The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1920, Page 14

4 8 Foot 63 Inch Is a Human Bugene Arceau, Gentle as a |. Lamb but No Cinderella, Wears a No. 62 Shoe, ~ Marguerite Movers Marshall. LIK® to be a giant! It is much better to be taller and bigger at than other men. I would not ‘Be aw Nittle eix-footer. I am proud of ‘my inches; they make me some- that most other men are not and _ @amnotbe. I hope I grow some more!” __ ‘That was the cheerful assurance of Arceau, facetiously christened t highest type of immigrant,” when gaw him yesterday at Ellis Island. For Wugene ts « movable mountain, a | P’ fuman Colossu ding 8 feet 6%|!t keeps my arms strong. Then I do bn — LM 4 exercises with chest weights to keap myself fn condition. When 1 can find {Inches in his elephantine stockings—it Santa Claus ever saw one he'd have “twenty-two stone. Eugene puts you ‘and me in the pygmy class. There are few doorways through which he can enter without stooping. If a boy stood the shoulders of a man of average it he could meet Hugene face to face. It was some chap like him who ‘started the Hercules and Atlas mytha. It's wo fault of Eugene's that New . York and the rest of America have not 2 Yet seen him. He is only waiting for ‘the immigration authorities to satisty ves that suitable arrangements Rave been made for his tour of this _ Sountry. And in the interim the | Brown-hatred, brown-eyed, not unintel~ _, Meat looking human mammoth plays | @ards with bis French manager, M e , through whom | talked to non- | Egiish-speaking Eugene Arceau. 4 FIRST of all, he is willing to tell the world that there's nothing Wrong with the job of being a giant. “I was a farmer's boy," sald Bu- Bene Arceau, “and if I had been like miy parents, like my two brothers and sisters—all of whom are small =t should have worked all my life 48 m farmer in the Vendee Depart- ment, near Nantes, where I was born. I know what it is to work on a farm —I can plough and take care of ani- mals and raise vegetables. But I like ‘being a giant better. I am twenty-four, In 1914, just before the war began, I was almost . When I was @ giant. *M. Renoir discovered me. He took me to Paris and put me on exhibition. He took me all over France and then Spain. Even to the palace of Alfonso | went. The King was kind to me and I amused his 4 children. It was all most de- ie tful—and if I had not been a giant coulé never have happened. “When the war broke out I was in ona. M. Kenoir and I were of military age. At once we returned to and went into the army. I all through the war in the 4th ent of the big artillery. Be- I was so big they put me with ihe big guns. Eugene Arceau's brown eyes twinkled over his little joke, )) *L was not even wounded,” he con- tinued, “although it seems as if oven gunners might have found ry as big as me. I was honor- discharged and now in my shows Wear my uniform to prove that I Haye been a soldier of France, OF 48 TQCAUEE I am a giant, I do not have to work hard, I can s wel about and see the world, and [) Miake a good iving—sometimes 20,000 france a year—just by being what I "am. I can have two beds to sleep in ym@t-the hotels, I can eat as much as ‘Z want. Often at one meal 1 eat a . ot soup-—I love soup. For I will eat two pounds of B, one down eggs, one pound of », three loaves of bread. About the high " enough rimntse! and Enjoys Distinction |i ws pot'tis tm Se takes fifteen yards of stuff, But al- ‘ways I have money enough for these @ big, strong man.” you're not being a giant?’ | Beart tallure—and weighing nearly Gnough, I ride. the theatre. And I read the French T am sure I shall fall in love with papers and play cards.” her. She will be the wife for me. Do Giant Skyscraper IKH most giants, Bugene Arceau| Karon? ho ended hepetaiie |” is @ gentle, peaceable souk M./ Attention, eight-foot maidens! But Renoir told me. In fighting, he ad-|don't all speak at once! heres strictly to the maxim, “Pick —_—_a DENIS O'LEARY RUNS AGAIN, District Attorney Denis O'Leary of never fights, Which is lucky for the Cope ly Bee 2 persons be encounters, since he sure- candi rn gation hi indorsed Ls . = ly coyld pick up a aix-footer in each | for, °gon ot he former Woroneh’ Peet: hand and knock their heads to-|dent, for the place. The Republican gether, if he took a notion. Hee nd Rote b, Malace: David “Aare you married?” I faxed Masta ¢ Arceau finally.“ no! 91 you like to be married?’ keels Ay Ose “I have no wife” he admitted a you mow why have n found a nice bie_mirt. | sre eeent ot tee Tenet lite When & young woman whos from a fracture of the akull, was une head comes up to my shoulder. or ghanged, it was sald at Broad Street who Is even a little taller than that, pHospital to-<ii a gravely. OPEN THIS SATURDAY UNTIL 5:30 P. M. FRANKLIN SIMON BOYS’ SHOPS FIFTH FLOOR Boys’ Fall Shoes Designed by a famous foot specialist of the: United States Army $750 $Q50 (49 to 13%) (1 t0 6) Used to be $8°° and #10% des specialist who designed the Wearmoor Shoe, has spenta lifetime studying the anatomy of the human foot in its relation té shoes, and the Wearmoor Shoe for Boys embodies, not untested theories, but practical advantages that have passed the experimental stage. In Mahogany, Ko-Ko, of black calfskin, and the quality is up td the design. Franklin Simon & Co. 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