Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-16
SEVEN FEET TALL Al 1T, HE CROWS
 TO g FEET AT 19
Is Eggs for Breakfast is Reg
 ular Diet for This Youth


 broken from it's moorings.
 That was at St. Gallen, Switzerland. not far from the Lake of Constance. When the monster turned out to be merely good-natured boy of 19, Mir. Rose, international snowman, offered him contract and signed him for a stwo-years' tour of the United States. Van Albert claims to be the tallest York who has given him the up and down-it takes minute or two-feels like disputing him.
 All "exhibition" giants are shy of tape measures, but the young Holland CT will tell you that he is a trifle un der feet tall. Ike Rose places the boys height at 9 feet and 5 inches and undoubtedly he will be that high on stage or platform.
 When asked how he got that way the young Hollander said:
 It is only, a theory of mine, but believe l am history repeating itself My native Amsterdam, you know, is built on 90 islands joined by 35t bridges. Who built such city, the conquest of man over the seas? Who but a race of giants?
 Family of Usual Size.
 My fsaher, Albert Van Albert o1 Amsterdam, is a maker of fancy bas. kets. He is feet 8 inches tall. My mother is of ordinary size and so arc my brothers and four sisters. As fal out on either side of the family as can be traced there is no other giant ''I was always big. When I was seven years old, I remember, I wa: two meters tall, or nearly feet 4 little later, when other boys woulc spend half an hour on the tower O. the Royal Palace to see the gulf ane the ancient Lake of Haarlem, tn, of Zaandam, would stay at homo and see most of these things withou moving"
 The giant smokes cigarettes, like his schnapps, and, despite carefu rearing, refuses to go to church.
 q have almays smoked cigarettes, he says.
 ssI like drink once in while and that is one reason dread to 1eav, New York.
 "I didn't go to church Sunday. ant don't care if I never go. People g. to church and say their prayers ant make all kinds of promises to Got and then come out and start wars. Tn against wars. When 1 was younge my mother always gave me penny t. put on the collection plate. l alway spent the penny for candy. That's wh, I'm so big
 The giant, Ike Rose says, is as play full as boy of ten, Ike says half hi story must be taken withfa grain o salt, because the big fellow is an in vcterate kiddcr. He wants Ike to talk him to one of New York's big ball rooms, though each of his shoes is a big as battleship.
 But there is no joke about his size Rose says, or his appetite.
 "At one breakfast" said Rose. h disposed of two soup plates of oat meal, 15 eggs, three helpings of smok cd fish. steak the size of Rhode Is land, seven slices of bread with but ter and marmalade, and eight cups 0 tea. At 10 o'clock he began asking he was ever going to have dinner? H occupies two beds and is eating me ou If house and home. I'll be glad whe he goes to work.
 Contrasts Himself to Og.
 Ion all subjects except two he the best-natured big kid l ever saw In one of the books of the Old Testa ment he has run upon the story o Og, King of Bashan, who was so bi that he had to have an iron bed stead nine cubits long and four wid' Jan has found that Og's bedstead wa 1912 feet long. The only way ca pacify him is to tell him the bed of king usually is about one-third longe than the royal sleeper. That place Og's height at about 9 feet, so Va Albert has 5 inches on him and reconsiled.
 0The other matter is an aversio to writers of all kinds, particular those who write fairy stories. H says the way these men have slar dered giants is crime.
 ssIt takes 8 meters 3-4 yards) ( cloth to build suit for him, his shoe cost $7O and the natter wants SIP fo renovating his professional hat an $40 for new one"
 Van Albert has mastered only few words of English. The girls the United States are the prettiest h ever saw, he says, but none of thel is going to make him forget Tehresi who waits by the Builder Zee. Tn thing that impresses him most is tn number of women motorists.
 ssWhat do you think of New York he was asked.
 "Goed!" he said and then change this to "Mooi" which the interprete said means Wonderful"