The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-27
SELLS HIS BRAIN
TO SPECIALIST
Gray Matter Of "Datas." the Memory
Wonder, Brings $1,000.
ONLY FIVE YEARS TO LIVE
FREAK OF NATURE FOLLOWING
AN INJURY,

nj EW YORK, Nov 26.-Now that
IN J. A. Bottle, who IS widely
/ known on the stage as 'Datas
the Memory Wonder" has sold
his brain TO a weH-known specialist on
| mental diseases, Of this city. for less
than $1,000, the question arises. Would
science be benefited by dissection after
death OF the brains OF such well-known
! personages as John d. Rockefeller,
Russell Sage, Mrs. Hetty Green, Bar
nard Shaw, Andrew Carnegie and J.
PierpOnt Morgan?
This Is what DIR. Carleton Simon. 10
whom Datas agreed to will his brain.
had to say regarding the brain of MI.
Rockefeller:
THE brain of an intellectual freak
I like Datas is worth 100 per cent more
TO science than Mr.. ROckel Hers. Sci
ence would value Mr.. Rockefeller
brain only as a relic, Just as. you may
say, chair which belonged TO George
Washington.
1.-THE brains OF Russell Sage and
Mrs. Hetty Green, like that of Mr..
Rockefeller, are those of warped men
talities. Their desire 20 amass wealth
shows no great amount OF intellectual
the shape or growth OF the brain"
Not Worth Thirty Cents.
A well-known specialist was asked
to determine the approximate value TO
science of the brain of Bernard Shaw.
Shakespeare brain would have been
worth thousands of dollars, he said,
but from observation of Mr.. Shaw,
his mentality and his works, 1 don't
think his brain would bring 80 cents.
Unlike Mr.. Rockefeiler's, it would not
be regarded as even q relic"
Andrew Carnegie's brain was de-
clared TO be rfectly normal. In this
instance the explanation was made that
he had amassed his fortune by true
business methods, and, having gained
untold wealth his normal brain had
realized that its retention was unjust,
and he had struck a balance by Civ
ing away libraries. In doing 50. &C
cOTding to the specialist. he was train
ing the mind of the public to appre-
ciate the dangers OF amassing great
wealth.
The brain of J. Pierpont Morgan was
classed as normal and of no great
value to science. Like Mr.. Carnegie.
il was pointed out, he equalized his for
tune by lavish living and clear and
sane investments, the latter made, in
the main, to protect his own interests.
The stigma of erraticism was not
placed against the brains Of the living
members of the Vanderbilt family, nor
against that OF James Hazen Hy6e,
The fact that some men worked harder
TO put gold in Golfers than the miners
do to di it out of the earth was said
TO be no mark of abnormality.
Dstas' Peculiar Case.
In the case of Datas, his peculiar
knowledge stands out from his other
mental functions. He was born July
20, 1875, at New Haven, Kent, England,
and worked in q gas house i'm his early
youth He displayed no unusual pow
ers of memory until he sustained an
injury 10 his head. from which he lay
for several hours.
The day after the accident he began
TO realize the creation of new mental
One of the first signs was
his ability To recite the name of every
jockey, with the pedigree of the horse
and time. IN 1000 different racing events
after one reading.
He knows the date of every impOr-
tant patent In the world, and can
rattle off the names of 1877 British regi- i
ments, including some 100000 men,
each regiment by name. with
the staff officers.
It is possible h brain. after death,
will show the exact seat of memory.
Although Datas is Onlv 80 years old,
medical experts say he has only hVe
years more to live.