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to the time needed to obtain passports. Train told the agent that he must hold the boat. Leopold said it was impossible. Train however overrode his demurrers, and Leopold telegraphed orders to hold the ship.

No traveller was permitted to leave the empire without passports. Train was told that he must see the American minister, Mr. Swift, at Tokio, thirty miles away, and that at least three days would be required to get the papers. "Three days to sign a paper!" exclaimed Train. "It is time that I reduced the limit to three minutes!" Away to Tokio he hastened where he found the minister, who saw the emperor, and when the afternoon train for Kobe left Yokohoma, Train and Wall with their passports were aboard. Japanese red tape never was unrolled so quickly as on that Good Friday when the Train typhoon struck the coast. Next day the travelers boarded the German steamship. Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo, Aden, Port Said were passed and Brindisi, Italy, reached. From Brindisi through Paris to Calais, by rail, across the channel to Dover and by rail through London to Holyhead, across the Irish Sea to Dublin and down to Queenstown and the Atlantic, went Train and Wall pell mell, gathering interesting baggage as they went, including a rare collection of hats. Close connection was made with the steamship Etruria and six days later, the travelers reached American soil at New York.

The first thing Train said to the newspaper men who went out in a tugboat to capture the traveler and bring him ashore, was to ask about the special train he supposed would be awaiting him. Here he met disappointment. He had gone around the world on a hop, skip and jump; he had held up steamships already on their way, had chartered boats, had made flying leaps from "rickshaws" to sampans, from tugboats to the decks of ocean liners and here he was at New York with no special train awaiting to carry him to Tacoma.

Radebaugh had broken his leg and was confined to his home at Wapato Lake and Train was left to make the best of it.

It was expected, of course, that Train would return West on the Northern Pacific Railroad which came to its western terminus, Tacoma, direct, and when it was announced that he was to travel on the Union Pacific there was wonderment all over the country. The matter remained a mystery until some time later when Paul Schulze, the Northern Pacific land agent in Tacoma, was accused of being false to the city. February 20th Radebaugh had wired to President Oakes, in New York, explaining what he and Train were going to do and asking that the Northern Pacific furnish a special train from St. Paul to Tacoma for the home stretch. Oakes was ill. Schulze was at his bedside at the moment the message was delivered and, Radebaugh alleged, dictated and signed the reply which read: "I have furnished Train transportation. That is all we can do." Later Radebaugh received a telegram from Schulze saying he had no objection to Train's making the trip across the continent on the Canadian Pacific.

Tacoma and Portland officers of the railroad had urged the officers in the East that the special could be made a paying enterprise not only as an advertisement, but as a carrier, as many persons would be desirous of accompanying Train from St. Paul. But Schulze blocked the plan. The truth is that he aimed to hit Radebaugh and his newspaper as hard a blow as he could and it did not matter at the moment if Tacoma also suffered.

For thirty-six hours Train and Wall waited while New York publishers printed

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a carload of newspapers containing a full account of the trip. The car was attached to a train carrying a party of newspaper reporters, railroad men and 'the two world girdlers, and the run across the United States was under way. At Hood River, Ore., a bridge had burned and the party left the train, crossed the charred frame work and boarded a freight caboose for Portland.

There was no special train there, as had been expected, and Citizen Train went into the ticket office, threw his overcoat down on a seat and went to sleep. That was indeed almost the last straw. Train had feared it and had sent a telegram to Tacoma saying: "Provide a special train in Portland. Don't let me lie five hours in a town that has been calling me names for twenty years." Five hours later he started for Tacoma. At Centralia a crowd of Tacomans met him but he was disappointed and retired to his seat without heeding the cheers. In the hour required to reach Tacoma balm was applied to his hurt feelings, but Train continued to ask, "What does it mean?" At Huntington, Ore., he had lost his pocket book, ticket and money, a loss he did not discover until he tried to pay for a banquet given to the newspaper men of the party. This was the climax to many irritations. In Tacoma the train was greeted with the firing of cannon and parades, bands and cheering multitudes. Many invitations to dine were pressed upon him, but Train replied:

"I'll eat nothing until I see Radebaugh. Where would we be if he had had two legs broken?"

Secretary Snowden accompanied the traveler to Wapato Lake. With just what ointment Radebaugh salved the troubled soul of the Citizen is not known, but the next morning Train announced he would have breakfast.

After comparing all the guesses submitted as to the time required by Train to make his trip, the time keepers, Isaac W. Anderson, W. J. Fife and C. A. Snowden decided that F. S. Learned, of Bois fort, Lewis County, was entitled to the free ticket for a trip around the world. Learned's guess was 67 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes. The time made by Train was 67 days, 12 hours, 59 minutes and 55 seconds. Nicoli Brunn, of Chicago, guessed 67 days, 9 hours and 331⁄2 seconds. The 'round-the-world ticket had a value of $661.

When the celebrating had concluded, Train took a little cottage in the south end of the city, named it the "Train Villa on the Fir-Tree Hill," and spreading the mementoes of the trip on the inside and the banners from the railway trains on the outside, settled down to entertain the children of the neighborhood. Soon the school was dismissed for the summer holidays, the children found other attractions and the lonely inmate of the villa grew morose. He had expected to be lionized. Tacoma, while appreciating the fact that he had placed her name in the mouths of millions, by his 67-day trip around the world-which was made in actual traveling time of 59 days, 7 hours,—was so busy building a city that it could not continue to worship at his shrine.

One dark, rainy night in November he started for the East. Sam W. Wall accompanied him to the railway station. In writing of this last talk, Wall said:

"The engine whistled for the next station below. 'Can it be,' he said, meditatively, 'that after all, my life is in the past? To think of the plans I had, all round the world! I cannot understand what it means, unless it be that I have accomplished all there is for me to do. I should have listened to the call of the

children from Cherry Hill. There seems to be nothing left, for me, but to return to silence.'"

Sam W. Wall wrote an interesting book describing the 22,040-mile journey. His analysis showed that Train's average speed the hour, while traveling, was fourteen miles. The average by land was thirty-three miles and by water eleven miles. Wall formed a great admiration for his "chief," as he called him, and his book was written in a spirit of much kindliness to the "Solitaire."

CHAPTER XL

THE SPECULATIVE ERA, '82 TO '92-THEN THE CRASH-RISE OF COXEY'S ARMYTACOMA CONTINGENT DEPARTS UNDER LEADERSHIP OF "GENERAL JUMBO" CANTWELL, A FORMER MORGAN BOUNCER-SEATTLE ARMY OF 400 JOINS TACOMA IN PUYALLUP-GOVERNOR MCGRAW CALLED UPON-MEN TRY TO LEASE GREAT NORTHERN TRAIN-FEDERAL RECEIVERS IN CHARGE OF NORTHERN PACIFICARMY SCATTERED ALL THE WAY FROM PUYALLUP TO PASCO-BLOODSHED IN YAKIMA TROOPS ARE CALLED BY JUDGE HAN FORD-TROUBLE IN COAL MINESARMED NEGROES SHIPPED TO WASHINGTON TO BREAK STRIKE-WOMAN, DRIVEN INSANE BY LABOR WAR, TRIES TO DEVOUR HER CHILDREN-MINING TOWNS BECOME SLEEPING VOLCANOES-PREACHER LEAVES PULPIT ΤΟ ENGAGE IN REVOLVER WARFARE-STRIKE FINALLY BROKEN, BUT AT IMMENSE COST-STRIKE RESULTS IN MUCH-IMPROVED NATIONAL GUARD.

During the years 1888 to 1892 Washington rode the crest of a high wave of spurious prosperity. Railroads were built, cities grew in population and commercial importance, farming developed and lumbering began to work back from the shore line of the Sound. A part of this new growth was substantial. A far larger part, however, was purely speculative. Prices, especially of real estate, were lifted to ridiculous levels. These speculative real estate values were capitalized and land owners were heavily in debt. They expected to "cash in" at a good profit through a fortunate sale to some buyer willing to take a greater chance. And then came the inevitable break and Washington slipped backward until, as Congressman Cushman said: "Stomachs rose and fell with the tide, and when the tide was out the table was set."

Every community had its "failures." Supposedly strong concerns ran up the white flag. Gold, following its habit in times of trouble, went into hiding and shingle-mill orders on the grocery store became a circulating medium in a country that never had felt friendly towards the greenbacks. A man was fortunate if his labor brought him the bare necessaries of life. Idle men walked the streets and slept in the "jungles." They discussed the causes back of the effect. They became inflamed and dangerous to property interests.

From the East came news of a great army which Coxey, of Massillon, Ohio, proposed to march to the City of Washington and there demand of Congress and President Cleveland that they adopt legislation such as Coxey and his followers believed would cure the national ills. Coxey's appeals caused movements of some kind in almost every city in the Union. In Washington State the response was immediate.

With the battle cry of "On to Washington!" the "industrial army," with Frank, known as "General Jumbo," Cantwell, at its head, marched out of

Tacoma on the afternoon of April 29, 1894, bound for Puyallup, where it went into camp in a vacant building. For weeks the army had been organizing. Meetings were held in the old National Theater built by Pincus several years before on A Street. The departure was a source of great relief to Chief of Police D. O. Smith.

"Jumbo" had developed quickly into the leader of the Tacoma contingent. By his side at the head of the column marched two lieutenants and his big St. Bernard dog. Next in line came the bearers of a great, handsome flag which the Grand Army of the Republic had presented to the army. Some 600 persons were in the marching column, 300 of whom were soldiers pledged to go to Washington, while the remainder were those who sympathized with the movement and had agreed to remain and assist in caring for the wives and children left in Tacoma.

Cantwell and "San Jose Bill" had been "bouncers" in the notorious Morgan resort at Tacoma. He had had fights with policemen time and again, and was regarded as a dangerous man in a fight by almost everybody in town except "Eagle Eye" Flannigan, Northwestern champion weight thrower. Flannigan found his superbest pleasure in arresting "Jumbo" on every possible excuse, and if it meant a rough and tumble fight the greater his joy. Cantwell in after years became a member of the City Council of Chicago. He died a few months ago. He was once arrested and charged with having picked the pockets of a small man. "Jumbo" went into court, held up his hand and asked if it was possible for such a fist to enter a pocket so small. The case was dismissed. His hands

were enormous.

"Jumbo," wearing a bright new uniform, doffed his widebrimmed hat, and, with an engaging smile, took up a collection from the spectators who had gathered to witness the departure. Several wagons loaded with commissary stores preceded the army to Puyallup and it was said some $2,000 in cash was in the treasury of the organization.

At Puyallup the Tacoma brigade was joined by that from Seattle, consisting of almost 700 soldiers, with General Shepard in command. Here the Federal Government became interested in the army, which it was thought would make an attempt to seize the Northern Pacific Railway. Deputies under direction of United States Marshal James C. Drake went into camp as guards of railroad property. General "Jumbo" offered G. W. Dickinson, of the Northern Pacific Company $1,000 for a train of twenty cars to St. Paul, members of the army to man it without cost. The offer was declined.

Camping at Puyallup and doing nothing soon began to tell on the soldiers and "Jumbo" and other speakers found their hands full in trying to keep them in line. None of the men was armed and their orders were not to drink nor steal. But the presence of so many idle men became irritating to the people of the valley and they petitioned Governor McGraw to come and try to work out a solution.

McGraw went to Puyallup May 2nd and a meeting was held, 3,000 attending. It was a wild meeting, almost without semblance of order, each speaker talking in a go-as-you-please manner, with frequent interruptions. The governor told the men he could not force the railroad to carry them, that conditions East were

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