Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — Fifty Men and One Elephant. [ARTICLE]

Fifty Men and One Elephant.

Interesting tests were made recently In the Madison Square Garden, New York, to determine the respective pulling power of horses, men and elephants. . Two horses, weighing 1,600 pounds each, together pulled 8,700 pounds, or 550 pounds more than their combined weight. One elephant, weighing 12,000 pounds, pulled 8,750 pounds, or 8,250 pounds less than his weight Fifty men, aggregating about 7,500 pounds in weight, pulled 8,750 pounds, or just as much as the single elephant But, like the horses, they pulled more than their own weight One hundred men pulled 12,000 pounds.