Show STRONG AS SAMSON A CANADIAN WHO ats PERFORMED SOME FEATS A fur for thre 0 M lurting A a ded cart that elgh W faer mt tn A conceit ct on board a shap louis cyr who whole as a was born lu in st joha johns quebec in jaw his ills grandfather on the ru paternal side weighed over twenty three stone while his mothers is is only A wife 80 under nineteen stone she immensely strong and only a few years aso ago was vt aa able to pick up a barrel of fl floor and carry hitup two elighte of steps boaras so tar AS bis his mothers bide goes therefore le he comes from A it pretty sturdy stock ills fathers family wa quite so go although fairly big ug men and mom vom tan tea his ills father bowe howe Tac Tex baingi down the scale oae at sixteen a stone tone jt was only natural master alaster cyr school WAS gastev nin alef of all the aads at the age of fourteen there were men who could cope with him and at that early ige ege his muscular development was extraordinary binary li nary ilia ills parents were living at montreal T when he left school and the question was what should they make of this 3 young hercules well ultimately it was decided that he lie should enter the pol police ice perfice sery ser fice ic about seventeen at the time and his strength bad had increased in a marvelous marve loua manner he ile soon what a valuable acquisition he was to the force to do dutwin duty in the roughest and most die district of montreal he lie mode made so be many captures and quelled such a number nu Ulber of dastur disturbances ances that lie soon received sub ial recognition from the authorities ue ile was paid double salary and used to do the work of three naturally be was not very popular among the roughs boughs so zo they made up their minds to begue him accordingly six or seven picked men waited upon him one dark night and went jor him with sticks and belts ue ile HS was rightfully cut and can dhow show you the berrs of the wounds he received about the forehead liow now it most must have bees a desperate fight but in the end his pluck and superior strength were too much forthe jor the cowards COB ards three out of the six made their escape more or less hurt lurt one of the others he had bad picked up and dabbed upon the ground rendering him senseless the other two he nipped around the v aidt burtu they screamed in agony A BIO POLICEMAN he ile was just making off with oth the two he had captured when he thought of the poor injured tellow jellow on tha the ground he ile therefore changed over hb his prisoners to the left hand and cad holding them both firmly with one hand by the collars picked up the senseless man with his right arm and threw him over bis his shoulder it must have been a curious tight sight to sea see this marvelous man with w ith his senseless burden and captives captive going docu the streets of 0 Xon montreal treal on that dark night the blood from the wounds in his forehead foie head running command dom down mand and nigh blinding him he Ile dropped the wounded ded man in at the hospital as he lie passed and took his prisoners to the station cyr however was very much cut and had to go to the hospital this aind nd many other episodes during his service with w ith the police 4 him very popular and after the event described he was left unmolested pol ested 11 lib ti bad had been a custodian oft of f ho 19 police olice for nearly two years when hen inc if ap pp I 1 happened ap which called to pis juanit W ity of bire figh one day he be was on duty in one of fbi chief thoroughfares when a cart laden with bricks came to grief griel the horse fell down town and the shafts were broken they succeeded in getting the horse tree free from the harness but what was to be done with theeart th the cart ecart there it blood right ap the line of tran lf lf jt it was suggested that it khouli bo be unloaded zada stand on one side said the muscular oung young policeman divesting himself of his coat and banding handing his hat to somebody standing by he crouched under the cart pressing bip up with his great broad browl shoulders the bricks cart and all were lifted foot by sa I qt ji it they were moved tight right on oil to the sidewalk the andl applause use oi of tite the browa crowd collected was tremendous some gentlemen who had witnessed this performance were n ere so astonished that they had the whole lot weighed the weight that be he bad lifted was found to ben be a little over 2100 pounds that teat feat of strength determined his ids career WITH AS AN ANCHOR lie ile left the police and at once entered into the show business by beeady arao alce fee with the lumb dumbbells bells and proper training his muscular powers gradually increased to the enormous dimensions of today the toughest customer he be ever had to deal with in lifting to the shoulder was a captain burst on one occasion when in new bew brunswick Brunsw ck burst offered to bet him hin that he would not lift the same weight on to bis his shoulder that the captain would done said cyr and the money was put up this teat feat was not to take place at an exhibition hibi bibi tion buton but on bard one of the lay I 1 ing off oil where they were now burst waa was what you might call I 1 whopper lie stood 0 6 feet 7 inches and unlike the generality of giants he was a j broad shouldered muscular individual so to the ship they repaired wit with the stakeholder referee and a few acquaint ances aboard the vessel was an anchor weighing exactly BW pounds buret burst picked uy up this pretty little toy and placed it with with api ati parent ly not much difficulty onto hn ili shoulder it remained there for about a minute during which time the wonder anent and applause was great the anchor was then taken from his shoulder by six I 1 men and replaced upon the deck then came cyrs turn and the betting waa was two tw 0 to one against him he had never attempted such a feat before yet nothing daunted he grasped the anchor and after a descente des pente struggle managed to get it onto his shoulder it was a near thing however and nothing like so easily done aa as by hla his opponent never mind he got it there them now said add cyr to the calta captain just you gt up and straddle across my ghoul tiers dem after borne some persuasion he was induced to do this and cyr to the blank astonishment of tie crowd especially his opponent walk halkiu bu around the deck this BO so burst that he shook him by the hand and said well now youre the first roan man ive ever given beet best on that feat and the wa was s paid to cyr liverpool letter ii la strange though truet true that bat in AIA and africa grass gram will not grow the ahe most beautiful flowers and shrubs flourish to perfection |