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Autobiography of Citizen George Francis Train T Autobiography of Citizen George Francis Train T. 1 n n M t 1 1 a Tita irn k ft I mired, accepted as one of the great organ- I written an autobiography. He izers and financial gcnlusr. I - .. V. J .. i .1 . i IV.. DUJS lit.' Ull UUl Utl 11. 1UI IUL' Il' built the first street railway in Eng- money; he doesn't need money, land and during the civil war made n for he has all that Is required to reputation as an orator ami debater in provide for his simple dally needs, but he England, where he espoused the union wants the world to know first hand his cause. wi ndi rful story. The Credit Mc biller was organized In His preparation for the task was one hiii house at No. I ."' Madimm avenue, of its nust remarkable features. F. V. which Is now owned by his daughter, Mrs. Halsey, who has charge of the book (ulltiger. Hi1 mink it was tin- - original of I). Appleton & Co., conceived trust. His Hellenics in connection with the th Idea of securing the life story of the I'tiion Pacific railway, In which he was the Citizen, and broached the matter to him. prime mover, were chimerical then, but Mr. Train was willing, provided a stenogra- time has proved them. In Omaha, where pher sufficiently sensible and rapid could he owned f..coo lots, now worth $:lM.mni.tnio be got to take his dictation. "When will they were soil fur nonpayment of taxes you be ready to begin?" asked Mr. Halsey. after he had been legally declared a lu- Right now," answered the Citizen. It natic- he built a hole! In sixty days, and was arranged that the next day the stenog- called it (' zzeu's hotel, because, when he was criticised another hot the proprietor rapher snould bo rn hand, and then P-u- ? i, commenced one of the most remarkable of nuked him why lie did not build one of his all the many achievements of this remarka- own. ble man's remarkable career. F. W. Sams In ISTti, when he went around the world was th" stenographer selected to do the In eighty days, he was already known as work. Mr. Train had prepared a biography a radical. He reached Marseilles, ami that of 200 words, and It was decided that this proved that his coming wan awaited. A should be used as a working basis. The committee hailed him as liberator and right In talking at the rate asked him to become head of the Com- Citizen started !rr? ;a f . -- t. - of 250 words a minute, except when he fx&i mune. He was taken directly to the got excited, and then he rattled so fast xf opera house, where ti.U'lO people were wait- that it was impossible to count them. ing for him. He writes: lasted an hour and a "From the moment 1 entered the opera The dictations house, packed people quarter a day, simply because Mr. Sams did with from the stage to the topmost boxes, I was not feel himself equal to taking more. Mr. possessed by the revolutionary ge- was willing to keep on indefinitely. French spirit. The Train nius and enthusiasm of the people had And for the same reason Mr. Sams did not swept me off my feet. I was take dictation every day. To be exact, thenceforth a 'Communist.' a member of "Red Re- Mr. Train dictated an hour and a quarter their public' I felt this as soon as I walked a day on twenty-eigh- t different days, that Into the midst of cheering and say, thirty-fiv- e hours in all. the dicta. their Is lo ecstatic mob was covering a period of a little less than for it really a mob then, Hons the germ of all great national movemcntx six weeks. In France." autobiography of more In dictating this He really became the of move- once head the than 100,000 words Mr. Train did not ment, with General Clusoret as military His memory consult a book of reference. leader. They took possession of the mili- story of life is Is astounding. The his tary fortifications of Marseilles. Ho names of people, bluffed crowded with dates, with a detachment of the Guard Mobile that names of ships, a thousand things that it came any to arrest General Clusoret. Mr. seems utterly impossible that human Train goes on: remember, and yet Mr. Train - V being could 7 X 0 "The next morning I saw from my win- talked them out of his head at the rate of s''tc dow an army marching down the street. I 2TiO not the words a minute. It made thought It event or was our army and went out on slightest difference whether the the balcony began shouting seven months or seventy and 'Vivo la Incident happened Republlque!' nnd la years was perfectly clear In his 'Vive Commune!' with ajjo, it the people In the street. But there was an mind. ominous silence In the of the troops. Much time was devoted by the publishers ranks Then I saw the new prefect, M. Gam-betta'- B verifying Mr. names and dates Gent, to Train's man, riding In a Inge was possible. He tells of a can with tho whenever it troops. Suddenly I M. ho attended in India on heard a shot and certain reception Gent dropped where he met certain peo- to the bottom of the vehicle. a certain date, Someone tried to ple. It was as he said. He points out that kill blm. but missed, and the World in Eighty the prefect did not want to be conspicuous Jules Verne's "Around again. on the Citizen's around-tho-worl- d Days" wa3 founded troops ( tour in 1870, and he adds that "The emtio to a halt directly In front the hotel, I off- the book was published in 1872. There was ot and Haw that tho grave doubt about the correctness of this icers were regarding with anger the (lag of an active young man nearly . the commune which floated from the bal- date. It took cony. days of investigation to find out that Orders were given, and five men, a two firing Mr. Train was right. squad, stepped from the rankB and knelt, rifles In hand, ready to fire. I know describes selling a ticket to Ralph He It was purpose to mo. I Emerson, who, with one exception their shoot don't Waldo know why, but I I I modesty forbids him to name, Mr. felt that If had to die that should die in the inoBt manner considers the greatest man America dramatic Train possible. There wero two flags on ever produced, for passage to England. He other tho balcony the colors of of names the date, the ship and the captain, France and passage from Emerson, de- the United Stales. 1 seized both of these, and he quoted a wrapped scribing the voyage. Mr. Halsey looked up them quickly around my body. and he found in "English Then I stepped forward and knelt In front the matter of the balcony In Traits" that Emerson had recorded the the same military posture as the soldiers below me. I facts just as had Train, and that the only Then shouted quoting the pas- to the officers in French: error Train made was in " sage. He used "but" where it Is "and" CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN DICTATING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Photo Copyright by D. Appleton & Co., 1902. 'Fire, fire, you miserable cowards! Fire story of upon the flags of France and America in the original. And in all that Born Orphaned New Orleans, '33. (Father, mother, and three sisters yellow fever.) Came north alone, four of facts, which the wrapped around the body of an American 100,000 words, a story years old, to grandmother, Waltham, Mass. Supported self since babyhood. Farmer till 14. Grocer-boy- . Cambrldgcport, two years. without consulting a single citizen If you have the courage.' Citizen talked Shipping-cler- k, 16. Manager, 18. Partner Train & Co., 20 (income 110,000). Boston, 22, ($15,000). G. F. T. & Established "An order was given, the soldiers re- work of reference, that Is the only blunder "53. Agent Barings, Duncan & $95,000). Co., Melbourne, Australia, Sherman, White Star Line (income, Started 40 clippers turned to their places In the ranks." that has been discovered. to California, '49. Flying Cloud, Sovereign of the Seas, Staffordshire. Built li. & O. W. R. R connecting Erlo with Ohio The Citizen came In- practically no editing y, home to run as an And there has been and Mississippi, 400 miles. Pioneered first street-railwa- Europe, America, Australia. (England, Birkenhead, Darlington, which every dictated dependent candidate for president of the of the 3tory save that Staffordshire, London, '60.) Built first Pacific Railway (U. P.), '62-6- through first trust, Credit Mobiller. Owns five thou- is truly George United States. When the Victoria Wood-hu- ll manuscript requires. It sand lots, Omaha, worth $30,000,000. (Fifteen Jails, without a crime.) Train-Vill- a Newport, '68. Daughter's 15G own built at house, affair came up he defended and Francis Train's story, told in his Avenue, '60. Organized French Commune, Marseilles, LIgue Midi, her Madison du October, '70, while on return trip around the published extracts from the Bible that words. world in eighty days. Jules Verne, two years later, wrote this up in fiction. Cornered lawyers, doctors, clericals, by quoting begin- landed him In the Tombs.
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