The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-01
TOLD by THE OLD crRcus MAN.
What Happened when Finally the
Greatest of All Giants Died.
From the New York sun.

FROM the New York Sun.
Il never told you the exact hight of tho
great giant-what's the user" said the old
circus man. you wouldn't believe II IL
did; as I've said before. II would only
make you disbelieve what do tell you
about him, and what's the use? But you
can form some sort of an idea about it IL
from these things that I've told you and
from what I'm going to tell you now about
his death and burial, because in the course
of time he died.
I'VE were under canvas then, showing
three times a day, and moving ourselves.
and we were tolerably busy, and we really
hadn's time to give such attention as we
ought 10 the burylng of what had been.
after the great giraffe, our very greatest
attraction. The digging OF a grave for
him would have been like digging the
foundations for several houses in row
and would have taken lois Of time. and
the mere cost of the land would be con-
siderable.
wen, as usual the old mans horse
sense came to the rescue. In looking
around for forage when we struck the
town he had discovered the bed of an
abandoned canal, that they'd stop using
nal ran through the edge of mans farm
there and that land was no use to any
body. IL didn't pay TO pillow It because
II wasn't worth the time and trouble Il
would take TO get the horses and plows
up and down the bank and il wasn't any
good for anything; and the old man
bought strip of that land along there,
few acres of IL, enough for a cemetery
lot for the giant, for next to nothing So
you see there we were, with the land
bought and tine grave dug at very small
expense and practically in a minute.
I'VE laid the giant down In the section
Of the canal we had bought and hauled
earth from the rest of the piece to cover
him up-the old man was wise enough of
course, to buy land enough to provide for
that. when the mound was rounded up
in proper shape and due proportions it
made quite ridge; 1t was a fiat country
round there, and you could see the ridge
for quite a piece.
"Of course the old man put up a head
stone, and IL was much the biggest head
stone ever saw and quite different from
any ever saw-it was built of brick. The
old man hired all the men that could
work on 1t, and they put in a foundation
and built the headatone in half day. IL
was something like the side wall OF a
brick house for general dimensions, only
IL was very much thicker and tombstone-
like In shape, and at a little distance in
that level country the ridge with the great
stone at one end of II hooked like what it
was. the grave Of a mighty giant
And so we left him secure In memory,
as we thought, with the inscription We
had put on the headstone, but a great
storm came up before the mortar had set
and blew the headstone down, and there
t lay simply a scattering pile Of brick.
But the mound remained. as II still does:
1 saw It there only a year ago when I
passed through that country. But with
nothing TO mark II, exact knowledge OF Ii
gradually faded. and even tradition had
grown indistnct, and the great mound
had come finally to be known simply as
the giants hill"