Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-09
Il ROUTES
BEING PLANNED
By Pos lV|AsTER
II Congress Grants Appropria-
tionof s., O00y 600 Burleson
will lnaugurate Four New
Lines.

washington, Jan. s.-Four nAw aer-
TAI mail routes to link the important
cities OF the country from coast to
: coast will be established II congress
grants an appropriation of $3.00o.000.
Postmaster General Burleson stated
today. "A fifth route II under contem.
platicn but has not yet been g1ven the
approval of the postoffice department..
The new routes outlined by Burle-
son In letter to the congressional
postoffice committees are:
Chicago to San Francisco, thus CIV
lnr aerial mail service from New York
to the Pacific coast.
Pittsburgh to Kansas City via Gin
cinnati. Indianapolis and st. Louis.
New York to Atlanta by an extern
sion from Washington.
Minneapolis and st. Paul to St. Louis
via Chicago.
The other route now being investi-
gated is by hydroplane down the Mis-
Orleans, with stops at Cairo. Memphis
and vicksburg.
Burleson estimated that the trans
portaticn Of 382,000,0o0 letters would
be greatly speeded UP by the extern
sions.
WOULD REDUCE RAIL.
The new routes would reduce nearly
one half the mail time between the
cities and are in addition to the lines
already in operation from washington
to New York, Cleveland to Chicago.
II the route from New York to the
Pacific coast is put into operation, the
mall time will be reduced from 80 hours
and 30 minutes westbound and 102
eastbound, Burleson said. The Pitts
burgh- Kansas City route would mean
that mail leaving Pennsylvania at
a. m. could be delivered in Indianapo-
lis and Cincinnati in the forenoon, st.
Louis at noon and Kansas City in the
afternoon. The present railroad time is
~ hours and so minutes, while the fly
ing time would be 10 hours and 40
minutes. Mail between Missouri. Kan
sas and southwestern states would be
advanced from ~ to "a hours.
SAVE MUCH TIME.
The airplane would reduce the mail
time between the Twin Cities and st.
Louis from 20 hours and 35 minutes to
seven hours and 80 minutes, saving
one business day between the north
west and southwest, and 16 hours in
the delivery of mail from Chicago.
Atlanta service would reduce the
mall time about Is hours and 80 min
utes. while the Mississippi river hydro
plane service would mean the delivery
OF st Louis ana New Orleans letters
In Memphis the afternoon of their
mailing instead OF the following morn
ing, as is done now.
There has suddenly arisen" Bure-
son said. Through the epoch making
invention Of the airplane, mail trans
portation that will cut in half the fast
est railroad time between our CONNER
cial centers, vet so critical has con-
gress been of the utilization of the
airplane for mail service that the post
office department refrains from rec
ommending the establishment of other
important routes because it is as vet
impossible to show on them a substan-
tial saving in the cost of railway
transportation and distribution" Bur-
Lesson said
The post office department has al
ways taken the position that when
American capital is ready to enter the
aerial transport field, it will be glad
to advertise for contracts for carving
mail by airplanes or airships over such
routes as will greatly improve the
service and show a relatively substan-
tai reduction In the transportation and
distribution of mail by train.