Show HOTEL AND CORRIDOR I ax x George Francis Train jr son of his illustrious lustrious sire is at the Knutsford The son recalls none of the meteoric memories that go off like pyrotechnics whenever the name of Train is mentioned The younger man is alert and charged with i the polish and Idioms of the modern age His very good style in habiliments would probably nauseate the more famous father who affected loose white duck trousers and white gaiters a coat of oriental amplitude with flowing sleeves one of those rolling collars with turnover I turn-over ends betokening in its freedom some of the older school and a flaming red necktie A white Panama hat was crowded down over the noble wealth of snow white hair George Francis Train I has all the I reverence that a young manof this generation gen-eration ever displays for the < overnor He is n great old man remarked the younger Train Ecceneric but he has fonrotten a whole lot that some of us will never know He is in New Yok City his home which he will probably never leave again until he is put away under its sod My father is an old old man Seventyone years of life has already al-ready been awarded him He realizes that the measure of his days has all but been run and is awaiting with that patient pa-tient I resignation so characteristic of hir mituro aon I nature for the moment when an angel I will lay its summoning finger on the silken white hairs Yes sir he is a great old man Young Mr Train smiled reminiscently when the newspaper man refabrltated the quaint picture that for many years has been almost as much a part of Madison Square New York as its statuary and not n whit less noble An elderly srentle I man whose swarthy face and white hair seemed to mark him as a relic of equatorial equator-ial climes seated motionless upon the same bench every 2C5 days in the year if they happened to be sunshiny the leaves of a manuscript lying face upward beside him on the bench long slender fingers directing a pencil over the tablet that lay on his lap a fresh rose in his buttonhole and a troop of children hang ing about his flanks but never bothering the quiet kindly presence That is he interrupted young Mr Train Everybody knew him the children dren loved him and watched for his stately step 1 it came along the traveled trav-eled walk I he was eccentric he was a great old man I was like an echo of that older New York of the knickerbocker period to hear the younger speak of the aged in such a farof dreamy mood In the countenance coun-tenance of the second Train there are strong points of resemblance to the man whose unaccountable actions odd say ings and peculiar trip around the world made him a target for many a newspaper JOSH iiie Mr iriiin ui ims generation is the traveling representative of a large I San Francisco mercantile house He left the east two years ago to take up his home in California I like the place and the people he said they are openhearted and have a welcome for one who falls in with their ways They talk about mining every where There is more energy displayed in this line than there has been for several sev-eral years past if you may believe men engaged in the business I and we have rem 1h I evidences that more eastern capital will I rome to tp west this year than has hen sent out for a long time General prospects for prosperity are good < y < j > < j > In the very thick of the confusion of arriving tourists at the Knutsford yesterday yester-day afternoon a modern John the Baptist Bap-tist came through the crowd from the wilderness WilU locusts and thyme commingled with his hair The few things he wore are unutterable As he advanced the tourists gave way upon either side for the new guest He surveyed sur-veyed the other travelers with the hauteur hau-teur of a cosmopolite and bracing himself him-self against the clerks desk delivered speech himself like a prophet This was his I look a little bit disarranged but whats th dU Such is neither here nor I there Just arrived from BostonClarks my name H T Clark Im a prizefighter prize-fighter an actor and Im away frOm home Say were you ever away from home You were Then you kin predate pre-date the nervousness that Im nOne n-One used to affluence and whose never gotten way from mammas apron strings before till now Say dye hear me Well will you listen Im here to financially address you not on the living issues of the day but the pressing needs of the hour and the man Behold the man Observe these garments critically and with tho I eye of nn rtist Remember Im yet or you Would that I might be eating gingerbread in a back alley of the golden city but I cant take the route Were you eer away from home Then you may intelligently diagnose the anatomy of one who comes as a wedding guest not bidden to the feast but whose apoe tlte would give you joy but hold on will you listen dont go way youll miss I something you never heard before I know Im a hit disdainful bu the wis dom of many ways you may purchase I > < c > > c 1 from me for a mere trifle Shall I out you next to getting u diploma for knowledge knowl-edge that money and clothes cant buy Stand on the end of a railroad platform and watch a chance to remove your carcass car-cass to some place remote stand there until three meals have gone to perditIon for the want of an appetite When youve done that youre entitled to a diploma Say were you ever away from home Believe me Im but temporarily embarrassed embar-rassed I wired for I Pullman they sent me a coal dust a special Its the clothe that makes the man Dont shut me off Im talking for my life Im apt to commit com-mit suicide if you dont I can do that but it would cost the county something Come put me on your credit and loss column for a sum so small youll never miss it Let the colonel there start the good work so I kin become a ornament to society Will you listen say I look disdainful not the coin of the realm Then in a overcoat to do the respectable just long enough to get into the mayoralty mayor-alty race Let my friend the cashier rub me for luck Here try i Im one in a hundred Im a singvd cat There maynt bo another in 5 years Dont miss the opportunity dont be blind to the golden pippins of wisdom If Id a come to you with a stiff front and baked apple ap-ple shoes with the crust well done youd a done the sadwltch by me but I get the mermaid stare instead No aurory bory alice In your smile no Lohengrins wedding wed-ding march In your voice Come wise I men may learn from fools and the wit of the loner distance tourist may stand yOU when you hit the road Let me tell you the story of my life on the instal ment ulan Arabian Nights aint In it I Hownomy cars waiting at the dipo In a short time my valleyll flag a lunch say were you ever TIe numan pnrenojrraph went out wun a saueak as the day porter shut oft the hobo with a mighty grip and the laughIng laugh-Ing tourists ranged up to the counter once more 00 The Knutsford register had the following follow-ing names F M Langer New York James J Ford Denver S RosensteIn San Francisco Mrs Ernest C Brown and daughter Minneapolis Charles S Long George Francis Train jr San Francisco lr H I Meht Francis Shaw Brooklyn Charles Hildebrand Chicago W 1 Beckham Shellysville Ky E A Pueble San Francisco S G Caskey Miss Caskey H G Whitney Detroit F C Brown G B Libby New York B F Bennett Boston E J Couper Minneapolis Mr and r Charles B Bush New York John G Conrad San Francisco O P Barnes Chicago H O Wilbur Philadelphia S B Shirk Harry S Cox Chicago G H Southard Grand Rapids George H Champ Logan J G Dougherty Bakers fleld Cal E S McKinney James P Adair Chicago Mr and Mrs George L Harrison Philadelphia At the Templeton E Reed C W Reed Los Angeles E R Shaw Chicago T S Carnohan N V Peebles Ogden Frank J Johnson Chicago Fred P Baker New York J C Nicoli Council Bluffs E Standecker San Francisco W H Eldridge Chicago 0 Walker House T M Edwards Rock Springs Wyo F W Mulenback Eureka Eu-reka E S Hooper Philadelphia C A WhStemore Portland A Welch wife and SOl Park City H De Fries Fairview Fair-view M H Beardsler R G W Ry Judge Reid Manti C J Spellmore Kansas Kan-sas City Alfred Joslyn Vat eld Vt G M Dodgon Batavia Waitneld Vt ham Wilson Charlestown W Va 0 The Cullen Ora Haley Laramie Charles Fifer Chicago Donald Roper New York William T Raht Pueblo Charles S Taham jr Detroit J A Wriiht D Evans Ogden G S Wilson and wife Colorado Springs C C Edwards Ed-wards Big PIney Wyo James H Lar len J A Hunt Eureka Al Primrose Primrose West Samuel A King Provo Lewis Anderson Manti C Goz ley St Louis Charles E Holt Chicago White House Miss i S Curtis Grants ville N C Lenney El Paso R Thomas New York N Grant Lena Mont J Egan Fort Duchesne H P Cram Kanab C A Webster Miss G Webster Miss R Webster A Anderson Miss Anderson Logan |