The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-27
THE BIGGEST MEN.
Some Human Beings Who Rouse Respect
ful Admiration and Curiosity.


Written for THE HELENA INDEPENDENTLY
TT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO
az know, if suoh n thing were possible.
i how often the biggest boy in school,
grows up to be a biggest man." There is
an appalling suddenness in the way in
which giants appear in our midst nova
days. OF course, this appearance is often
made under the auspices of a curio lecturer.
but that ia a very different thing from run
ming across o sevsn-footer on the streets
unawares.
The biggest man in the world. according
to the authorities in Brodbignag, ia an
American, John Craig. OF Danville. Ind,
who weighs 1923 pounds, and is often seen
by the dazed sojourners in that peaceful
little village wheeling his six months-old
baby along the street in a perambul8tor.
This procession of Craig junior and senior
illustrates one of the remarkable qualities
of the contemporary giaut-he is neither
the father nor the son of giants. Johnny
Craig. Jr., Of Danville, is not above the
average size of children of his age, and it is
said that this fact causes his father much
secret SORROW.
The biggest man in New York and in
other respects the most interesting, is John
A Seaton, the colored Waterman of the
Equitable building on lower Broadway.
MIR. Seaton is six feet seven and a half
inches in height and ia so symmetrically
give him, if anything, a statuesque.
not TO say. slender appearance, He is quiet
and unobtrusive in his demeanor and par
takes of that good nature which is said to
be generally characteristic of giants. That
is, giants Of today: in old times the giants
seemed to spend the most of their time
roaming with large clubs through the dense
forests in u terribly bad humor, and nun
gering greatly after human food. Mr.. Sea-
ton has just been baptised in the Mt. Olivet
church in West Fifty eighth street, New
York. The font is only five feet square
and four deep, but so de1terously was tho
immersion performed that Ut is said not a
drop overlooked.
The biggest dentist in the world, who is
in all probability the most gigantic profes.
sional man Of tho time. and who is said by
people who ought to know, to be by all odds
the biggest man in Paris, was observed not
long ago strolling along Fifth avenue in
New York. He il DIR. G.. G. DAboll, who
used to live in Buffalo but emigrated to the
French capital fired by the brilliant profess
sional success of DR.. Evans. who is said to
have put gold into half the Drowned heads
in Europe. 1t has not yet been said of DIR.
Daboll that ''he holds ~everybody's jaw but
his own" although that unkind remark was
made of the very clever little dentist who
Lolds uncle Sans consular appointment to
the Chinese port OF Annoy. 1t Is
darkly whispered about the Paris
boulevards that DIR. Daboll does
not need foroeps to pull teeth with,
but il able to seize the offending
molar between his finger and thumb and
dexterousiy lift it from its socket. This
may be only a cauard. But it ia a matter
of history that DIR. Daboll was once sen,
for from Paris TO come to Washington IL
give dental attention to a president OF the
United States. He ia ak feet ten inches
high and remarkably broad shouldered for
his height.
One of the tallest men in this country,
and. until further evidence. the tailest, Ii
james Murphy. of Bridge Creek. Colquiti
county. Georgia, commonly known nv "Big
Foot jim" Ho stands soyen feet high in
his stocking feet and weighs go pounds
Mr.. Murphy wears a No. Is shoe, and as he
ia said to have u will of his own, no doubt
aocomplishos something when he puts hia
foot down.
The atronRest man in the northwest is Il,
L. Kendall, of Seattle, On the occasion oil
a recent test of his extraordinary powers,
Mr.. Kendall agreed to put up from shout
der to arms length IA ten-pound dumb bel
oftener than eight strong men could do 1t,
Eight of the most vigorous looking labor
era at work grading about the county courI
house were matched against him. Kendall
kept time with each of them, and after thu
eighth had given up from sheer exhaustion
smiled pleasantly and ran his SCORE up +,
an even thousand. lilo has y brother VIII,
holds the worlds championship ut putting
up dumb bella.