THREE MEALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1939, Page 6

THREE MEALS

BIG MAN'S ENORMOUS APPETITE. Frank Mackowicki, 20 years old, 6ft. 6in. tall and 20 stone in weight, trundled into a restaurant in his size 14 boots, sat down and ordered a meal, writes the New York correspondent of a London newspaper. • ........ He ate two pounds of steak, with potatoes, three large pieces of bread, some dessert, and two cups of coffee. Then he ordered the "same meal all over again and ate that. Unsatisfied, he ate the complete dinner a third time.

Frank was still hungry and was going to order a fourth, but by this time a crowd had gathered round his table, and he doesn’t like people watching him eat. So he paid his bill and got out. Frank had a job with a blacksmith then and could afford it. But when he got out of work he found that his appetite took some keeping. That is why Frank Mackowicki has been in trouble with the police, off and on, for ten years. Even the police agree that Frank has no criminal- instincts—just the natural one of hunger. When the Newark police arrested him for his last outbreak, in which he looted six cafes, he ale most of the stock and complained of feeling weak. He has been in and out of reform institutions, always on the same charge, "breaking and entering a restaurant."

Frank doesn't really mind being arrested. His first meal at the police station was one foot of Bologna sausage, one whole loaf, four apple pies, and, in the words of the police chief, "enough coffee to float a row-boat.