The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
COAST I 1 TO ]. COAST 8 |
81. AIR MAIL LINE.
Government Officials Plan to
Have Service in Opera .
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UNCLE SAM WILL MAKE PROFIT.
Planes VIII Garry Lsttsrs From New,
York e San Francisco n go Hours
-lay Route . the Crow i,

nave IN ar mall route from New
York to San Francisco. Congress has
Just Increased the aerial appropriation
to $1.415.0o0, an increase for the 1920
q fiscal year Of $88f.50O,, to be used
eor this project. 60. -, ... =
This villa mean that soon It will be
possible to mail letter IN, New York
ct 8 p. m. Saturday and get It to San
Francisco BY =. m. Monday. BY
rail the same letter could get there
no sooner than 8 q. N. Wednesday,
more likely Thursday. The postage VIII
be 2 cents. TO get q straight atty
word message through ~ wire costs
A7O. q night letter $3.50, or ten
word straight message $3.50. ~ p.
At the same time, Uncle Sam viii
make q proht on the letter, .r.>r.
: The air mail routes already. estab-
lished are from New York to Phila-
delphia; New York TO Cleveland, with
q stop at Beilefonte. Pa: Cleveland to
Chicago. with 4 stop at Bryan, Ohio.
Chicago to Omaha, with . stop at
Iowa City. a., >.r.>,..., - =. -
r.-. ~, a. The Crow Ellse. - 49,.
The route Is going 40 straight % q
crow can ny toward the coast. With
the new appropriation at an early date
the route will be extended from Oma-
ha to Cheyenne, to Salt Lake City Of
Ogden, to Reno, to Sacramento and to
San Francisco. -, '':'
The first branch route will run
from Chicago to st. Louis, which
service Is to be inaugurated as soon
~ tho factory delivers the. planes,
which have been ordered for some
time. In due time. when appropria-
tons are made, this line will be ex-
tended on south to New Orleans.
At the present time twin motor De-
Havilands and single motor DeHavi-
lands, capable Of carrying $50 and 400
pounds Of mail. respectively. are being
used. They, will be. transferred to
new routes and Martin and Thomas
Morse planes, O0pound capacity,
especially built for mail service, will
be put on the New York Cleveland
and Cleveland Chicago routes. The
air mail business Is growing by leaps
and bounds, despite the fact that it
is carried for the same rate as other
mail. The experiment has been so
successful. that Postmaster General
.Burleson looks eagerly to the time
when all f1rst-class mail will be car
ried by airplanes. ~ = - ...
IAN airplane can put a cumbersome
Misunderstanding coach out of bust
ness" Is the way one aerial mail d.
vision attache expressed it. Several
Of these distributing coaches have been
eliminated between Washington and
New York. The airplane simply car
ries the mail, from the south, destined
for New York, from Washington on.
It arrives in New York early enough
to be distributed at the postofi1ce to
the carriers for. the days delivery.
New York TO Chicago In Nine Hours.
Mail leaving New York at 6 80 a.
m. by air reaches Cleveland at II
noon eastern time $3.50 p. m. by rail) |;
Chicago at 1915 central time (by rail
at 1880 the next morning). Air mail
leaving New York at 9 a. m. reaches
Washington at II SO a. m. and by rail
it arrives at the capital at 8 p. m. a.. =
Five Martin planes have been deliv-
cred to the government. They cost
about $4,000 each. Four 1,5O0pound
capacity Thomas Morse planes are
being constructed, and when they are
delivered the Chicago-St Louis branch
will be established. -. a. 81 w. ~, :.
The postofice department now has
forty-flve planes and twenty-five fiy-
ers., When, the routes are extended to
the coast it will have eighty planes.
Since the service was started May. Is,
1913; six pilots have been killed.
There are forty-two letters to the
pound. A Martin or Thomas Morse
plane can carry mall on which $3.50
ordinary postage has been paid, to
say nothing Of the sttmufant the rapid
service offers to persons to send let
ters special delivery. All special mail
is supposed to 60 by the quickest
means. The extra profit to Uncle
Sam in special is 2 cents, the boy
on the bicycle receiving 8 cents Tor
delivering It. This would make the
gross revenue for 1900 pounds Of
special delivery mail $3.50.
Naples Attack Cattle.
Deadwood, 8. D.-Reports from the
Limestone district Of the northern