Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-11-14
BY MAIN STRENGTH
What Sor:e Strong Hen of Maine Have Done
- In Lifting.

In Lifting
"Who is the strongest man in town."
asked a correspondent at Belfast of
some workmen at noontime. "No one
Knows" was the reply. A farmer,
stableman, and q milkman came along
and the conversation became general.
81 am not so stout rs some," said
Ira Flanders. "but at my work Of
wheeling brick, 1 once took away 300
weighing 1,s00 pounds on an ordinary
barrow, and think that L can do it
again, although It don't do fellow
any good"
"Silas Beck WITH" said the milkman.
"shouldered q barrel of pork and car
ried it from one truck to another
about twenty yards away. He said
that he felt reliered when he put it
down.
"The greatest feat of strength within
my knowledge" said the farmer, "was
when ST Wentworth shouldered the
Too-pound anchor and carried it out of
the company shed. 81 had to step
down one step, and though no one
knew that he was hurt, the jar in
jured his back, and he has never lifted
heavy weights since"
Probably the strongest man in this
vicinity to-day" said the stableman
sis ALI Allis of Prospect. Alf got a
reputation for lifting up in the quarry,
and was pestered nearly to death by
people who wanted TO get up some
kind Of trial with him.
$50 he rlgged up some straps to a
big rock that lay under his shed, and
lifted 1t with ease in the presence Of
large company. There is my load
says Alf, and when you bring a man
that can take her up will try again.
'FNo one has ever lifted It, and it is
safe to say that no ordinary mau ever
will, for it weighs somewhere between
LOO and 1000 pounds"
Speaking about feats Of strength"
said the blacksmith, "puts me in mind
of contest we had in front of my
shop last fall. We put out big plank
on blocking about breast high, and all
the strong men up and down this street
had a try at lifting the plank with a
big box of old iron on top Of it.
freeman Batchelder, who works in
the shop at the head Of the street,
came down to look on, and was in
vited to take try, although no one
Supposed that he could bulge the load.
Well, Sir, Freeman lifted it as easy
as an ordinary man would have raised
the plank.
"Then two men and boy got on,
and he lifted the lot. The interest
among the other fellows seemed to die
out after that, and there hasn't been
any lifting around here since"
Inquiry among the police force shows
that the city marshal. William H. San
born; has been and is yet one OF the
strongest men in the place. On one
occasion he was known to lift 0S5
pounds.
There have been frequent trials Of
strength by lifting on scales. The con-
testant stands on the scales and lifts
on bar that IS attached to n rope
tied under the scales. Weights are
added until the limit of the competi-
tors strength is reached.
Welman Hanson. foreman IN the
shoe factory, tipped the beam with
1000 pounds opposed to him in trial
70 this kind.
At the shipyard there are many
strong men, but the lifting is now done
mostly by power. Abner Jipson. Il
former employe there, had remarkable
strength. He could lift as much on
one end of stick of timber as three
or four, ordinary men could on the
other On one occasion he lifted the