The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-20
New YorE WoEq

htTOllbe5l uuu III Tue WuTlli 10 III NeW
York. Strength always calls forth ud,
miration by itself alone, Sandow is ad.
mlrable not only because OF his great
strength, but because OF the fact that
his extraordinary power is due TO COM
plete development, His determination
has made him a great,deal better man
than nature intended him to be, and she
started out to make a c~onspicuously 4ine
job OF sapdow,
In preparing the mind for a descrip.
tion aud conception OF this wonderful
human being it 10 necessity to abandon
all former notions concerning possible.
ties in physical development. Nothing
that has ever been seen in Now York
eau be used as q atandard OF comparison
to measure the wonderful Young Ger
man who hns Just come here, Com
pared with SandOw, COTbGtt, the fighter,
is like u lean spring chicken beside Il
we'll muscled bulldog, and the PROBES.
sional atrong men OF Clrcuses and
museums, with their pretentious
punches of muscle, saUm weak and UNI
impressive,
a proper way to introduce Sandow is
to outline briefly some OF the things
which he can do.
sandow can lit a 5O0.pound weight
with his middle finger. lie promptly
took up in London an individual who
bet that he could not perform this feat.
lie can break good-sized iron rods
across hi4arms and leg3, but he does
that rarely, because he considers the
achievement trivial.
He takes in his right hand a dumb,
bell with an enormous sphere nj either
eni. In each OF these spheres Il man is
concealed. lie lifts the dumb,bell and
the two men above his head with one
hand.
lie can take II good-si2ed man with
one hand, aud without any sign OF effort
use the mans body for musket and
give an imitation Of a regulation drill
He can oblige any friend he has in
the world by letting the friend sit On
tho palm oil his hand and then lifting
him in the air above his head as easily
as the average man would lift n small.
sized dog.
He places himself upon the floor
with his chest upward and supported
only by his hands and feet, his body
forming u bridge. A gang plank Is
placed across his chest and three
horses stand upon this ut one time,
with no support except that which the
chest offers. Two OF the horses are
small horses and the third is not emo.
NOUS, but the weight of the smallest
horse would more than satisfy the
chest oil the ordinary strong man.
He has wrestled with three men at
one time, all expert wrestlers, all bigger
than he, and has stretched first one and
then another fiat, using one hand to Il
man and incidentally preventing the
other two men from tripping him or
otherwise throwing him.
sandow's actual feats OF strength,
however, do not make up his strongest
claim TO attention and yeneration. The
great point is that the man who does
all these things is only 5 feet s inches
high. and does them because he has de-
yeloped to the highest point every sen.
arate muscle in his body.
There are thousands of men in the
world who woull tower from six inches
to a foot above him and who weigh
nearly twice ns much, but it is not like.
" that any one could even equal the
sheer brute strength OF this German
bundle OF muscle, which weighs exactly
200 pounds. is s feet, 8 inches in height,
and within inches OF s feet around the
chest, when fully expanded.
The measurements of the mans
chest and waist perhaps give the best
conception Of his wonderful conforma-
ton. Around tho waist he measures
twenty.nine inches; around the chest,
when fully expanded, as has been said
lie measures tifty!eight inches; his
waist therefore, is not much bigger
around than Mrs, Ianrtry's and his
chest il n rood deal bigger oroundtha
Grover Cleyeland's. Grover Cleveland,
Mrs. Largtry and the entire public
must be Interested in such figures MS
these. They are based on ccurate and
careful measurements. 1t is needless
TO sny that when this young man
spreads out his chest and draws in his
whist his body fromthe shoulders down
to the hips looks like a very sharp
wedge Of pink muscle.
In private life this Young man il n
yery pleasing tyne of tho simple mind.
odGerman, His hond ia shaped exact
" like the heads on the old statues Of
Heroules. The forehead il low and
rather broad, The head Is not quite
Htrairht nm and down behind. bus with
oniy slirht deyeIopment. II il thickiy
covered with n short ron Of tjght.
golden curls. each ono looking
as though ii had been specially
fixed up with n hot iron. but the curli.
moss ia perfectly natural. Tho impres.