
marching down the street. I thought
it was our army, and went out on the
balcony and began shouting 'Vive 1t
Republfquei and 'Vive la Commune!
with the people in the street; but there
was an oTninous silence in the ranks of
the troops. They did not respond to
these revolutionary sentiments. Then l
saw the new prefet, NJ. Gent, Gambet
ta's man, in a, carriage, with the army.
Suddenly I heard a shot, and Gent
dropped to the bottom of the vehicle.
Some one had tried to kill him, but
missed, and the prefet did not care TO
be conspicuous again. The troops came
to a halt directly in front of the hotel.
and L saw that the officers We're re-
garding with anger the flag of the Com
mune that foated from the balcony
Orders We're given, and five men. =
firing squad, stepped from the a..,ni1s
ready to fire. L knew that it was their
purpose to shoot me. do not know
why, but I felt that if the thing had
to be, I should die in the most dramatic
manner possible. There were two other
flags on the balcony the colors of
France and America. L seized both OF
these, and wrapped them quickly about
my body. Then I stepped forward and
knelt at the front of the balcony, in
the same military posture as the sol
diers below me. I then shouted to the
officers in French: Fire, fire, you mis-
cradle towards! Fire upon the flags OF
France and America wrapped around
the body of an American citizen-if you |
have the couragei" An order was spok- |
en-, too low for me to catch, but the |
kneeling soldiers dropped their rifles. |
and then rose and rejoined the ranks.
Another order was shouted along the |
line, and the troops marched on down |
the street and out of sight
During his busy career, Mr.. Train has
had many prison experiences. although
he has never committed a crime. He
declares:
Il have been imprisoned in almost eY-
cry sort of Jail that man has devised.
1 have been in police stations, in Mar
shaIseas in England and in Ireland, in
common jails in Boston, in the Bastile
of Lyons, in the Prefecture at Tours as
the prisoner of Gambetta, dictator OF
France, and in the famous old Tombs
of New York. I have used prisons
we'll. They have been as schools to me-
where have reflected and learned more
about myself-and a mans own self is
the best object of any ones study. I
nave also made jails the source of fruit
,ul ideas, and from them have launched
many of my most startling and useful
projects and Innovations
The volume which is supplemented
with several interesting illustrations OF
he author. closes with Mr.. Trains ac-
,ount of his three record breaking trips
.round the world in eighty, sixty-seven
md a half, and sixty days, the last
royage still standing as the fastest time
my one has circled the globe.