City of Smoke » George Francis Train http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= The Man Who Was Phileas Fogg http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/348 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/348#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:36:11 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=348 He went four times around the world and inspired Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. He devised the financing scheme for the transcontinental railroad, lobbied Congress to enact it, and made a fortune from it. And at the end, nearly penniless and living in a Greenwich Village single]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/348/feed 0