Show A MAINE GIANT Richard Carter of South Portland is probably the tallest man in Maine being boing boo bo- in ing six feet eight inches in hei height ht and andas as straight ht as an arrow His shoulders are ue very broad h his s arms unusually lon long and his lus body well proportioned He lie hasn't an all punco unco of extra flesh as shown by br time the fact that he hc weighs hR only HO pounds Carter is it 57 7 years ears old hain having been beon born in Ken Kenduskeag on December 6 ISol His hair is s as dark brown as over eve and only a few gray hairs are arc to toLa tobe tobo bo La seen in h his s mustache His father who was a n farmer r. r stood six feet three inches while whilo his mother was five feet ten inches tall taIJ a n rather unusual height for a woman All of his three brothers who are now non liv living n ore are about six feet two inches and his four living sisters are unusually tall women The Tho family i originally numbered ele eleven cn children When hen he ho was 26 years old in old in 1877 Mr Carter went eat to Minnesota where he was in the employ of a large lumber concern for seventeen years jears Returning to Maine aine he worked several oral years in I Bangor where at ono one time ho hI was wa offered offered of quite a lar largo large e weekly salary by a local showman snowman to be exhibited as thelong tho the Jon long man utan which offer he respectfully declined Ho lie then entered the employ of tho the flicker Ricker brothers proprietors of f the Poland Spring Sprin hotel in He lie was in char charge o of the crew of twelve or fifteen men mell who are arc employed in tho the fields gardens and aud stables ot of that lar largo large o estate Carter has tho the strength of two ordinary men On one occasion in a lumber camp in Oxford county the bull bully of the camp a a. man we weighing ghin more than and unusually forced a quarrel rd rel reI upon Carter who ban haR always been Leen of the most kindly disposition and opposed to fi fighting Tho The bully made a rush at Carter when whon the latter batter seized him in his lon long sinewy arms throw threw him bim to tho the floor of the camp and then lift lifting n him himas as if ho he were a child hung huny him up by tho the seat of his trou trousers ers on a n couple of stout hooks that were wore at the thA end of chains hanging from tho the roof That was enough for the bully hully who afterward became became be be- came camo a aery very ery decent sort of fellow Kennebec Journal |