The Penn's Grove Record

BIGGEST

Man Is in Georgia

Balancing Scales at 585, He Weighs

105 Pounds More Than Giant

of Michigan.

Savannah, Ga.—When Leonard Bliss
died a year or two ago at Blooming-
ton, Ill., the country was told that the
world had lost its largest man.

But Georgia came forward with a
specimen that overtopped Baby"
Bliss by 45 pounds.

Now comes Three Rivers, Mich.
with a bid for fame in the person of
Sam Irwin, who boasts that he weighs
480 pounds and asserts that he is the
largest man in the United States who
engages in active work daily.

The largest man in the world goes
to work every week day morning at
the usual hour in the enjoyment of
better health than he has experienced
in a number of years. This is W. T.
Brinson of Waycross, who makes no
claim to distinction other than being
a "Georgia Cracker."

Leonard Bliss is said to have weighed
540 pounds according to official figures
at the time of his death. Brinson tips
the scales at 585 pounds in his stock-
ing feet. He has weighed as high as
600, but he complains dismally that he
is now worn to a shadow by overwork
and is losing flesh so rapidly that it
The Michigan man has hopes" that
makes him uneasy. It took him 15
years to lose that 15 pounds.

he will eventually weigh 500.

Brinson laughs and jokes at his im-
mense proportions, and continues to
gather and distill the turpentine from
his pine forest. He drives out to his
distillery daily in a buggy built espe-
cially to sustain his weight. He is an
active man of business, a merchant
and farmer as well as a turpentine
operator and is famed for his shrewd-
ness.

When visiting it requires two chairs
to sustain Brinson's huge form. He
has had all of his home furniture
made to order. The bed in which he
sleeps has been doubly reinforced in
order that he may turn over in the
night without danger of bursting
through his resting place. All the
doors in his home have been enlarged.

Brinson has had many offers to be-
come a vaudeville or circus attraction,
but he says he does not care to leave
"God's country." He says now, how-
ever, that he is almost inclined to
travel about a little, just to show such
people as this Irwin fellow how very
small they are.