The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23
ECCENTRIC GENIUS DIES OF
HEART DISEASE IN
NEW YORK.
His Successful Caleer-Author of
Forty B ,oks-Nebratka ka Pretty
School Teachers Struck
With the Matrimonial
Epidemic-Otber
N ewS,

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Francis Train, who died last night
at Mills Hotel, No. Blet ker street.
probably was ons of the most pic
turesque figures in the history OF
America. Only year ago, when
ho was then IA years old, he die
tated the "reminiscences OF his ex-
traordinary career, and the result
was publ shed in book form. Sum.
marized in bis own curious fashion,
this contained the following in
/ formation about bis career:
rShipping clerk, IS; manager,
is; partner in Train & Co., %, with
income of 1o,ooo.
Established firm of George Fran.
cis Train. & c., Melbourne, Aus,
trails, 1858; agent White Star Line,
income, $4,000. Started 40 clip.
pers to California in 1S49. Built
railroad come citing Erie with Ohio
and Mississippi.
Pioneered the first street rail
way in Europe, America, Australia
and England. Built first Pacific
railway, 1862-69, through Credit
Mobilier. Owner 5000 los in O
maha, worth $4,000, 900. Been II
Is jaiis, without any crime"
| G o-ge Frapcis Train was born il
Boston, March %, 1929. His par
ents, vita, several brothers and sis
tere, died at New Orleans from vel
low fever, and his childhood hom
was on his grandmolher's farm il
Massachusetts,. Not long after en-
tering the Boston shipping hous
founded by his cousin, be went a
broad, and from that time on b,
wandered all over thesglobe.
In 1873 he began career as lee
turer and agita'o or, and held publi
debates with some of the ablest or
ators in the country. A few year
ago he made a trip around tn
world in 673 days, saying after
wards that his psychic force enabled
him to overcome all obstacles.
When Mills Hotel No. 1. was op
ened several years ago, Mr.. Trail
went there to live. and since thel
made it his headquarters. One Q
the features of his eventful life wa
his admiration for children, and 70
years a familiar spectacle in Madi
son Square was "Citizen" Train o.
a bench surrounded by a group G
little ONES,
Mr.. Trains last misadventur
occurred last summer, when he wa
quarantine d at Stanford, Conn.,, i
smallpox isolation camp, an
threatened that city with a suit {
$4,000 damages. He was the at
thor of at least 40 books, and fir,
quently asserted that his "psychi
powers" eventually would max
him the most potent sovereign {
the earth.
) Mr.. Train may fairly be descrit
ed as an erratic genius. He pr
!. fessed to be ruled by an imaginar
: being called Psyche, and to be
: believer in psychic force. He We
! a strict vegetarian, and often wer
5 for several days without food. b
talked In short, jerky, incomple'
: sentences. emitting all the sma
: words, and wrote in the same styl
always in red and blue pencil, in
: large angular hand. He had a gres
s aversion to shaking hands, and tt
: tclosest approach he would make
: it was to clasp his own bands tt
: gether.
: All these eccentricities cause
: him to be charged with insanity Q
one occasion. but be fought tt
: charge with great bitterness and I
. bility. and won.
The cause of bis death was hea
: disease, following an attack of acut
s nephritis.
s Omaha, Neb., Jan. 2.-Cupi