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Show Just History , By Albert F. Philips In th Salt Lak theatre on th venlng of August SO, 1M. Just Mfty-four years ago today, on of th men who waa In at rumen aj In the building o th Union Pacific railroad, ground for which waa broken In Omaha on December t, laCS, delivered a lecture on the aub-Ject aub-Ject of "Doctor, Lawyer, Clergyman." Clergy-man." This lecturer was Oeorgs Francis Train, who waa eccentric In hablta and extravagant in apeech. Neverthele h waa a brilliant roan and h had a wonderful wonder-ful career. He perhapa waa the only man who wa vr arreated on a charge of publishing obscen literature lit-erature th pasaag quoted In hla publication being taken wholly from th Bible. He waa discharged from custody after being adjudged lnsan. During th later years of his life he spoke only to children, and the designation that he gav himself waa "Cltlaen of the World." While he claimed to ha till to property prop-erty In the vicinity of Omaha val- ued at s,0OO.IM), he affected a simple style of living and he died In a cheap hotel. He was an author and financier of not and he Introduced the fad of placing a photograph of himself on hi letter and envelopea, the photograph being tb sis of . a poetag stamp. I As an author he printed a num bar of volumes and as a business man he proved a success. He waa originally angaged in th mercantile mercan-tile buelneas In Boston and than In Anstralla. In It SO m visited England En-gland and was placed In charge of th Liverpool branch of an American Amer-ican buaineas house, and three years later he waa aent to Australia and waa admitted to the firm. Later he returned to England. In llsO, and undertook to form atreet railway rail-way plana for London and Birkenhead, Birken-head, but his plana were obetructed .by legal opposition, and they failed. He Interested capital to construct tha old Atlantic Great Weetern railway running from Cincinnati to Cleveland, O, which" afterwarda became a part of the Erie railway syatera. The Atlantlo dt Great Western railway was a broad gauge track alx feet as was the Erie originally. When the rallrosds of the country reached a eonduelon to standardise ths trscks so that ther could be an Interchange of cars from ons road to another, the broad gauge of the Atlantic dt Great Western, a also th Erie, was changed In a way to standard gauge, an achievement that wss considered remarkable, and it waa at that tima. Th fast was re-pested re-pested by the Denver dr- Rio Grande railroad when ' one Sunday It changed Its entire II n from narrow gsug to stsndard gauge, both system sys-tem a therefore, not losing? a day In making ths change In hundreds of miles of track In a working day. Returning to Mr. Train, he was ths first man to maks a tour of the World in eighty daya. which at that time was also considered a wonderful wonder-ful feat, his return from the trip to Madasllles, France, ending on ths eightieth day. October 20, 1871). , While In Marseilles ha organised ths commune, for which hs was ar- X rested snd wss taken to Lyons, where he remained In prison for thirteen dsys. |