A CANADIAN GIANT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3192, 17 September 1917, Page 6

A CANADIAN GIANT

WAE RATION PROBLEM FOB A LONDON HOSPITAL. A giant who holds the British'height record for the last 120 years is at present a patient in the isafional Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, W.C., where he has been accommodated in a bed improvised from two ordinary bedsteads. 'His name is Frederick Kempster, he is 8 feet 2 inches in height and 25 years old, and is suffering from Giants' disease, known officially as acrohiegale, or inaction of the nerve-centre which controls growth. His size in boots is 25. | Kempster is a Canadian, who was taken to tho colonies as a baby. But quite a normal baby, for the nerve responsible for the trouble did not cease work until Kempster was twelve years old, when he began to shoot rapidly beyond his brothers, and then beyond his father and mother, who are all of normal size. . He told a "Daily Chronicle" representative that three of his brothers are serving with the Canadian contingent. In a voice which is described as being ' like a sweet-toned 'cello played into a megaphone," Kempster told how he had tried to join the Army in England, where he had come from Canada for treatment ot one of his legs, which was damaged during his work in a lumber camp. But, with a large sigh, he said there was "nothing doing," and finally he became the star, exhibit of a show in Tottenham Court Road. , . .. In-the next bed to Kempster is a small boy who has. never ceased to be astonished since the giant arrived. His admiration for the feat with which Kemp-; ster celebrated his entry is especially great. Seeing a pile of bread and butter, which he took to be his own share, the giant ate the lot. It was not till later that he learned lie had eaten the whole ward's war-time breakfast allowance.