Nell Bly and the Champion Brute.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 365, 17 October 1889, Page 2

Nell Bly and the Champion Brute.

In vain a thousand male American reporters have tried to draw the brutal Mr Sullivan, but he succumbed nt last to the inquisitorial charms of Miss Nelly Bly, who ia the pluckiest and most famous of American newspaper women. The reveiatione »re oerainly calculated to send a thrill of envy through Mr Tussaud, who has been very remiss in failing to secure tbe curios which are mentioned in this extract :—" Each nf us bought a soft felt hat to wear out of the ring, said Mr Muldoon. Mr Sullivan threw both of them into the ring beforp the fight. They only cost Idol, apiece, yet a men got Jfidnl. for Mr Sullivan’s hat, and afidoi, anieoe for Clgary.’a and mine, The bucket, which W i<w water which we dipped tha towels In sold for 25d0l each. The post which held his colours was torn up, and splinters of it sold for 6doi. each. They even dug the ground up where the post was driven, and doing it up in little parcels sold them to people anxious jlor mementos. The ring rope was out into bits and sold. I had half a doyen towels and two sponges which I bathed Mr Sullivan with and they disappeared as if by magic. Major Hughes, the chief of the fire department pt Louisville, got the can which I hqfi'made expressly for Mr' SuTtivan to drink out of at th, ring, and he refused lOOOdols. for it.’l *'

The Mr Muldoon who speaks here is Mr Sullivan’s trainer, who is himself besieged with applications from Fat Jacks and Heavy Marya all over the States, begging him to “do the banting ” :— •* One man wroth that he weighed 280 odd pounds and his wife weighed 10?. What could he do to decrease, and S’* ' v^a tlo io' intireltrtf Tfali men want to be m»> a bW’ « hort "?, 8n to get tall, thin men want to grv? mao want to grow thin, and they all wM'a Champion Trainer-Wrestler Muldoon for advice, and they not only promise to take it but to pay for it. One boy wrote that he was only 13!years old and measured sft, Ilin, He wanted to know how to stop his growth and how to make himself broaden out."