The Curious Case of EDGAR MIX

摘要

FOR AVIATION ENTHUSIASTS at thernturn of the century, Paris was the place to be. In 1901, thousands thronged the Pare de Saint-Cloud on the city's outskirts to watch Alberto Santos-Dumont, competing for the Deutsch Prize, take off in his one-man powered airship to fly to the Eiffel Tower. The wealthy aeronaut, who won the city's heart by splitting his prize money between his mechanics and the city's 4,000 registered beggars, pronounced the seven-mile trip "remarkably intoxicating."