The New York herald., 1875-09-24
FAT MEN AND CLANS.
GATHERING OF HUMAN WHALES AT PLEASANT
VALLEY.

VALLEY.
Yesterday the steamer Pleasant Valley, whose desti-
nation on her up river trips from Canal and Twenty
fourth streets is sometimes Shady Side and Edgewater
and at other times Pleasant Valley and Fort Lee took
on board at the wharves her way up curious
load of human freight 1t the best festa outdoor
gathering for the year 1875 of the heavy weights or
fat Of this city meaning thereby all those who
have avordupos Of 200 pounds Of bone and fat
On the tickets, which sold 81 apiece admitting
lady and gentleman, the lady necessarily being
woman, to the privileges OF a ehowder and cambake,
printed the suggestive words, Heavy weights"
Ladies' day." Why ''ades day'' no one could say,
the ladies fat festivals have had very little say
in the arran gements. 1t would seem, however from
the rather sparse attendance yesterday that the enhu
sasm Of the fat in their noble has died
great extent and that they longer the ban
with the fierce aggressiveness Of ten years ago.
What is particularly praiseworthy about fat has not
been decidedly ascertaned yet, but be de-
clared that the gallant human whales who yesterday
congregated at Pleasant Valley had the appearance of
having suffered from the effects Of the hard times,
"a SIGHT. !"
There was perceptbe tightening noticed in the cir
cumference Wristbands and a visible elongaton
of the jolly and rubicund visages that
in days of yore glow with rrcpressibe and shiny fat
When the o'clock boat arrived Pleasant Valley
strains of music were heard from the large dancing
pavilion Of Taylors Hotel, and Wallace the leader of
the band. who Is not by any fat man. was
busy engaged III conducting quadre over the side Of
the pavilion railing passed awiully fat in black
! clothes and whose head, larger than pumpkin was
sufmOunted by st0yepipe black SILK hat This man
Of enormous bulk, and when he opened his mouth
10 breathe the suction IN returning achieved huge cav
ties in his face, somewhat similar TO the OF
drum fish to recover its breathing when you poke
with wakingstick after it has been caught and
tossed on ships deck.
How much does that man weigh 20 asked the re-
porter Of an under sized fat man, who was evidently
jealous of the very fat
''Whoy That tat there, do you mean Oh, he
weighs three hundred and a wafer. -
''And how much Is wafer ii you please"
sob, about sIXty-lyc pounds guess you could get
four barrels Of oil out Of him II you only threw har-
poon at his back But, Lord he amt fat I've seen a
could swallow hm without mustard any day. He's
nothing TO Busch Did you ever see Buschg No lie
pans out better than any OF them. He lift
barrel OF hour in his teeth and eat thousand clans in
one day And then be can dance varsoyienne as light
a gazelc
FAT ouADRILLE.
The very fat man who described a whale
10 approach lady of rather hight frame and offer
his flukc her for Lancers. Then the cavorted
around or rather the narwhal aoundered and wab-
bled through the dance and his outline large
that all the other dancers in the set quite Opaque
to the eyes. As the lat Of fat men placed his lady
in the centre Of the figure he seemed quite exhausted
and when Wallace cried out, Ladies' changel"
he looked if he about to explode
and scatter his fragments the floor.
But the great test came when the figure
changed Hands all rOund-right and left y As the
lat circulated he seemed to and initiate and
swell to the sze OF a balloon, and his partner looked
alongside Of him like fishing smack in the wake Of a
linc-ofbattlc ship. His exertons terrible, and
his breathing was like the hcaving OF a steam engine
in the hold Of steamer. An rrcverent young
man who was looking on IN Venice cred out the lat
man swung TO after the dance had been concluded
'There she blows! Man the boats and bear awayn
GIGANTIC CIiOwDER
Shortly after the boat arrived an immense chowder
proposed in which clans, the principal ingre.
dent, quite manifest by their 0dor 1t
Stood that there were twenyour dances 20 be danced
according 70 the programme printed and distributed
ana that when these twenty lour dances had been con
qucred the programme would be repeated until every
had been fully satisfied And IS a consequence the
fat men did not bear very heavily on the chowder
A vast grave had been dug the piece Of ground at
tached TO the hotel and II was hed with fiat stones and
FIRE Of great logs had been built top Of at early
hour OF the day aud by four O'Clock all these stones
red hot and roast all The ia the asso
citation, In the meantime quadrile cheat, a dance
doubt familiar TO all terpslchorean readers be-
inc performed up stairs Ii was found np0ssibe how
ever, for any fat TO "cheatn his partner as he
could not get around her IN time. Mr.. Samuel
McGrath, the aoor manager Of the association,
doing yeo21au's work IN getting up SETS but useful
found TO be languid and incapable Of effort,
for the chOwdcr had done IT'S hendsh work and there
they sat. like jelly hsh inert and medtative. Never
HAa heroc elor SO omcult OF attempt or success The
President, John Gault who s quite a handsome man.
ana me treasurer D. N. Fiield, who IS grave and
ushh'l Win "brOiher' Piper-the rat men describe
Z and address each other Brother all the
guests welcome, and the large number pretty girls
! VINO were present watched, with laughing faces, the
struggles o thc Holsters they steamed and baked
the big ire The cambake singularly arranged and
Is sald 10 have had features 70 any canbake hdb-
aieS One hundred and twenty galvanized wire crates,
one foot square aud about eight inches IN depth were
in readiness 10 hold the contents Of the big bake In
each OF these crates which TO serve for two per
sons placed $50 Little Neck CLANS one dozen of
oysters three ears Of corn, four potatoes half
chicken, young bluehsh and one whole lobster
Two other large contained bushelo Of onions but
il noticeable that the young ladies refused 10 touch
tho onions they were determined TO dance only
round dances The crates were placed sQuarcly along
side OF each other until there them on
the ire and then white bed sheets carefully placed
them 10 keep the contents Of each Of The
clean, after which Ave barrels Of wet seaweed
were packed around the Sides TO keep the heat aud
steam in, after which, huge sail cloth, which had
been thoroughly saturated with water was placed over
all and then scawced heaped on top Of all Then
the bake progressed aud finished IN hy minutes.
When the bake served az table in the wire crates
there grand rush. and great execution was done
by the fat men. The fat man who looked like whale
ate 800 CLAIMS and drank three bottles Of champagne
and aerward walked the boat, about oneeighth of
mile distant, without any assistance The dancing
was kept up until ten O'Clock last evening, and then
The guests full Of clans and champagne, TO New
York And thus ended the fat mems last and closing
I clamDakc.