Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1916 — VANDERBILT BUST DESTROYED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VANDERBILT BUST DESTROYED

portrait of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, son of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, the sportsman-millionaire who was lost on the Lusitania, which was destroyed when the studio of C. S. Pietro, a New York sculptor, was gutted by fire. This beautiful sculpture was executed by Mr. Pietro, who is well known in art circles and who exhibited at the San Francisco exhibition. The bust was made during the summer of 1915 and had been delivered to Mrs. yanderbilt and brought back to be photographed. Fire broke out in the studio during the night and many beautiful and valuable works of art were destroyed. Among them were a fufbronzebeadofthelateJP.Morgan, a bust of Mrs. Finley Shepard, and many original designs that had been submitted for exhibition in a contest for prizes, the exhibition to take place at the studio of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, the well-known society sculptor.

When the disk of the sun is minutely examined with powerful telescopes, or when it is photographed with the aid of the modern spectroheliograph, the surface presents a characteristic spotted appearance which undergoes slight changes from day to day, ana greater changes with longer intervals of time, depending upon the wellknown rotation of the sun upon its axis and the periodic recurrence of the sun spot maxima and minima. These and certain well-known related phenomena are now put forwarcT as the basis of a new science which will make possible forecasts of the weather far in advance. That these features of solar activity, however, actually should control and determine the daily changes and sequence of Weather conditions in any definite or direct and consequential manner is regarded by the government scientists as quite impossible. Solar phenomena of the kind described do not have any direct influence upon the weather at any particular time and place, and cannot be made the basis of any forecasts whatsoever. The alleged discovery is regarded as only one of a number of similar schemes which are continually being put forward. In some cases the advocates of these schemes assert that they can forecast the weather for weeks or months in advance, and in others they state that they have found means of producing rain artificially, of preventing hail, and in other ways of interfering with and controlling atmospheric phenomena. These pretensions meet with a certain credence,