| Show lIt tt rIS rt mm Pueblo Chieftain One of the most mo t peculiar men this country has ever known was vas George Francis Train who ho was waR a n conspicuous Illustration of ot the saying BayloR Great wit witto witto witto to madness malInes Is he must most near allied Ho JIo tine ono of ot the tho great grent f cranks of ot the past century but hIs lili Insanity was 18 that of or a Portland OregonIan The death of oC George Francis l Train calls attention more mOle and for tor tho the thelast last Iut time t to thu the harmless eccentricities ties of or this most eccentric man For lor orl a number of oC the tho years allot allotted allotted ted to him Citizen Train wits ns before the public with his views upon mat matters tars of oC public policy and private right Little that he said Mid will wiil hive Io after aCter him little that ho did will be bo remembered Yet let ho he was wan nn an energetic man und and whatever his hands found to do ho did with his might That his effort was Ins largely misdirected was his hi misfortune ml rather ra ther than his hlA fault tault anti even een tho the most mall extravagant vagaries that mark marked markell cd ell Ids his conduct nod and give Index to his hits character tr are aro remembered In charity A world full Lull of ot such beings as ns was tens Citizen Train would bo be a 11 sort lort of mall mad house peopled by b tics but bul one such luch man In a n world worM makes male little difference one ono way wa or an nn another another other George Funnels Train who into died n i ithe nt the tho Mills hotel In iii Now aw York last nIght nigh did many things which tho the world wl will call brilliant lie He did dill many lORn tiling thing which tho rho world will wall call foolish Coolish Th 7 line lino between wisdom std folly foly Is m no nol always alIl I so sharply drawn nn as to be play rial even to men and women of oC keen dh die comment Tho The career of ot Georg Francis Train was In truth meteorIc He lie lI organized great enterprises an mule made liberal fortunes In to brief period of oC tune time Ills His money went Int us It Il cans He II formerly maintained nn In establish h inert ment at nt n a l cost cost of or 2000 n It week H if He died In n a II hotel where hU his living toi cos him JI n 1 n a week celt His Ills last 1181 years earH oer paused passed a d wholly with the tho children who gathered dally In Madison Ho Ito Knew 1 of ot them by hy name immo nn an anthey they tho nit nil know humour achieved loved 1011 him Fan can Francisco l Chronicle Tho Tito I Isson uon of oC his life Is 15 that no nine however able ablo can afford to greatly dif dlf for far from the Iho generation In which h it he helIe lives lIe Ho lie vas nn an extremist In him nl al oil things and lInd destitute of ot the tho which We wo call Judgment Fully tug InK tho lie brightness H of oC hits his own mind 1 his egotism passed panned the ho point where I Iwas II Iwas was Will offensive and became amusing Active III us its ho was vas In ht the rho RUff HUR and promotion of ot great grent enter enterprises It urns not at nl nil nit In that con that ho was wai known to thin the pub puh He lie It i Was IRa rather an nil tho brilliant op Tenant of at nearly nil anti cal enl Ideas which were approved by b hi hl his generation He lie was the tho apostle of ot this tho he ho retained his hili and ha Ito retained It far tar longer lon or thru thin mo mae t 1 l lived hived In III n a whirl of Ox Ix of ot his hili own creating Ho lie wa wit known knowlI In hi nit nil continents anti and ho 10 was men ton were rI talking about him lint Rut nut ho hue did nothing that lint stuck Muck in 11 men minds New OW York Mall and l Mr lr Train Iraln claimed that he ho had or tho the commune In III Marseille Marseilles and ami for or 3 years yearn had used na ns a n tRio limo tho name of or Citizen For Var sota soni years his hla eccentricity took the tho form forum o of refusing to t to adults nail and In i II while lillo duck suit stilt III II bareheaded with i 1 r largo large the Citizen WitS was n a fa Cn sight night In lit the Ille parks of or title thin city 11 holding a n 1 pad of or paper on which hi ho wron answers to 10 questions to him hlO by tOy tiny l person ereon who chono cho o to cl cis ria so eo He Ile WAil tinn fond of ot of ot animals and youngsters nn not squirrels marked his slow sinus eto through the Parks He lie life lito f fio io sit that one nuts cannot regret that hat he to lo lie 1 If lw years of nf ago age but I It Bail ind b been n tar far ar better for tor his bin hi tunic fame hai haiie h loo ie died live years Inn ngn With him goes n a picturesque character of tt th city of cf picturesque career t roer more inane useful to the public however that that of o many n It fil el 1 man maim Oklahoma Georga Francis J Train narrowly en ca a being n great grant man He lie within him th the ot of greatness but nit ids his character was os too loo to uneven Many Man a n non man of ot far tor t r less leM ability wit II gain aln grouter ante and nOli will n h bA knows knowin In n the wh when 11 n the tho name of or Francis Train shall filial have havo been beon forgot forgotten forgotten ten |
