The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-23
THIRTY-FlvE FAT MEN.
Several Grease spots mt tho American Insii-
tute Fair.

Several Grease Spots at tho American Insii-
tute Fair.
Last night thirty five OF the members OF the Fat
Mems Association were added TO the curiositles in
nature and art with which the American Institute
FAR Is SO plentfully supplied. The fair was more
han usually crowded. and In the midst OF the thou
sand men present fat man was indeed exception.
Humanity or that section OF 1t that trod the floors or
the Fair, was for the most part Liliputians as com
pared with John A. p. Fisk. the President OF the
club. This gentleman, with all his ponderosity, was
here there and everywhere, bland and bluff, his
countenance radiant with smiles and good living,
and certainly not sicklied oer with the pale cast OF
thought The 'fat men" evidently knew they were
view; they promenaded with the stately
tread OF the giant who comes from behind
the crimson curtain In the showman's caravan,
ma who is exhibited 10 an admiring and awestruck
audience at the low charge OF five cents When
they marched up In single file to the Sampson scale
boring eyes. and specially attractive to feminine
eyes, The President weighed $685. pounds several
other members r about 2S7 pounds and the average
posure which distinguishes fat men, and
carry while they walked the earth sat lightly on
their minds, whatever II might do on their bones.
Inc iat men dia not Iayor any particular depart
Tney had been heard ofand they been seen In the
relreshment department.; they seemed to avoid emil
himself by placing his nand lowe. than the region OF
his heart before he mounted OF the stars from
the central moor. "Lean and shrunken humanity"
seemed to have the best OF 1t In agility and vivacity
There was one significant fact-the fat men
seemed to have enough TO do to take care of them
selves, while leaner men had enough to do to take
care OF the fairer portion Of creation, who in the
brilliant costumes OF the present fall season looked
to man AZ protectors and guides in this naJonal
own sweet will, their tread sometimes heavy
and their presence majestic ana Falstalian.
having no encumbrance except the solid
flesh OF their own capacious bodies. They repre-
sented human life in It's very material form, and
upon the whole, humanity may congratulate itself
that there are no giants IN those days and that 1t
does not run to fat.
Turning from the materialism of the body to the
wonders OF the wonders of the mind, we must call
sor Barnard delivered very interesting address last
night at the fair-at which, By the bye we
did not see fat man present-on the progress made
IN art and science during the last thirtynine years.
The Professor referred to photography as an art
which was unknown in 1S39-40, and showed how
wondrousy II had changed many OF the depart
ments OF labor and what an aid 1t had been to the
teria progress Of the human race to the centrifugal
pump for the elevating OF water, which had been
sells. The printing press also had undergone won
drous changes, and also the textile Industries Of
the land. He showed that without these discoveries
humanity could not have attained the progress in
material and mental power which 1t now possessed
He believed that we were yet in the infancy Of dis
cOvery, and that probably thirty years hence future
generations VIII smile at that Of which we are now
80 proud.
A vote Of thanks, carried by reclamation was