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the aeronaut, whose coura<;e is pr()vorl)ial. iinished his '''No. 6," with 

 whieh he at last succeeded (Octol>er 19) in passing- around the P'.iti'ol 

 Tower and rcturninj^ within the half hour, or twent3'-nine minutes and 

 thirty seconds. Some time before this, however, the committee of 

 the Aero Club had moditied the original rules so that the air ship was 

 not only to come over the park, but its guide rope should be grasped 

 by an attendant, this constituting a landing. Santos-Dumont Avas not 

 al)le to comply with this rule, as before the rope could be grasped he 

 was obliged to remount to avoid ))eing carried b}' the wind agaijist the 

 balloon shed, and he came down fort\' seconds after the allotted time. 

 The committee decided on November 4 as to this much disputed 

 question, and Santos-Dumont was accorded the prize. 



M. SANTOS-DUMONT WINS THE DEUTSCH PRIZE. ■ 



The conunittee in charge of the distribution of the Deutsch prize 

 decided on November 4 that M. Santos-Dumont was entitled to it by 

 his achievement of October 19. At eighteen minutes to 3 o'clock he 



made the start, and in nine minutes the Santoti-DiniKiut Xo. 6 had 

 reached the Eiffel Tower on the north side, made a complete turn 

 around it and made for the starting point. Our diagram gives an idea 

 of the course which was followed. At 3:12:40 the guide rope was 

 seized, and, according to the rules which were recently formulated by 

 the committee, M. Santos-Dumont had lost }>v forty seconds. lie 

 claimed, however, that he had begun his experiments under conditions 

 in which the guide rope did not figure, and he at once protested against 

 the decision of the judges. The matter was left to a committee, which 

 decided in favor of M. Santos-Dumont on Novemf>er 5. 



He donated 50,000 francs, or one-half of the sum, to the poor of 

 Paris. He then gave 30,000 francs to his assistant, M. Aime, and the 

 remaining 20,000 francs to the aeronaut's other colaborers. 



While M, Santos-Dumont has performed a notable feat, it does not 

 necessarily follow that he has acomplished anything of very great 



Reprinted by permission from Scientific American Supplement, November Ui, 1901 



