The times., 1899-06-25
THE CARDIFF GIANT AGAIN.
This Time 1t VIII De Exhibited MS n
Straightout Fraud.

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After long years of obnoxious desue-
tude the Cardiff Giant is again "discov-
cred, will be put on exhibition, and, like
John Browns spirit, is to go marching on.
This time it will be placed before the pub
lie as the greatest fraud In America, -
and not, as at first "the greatest relic of
an extinct race OF giants"
For some fifteen or twenty years the
people have heard little and seen less of
the stone image. The cause is twofold:
First, 1t had become chestnut" and.
second, it was lost. The giant Is not such
small object that 1t need be wrapped in
tissue paper and locked up to be preserved.
He would not easily be lost to view with
his eleven feet Of length, or swept out in
the garbage with his $500 pounds of
weight.
After winning thousands of dollars for
its inventors and owners. "Tamus, sod of
gods" came to be despised and created
no interest. He spent some time at the
Worlds Fair, 1t was said, and then seemed
to have been laid with his ancestors Sew
eral Tamuses appeared and were shown in
different parts of the country, but little
I interest was taken in them. for it was soon
learned that they were frauds on The
original fraud.
BY some odd chance Tamus found his
way to Syracuse and was slowed away
in the freight office of the New York Gen.
trail Railroad. There he lay as II In the
grave. He seemed to be without a friend,
his admirers had fallen off, and there was
none to do him reverence. Who his owner
was was in doubt. The railroad company
still afforded him shelter and protection
from boys and relic hunters. There was
bill due from some one who could not be
found that the company kept in its
archives. ~
From this retirement, 1t is now said.
Tamus is to be brought out under the man
agement that vouches for his identity and
shown in this city. When Tamus became
so popular that P. T. Barnum offered $780,
600 for his services for three months. a
large number of other pieces of stone
through the country became Original
knew whether he was Tamus l or Tamus
one dozen.
1t is now said that the giant at the
Worlds Fair was not the original 'Tamus.
god of gods" Some thought that they
were looking at the greatest humbug on
earth when they were told that it was Ia
mus that was on exhibition at the first
State fair held on the new grounds here.
1t is now said that both, these pieces of
handiwork were frauds. and that all the
while the original fraud was slumbering
in the Central freight office.
The only birth the Cardiff Giant ever
I had was in the brain Of George Hull, a
Connecticut Yankee. He secured the stone
near Fort Dodge and shipped it to Chicago,
where the image was made and discolored
with acid 1t was then shipped to Union,
near Binghamton, and reshipped to Cort-
land. From there it was carted in the
night to the farm of Stub" Newell, in
Cardiff. 1t was duly buried in 1865, but
without ceremony and by moonlight
year later Newell happened" to be
digging a WELL and. much to his sur
prise" came across the strange image.
The news spread and in a short time
thousands of people We're focking to see
the discovery" 1t is said that $1,000 was
made before it was removed from where 1t
was buried.