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Show ' "Citizen" Train Is Dead. George Francis Train, whose death is chronicled in Tuesday's dispatches, was one of the most picturesque pic-turesque and striking characters of the. country. It is customary to speak of Train as a, crank, but he was more than that. He-was a man in whoso brain a multitude of ideas of great magnitude ran riot. , What he proposed twenty and thirty years ago and i hereby caused himself to be ridiculed in reality was no' more remarkable than the promoters, of the present day have proposed and accomplished. Train was among the first of the modern promoters of j great enterprises, but he lacked the intellectual hal- j a nee to carry through all his schemes. Yerkes. tho Chicago surface railway man, is j doing in-London now what Train attempted several decades ago in the way of reforming the city's methods of transportation. Train was successful in j lhe same effort in Dublin, where lesser capital was required, but he failed in London. The methods j and means used by Train to boom Omaha in the j early days of the Pacific rajlway were astonishing in j lhat day and generation, but they are common to- day. His rinaucial projects seemed fantastic in the ; age of the Credit Mobiler, but they have been j matched by some of the .schemes hatched in recent .' months in the financial centers. Tu point of per- j sonal eccentricity, however. Train never had an. eqiifd outside of the insane asylums. j That the man accomplished something for the j betterment of the world must be generally admitted, j An arrant egotisf, a dreamer of strange dreams and j mighty projects, in private life he avhs simple and j kindly, and his love for little children, so often ex- j eiuplified as he sat among the little ones on his fa- t vorite bench in Madison Square, brought him in kindlv touch with all humanity. He made money j , for himself out of some of his projects, and lost it. i He made money for others, and they kept it. He t erected great improvements that. have been of benefit bene-fit to mankind. On the whole he has not lived in vain. Of all the men great in the public eye so much cannot be said. Butte Intcrmountain. |