Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — “GIRL” WEIGH'S 685 POUNDS [ARTICLE]

“GIRL” WEIGH'S 685 POUNDS

Miss Trixie and Her ’“Little" Brother Together Tip Scales at Plus Half a Ton. Seattle, Wash.—Miss Trixie, the 685pound Astoria (N. Y.) girl who has been exhibited all over the country, gate considerable trouble to the oflb> cers of the steamship Aymeric. Miss Trixie. wlth her brother, Baby Trixie, are being taken to the big exposition at Nanking, China, to be held this summer, and when the fat girl arrived at the wharf the trouble began by the captain being called on to provide a gangplank sufficiently strong fb allow Miss Trixie to board the ship. The gang plank was made, but a ten-foot section had to be taken out of the ship’s rail to admit the 92-inch hips of the fat New York girl.. Then how to get her Into the cabin and from the cabin into a state room and from the state room to a berth large and strong enough, etc., etc., caused the captain and first officer to have brainstorms. The two “children”—one is twenty and the other eighteen— together weigh 1,281 pounds. They will have to sleep on the floor of their slate rooms on this trip across the Pacific. Miss Trixie was finally settled comfortably in the finest' room on board the ship, but her meals will have to be brought to her, for the door to the saloon is too small for her girth and the stairs are too weak to hold her weight. Strange to say, the fare of these two heavyweights is the same as it is for a ninety-six-pound Chinaman who is returning to his fatherland.