The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-01-19
Associated Press. Morning Service.
NEW YORK, January 1S.-Georg
Francis Train is dead.

Francis Train is dead.
Following the completion Of the Uni
on Pacific railroad, the exposures OF
the Credit Nobilier, and the campaign
Of 1872, Trains constructive activities
seem to have largely ceased. After that.
while he managed at frequent intervals
to bring himself conspicuously before
the public in a frothy sensational sort
of way, he never achieved any work at
all comparable to that of his early ac-
tivities. Yet even Caring this period
he said many things and originated
many ideas which other men utilized to
advantage. And even in his sensation
seeking, there was always a kindness
that relieved it and him from any of
the reproach of pure sensation seeking
For many years, during the seven
ties and eighties, he lived at the Con-
tinentaI Hotel, New York, and spent a
large part Of each day when the wealth
er was pleasant, in Union Square near
by, playing with the children. During
this time and for years. he refused to
speak with an adult except through a
child as a sort of psychic interpreter.
He gave as a reason for this sort of
indefinite explanation of psychic sin in
adults which was absent in children
When he Travelled away from New York
in those days, as he sometimes did, he
was always interviewed by the news
papers where he went. But he would
never speak to his interviewers, oral
low them to speak directly to him, but
invariably sent for messenger boy, to
act as the psychic medium for his in,
terviews.
He afterwards gave up this peculiar
ity, and spoke directly to adults and
allowed them to speak directly to him.
In 1887 shortly before the execution of
the Chicago anarchists, he came out to
Chicago, proclaimed himself a Psyche
Anarchist and began the publication
of daily paper, the Daily Psyche An
archist" There was never but one is
sue of this paper published. He prob
ably never intended that there should
be. But in any event public sentiment
was i'm such a state of hysterical ex-
citement at this time that the authori-
ties suppressed further issues. This
one issue however sold for weeks at
five cents copy, and Train undoubted-
~ made several thousand dollars from
its sale. He announced a series Of lee
lures on the subject of Psyche Anar-
chy'' at this time. The police, for the
same reason that they suppressed his
! paper refused to issue him a license un-
| der the amusement ordinance authoriz-
ing him to charge an admittance fee at
the door, He announced that his lee
lures would be free They were large
| ly attended, and he always took up a
collection from his audience before be-
ginning his lecture, so that he lost very
little by not being able to charge an
admittance fee. He was the Prince of
Advertisers. 1t is doubtful if even p.
T. Barnum himself was as fertile in
ideas for successful advertising as
George Francis Train.
The Argonaut of Jan. 49, 1903, con-
tanned this photographed account
of George Francis Train in the form
of book review:
Few of the younger generation are
familiar with the name of George Fran
els Train, and yet, at one time, he was
one of the best-known Americans on
the face of the globe. His career has
been decidedly checkered and his rec