Show THE ECCENTRIC GEORGE t t FRANCIS ALL in favor of hanging hang inc jay gould to a lamp post say aye said george francis train recently in chicago during the same speech he be spoke a follows 1 I am going to erect city for the workingmen a building ten stories in height when it is finished I 1 intend to take mayor roche to the top of the elevator shaft abaft over fee thigh and drop him down clown all in favor bafo r of dropping mayor roche eiche say aye A storm of ayes followed mingled with laughter theauthor the author of these eccentric utterances is generally denominated a crank but there is a good deal of method in his madness he will be distinctly remembered by many of the older citizens here because of his stump speeches delivered some years ago in the salt lake theatre during bring his famous tour of the united states as a candidate for the presidency 11 he is a tall finely formed tuan man with a clear bright eye and ringing resonant voice and exceptionally exception aliv attentive to personal cleanliness taking from one to tour four baths a day and manifesting manifest loe excellent taste in the selection of his apparel He is withal one of the most fluent and entertaining spI speakers lakers that ever appeared before the Ilot footlights lights of the salt lake theatre he cladma to be full of and refuses to shake hands bands lest he should lose some of atit it in the year 1868 geo D prentice brew rew the following pen picture of him A locomotive run off of the track turned upside down with the cowcatcher buried in a stump and the wheels makin making a thousand revo revelations lations a minute ante A kite in the air that has lost its tail a human novel without a hero a man who climbs a tree for a birds riest nest out on en a limb and in order to got get it saws off the limb between himself and the tree A ship without a rudder a clock without hands bands an arrow r row s shot hot into the air a sermon that is all text a pantomime of words the apotheosis ot or talk thel incarnation of gab handsome vivacious muscular neat beat as i a cat clean holthe marrow a j judge u dge as to the effect of clothes cloth ps frugal in food and regular only in habits A noonday mystery a solved conundrum a cypher hunting bunting for a figure to pass pas tor for something with the brains of twenty men in nis head all pulling in different directions not bad as aa to heart but a man who has shaken hands with reverence mr train has recently espoused the anarchist cause and says he is about to publish a journal in their interests in chicago entitled the anarchist of which it is a asserted there will be a million copies circulating within a week from the issuance of the first number its backers claim not improbably that there is a fortune in the gratuitous advertising it has 7 already received iu in being forbidden the neww news market in chicago in view of the prominence just now given the actions and utterances of this most remarkable man we the following gleaned from an article in the philadelphia H harald may be of interest the public career of citizen train ashe prefers to call himself extend half a century and is crowded with interesting of them natif tal and international in their importance ue he was born boorn in 1829 in boston whore where his bis fathe rOliver E train was a successful kul merchant of considerable fortune ills his grandfather was rv george Pickering who became famous in the first quarter of this century for emancipating his slaves and declining a methodist bishopric at the age of four years train was taken to new orleans by his father who went to the Crege crescent ent city to engage in business his father mother and three sisters lied died there shortly afterwards of yellow fever and train oft only escaped by being sent to boston by byais I 1 s father just beff before re his bia own death after a long career in academics and colleges he tried clerking two years at port mass but finally went to boston and entered the employ of en ch train co his marked ability soon became obvious and ais his advancement was so rapid that in 1853 he be was sent to london and liverpool as the english engl ish correspondent and manager of the house in 1851 he was married at louisville and made a considerable tour of the country with his bride two years later he be went where he founded a merean mercantile tile house that afterwards ter wards became famous having connections with all the leafing leading merchants of europe and America Americ aind fed as beside the agent of the white star line clipper ships that was then controlled by wilson of liverpool during his residence in australia he was one of the central figures of the revolution and the republicans republic and he was tendered the presidency of the ephemeral government but declined it shortly after that he became famous for his bis letters from Asia Africa Afric a and australia during a second residence dence in europe he completely revolutionized the business methods of the entire world by establishing a prep ald sid passenger business and introducing small bills of exchange then he conceived theider the idea of building street railways railway sin in london and liverpool the scheme with an ardor that was nearly the death of it but he was at last successful another great financial enterprise he maneuvered neu vered was the sale of thel bonds of the atlantic great western railway Eail way and he jumped into the front rank of financiers financier of the world before the war train was frequently on the platform in favor of abolition his trial in 1862 tor for maji manslaughter slaughter which resulted iii his acquittal was followed by bv his agitation of the transcontinental railroad and its advocacy was condne conducted ted with such marked ability that it resulted in the construction of the present lines of the U P and andoe C P rail roads extending from omaha to san sa 1 1 francisco he alad inaugurated th the e celebrated credit mp bUier in 1869 he began his campaign for the residency presidency and during three years following lowing he be delivered hundreds of lectures tur all over the country lie he made made the last speech of his bis campaign in 1872 in wall street to an immense throng of p people ople and when the meeting was on 0 er erne ne roade a public defense of claff n and wood hull who were conspicuous at that time for their advocacy of free love doctrines there was so much in his speech that the police considered reprehensible that they locked him up in the tombs although many off offers ers of bail were made he declined to accept but an immediate trial he even refu refused seil liberty on his own recognizance his peculiar conduct pave gave rise to suspicion that he had lost jost his reason and in the examination that resulted judge noah davis ordered the jury to bring in a verdict of insanity sanity which they did but on appeal may 78 before it was decided that he was sane and next day he started for germany george francis train is a comet sa sailing ili dg 11 eccentrically am among ong the human intellectual stars that oed izzen the space occupied by mortality |