Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-03
REDUCING HIS WEIGHT.
he Wants to Be Able to Run Any
Race for Which He Is Entered.
how NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR LIVES
He Has Quit Smoking Strong Cigars and
Now Weighs % Pounds
LESS THAN WHEN HE WAS ELECTED

ALBANY, n. Y, May 2-Governor
Flower is rapidly becoming an accom-
plished boxer. He has trained down %
pounds-from 24O to 21s-and people who
knew him as he was during the campaign
and when he came TO Albany, are all
wondering over the change A man comes
around every evening TO the Executive
Mansion after dinner and boxes with the
Governor for an hour and rubs him down
afterward. Besides that, the Governor has
other gymnastlc exercises, which have
hardened his muscles and made him walk
around straight, with his shoulders square
and his head up in the air, and his lungs
filled with fine air, which is an Albany
speciality.
Since Governor Flowers recent attack of
bilious indigestion his doctor told him that
he would have to change his way of living
if he did not want to be permanently sick
man. For some years Governor Flower
has not taken much exercise of any kind.
he would drive around Watertown and in
the tall he would spend some time hunting
in the AdIrondacks and along the St Law
renee; but from the beginning of the cam
pslgn last fall until six weeks ago he took
no exercise that amounted to anything.
Long Victim to Big Cigars.
When he came to Albany he was new to
the duties of the Office, and he started in at
once to familiarize himself with them, with
out having been rested after the hard work
and worry of the campaign. His appetite
was good and he ate three hearty meals
day. After breakfast he would light a
cigar and go over to the Executive Cham
Der, where he would go through the papers
and smoke until 10 o'clock, when the Office
reOu1arlv opanad Fror, IN o'cIocl- rpti1 1
he would see callers and work.
At l o'clock he returned to the Executive
Mansion and lunched heartily. Often
he would take some friends over with him
and the lunch grew in substance and num-
Der of covers until it'amounted to as much
as dinner. After luncheon he would light
another big cigar and walk back to the Cap-
itol From 3 o'clock until he went home he
would smoke and then he would dine heart
lily and smoke until bedtime His doctor
had told him that this course of living for a
man of his weight and habit would bring
him down to an early grave and that he
would have to stop. He promptly stopped.
From that time until now he has not
smoked cigar, and the way he feels now
he does not want to smoke He is ambi- |
tious to learn how to box well, and he
knows that there is nothing like smoking a
cigar after dinner to interfere with mans
staying powers, if he wants to box an hour
afterward
The Governor Never a Hard Drfnker.
Governor Flower never was a man who |
drank beyond a little claret with his din |
ner;lbut he has stopped even that, and he is
in training now that would put many pro-
fessional athletes 10 shame. The result of |
the training is shown in the work at the
Capitol, as well as in the way that he
knocks around the professional boxing man
who has to stand up against him for an
hour in the evening.
1t is a week only since the work of the
Legislature was turned over to the Gov
ernor, but he has already disposed of all the
important measures-the apportionment
bills the constitutional convention bill, the
New York inspectors of election bill the
freedom of worship hill-besides all the
armory bills and many other measures of
local Importance. He comes over and
tackles the bills the same way he does the
boxing man. He says that as the result of
his training he has never felt better in his
life.
81 never struck a man in earnest" he
says; "but if / did, The way feel now,
they would have to cut my fist out.
Routine of the Executives Life
He gets up at 7:3O in the morning, and
makes simple breakfast of little fruit,
beetsteak and coffee. One morning he takes
beefsteak and another morning shad. He
sits down awhile after breakfast and reads
a paper. Then he walks half mile to the
Capitol and works at the bills until /
o'clock. At 1 O'Clock he goes back TO the
Executive Mansion and eats little broiled
chicken or some other kind of bird and
bit of toast. Then he walks again to the
Capitol and stays there until 8 OF o'clock,
when he walks back to the Executive
Mansion and MAKES dinner on soup. roast
beet, and few vegetables, with no dessert
or pastry of any kind.
He drinks nothing except water and
coffee at his breakfast, and he is reducing
the coffee. After dinner he reads for
awhile, and at about o'clock he boxes In
his boxing he makes a speciality of the
straight right and straight left, with the
result that the muscles of his arms have
become hard and his shoulders are getting
more square and firm. After boxing for an
hour he is rubbed down and goes to bed.
Besides boxing he works dumbbells of light
weight through the regular dumbbell exer-
cises.