The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-18
REMARKABLE MAN.
Eats 500 Pounds of Glass-Cant Get
 Enough of 1t.

From San Francisco Chronicle
 Nobody knows his name, yet everybody
 in Kennewick. Wash, is acquainted with
 him. Irish Tim" is the name by which , he answers when asked to have a drink; 1 but there are few bartenders in Kenne-
 wick who will now consent to serve him
 unless a chain is first fastened to the
 glass, for Tim has penchant for eating
 such delicacies as beer bottles, tumblers i and other glassy receptacles in which the ] inebriating beverages are dispensed. l Tim is a stalwart fellow, and Verita-
 ble giant, six feet five inches tall heavy l in proportion, with great, broad powerful
 shoulders that look as though they could
 furnish force sufficient to put several Jim Jefferieses out of business without 1 the least exertion.
 i. Tim only wears a number 14 shoe, spec 1 lally made to order, and has a hand big l enough to cover an ordinary saucer. He
 Is perhaps the strongest man in the west | outside of a circus and he attributes his
 marvellous strength to the fact that he
 has eaten glass ever since a small boy In 1 Ireland.
 When Irish Tim made his appearance in Kennewick he caused the natives to im- 1 agine suddenly that they had all gone | crazy, and were ''seein things The first
 extraordinary thing the big fellow did was l to go into grocery store and purchase
 half-dozen glass tumblers. Then he stroll 1 ed leisureIy out to the curb of the plank 1 sidewalk sat down opened up the bun l dle and proceeded to devour his monday l lunch A good sized crowd had soon ac- | cumulat ted, and of course everybody l thought at first that he was working off
 little Herman legerdemain But Tim
 sat there as indifferent to their gaze and criticisms as an astronomer to the man.
 euvers of an ant colony. When he had devoured the last of the six tumblers he
 arose slowly. smacked his lips, looked around to see that he had left no scraps and sauntered into nearby saloon in search of a chaser" Of course, the bar tender wouldn't accept payment from a man who could draw such a large crowd as Tim had done, the big fellow got his drink for nothing But when the fel-
 low behind the bar cast his eve around for the whisky glass, 1t had followed the chaser. Tim was cracking up the last bit of it between his teeth. and swallowing 1t In morsels that were evidently sweet That's the kind of glass;" said Tim. ] that makes me think of home. Over in
 the grocery store, there, all they had was them big tumblers. Sure they're a bit hard on your gums, but then, I've eaten so much glass that seldom cut myself"
 he added smiling. You see I started in when I was just a sprawlin brat over in the old country. I used to steal my moth- , CTS jelly and jam, and then eat up the glasses to make her think somebody had stolen the whole business.
 "Yes I guess that's the way I got the | habit. I recollect, when a kid, one O the boys bet me a piece of money I couldn't eat chunk O glass, so I bet him on k l ate very small piece and chewed it 1 up carefully Glass is not hard stuff and
 is easily ground between the teeth if one ] is not afraid of it. Well. I won that bet l anyway. and for twenty-four hours await ed the results anxiously. Strange as 1t 1 may sound to some of you fellows. I l had ravenous appetite the next day 1 and found myself anxious to repeat the
 experiment So, after a while, ate l another chunk and kept it up for several ] days.
 /, "rhe first thing I knew. my system ! seemed to require it, and from that time on almost daily have eaten all the way
 from one to ten or fifteen ounces of glass.