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Title: My life in many states and in foreign lands
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Train, George Francis, 1829-1904
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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XVI A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT 1872 I HAVE passed a great many days in jail. A jailis a good place to meditate and to plan in, if onlyone can be patient in such a place. Mucli of mywork was thought out and wrought out while livingin the fifteen jails of which I have been a tenant.It was in a jail in Dublin, called the Four CourtsMarshalsea, that a feeling of confidence that Imight one day be President of the United Statesfirst came into definite form. It was in this prison,also, that I planned Train Villa, which was to bebuilt in Newport. As my life in that Villa, whichin its day was one of the most famous and luxuri-ous in America, was a sort of prelude to mycampaign for the Presidency, I may fitly say herewhat I have to say about it in this book. I had long wanted a handsome residence by thesea, and so, when I had nearly completed the workdone in connection with the Union Pacific Railway,and there seemed to be ahead of me a period ofcomparative leisure, I projected this house. My 314
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fe o ( A CANDIDATE FOE PRESIDENT plans were made before I was in the Dublin jail.My wife built the Villa, or began work on it, while Iwas still in the Marshalsea. The lot on which itstands embraced some two and a half acres in themost delightful region of Newport. In order thatmy boys might have an opportunity for sport athome, I had a building put up for billiards andbowling. This was, I believe, the first residencein Newport that had a special place of this kind,although of course, many had billiard tables. Afine cottage was also built for my father-in-law.Colonel George T. M. Davis. This cottage wassold recently for $50,000, to the Dolans of Phila-delphia. The Villa itself must have cost $100,000, butthe truth is, I have never known how much moneywas lavished upon its building and adornment. Iwas called rich and had never, at any time, given athought to the mere details of money. What Iwanted I got. In those days that was the sub-stance of my economic system in personal matters.We

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