Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-09-27
AIR DELIVERY
BY HITCHCOCK
Postmaster General Carries
Letters in BipIane.

New York, Sept. 27. The flying
events at the Nassau boulevard ayia
ton meet reached their climax when
Lieutenant T. Dewitt Milling of the
United States army signal corps broke
a worlds record, Nile. Dutrieu, the
French aviatrfx, made her first flight
since coming to this country and Post
master General Hitchcock rose to an
altitude of about 400 feet to fly east
ward with a bag of mail across his
knee. All these events were taking
place at the same time, and the ex-
element and joy of the 1900 specta-
tors was consequently supreme.
Lieutenant Milling, flying a Burgess
Wright biplane and carrying two pri-
vate soldiers of Company L, Twenty
ninth infantry, as passengers, stayed
In the air / hour "a minutes AZ 3-5
seconds continuously, thereby break
ing the worlds record for carrying
two passengers plus a pilot by 10 min
utes 2 SO seconds. Incidentally one
of the private soldier passengers is
named Paul Revere. The other pas.
senger was Private Bill Ecke.
The record broken by Lieutenant
Milling was made fifteen months ago
at the second Rheims meet by the
French fier Mama, who stayed aloft
for l hour 38 minutes 40 seconds with
two passengers.
The prize was $1,000 In cash, and
there were no folks on the field hap
pier over the victory than the little
twenty-four-year-old lieutenant's fell
low fiers from the army and navy.
1.-THE Hon. Frank H. Hitchcock,
postmaster general of the whole Unit
ed States" the megaphone man began
to cry, will now fly to Mineola with
Captain Beck to deliver the mail.
Postmaster General Hitchcock of the
United States will carry the mail bag
on his knees and drop the bag at Min
cola into a circle In which will be the
postmaster of Mineola. Ladies and
gentlemen, Postmaster General Hitch
cock"
Mr.. Hitchcock was far out on the
field with Attorney General Wicker
sham and Captain Beck. Postoflce
Inspector Doyle handed the postmas-
ter general a mail bag containing
LAO post cards and 1872 letters.
The Curt1ss circled three-quarters OF
the field and then climbed rapidly
until it was 300 or 400 feet above the
south end Of the track. Ovington.
Who had also got under way with a
second bag of mail, shot up into the
same acre of sky occupied by Cap
tain Beck and Mr.. Hitchcock, and
shot eastward as a track finder for
Captain Beck's biplane.
The biplane teetered slightly as the
mail bag was released and then the
two machines made a circle and spun
back to where the crowd stood on tip
toe, peering over fences at Nassau
boulevard.
The machines got back safely.
K was up once before the post
master general said. "T%4t was at
Baltimore, with Count de Lesseps In
his Bleriot-"
Fly again? hope so, because l
like the experience very much. My
trip was especially enjoyable, because
at Baltimore | could see very little
OF the ground below owing to the
closed In construction of a ~monoplane.
From the biplane all this end of Long
Island was stretched out to be looked
at.
yes, air routes are all right for
practical mail carrying" Mr.. Hitch
cock continued in answer to a ques-
ton. II mean," he smiled, "the air
Is all right, but the vehicles must con
tinue toward perfection. But even with
the %aeroplane as 1t Is now it would
be very useful to US, particularly in
some parts Of the country. Take
along the Colorado river in the can
yon district of Yuma for instance, or
in parts of Alaska. Along the Colo
RADIO there are places where detours
Of fifty miles out Of the way are made
in mail routes to get to a bridge"