The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-08
Aerial Mail Will
Grow Into Frequent
Trans-Ocean Traffic
By Edwin H. Hullinger

LONDON, June 3d. by lairship
across the Atlantic. )-"An aerial
mail from England to America which
/ believe within two or three years
will grow into frequent and de-
pendable trans-ocean traffic, begins
with the voyage of the R-34 to Long
Island" Howard E. Coffin, council of
national defense member OF the
American aviation commission, de-
clared to the United Press here to-
day.
| In an interview which has the dis
tinction of being the first regular
news story ever carried across the At
lantic by air cruiser, Coffin forecast
that peace will speedily bring tre-
mendous achievements in this new art
of transportation, so uniquely b pro-
duct of the war.
"The United States in like period
will be crossed and criss-crossed by
the trans-continental air limiteds,' he
predicted.
Give years perhaps less-should
see a great intercontinental air thoro-
fare between North and South Amer
lea. \
"All the continents will be connect
ed by crowded air routes during the
next decade. What this involves in
international comradeship and pre-
vention of wars is obvious. For the
history of civilizations advance is
largely history of the progress of
transportation.
"The air era is already at hand.
"This is the practical significance
of the third crossing of the Atlantic
within a month"
Coffin, national authority on avi-
alton, was one of the first big auto
manufacturers to offer his services
to the government in 1917. The
American aviation commission arrived
in England recently on its research
tour through the allied countries OF
> Europe.
: "Several years-perhaps two oil
a three-should suffice to place cross
Atlantic flying on commercial basis,
Coffin said.
II believe q large volume of pas
senger traffi will be released into th'
Atlanti cair channels the moment al
travel is demonstrated to be safe.
| "Convinced they are not riskins
= their lives any more than in ordinar.
surface passage, large number o
is business men on both sides will crow
l. into the new world speedsters.
would think the first Sares would b
VI about $500 to $1,000 one way fror
If New York to Liverpool.
"Income from this alone would vii
= tually cover operating expenses
a. once line was established.
personally, expect the first flee
of passenger liners to be seaplane
rather than dirigibles. owing to tn
great cost of constructing dirigible
le doubt whether capitalists at fir
% want to sink such large sums in initii
1 outlay when they can draw fine pro
w. its fro mairplanes carrying rs ar
81 80 persons and costing comparative
little to build and less to operate.
n "The air palaces will come later
n Coffin plotted the first trans-co
IS tinental air line. Three from east
west, one across the north, secol
n half way down, and third from Flo
ida or Georgia to southern Califo
lc- MIA, largely following rail lines.
of Of five from north to south,
drew one straight down the Paci
les coast through eSattle, Portland, 81
Francisco, and Los Angeles. Anoth
at traced the course of the Mississip
valley along the base of the Rookie
at Zone of the most important Sc
vices they will perform will be trar
les porting money" he added. "N'
ps, several days interest must accumula
before a check deposited in New 70
Try can be cleared in Kansas City.
On. large sums the interest lost in Il
Ige interval is astonishing.
SO Bankers tell me an air expel
from New York to Kansas @
as through Buffalo, Cleveland, Detr
and Chicago would pay for itself j.
Tho in money saved in interest.
the Tn case of transatlantic trafi
len the interest margin would be cut
'es, tween 500 and 700 per cent. T
would go long way toward defr'