Show I DEATH DEI TH OF oc FELIX 5 FAMOUS PARIS CHARACTER S Fifty F Years Ago He Ue Outlined the theS S Principle of the Modern Aeroplane AeroplaneS S S Special Cable to H S SS S Paris April 16 One of the earliest pioneers pion ers of aeronautics a rol has just passed d away in the person of Felix Fe a most mo remarkable char character character S acter known to three generations of Parisians simply as a Nadar He died in Paris aged age 1 ninety S SAs As long ago as the early he outlined the prin principle principle principle ciple of o the modern aeroplane and although his ideas became the butt of the cafe concert and the comic press pres of the gay Paris of the Second empire em empire emI pire he lived to say when he heard of M N s flight across the channel Now I can die happy S With his shock of flaming red hair Nadar Nader was a typical boulevard celebrity He lie was in turn Journalist pamphleteer caricaturist revolutionary aeronaut and photographer and In each capacity he achieved fame tame He was an Intimate of ot and Alphonse Daudet His goodness of heart h rt was unbounded He de delighted e lighted to do good by stealth He risked his life by concealing a refugee com corn from governmental reprisals In 1571 It lt was he who hid the famous General in his hla house and who boldly went to Thiers and asked for a pass paso passport port for his friend Hullo said TItters Thiers when he saw him you been shot yet No general was the reply that de Ic depends depends IcS S ponds on you von ou In the fifties he turned hIs hia i attention to photography and be besides besides besides sides contributing considerably to the theS S development of artistic camera work in inFranco InFranco Franco France this extraordinary man tuna became one of the precursors of color photography I In 1862 he ho took to ballooning and eon con constructed tho biggest balloon on record recordS S Le Ie Count Geant which carried fourteen peo people pie and contained cubic feet of ot gas His ills first ascent with fourteen Courteen per persons sons gone In 1863 was successful and aud created an enormous sensation but the Geant cattle came to grief on its next trip After Arter Artera a terrible the thO monster foil fell Ill to earth near HI over None of the occupants pants was hurt but Mme Nadar who ac Ut accompanied companied her husband found thit thur her hair huir had turned white during the trip trIo r S Nadar ladar was prostrated fur weeks b by i ne shock hock Nadar exhibited the th Geant ht t the Crystal Palace in the same me year yer S From his hie cents ascents a with the th G Gant ant Sad Nai S hoped to obtain funds to build a II dirl ible ibie aa as he be called it ii In b bhe 1 he lost all ail bis his fortune and turned on o le lemore more to photography opening a stu i which soon BOOI became becane be a a 8 social center f Parts Durin During the siege of Paris Pari t h 11 was a of oC a balloon corps corp i imade Id U made several Beveral thrilling sortie or over oer i t lines Unes and carried dispatches tJ t the provisional government |