The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-05-07
A REMARKABLE COUPLE.
Two Two People Interviewed &C
the Lindell.

Two Two People Interviewed Q
! the Lindell.
St LOUIS Republican.
. Passenger on the Chicago and Altos
. trsin, which arrived in st. Louis yesterday
I morning at ten O'Clock, we're much eur.
. prissd tn see genuine giant and gianies>
aliight from the cars when the train ~
rived at the Union depot The giant and
| hi- wife we're none other than Capt. and
!, Mrs. NJ. V. Bates, the two tali~st people
known TO the civilized world.
). The boys and men around the depo,
gathered in crowd about the tall couple
and gszed upon them with a bewiliered cx-
preston, while some Of the small bows
wanted To know il the lady vas not walk
ing On stilts-in fact they we're pretty GER
tain that such vac the Case. Some half
dozen or more hackmen rushed up to the
scene, but suddenly came to a siandstill
when they saw the heads Of Capt. and Mrs.
Bates towering among the surrounding
people. Considerable trouble vas expert
enc~d in getting . conveyance for tie
couple, but finally one more hold than his
brothers was induced to take them to the
l.indell in consideration Of double fare for
the trip.
At the Linde'l. where Mr.. and Mrs..
Bates are now stopping, special arrange
ments had been made for their reception.
One Of the largest rooms in the hotel was
fitted mp with a bed made especially for the
tall people, and furniture to correspond in
every particular. The bed, some ten feet
long, table and chairs much higher than
ordinary morta!s Use, while the largest
wa~l, bowl in the city was also procured
for the occasion.
A Republican reporter was dispatched to
the Lindell yesterday afternoon for the pur-
pose Of interviewing the giant and his wife,
and in company with two gentlemen, called
upon Mr.. and Mrs Bates, in parlor Il. They
we're not in the parlor when the visitors
were announced, but after short delay the
pair appeared. II was expected that some
large people would he seen, but when Capt.
and Mrs. Bates entered the :OOm there was
a bewildering silence Of few seconds dur.
mouihed wonder. At first \ very curious
sensation Was felt As though one were, by
some magical influence. growing smaller
and then there appeared to he magnifying
glass bet ween the visitors and Mr.. and Mrs. !
Bates. But this was quickly di-pellei by |
the genial giant, who, grasping the RICH;
hands Of two Of the callers in one Of his /
mighty hands, and saying something about
the rather chilly weather. Mrs. Bates, too. |
chatting and laughing at the /
surprise 81 the little pigmies who had called
to see her, AMI appeared very ladylike and
graceful, notwithstanding her immense size.
These ,~o people 6rst met at Newark, \. j.,
10th being in the same profession ut that /
lime, and after courishiP Of four or five
years they were married at st. Martins
church, London, ON the 18th day Of June.
ISL, while exhibiting in that city. Both
have parents Of the ordinary size, and
neither can give any special reason Why
hey should have grown - tall. Mr. Bates
is native oil Kentucky and the younges, Of
Twelve children. all Of the ordinary size.
Mrs. Bates was born IN Nova Scotia, and IL
he fourth child Of family Of thirteen. At
liz year. I'd age she was six feet four inches
all, but did not attain her height-eighi
eet-until she was nearly twenty one years
I'D. The captain, unlike most giants. is
sell Prorortioned. firmly knit, with no sv-
perf1uous flesh upon him-alihOugh he
Seighs AS pounds with an open, in
ellIgent coanienance. lie saws thst when
ne visited the Tower Of London h- tried On
lac suit of armour worn by the famous o..
rho Is claimed Ia have been eight feet four,
md found he couldn't stand up straight in
{, tie hemlet and the foot pieces only
wing too large for him. He also had his
u-picions about the real dimensions of
Murphy, tne Irish giant, after measuring
himself against the skeleton in the British
museum, and the srmor OF Guy Of War
sick, who was said to be nine fee, three
inches, was found TO be several inches short
4 the measure of our Kentucky champion.
Neither Murphy nor Guy are on hand 10
onies; these points, and it may be as we'll
lot TO raise a controversy.
The combined height of these two people
acks Just an inch Of being sixteen feet, and
eyond doubt they are the talle-t people
rAvellins. They intend to retire from
'ublic life in a short time.