The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-13
A Genuine Giant.

that Europe had giant that the Tritons
themselves might envy. If an American,
Australian or Canadian giant was pro-
duced, some SOOTHING foreigner was al
ways ready with Call him a giant
Chang can swing his arm over this fell
lows head and not touch him."
When the city of Berlin reached her
wharf in New York the cabmen fell back
in dismay at the apparation which loom
ed up and picked his way carefully down
the gang plank. This was Chang. He
walked up to o coach with majestic tread
and resting his hand lightly on the seat
which was above an ordinary mans head
looked down upon the driver and, smiling
said in perfect English:
Can you drive my secretary and my
self 10 the Spanish hotel Mt No % Great
Jones street,"
"Can you get into the carriage?" SIAM
mered the hackman.
"Oh, yes, easily" and the giant crouch
ed down until his knees nearly reached
the ground, and half-slid, half-crammed
himself into the vehicle,
A SIN reporter called at the Spanish
hotel in the afternoon and saw sitting on
an improvised seat of two chairs, with
which seemed to fill the whole room.
Chang is unquestiopably the largest man
in the world. He is gigantic. AS he sat
there smiling and holding, his thorough
" Chinese face looked fully as broad
as an ordinary mans shoulders, and as
long. if not longer than flour barrel.
His cheek bones bulge out, and are as
large as a full-sized orange. He is thirty
ala il. t1,a IF v-aaIthx
silk and tea merchant IN Pekin, where he
and writes English, German, French,
Italian and Spanish, and is thoroughly
courteous and gentlemanly. With Chang
is his Secretary" bustling busy earn
est little Frenchman named Neaud, who
looks upon the giant with admiration
and delight.
"What kind of trip did you make !?
asked the reporter.
Extremely rough. The majority of
the passengers were quite ill
little bit sick. ooh! no, no, no, no, in
terrupted the little secretary. 1--WE had
to have two state-rooms made into one,
and berth eleven feet long, built ex-
pressly for him. He wasn't sea-sick n
bit. He sang Chinese song for the pas
sengers in concert on the steamer last
Monday with immense success. Oh, he
is great fellow"
"What is your exact height, Chang?
Il have never been measured, mon
sieur.'
With our people it is superstition.
which takes the form ola religious creed,
that no man must be measured until
4 <1,,, oil
myself to be measured. In fact, if l
were measured l would die at once, l
fear. 1 am, however, somewhere in the
neighborhood of nine feet. l will stand
up and YOU can stand beside me and
Judge for yourself"
Chang rose, and rising, it seemed as
though he would never stop. The Sam
reporter stands six feet and three inches
in height. He, at Changes suggestion,
put on high silk hat and walked under
the giants outstretched arm, near the
shoulder without coming within two
inches of his sleeve. Then, fixing the
height of his head about hall way be-
tween the giants waist and neck, the
reporter checked off three feet at a guess
and found that the crown of the China
mans head was surely nine feet from the
IlOOT. Ills IunttS ui-ti lSSt SiC eOhiP"A"
lively small and very we'll formed. He
has exhibited before all the crowned
heads of Europe and Australia, and has
been the pet of several sovereigns. He
wears solitaire diamond ring given him
by the Emperor of Russia, which is val
ued at 81, 400. Attached to his chain is
a gold medal given him by the Berlin
exhibition, which asserts that he is the
largest man of recent times. He also
has half dozen immense diamond rings
given him by rajahs in India, mayors in
Australia, and potentates from all quar-
ters of the globe. While talking to the
reporter he suddenly dived into his vest
pocket, which was large enough to hold
an ordinary mans head, and brought
forth ring with the official seal and
monogram of Francis Joseph inscribed
to "Chang" He also had watch given
him by Queen Victoria, which weighs
two pounds and half and has chain
nine feet long which barely reaches
around his neck and down to his vest
pocket
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