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But Train Talked of Nearly
Everything Else.

AN ODD “PRAYER MEETING“

VSome History and Much Profanity
in the So-Called Sermon.

ROW RECALLED.

MURDERERS'

George F. Told stories '0: His Old

Tonlbs Associates—Scunnoll,

Croker and Stokes.

"This is the most important assemblage
that the world has ever seen." said George
Francis Train yesterday morning at the
first of his “Sunday prayer meetings” in
Union Square Hall. There were not more
than thirty people in the hull, but Citizen
Train accounted tor this by saying that

' enemies had given out the wrong time for
the meeting. The Citizen had been adver-
tised to speak on "Hell.” In this respect
the sermon resembled Artemus Vl'ard’s le'c-
ture on “The Babes in the Woods.” He
said little about the place of. eternal unrest,
bu: male irequent reference U‘ SVHAO man
who was a “h—l of a scoundrel." The
sermon consisted in short selections from the
story of his life, with anecdotes and other
matter. The Citizen was attired in his
soldier’s costume, the one familiar to all
the children who congregate in Madison
Square.

"You'll notice," he said in beginning,
“that I call myself the Reverend George
Francis Train. The reason I do it is be-
cause I am so d—d irreverent.” This state-
ment was greeted with roars of laughter.

“When I ran for President against Grant
‘and Greeley I was presented with this
watch. It was given me because I had the
most wonderful nomination that was ever
given a candidate. There were no deadbeads
in the convention that nominated me. I
Went to Tilden and told him that if Greeley
were to retire from the fight I would go in
and win. But Greeley didn’t retire and I

didn’t win. .
“Both Greeley and Grant are dead—died

. victed. How did I know?

 

from disease—and I am here. Why? Be-
cause I am a true reformer. 7
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“Greeley was not. At. one time he was a
red hot abolitionist, and he then turned
around and whimpered for the South. Then
he was a protectionist, and afterward be
came the friend of tho Gobden Club. He
was a vegetarian, and he died of eating cun-
vas back duck. I haven't eaten animal
food for twenty years—and that’s why I am
here.

"Well, I ran for the presidency, and they
put me in the Tombs. I had the cell that
Stephenson has now. On the same row
were Scannell, Croker and Stokes. It was
there I organized the Murderers’ Club. I
was elected president. I am still the presi~
dent. Crokcr is not a member any longer.
When I organized that club I told Croker
and the others that they would not be con-
thy, all I had
to do to save them was to give them some
of my psychic power, and that made them
jury—proof. I was there six months.

“The District Attorney came LO me and
said: ‘Mr. Train, there is no need of you
staying here. We will let you out on
your own recognizance.’ I said to him.
‘Whnt do I want to go out for? I'm going
to live at somebody else‘s expense for once
in my life,’ and so I stayed.

“Then they sent Dr. Hammond to ex‘
amine me. He was paid to say that I was
crazy. He looked at me and said that I
was a ‘harmless lunatic.‘ “'hen I got out,
I wrote to him that since he had given me
a certificate of lunacy I would expect a
jury to acquit me of homicide if I sent a
bullet crashing through his brain. He
didn't, like this. .

“I say ‘dainn' very often, but I don’t
mean to swear. “'hen I was in the South
Sea. Islands 1 said damn once, and immedi-
ately a native went and brought me a
banana. In this language ‘dam’ means
banana, so, when I say it, I am not swear-
innr
“My people were good old time Metho—
dists, and when I was a boy they did noth-
ing but talk hell to me, So I think that I
am but showing what a good ui‘ChOdISt
training I had when I say hell every other
word."

Next Sunday the Citizen will deliver an—
other sermon, and will keep it up until he
has exposed "all the Shams and frauds."

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