Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1916 — Santos-Dumont. [ARTICLE]

Santos-Dumont.

Santos-Dumont Is visiting manj cities In South America in the inter est of the Pan-American aeronautic conference. He was born in Sao Paulo. Brazil, on July 20, 1873. From 1900 to 1906 he demonstrated to Europe the possibility of conquering the air with the dirigible balloon as well as with the aeroplane. He spent in aeronautics alone over $50,000 a year for 12 years in experimentation. While in Paris in 1901 he won a prize of 260,000 francs. He was made chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1904, and in 1990 received the officer's cross.