Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-05
Special Correspondence,

Special Correspondence,
r oNDON, July 27,-sInce the frs.
sensational report that he hsd
discovered a part Of the greatest
secret I'm tho world-the origin OF
llfe-J, Butler Burke has been one Of
the busles. men to be found anywhere.
His rooms near the famous Cavendish
laboratory az Cambridge where he has
conducted most Of his investigations
for the last three years have been
fairly flooded with letters, cable mes
rages. curious inquirers Photograph
err und reporters,
The brilliant young Irish scientist
was not used to reporters and let them
have their way with him for a abort
time after his modest announcement OF
hts discovery. But some Of them be-
came bit confused In their struggles
with the technicanties Of the conduct Of
"Radiobes" and similar mysteries, and
the result was version Of the matter
that considerably astonished Mr. Burke
and made him virtually shut down on
the Intervening business. Therefore
Il was by special dlspensation that
fine writer was permitted to spend sew
orol hours the other day with Mr.
burke IN his rooms in that historic lane
known as Trinity street, Cambridge
and TO gain from him fuller ana is'er
Information than has yet been printed
concerning the nature and scope Of
what seems likely to prove the great
est scientific discovery Of the century
found Mr.. Burke in his suite Of
rooms above a hook store at the corner
o. Trinity and Green streets, stone $
throw from old Trinity college, where
many Of the monarohs OF England got
their university education. The out
look from his window is hardly inspir-
ing. the shops ON the other side Of the
lane being SO close that boy could
touch them with a flsh pole, But, sur
rounded by his books and his test
tubes. and With not only Darwin and
Huxley but Newman and even Ruskin
looking down upon him from the walls
Of his room, and working IN a scientific
university atmosphere ripenad by ages,
Mr., Burke needs no elaborate landscape
TO inspire him IN his Investigations.
A MODEST SCIENTIST.
Like many other famous scientists.
the dlscoyerer OF "Radiobes" is an OK
ceedmgly modest and uuassumlng man.
on meeting him casually one would say
that be was simply a good fellow who
took the world S he found Il and help
ed things out with a sense Of humor OF
medium height, with bronzed face,
plump cheeks and q go0d-humOred eX-
preston, he would be selected as a con-
genial companion rather than as the
man whose discoveries bid fair to turn
upside down the theories Of the worlds
greatest physicians and biologists,
John Butler Burke Is an lrlshman,
with the lrishman's fighting spirit, but
he has turned his pugnacity 70 nature
and hts record shows his determination
to wrest from her some of her great
secrets The Burkes Of over are one Of
the Oldest families IN Galway. when
l6 years Old John Butler left his home
and went 10 Trinity college, Dublin
and there took his degree, working I'M
der Prof Fitzgerald in scientific re-
search. Afterward he went TO Mason's
college Birmingham, az q lecturer. and
subsequently gained fellowship at
owens college, Manchester where he
was a colleague Of Prof Schuster
IN ~, 60 80 "","'"h W.