Then there was a description which event into the details.

It gave his enormous weight--150 1/2 pounds, and his length 4 feet 2 inches, from stem to stern-post; and his height--3 feet 1 inch, to the top of his back.

The pictures and the figures so impressed me, that I could see the beautiful colossus before me, and I kept on thinking about him for the next two hours; then I reached New York, and he dropped out of my mind.
In the swirl and tumult of the hotel lobby I ran across Mr.Daly's comedian, the late James Lewis, of beloved memory, and I casually mentioned that I was going to call upon Mr.Daly in the evening at 8.
He looked surprised, and said he reckoned not.

For answer I handed him Mr.Daly's note.

Its substance was: "Come to my private den, over the theater, where we cannot be interrupted.