Show onia omalia ha aud and george franci train r arr al A l J A A 11 of the Z cuje is on ill am 1 3 tr ti auls ILL again and furnishes famishes tho the following liely chely sketch of the growth of O omalia aba and nd the alil rise and propels of georgo francis train F from rom 1857 to 1861 omaha had bad a hard sta but tle the great pacific has in fused wonderful vigor and today to day any the title 6 capital pital of nebraska is the dij liveliest eliest city in tho united states the iha railway company has erected an immense brick car house engine en house and machine shops and five fife or six hundred buildings have gone up this season one brick block has cost streets aie are being graded ded sidewalks side walks aro thronged thron ged mth aith returned gold seekers discharged so soldiers farmers selling produce speculators indians and all the strange phases of border life the PO population is single grocery houses are doing a busin business essof of halt a million dollars per year and nearly all the pioneer merchants and bankers have cluade fortunes the railroad disburses a quarter of a million dollars per mouth times are arc flash and property holders sanguine some enthus enthusiastic las residents expect very soon to see here another chicago omaha abill not be all their fancy 1 N paints ailts her but she has baa a great future and 1 aiu become a metropolitan city two great companies ha nue e been organized after th eFrench mode L the credit bobi lier compo sedof the capitalists who are building the pacific railroad Eail road general genen i dix is president gutof of theroan the road T C durant president of the credit Mo biller ond and vice president and sole contra contractor tor of the road furnishes the energy and most of the brains for this thia atu btu tu national enterprise II 11 tho the credit fanchier Fon chier george francis train president organized alfed for dealing in lands and stocks for b building 03 the cities along the line fi from orn the salt lake aai e this corporation has been clothed by thi the nebraska legislature with nearly en e cry power imaginable save that of reconstructing the late into rebel states it is erecting neat cott cottages ageg in omaha each costing sl 1150 aad renting for 25 per month it has also made heavy purchases purchase of land at columbus and other points west ur tram train owns personally about acres in omaha which cost him only an acre a most 1110 st promising im estment he heisa is 1 noticeable original american who has compressed wonderful and varied experiences into his bis short life an orphan boy employed to sweep the counting room lie he loso to the head of f a great boston shipping bouw then established a branch in lit lh carool next act ml and conducted a heavy comm commission in australia kust raliA and astonished lis his neighbors iu in that er era a of fabulous fabulo its prices with aith hi carpets and marble counters cou and it a it taic cc luncheon daily in ids business busine s office ho bo made a circuit of the world wrote books of travel fought british conservatism and nd prejudices street railways occupying his leisure by fiery and audacious american war speeches to our oar island cousins until he spent ins his fortune and enjoyed the delights of a month in a ariti british h prison then he cretul returned ned to america and lectured every c championing g the benun and indeed the whole irish race it is sud aid the tha atlantic and great western railway company paid him for certain negotiations tiati ons abroad now he be it ih tra tr ing to build a belt of cities across the cont continent luent a ma magnificent anif project whether it succeeds succeed 3 or not nol curiously rious ly combining keen staga sagacity city nith mith wilden wild enthusiasm thusia sm a man II 11 ho might ha c built tho the pyramids or leen been confined in a straight jick et for his eccentricities tte according cording to the a ago he lived in he es that since ho he began to make money moncy people un 1111 longer pronounce n him crazy he says saya chicago ahn eiyo antl and san francisco hai 1 e more emore men of bruus bartins ahin uri other city in the men who ito alio llio what to do in an earth earthquake ial a fire or a shipwreck a definition ibm of brains worthy orthy x of vucu ife he drinka no lio spirits uses no tob tobacco acLO talks talka on the stump like an embodied Ni agam composes songs to order by the hour w is fita as lie can sing them ue like U e an italian satore remembers every evely droll story from joe miller to Arte arcemus inui ward fi L a born actor if intensely in earnest and has the most abbo lute find and outspoken fieth in himself and his future |