The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1903, Page 1

N \ tof 4 VOLUME XCIIEK SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PROFESSOR JACQUES LOEB ADDS ANOTHER DISCOUERY TO HIS REMARKABLE ACHIEUEMENTS IN BIOLOGY JACQUES the hiiza principies of any organ under certain conditions may be brought into activity by f the starfish. This result was obtained by a long series of careful experiments, and it is the farthest step yet accomplished in the endeavor to reproduce life conditions by chemical means. The importance of Dr. I zation of one genus by the sperm of an entirely different genus, something that has never before been accomplished. Followed out to the logical conclusion the result of his experiments would seem to indicate | fe principles of an entirely different genus and that entirely new forms of life may thus be produced. —a LOEB, foremost, perhaps, of all the scientists in the world in biological work, has added the cap sheaf to his series of achievements along this line by the successful fertilization of the ova of the sea wrchin | och’s DISLODGED MOUNTAIN PEAK SLIDES DOWN UPON CANADIAN MINING TOWN | BURYING SCORES OF INHABITANT e e e ] e N TUaE2 ., S AT ), ) l, INING I A NDR TOWN OF NIC VES ED L FRANK ERUPTION OF TURTL ARE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN LOSY. IN SOUTHW TERD N ALBERTA, WHICH WAS BURT JUNTAIN, AND IN WHICH DIs — DER TONS OF R MORE THAN PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD IN THE BURIED TOWN. Alexander Leithch, a mercha wife and four sons. C. Ackroyd, » miner. and his wife. A. Clark, laberer, wife and five children. Andrew Garesack, trapper. G. Williams, miner, wife and three children. William Waringten, miner, wife and six children. B. Sumis, miner. John Vandusen, carpenter, wife and two children. ¥. Sumis, miner. B. Yeskid, mimer. ¥. Warington, miner. D. Foster, miner. A. Dawes, miner. Thom Lock, miner. M. Mardigan, miner. James Graham, laborer, and wife. At Least E the dam, the »w h other | chann e impromptu dam break the en- would be swept aw At 410 s morning a terrific seismic dis- it Frank. The earth urred a mile in wing rock f feet high, and ighty Lives Are Crushed Out by Giant Avalanche That Destroys Frank, a Settlement in the Northwest Territory. AN VER, F April 20— ) the f rock this mornix r | eighty Frank mine, entombing eighteen It is now known that from to ninety residents have been killed, besides several miners entombed in the mine. BURIED UNDER TONS OF ROCK. The horrors of La Soufriere have been repeated at Frank in as great a scale as the population of the place would allow. There had not been any warning or any suspicion of approaching disaster. The top of Turtle Mountain jooked as calm eful as of yore yesterday eve- There was no cloud of smoke above mmit, and no rumblings came from its bosom. Ail night those of the little town not at work slept peacefully, and the men in and about the mine went about thelr occupations as usual. Shortly miners. ning | after 4 o'clock this morning there was a roar as of a thousand thunders from the mountain and down fts side came a shower of rock. Thousands of Gowr side of the mountain into the | 4ong came crashing down and buried the town, ruining most of the buildings, dam- | \,ine byjidings, the mine entrance and & up the Old Man River and cover- | many of the cottages of the town. Simul- way track for two miles east [ tanecusly the valley below the town e 5 with from five to fifty feet | shook and rocked like an angry ocean. casda It alse egvered up the mouth of | Horror and dread paralyzed all for a Robert Watt, laborer. E. Rochette, laborer. Thomas Delap, engincer. A. T. Ashgian, weighman. John Brighton, laborer. p | J. J. Scott, laborer. Framnk Vouchon, laborer, Johm McVeigh, laborer. J. Leonard, laborer, J. Sirota, driver. | + time, for seconds perhaps,’ but seeming- ly for ages and even then it was hard to | realize the awful character of the disas- ter that had overwhelmed the thriving little town. As soon as an investigation could be made it was believed that all the | men working outside the mine must have | | been instantly killed. The mine bulldings | were buried mapy feet deep by the first avalanche of rock. But most of the men imprisoned in the mine, whose death at first seemed certain, got out alive late this afternoon. There were seventeen men in the mine. Two died from suffocation, but the other fif- teen worked their way out. The rescuing party above ground despaired of saving the entombed miners, for the entrance was blocked by immense piles of broken rocks. The miners within, however, found an exit where there was less rock, and | after cutting their way through thirty feet of debris all but two emerged from the mine uninjured. One of the impris- oned men who 80 narrowly escaped death went home after emerging from the mine and found his house destroyed and his wife and six children dead. There is now | discoveries fers | possible_to lirhridize whimsls. of tafel! | tus purpuratus) with the sperm of a | in which the eggs of S. purpuratus can Completes Union NOON TO-DAY WILL MARK CENTURY Genera. of Distinct i Fertilization Is Made Arti- ficially. ; Nature’s Rules Are Altered by | Science. ROF. JACQUES LOEB. pro- fessor of physiology the University of California, has | added another fo the startling | recently made make for the proposition that life can be controlled and that things can be in he which done in the laboratory which nature un- aided cannot This latest altogether the most important Loeb. as it goes to prove something heretofore considered beyond the power of science—that the hybridizing of different genera of ani- 1 life is possible. Different varieties | do. discov- s yet made by Dr T | and even different species of the same have been zing of before b .oeb of the the has hybridized, but different accomplished. family genera never Dr. I the ova s was obtained with ca urchin and the sperm of the which he succeeded in fertilizing ong of exper ments and the most patient toil and study. He tosely the theo he has held 2 long time that it different gemera, and he ~triumphed. His discovery ‘was made public to-day | after he had become convinced that he | had entirely succeeded. His account of | his experiments is as follows: “It been well known that it has thus far impossible to hybridize animals h are not in close blood relatio Yet it seemed to me that in or der to obtain more definite data for the problem of evolution the apparent bar- ship. to a successful hybridization of not y related animals should moved. For a number of vears I have direct be re- made experiments in this n, | and on one occasion, in my paper on ‘The Artificial’ Parthenogenesis, in | | Annelids, 1901, I mentioned some of | them, | “Last summer it occurred to me that | possibly the idea which guided me in | my experiments on artificial partheno- genesis and other préblems might also | lead to positive results in this case, namely, that a slight change in the constitution of the sea water (or thc,’ blood) may give the tissues properties which théy do not possess ordinarily. 2 | | This assumption was correct, and I have | recently succeeded in fertilizing the | eggs of a sea urchin (Strongylocentro- starfish (Asterias ochracea). The main | results of my experiments may be sum- | marized as follows: | “r. It is impossible to fertilize the | eggs of Strongylocentrotus purpura- tus with the sperm of Asterias (or of any other of the starfish tried) in nor- mal sea water. “2. T have found a series of solutions be fertilized with the sperm of Asteria ochracea. “3. The sea water contains certain substances which, if added to these so- lutions, prevent the fertilization of the | egg of S. purpuratus with the sperm of Asterias ochracea. i “4. The same solutions in which the eggs of S. purpurata can be fertilized by the sperm of the starfish render dif- ficult or impossible the fertilization of the same eggs by the sperm of their own species. But in the same solution the eggs of 5. purpuratus are very read- ily fertilized by the sperm of their own species wherr"those constituents of the sea water are added which inhibit the hybridization of the egg of the sea urchin wijth the sperm of the starfish. “s. In some experiments as many as 30 per cent of the eggs of the sea urchin formed the chafacteristic mem- brane of fertilization in the artificial so- lutions in about half an hour after the | sperm of the starfish had been added. The same eggs began to segment at the proper time while the eggs without a Continued on Page 4, Cols. 3 and 4. nxc1brane remained unaltered. . Under Continued on Page 2; Column 1, —y OF AMERICAN RULE QVER EMPIRE & 2 THAT NAPOLEON SOLD FOR A SONG D I Cleveland Given He:-).rtyl Welcome by St. Louis | ! Multitude. | i S and Ohio Southwestern at 05:50 o’clock. His train should have come in at | 5:25, and a large reception committee was waiting for him over thirty minutes. The committeemen were not -allowed to be idle, however, for the train from Wash- ington bearing the members of the diplo- matle corps, which was not expected un- til 5:15, came in thirty minutes before the committee had looked for it. The diplo- mats were promptly taken in hand by the committee and escorted to the quarters arsigned them. A portion of the commit- tee remained to greet Mr. Cleveland, | whose train came in shortly after the | diplomats had been driven away In their | carriages. As he alighted from the train he was warmly greeted by President Francis, who had driven rapidly to the station after greeting President Roosevelt at Forsythe Junction. The members of the committee crowded around and Mr. Cleveland was unable to proceed for sev- eral minutes, so thick was the throng about him. A passageway was finally cleared, and with President Francis he walked through the aisle formed by the crowds and entering a carriage was driv- en to the residence of President Francis, where President Roosevelt is also a guest. Everything is prepared, Presideat Roosevelt, ex-President Cleveland and the members of the diplomatic corps are here, and practically all of the troops that are to take part in the parade are housed vpon the exposition grounds. The city has put forth every effort to entertain its visitors, and all parts of it have been lav- ishly decorated with flags, streamers and drapings of red, blue and yellow bunting. There is but one thing that can mar the, eftectiveness of the opening day, and that is unpleasant weather, and, unfortunate- 1y, this is promised, the prediction of thc weather office being far showers to-night and to-morrow. There is every appear- ance to-night that the prediction will be verified. Cardinal Gibbons, who is to deliver the invocation at the dedicatipn ceremonies to-morrow, arrived late last night and was driven to the residence of Archbishop Kain, whose guest he will by for the re- mainder of the week. Governor Odell of New York came in this morning, attended by bis staff, Fol- T. LOUIS, April 29.—Grover Cleve- land arrived over the~ Baltimore o ST. LOUIS FAIR BUILDING, PRESIDENT OF EXPOSITION, AND MARSHAL OF PARADE. Day’s Ceremonies May Be | Marred by Inclement | Weather. 3 i lowing him closely came special trains bearing a squadron of cavalsy, & provi- | sional division of the naval militia and a | provisional regiment of infantry, all from f New York, | Governor Van Zant of Minnesota, Gov- | ernor Cummins of . Jowa and Governor Mickey of Nebraska arrived early this |} afternoon, and Governor Cummins in par- | ticular was attended by a staff sufficient! numerous to make up a squadron of cav- alry 1in itself. Governor Durbin of Indiana, with a staft of fifty people, is expected this even- ing. In addition to the troops . from New | York, the following State troops arriy ed‘ during the day: One provisional regi- | ment and band from Ohio, 1000 officers | and men; four regiments from Missouri, | 3000 officers and men; one regiment and | band from Towa, 860 officers and men; one regiment and band from Illinois, 1000 of- | cers and men; one battalion and band from Oklahoma, 200 officers and men; one battalion and band from Louisiana, 200 officers and men. General Gomez of Cuba was to arrive at 7 o’clock this morning, but it was three | hours later when his train came in. He was glven a hearty welcome at the depot | by a reception committee and escorted to the Planters’ Hotel. Apostolic Delegate Coming. EL PASO, Tex., April 2.—Monsignor Deomede Falconio, apostolic delegate of | Pope Leo XIII to Washington, reaches here early to-morrow morning on jis way to San Francisco, whence he will sail for the Orient, and extensive preparations fogghls reception have been made by the an Catholic clergy and others of zhis city, S Iy President Will Dedicat Louisiana Purchase Exposition. € T. LOUIS, guns will at noon to-morrow the close of the April 20 aiute of 19 announce to the world first century of an inland _empire that Napoleon sold for a song. m in the official life of a great democratic nation will the pomp and paggantry of monarchy’ have been at e dedication of pesition to commemorate that event so overshadowed as the international ex- One of the most impressiva milit spectacles of peaceful times will sweep through the metropolis of the Louisiana domain—a glittering display of Americun arms at the zenith of the republic Kings, mpe: s power and potentate: their embassadors to swell the homage of this ple to the ger that, by blocd- less conquest, gave to the - ritory one-third the size For the first time in the history Government the entire diplomatic corps leaves the capital on a special travel into the heart of the nath The presence of the President of the United States, his Cabinet, Congress and the Supreme Court, at the head of the armed column, intended to symboliz a government the people and achievements. )rders have been issued the War Department to mobilize he vast buildings of the exposition battle-scarred regulars. The powes monitor Arkansas is ascending the b toric river, once claimed by De Seto in the name of-his Spanish sovereign. CRACK TROOPS TO PARADE. Governors of States are picking crack militia regiments fc Ten thousand stalwart types of the vol- ain to by their r a brave s | unteer of the future are burnishing their wea or this day of dignitaries. That the national Government might be interpreted as stamping its approval on an enterprise that has cost it more taan six millions of dollars, Major Genaral Henry C. Corbin will marshal the parade por: from its starting point in St. Louls to the palaces of the Ivory City. Estimates by, the passenger depart- ments of twenty-nine raflways con- verging at St. Louis indicate the atten ance at the dedication of 250,008 to 300,0m visitors, mainly from points in Missouri, 1llinois, lowa, Arkansas and Oklahom. Arrangements for transporting the .- 000 persons who are expected to view the parade and the dedicatory review on exposition grounds present a schedule of fifteen seconds between the delivery of visitors at the gates of the exposition, Continued on Page 2, Columa B the