New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-24
TWO TONS OF FAT on EXHIBITION

The exhibition Of fat men and women was
formally opened at BunnelPs Museum TINS week by a
10 blush. The same platform whereon beauties had
where Zuns had danced In their abbreviated costumes
shook shivered and swnyed under an amount Of plump
sy the nay scales a. 46S1 p1u4as
among ten persons-threc women and seven Inen-and
as those with which the Cincinnati hog dsports himself
on ice. 1t was corner IN Tat that made En. the
and threatened to make the stuffed hog shrive and
dwinde to a pgmy The average amount OF cOfpuience
on which each of these mammoths had lienlf there
could he lien on 80 much fatwas the moderate sum OF
463 pounds There was Minnie Porter, from Camden,
Ind who feet inches III height twenty six years
old and whose frail anatomy tipped the beam at $50
poundsor least IL did last spring she said And she
didn't look as If she had lost any flesh Alongside OF
her sat Amelia HILL OF Brooklyn, thirteen years old.
inches IN heights 3O2 pounds of solid fat hung in
or New Rochelle, the other fat woman She is
seventeen years old and feet inches in height Her
obesity roughly estimated at $50 pounds Her
flesh was abundant that rolled about her like the
pillows Of storm-tossed sea and threatened at
every moment to break of in wbitccaps
Then there was Frank Williams. OF Columbus, Ohio,
whose height feet inch and whose age is young at
eighteen. lie had balloonlike appearance and he was
inflated 10 the extent OF 4S7 pounds Asa starter OF
iaminers he has few, II any, equals. Richard Jamea
was another fat man. He came from Wayne County,
Ohio and is twenty years old. His height Is feet
inches His breadth Is about the same He IL as plump
az dumping and as large as life lie Is bulky to the
exquisite folds hangs Ia fat esoOn about his as heo
sbt and amiy person Although he is only seventeen
years old he has lived long enough to accumulate more
than his share of fat flo Is not only OF the earth
earthly, but of the bulk bulky-very bulky;
403 pounds are all that Nature has endowed him with.
His weight was taken in his stocking feet. William
Meeker OF Green Farms is wrapped up IL 800 pounds OF
solid fat and seems 10 be rather proud or ms DIOad
e1panse OF cOrpulence has been collected IN eighteen
years His friends have every 10 feel encouraged
He will not 20 back his record long as the prOvls-
ions hold out He IL thought 10 he doing WELL and only
needs little Perkins IL another fat
man. He had so much fat that Bunnes agent got lost
IN admiration Of II and forgot 70 ask his first name for
b10 pounds Of untrted fat IN layers cluster around Mr.
Perkins He is as tall when he lies down as when Le
stands up and Is really a bouDcer. Ills size somewhat
impedes his progress and gives TO his gait a
duck ike waddlc that Ia nj dainty aud unique.
Frank Rush tips the hayscales at 1886 pounds. He 10
gifted not only with fat but also with singing and box
ing prOcvites with the latter pTocvity he knock
out almost anything from bicIispid an eye Last,
but not least In this gorgeous pageanry or obesity
Colonel Goshen who appears not only as giant but
also n fat He could not be called daisy, nor
bkened 10 the beautiful Wildefower. His weight.
666 pounds, Is against him. He was clothed In military
garb and wore a moustacbe that waved within an
inch Of Its life. lie is not pretty, but large-very
largely So
large number OF connoisscursi In fat gazed nently
the array OF oleaginous products In the museum
sionally shaking some fat mans fat, Just 10 see
smver" moulding It like dough, Just for the FUN
oft"