Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-14
CHAMPION EATER
NOW FOOD SAVER
Stops Sideshow Gormandiz-
ing Stunts and Enlists in
Food-Saving Efforts

hungry Sam Miller or Straw
berry Ridge. the great gormandizer,
and the only man living who has
ever been known to gulp down 144
fried eggs in two and a half hours
and live to tell the tale is on a diet.
relates the Milton Standard.
Sam isn't eating on that scale
these days. He has joined the ranks
OF Uncle Sans food conservation
lists because he has to. Once Sam
gulped down the last bite of pie
with the exclamation "Golly! That's
short" He was ready for his chew.
He takes only two IL day and they
last all day and we'll into the night.
Opening Up tile Subject
Eating much these days? Hun
cry Sam" was asked by way of in
production to subject tht lies
close to his stomach.
"Elain't you been reading what
President Wilson is asking US large
eaters to do? OF course. I hain't,
I'm patriotic"
AND Sam proved it too because on
his coat lapel was the little button
that indicated he had done his bit
i'll the purchase of his Liberty Bond.
"i5ut of course like to eat Now.
IL there's anything / like to do it IS
TO eat. About them fried eggs now"
And Hungry Sam" became elo-
quent as he recalled that german
diZinS feat.
81 was down at a fair in New York.
In my boating days I had estab-
lished sort of a reputation as an
eater and a feller got too fresh and
wanted to bet me $50 couldn't eat
100 fried eggs hand runnin'. ] show
l.. 4 trf q fn a
hundred and then I got outside for
ty-fcm more for good measure. And
] did it in two hours and half.
What's more, / had couple quarts
of milk and a half dozen pies to top
off. ] took his $50 and asked if there
weren't a little more easy money
around them parts, but nary a rise
could get"
Never Sick in His Life
do l ever feel any bad effects?
Say l should say not. I've never seen
the meal that could down me and
I've never known what this here
stomach trouble was. But you aren't
Soin' to put all this in the paper, are
you? Because if my boarding mis-
Ircss at 125 East Sixth street, Ber-
wick, gets to know that yours truly
respectfully S. l.. Miles is Hungry
Sam she may be chasin' me out.
I'm careful not to eat too much on
ordinary occasions.
You see it's this way. I never
take advantage of my boarding
mistress, and certainly with every
thing so high in price as it is now
you wouldn't see me eXtendin my
self in an eatin' way Now, If you
was tC wager that your friend Hun
CRY Sam couldn't put it across I'd
just be the one to fool you the darn
dest.
"You wanted to know how I got
my start in life? Well it was when
1 lived over in Nurcmburg when 1
was young that l practised up on
this eatln' business. l started on
apples, thinkin' it wouldn't cost so
much to practice. I'd go out in the
old barn, and tried to find out how
much l could eat without throwin'
up. But 1 never found out, because
/ never got sick. I've never been
stumped yet on this eatin' PROPOSE
tion. and I reckon L never will.
Then l took to boatin' was at it
fourteen years and that's where I
really got my name. Everybody got
TO know of Hungry Sam and let it
be said, everybody got to have a
mighty healthy opinion of what
yours truly could do in an eatin' way |
/ took SO much money out of the |
jeans of some of them old boatmen |
that they got wise to me, and after
they had parted with their hard !
earned cash they were willin' to back |
me against all Comers. And say! We |
made some wonderful cleanups in
them happy days.
Cleaned Up on Pies
Il remember down at Columbi |
once in the boatin' days some feller |
got real smart and declared he did, |
mt believe any of this stuff he had |
been hearin' about Hungry Sam
Well, I'm just the boy to fool |
you 1 says to him. Here's $40 says
I can eat them sixty eight five cent |
pies'-you know they made em
pretty big in those days-'and I'll |
top 'em off with two gallons of milk
and a gallon of ice cream Say it
cost him $40 and he had to foot the |
bill for the stuff l ate. That was in
the boatin' house days. Then l was
mate on three master down in the |
Chesapeake for nine months and |
those years just put an edge on q
naturally good appetite, I'd say.
There was time when the ladies |
who helped make up the pastors sal. !
airy by holding chicken and waffle |
suppers gave gasps OF horror when |
thehy heard that Hungry Sam yas |
there to get all you can eat for a |
quarter"
But Sam was modest when he at |
tended those country church sup |
pers.
II reckon I had to go away hun |
cry many u time. but usually man |
aged to eat about twenty eight of |
those Sood old-fashioned waffles and |
four or five whole chickens. Some |
of the men declared [ was nothin' |
hut hog, but 1 says to them: Now, |
see here, what do you mean to ad-
vertise the way you do if you can't !
make good on your a0veruisIn' 1 say, |
let 1T be truthful. Don't you?'
"One of my best bits of eating" |
said Sam, was the time 1 made $25 |
by eating a bushel and a half of |
apples hand runnin'. zone fellow was |
kept busy takin' the cores out and |
two others pared. All did was eat. |
And / kept all three so darn busy |
they didn't get no chance to view |
the scenery. |
"One time up in Berwick I ate |
eighteen watermelons and topped it |
off with q. dozen canteloupes. But |
such eatin' as that doesn't count |
much with me. It's the good old |
beef or puddin' or scrapple that |
ticlileS my ribs"
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