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. He was placed It Is wise always to begin at the of Bible to release Woodhull-Clafii- n from Beecher, '72. Now by three columns lunatic law, through six courts. Now living in la "Murderers' Row," with Richard Crokor, ning, which in this case is the title of the Mills Palace, $3 against $2,000 a week at Train-Vill- a. (Daughter always has room for me in country.) Played Carnegie forty John J. Scannell and Sharkey the Sharkey bock, which will be issued the latter part years ahead. Three generations living oft Credit Mobiller. Author dozen books out of print (vide Who's Who, Alllbone, Is "My Life in who escaped In woman's clothing. of this mouth. It called Appleton's Cyclopaedia.) Four times around the world. First, two years. Second, eighty days, '70. Third, sixty-seve- n and a Lands, His socialistic Ideas began asserting Many States and In Foreign Written half days, '90. Fourth, sixty days, shortest record, '92. Through Psychic Telepathy, am doubling age. Seventy-fourt- h year Seventy-fourt- h themselves more rapidly. He bis In the Mills Hotel, In My young. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, Mills Palace, threw Year, by George Francis Train." money away and behaved most extrava- President Driftwood Club, 1,560 solvent members. gantly. And after the title comes the dedication, Then the courts declared him a which is a particularly fine one, worthy of up the box and marking it to go 'to the Methodist itinerant preacher of Waltham: of the nation and the admiration of the lunatic. a man who has lived up to the sentiment Train vaults,' the family sat and waited 'Send on some one of the family before world. He started forty of these ships to For fourteen years ho never spoke to a in it: for the coming of the 'dead wagon.' The they are all dead. Send George.' And po Ca.:fornia, Including Flying Cloud, the sov. maa or woman, but devoted himself to chll- - "To the children and the children's chil- city sent round carters to pick up the nu- - my father made preparations to send me erelgn of the seas. Of himself he says dren' because he declared that grown pco- - In this and In all lands who love and mcrous dead." back to Massachusetts. I can remember elsewhere: PIe hira of his psychic force. Every dren ,n believe in mo because they know I love and A few days later another pine box was now the exact wording of the card he wroto "I have always wanted to do things a day ne was Madison Square. He can believe in them." brought to the child's home, and then he and pinned on my coat. Just like the label little differently from others, partly be- - ca" 15.000 young people they were chil- - The real autobiography begins with his knew more of the mystery of death. In or tag on a bag of coffee. It read: cause it was more interesting to do them dren when he first met them by name, and grandfather, a naltimore man, who turned this they placed his sister Louise, and " 'This Is my little son, George Francis in a novel manner, but chiefly because I they love hlra to this day. itinerant Methodist preacher, freed his he went to the window and listened for tno Train, 4 years old. Consigned on board have found that a bette.' way could nearly slaves, and who married "my beautiful cry; "Bring out bring out your dead." His the ship Henry to John Clark, jr., Dock always bo found In which to do some Only Death is Sure grandmother, who had a thousand-acr- e last little sister Ellen followed. Mr. Train square, Boston; to be sent to his Grand- - things." farm at Waltham, ten miles from Doston." continues: mother Pickering, at Waltham, ten miles By the time he was 20 he compelled Philadelphia Press: "Dolly," said the Mr. Train was born in Boston on March "Tha next Rt ranee thine to haDDcn to me from Boston. Take good care of the Little his uncle to elve him an Interest in the sick Mr. Hyroller to his little daughter. 24, 1829, and soon after his father removed was tho arrival in the house of a box much Fellow, as he Is the only one left of eleven business that was worth $10,000 a year to "h,,s 11 occurred to you that papa might to New Orleans, where he opened a store. larger than the others. I did not know of us In the house, Including tho servants him. A year afterward it was $15,000. His die and go to heaven?" He says he can remember almost every- what it could be for. The box was very (slaves). I will come on as soon as I can ambition took him to Australia, where he "No," replied the child, "because I asked thing In his life since his fourth year, rough looking. It was made of unplaned arrange my Business.' " established a shipping and commission the doctor that very question." and he draws a charming picture of his life boards. My nurse told me it was for my The child was the only passenger on the house that made $95,000 the first year. "And what did he 6ay?" before the yellow fever scourge, when "the mother. Again I took my stand by the ship, and it was during that voyage that He was then 22. When the miners rose "He said: 'I don't think ho will, fear of the plague had so shaken the hu- window. 'Bring out bring out your dead!' he learned to swear. Of bis life on his In rebellion against the government they although, of course, he will have to die man soul that men stood afar off aghast, resounded mournfully in the street Just be- - grandparents' farm, the dawn of ambition, offered him the presidency of the i'ive Star oino day and did only what they had to do in a low the window where I stood. I looked his years at school, he gives picturesque Republic. coarse, brutal, swift burial of the dead." out, and there was the 'dead wagon. It descriptions. At 15 he was placed in bis There Is so much that ia interesting Scots Wha Hac He continues: had come for my mother Only uncle's shipping firm, where he mounted in his travels. Everywhere he went he "One day they brought into our home a my father and I sat in the carriage that upward with tremendous bounds. He was commanded the attention ot the great peo- Scottish American: McParrltch Mon, coarse pine box. I did not know whit it went to the cemetery and to the vaults some three-quarte- rs of a century ahead of ple. In Paris he was the admiration f It's awfu! McOats yonder's gaen clean was or for what It was meant. Then I that day. There were my mother and my his time. His was almost tho Empress Eugenie and Napoleon. He daft; I saw him wl' ma aln e'en gl'e awa saw them take the body of my little aster three little sisters; all bad been swept from uncanny, his courage Immeasurable, his secured millions from Queen Maria Chris- saxpence tae a beggar mon. Josephine, and put it hastily into a roush me In this St. Pierre-styl- e in this volcano energy boundless. This boy saw the lin- - tina of Spain to build the Atlantic & MacNeal Be gox! lie's no' daft; he's pine box. I was teo young to unders'and of yellow fever. portanee of fast sailing ships, and to him Great Western railway, 400 miles long, followln the evil, enequitous example It all, but I can never forget that scene; "Finally there came one Cay a letter mere than any other one human being were from Erie to the Ohio and the Mississippi. 8pt up by Carnegie, o' Sklbo. What's it starts tears even now. After nailing from my grandmother, the wife of the old due the superb clippers that were the pride Everywhere he was courted, feted, ad- - becomin' o' bonnle Scotlan' at a', at a'?