Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-06
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MAIL BY AIR WEDNESDAY
Flames to Make Trip From New
York to San Francisco In
90 1-2 Hours.
tBy Associated Press.l

WASHlNGTCN, Sept. 5.-Air mall
service between New York and San
Francisco Will be inaugurated by the
Post-Ofiice Department Wednesday.
the first planes leaving each terminus
at $50 a. NJ. local time.
Complete plans for schedules for
the coast-to-coast service announced
today by the department. show that
the mail planes from New York 10
San Francisco are expected to make
the trip In ffty-six and one-halc
hours elapsed time. and the San
Francisco 10 New York planes in
sixty apd onc-half hours elapsed
time. Mail sent by train from New
York to San Francisco reaches the
latter city in about 100 hours and
San Franc:sco mail arrives by train
in New Yo-k in about n.ncty-s!x
hours.
The westward bound air mail un-
der tho summer schedule Will leave
New York at $50 a. NJ. AID arrive
in Chicago at 2:30 u. NJ. and Iowa
City at i:0S +. NJ. Leaving Iowa City
the next day at $40 y. ~. the mail
viii reach Omaha at S:i5 y. NJ, and
Rock Springs. Wyoming, at 5:52 y.
NJ. Leaving Rock Springs the next
morning at $50 y. VI. on the las; lap.
Reno is TO be reached at 1890 i. Nj.
and the mail delivered to the San
Francisco postal authorities at .
L. VI.
Eastward bound mail under the
cisco ut $40 A. NJ. arrive at Salt
Lake City at 2'61 =. NJ. and Rock
Springs at 4:37 l.. NJ. The mail will
leave Rock Springs the next morn
Ing at $3.50 ~ NJ. and reach Iowa
City at G:2l y. NJ. The start on the
last lap from Iowa City will be made
at $3.50 A. NJ Chicago will be reached
ut sos p. NJ. and mail turned over to
New York postal authorities at g p.
ST. The winter schedules are similar
except that starts from New York
and San Francisco will be made at
ESQ \. VI. instead of $50 A n.
Metal monoplancs with n cruising
radius OF ten hours at ninety miles
an hour will be operated between
New York and Omaha with a single
stop for gas at Chicago. De Havi-
land planes with four hours
fuel and oil at eighty miles an hour
Will be used between Omaha and San
Francisco. Stations between the two
tcrmini will be Cleveland. Chicago.
Iowa City, Omaha, North Platte.
Cheyenne. Rock Springs. Salt Lake
City and Elko and Reno, Nevada.
Pointing out that Inauguration OF
the new service Will extend the air
mail service over 1.iG3 miles of new
, territory. the Post-Omce Depart
Incnt In its announcement, added:
With the establishment of the
transcontinental air mail there Will
be at the service OF the United
/ states military forces what is prob
larly maintained landing fields and
facilities in the world, u system that
! Will enable the movement OF air
i-ets from ocean to ocean with large
I landing fields and fueling and repair
| facilities approximately every 200
/ miles.
THE transcontinental daily mir
mail will be the most difficult flying
| project yet undertaken. Not only
has Il required the working out of
route nearly 5000 miles long. but
| the actual dying will ne under the
most trying conditions. At Che
! yenne. Salt Lake City and Reno the
| udIlS iiSiH6 Win lull louu OF mail
Will have TO be at attitudes ranging
| from 1900 10 $4,000 feet above sea
! level and over occasional high, wind
wind-swept plateaus. with powerful
! head winds TO cut down the speed
! OF all planes. Intense cold weather
| Will be encountered, as we'll as snow.
| and against these contingencies all
! advance preparations possible have
! been made. Powerful radio stations
/ for communication with the planes
in, No fniv a,ss lnN az,
| installed mt Reno, Salt Lake City
| Cheyenne and Omaha"