The Southern herald., 1900-11-09
BY MAIH srREN0TH.
WAT soas stssF Men e Halns zzsa
Doas is Liftlas.

"Who Is the strongest man =
town. asked q correspondent a Bsl-
fast Of some Workmsn at noontime.
No one knows vas the reply. 4
farmer, : stsblemsn and : milkman
came along, says the Lewiston (Asl
Journal, and the conversation became
general.
"I am not as stout as some, said
Ira Flanders, "but at my work Of
wheeling brick, Ioncs tOek away 800
weighing $500 pounds, On an orai-
nary barrow, and think that can dot
again, although it don't DO fellow
any good
'Silas Beckwith,7 said the MILK
man, "shouldered 4 barrel Of pork and
carried it from one truck 70 another
about 20 yards away. He said he felt
relieved when be putt down"
"The greatest feat within my
knowledge said the farmer, "was
when 81 Wentworth shouldered the
7O0-pound anchor and carried It cut
Of the company's she'd. 81 had tostep
down one step, and though no one
knew he was hurt, the jar injured his
back, and he has never lifted heavy
weights since"
Probably the strongest man in this
vicinity to-day" said the stableman,
"is Alf Ellis, Of Prospect. ALI got
reputation for lifting upin thequarry,
and was pestsred nearly to death BY
people who wanted to get up some
kind of a trial with him.
$50 he rugged up some straps to 4
big rock that lay under his shed, and
lifted it with ease in the presence Of
a large company. "There eis my load, "
says ALI, "and when you bring man
that can take her up l will Try again.
"No one has ever lifted ii and II 10
safe to say that no ordinary man ever
will, for it weighs somewhere be-
tween 1 100 and 1900 pounds"
"Speakingabout fests Of ofstrength,
said the blacksmith, ''putsmsin mind
Of contest we had in front of my
shop last fall. We putoutabig plank
! on blocking about breast high, and
all the strong men up and down thil
: street had try at lifting the planl
!, with a big box Of old iron on top Of i
Freeman Batchelder, who work
t in the shop at the head Of the street
D came down olOok on, and wasinyiteI
I to take a try, although no one sup
e posed that he could bulge the load
b Well, sir, Freeman lifted itas easy
!. an ordinary man would have raise'
b theplank.
n "Then two men and a boy got on
+ and he lifted the lot. The interes
n among the other fellows seemed 1
die out after that, and there hasn'
: been any lifting around here since,
h Inquiry among the police fore
b shows that the city marshall, Williar
it H. Sanborn, has been ard is yet on
'e of the strongest men in the place. o
It one occasion be was knowDto lift 06
7 pounds.
! There have been frequent trials q
Ie strength by lifting on the scales. Th
ye contestant stands on the scales an
5. lifts on a bar that is attached to
&c rope tied under the scales. Weigh
e are added until the limit Of the con
b, petitor's strength is reached
II Welman Hanson, a foreman in Il
" shoe factory, tipped the beam wit
e. 100 pounds opposed to himin tri
10 Of this kind.
p AT the shipyard there are mar
:, a strong men, but the lifting is no
Id done mostly by power Abner ii
son, former employe there, had 7
(. markable strength. He could lift
much on one end Of a stick Of timb
as three or four ordinary men could
m the other. On one occasion be lift
x !. the weight Of a pile driver th
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