The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-31
H. M. II. In the chicago rrlbune.

H. M. H. In the Chicago Tribune.
 "Crazy?" asked the Citizen. 'I never told lie in my life; I never cheated a man out of cent; l never committed a crime, and I've been in jail fifteen times. Judged by that record and by present standards that's enough to establish any mans insanity. Besides I've got the brains of twenty men in my head, and they are all pulling different ways. Psychic regards to alb
 Back in 1864 the Citizen had an income of a hundred thousand a year or more. He went to Omaha in that year and bought 5000 city lots. He boarded at the Herndon house. the best hotel in the town. Always he insisted on having the same seat at the table. One morning when he came down to breakfast he found that pane of glass had been broken out of the window directly behind his chair He complained and was advised to change his seat. He refused to do 1t. Instead he his back against the hole in the glass while he ate his breakfast paying the waiter at the rate of ten cents a minute for his time. After breakfast he sought the proprietor of the hotel and made an- other complaint. but got no satisfaction.
 "Never mind, them" said Train. With in the next sixty days I will build a hotel in this town which will ruin your busi- ness"
 In a few days Train employed Col. Coz zens, a well known caterer of New York, to act as manager of his new hotel, work on which was started promptly. At a cost of $4000O for the building and 900 for the furnishings the hotel was built It was named the Cozzens house, after it's manager, and on the sixtieth night after his quarrel with the landlord of the Hern- don house, the new hotel was opened. The opening ball was attended by the governor of Nebraska, the mayor of Omaha. and the chief dignitaries of the state. For a few years the Cozzens house did a fourishing business and the Herndon was badly crippled. Then the Citizen fell out with his manager and the Cozzens house was closed The building is now occupied as offices by the staff of the Union Pacific railroad.
 Citizen Train was personally responsi- ble for the introduction of street rail- ways or tramways into England and into all of continental Europe as well. He went first to Liverpool and there met with opposition which would have utterly dis couraged any other man. But Train per- sisted and finally built the first street railway in the old world at Brkenhead. There are still running street railways which he built in Geneva, Switzerland, and in Copenhagen. Denmark This was in 1S57-'5S, when Train was not yet 30 years old. Some of his English tramways were torn up by Englishmen who were interested in bus lines and other vested interests. and in revenge Train announced that he would go home and build rail- road across the Rocky mountains and the great American desert which would ruin the old trade routes to Asia by way of Egypt. The Vanderblts, the Astors. all the great financial magnates of the time, told him his plan was impossible, but Train persisted. In 1862 congress granted the necessary charter. In 1863 Train went west to break ground for the first mile of railroad track west of the Missouri river. At that time he predicted that the road would be completed by 1870, and the world laughed at the speech as the dream of an insane man. The first Pacific railroad was actually completed In 1869, year ahead of time.
 Orphaned at 4, 1t was always the boast of the Citizen that he had supported him.