The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-16
The Return of the RIA

The Return of the RIA
The successful return trip of the R-34 con-
firms the promise of aviation enthusiasts that
regular service between European and American
ports by air is imminent. Even if passenger and
freight transportation is out of the question for
some time, the dispatch of business mail and
photographs for newspapers and magazines by
air service is near at hand. The R-34 carried
photographs of current events on her return trip
that were printed in the next editions of the Lon
don newspapers.
Of all the inventions that have been given to
mankind in the last hundred years, none sur
passes the improvement that has been made in
the process of annihiating time and space. Steam
and electricity have linked far off localities with
bands Of steel and threads Of wire, and bridged
ocean and sea- The motor car has made neigh
bors of distant cities. The telegraph, telephone
and wireless bring the news Of the world to
in incredibly brief time. The conquest of the air
has reduced broad expanses Of land and limitless
areas of the sea to insignificant stretches.
The establishment of air service between
America and Europe recalls the establishment
of the first through mail between New York and
Chicago in the seventies. A contributor to the
New York Sun recounts the event. which seems
of no consequence to the children of today, but in
reality of the stepping stones in the
march of achievement Says the Sun:
On the night Of September 16. 1875. at the Union
station Cleveland Ohio the first of the famous fast
mail New York Chicago the New
York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroads.
The project originated in the mind of George s.
Bangs, general superintendent of the railway mail
vice. The train left New York at AIS the morning
Of tho with sof Hank Null
furnishing the motive power far Poughkeepse with
Engine 81 Other engineers between New York and the
Forest City George Bates. William Gould and Mich
oas Hartman.
The train. in charge of Joseph Lyons reached Cleve
land at 80 AS 1t entered the union station, which
crowded with people, Of cheers The
train consisted OF the engine. four postal and
palace drawing coach for invited guests George
bangs general superintendent of the railway mail service
being one Of the party
The four postal in pure white with Dor
der finish of light buff and gold. They named
Governor Tod. Governor Tilden Governor Morgan and
Dix and they followed the engine in that order
Each bore inscription in Latin in addition
legend similar to the below:
The Fast Mail Train
United States
Governor Dix
Office
The train schedule provided for stops at Albany
Utica. Syracuse Palmyra, Rochester, Batavia. Buffalo,
Laport only for water and fuel and functions
At ndusky crowd greeted the by singing
old Hundred"
The train, which due at Chicago at 6:55 a. M,
beat the schedule by eight minutes reducing the time
New York and Chicago from SO to SO hours AS
result Of the strain by high speed Engineer Osgood
who made Is minutes of lost time in the 1o1 miles
from Ekhart Chicago. tainted in the he arrived
| at his destination.
On board the train in his jurisdiction was the
late Thomas W. Burrows superintendent of the
division Of the New York Central. Mr. Burrows began
his railroad water boy for trackmen the
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati railroad New
don, Ohio where his father, William Burrows
ton boss in the early sixties.
BALks At BEING MOTHER WILLARD
Washington Star.
Colonel W. ]. Bryan is not inclined to lay much
the fact that he the logical candidate of the Prohi
bition party
THEY cUss NOT MENTION A.
Coledo Blade.
mentionable among possible Democratic candidates for
| president.
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