The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-02-19
KENOSHA SITES
PLEASE AVIATOR
Lawson Airplane Company
Representative Says that
Kenosha Is Ideal LOca-
ton for Factory.

Kenosha certainly has two advan-
tages which in all probability will at
tract one of the trunk lines now being
formed by the Dawson Airline Com
lpany to make it one of the big ,centers
of the traffic =, declared A. G. Pendle-
ton, the representative of the company
who is in Kenosha looking over vari-
GUS sites for the proposed factory
which the company is to build here and
for station for the proposed airline.
EThese advantages =, he continued,
are the natural topography Of the
land, which it appears to me is as
smooth as a floor in places and second
ly the push and enterprise of the citi-
zens Of Kenosha who have heard of
the venture and promised their good
will towards carrying it out,
Kenosha Cinderella
"This project, added Mr.. Pendle-
ton "may make Kenosha a Gender
ella among the cities Of this nation.
| am today to take final survey over
some landing places near Kenosha and
if my reports are sanctioned by the
interests which I represent, it will mean
the purchase and the installation of a
mammoth assembling plant here with
the subsequent employment of some of
Kenosha s best mechanicians and the
importation of scores of more workmen
to this city"
"The only question now is whether
we can depend on Kenosha's aid and
cooperation toward making her a. lead
er in this great aerial navigation way,
which will eventually envelope the
world. We believe that this is an event
in the history of Kenosha, to which it's
residents may point in future years as
a landmark Of initiativeness, progress
and unity of purpose"
Likes Methods Used Here.
Zone thing which has greatly inter
ested me in Kenosha'', said the Law
SON representative, who is also one of
the men who piloted the first Lawson
Airliner in its trip across the eastern
half of the continent, is the practical
way your local motor car manufacture
ers moves his stock to their various
destinations-namely by it's own power,
which is the natural way, since it in
dicates previously any weaknesses in
the parts of the product before it gets
into the hands of the consumer. This
reminds me somewhat of the plan my
company has in view for Kenosha and
that is to manufacture these mammoth
airplanes in Milwaukee where they are
now being made and to ship them by
rail to Kenosha, where we expect to
build q large assembling plant and
from this plant roll them out onto an
adjoining field and fly them away I'M
der their own power"
Sour present plan is to put into SER
vice by the middle of May line be-
tween Chicago and Minneapolis with a
possible extension to Seattle by late
summer. We intend to have regular
landing places at Chicago, Kenosha,
Milwaukee and regular line Of inter
mediate stations on up to Minneapolis.
This line would of course be in con-
junction with the other 'transcontinental
line from New York to San Francisco
via st. Louis. ="
Tells of New Air Liner.
"The airplane has already demon
strated its practicability and utility in
the late war. The Italians who con-
centrated mostly on the larger types
used them for the transportation of
munitions and supplies and even troops
to their outposts on the mountain peaks
which were inaccessible by means of rail-
roads and sometimes even by pack
animals. The heavier things of course
were dropped by means of parachutes. -
This same type of machine, which we
are going to operate this Spring, has
already been demonstrated and declar-
ed A No. l by its designer, Mr.. Alfred
w. Lawson, when he flew it over one
of the most mountainous stretches pos
sible to select-a distance of some $500
miles and he carried some 400 different
passengers enroute. This trip absolute
ly demonstrated the, practicability Of
this machine because it started on its
course without any preliminary test at
the airdrome whatsoever, and arrived
back safely after having encountered all
kinds of weather, and the most impress
sive thing of all was the entire absence
of seasickness on the part of the passen-
gers, practically all Of whom were lay
men at the art of flying"
There are already established aer-
ial lines in Europe, for both passengers
and freight service. One particularly
prominent is that between London,
England and Paris, France which was
installed over a year ago, and which
has missed but two trips out Of about
three hundred and eighteen in keeping
daily schedule. There have been no
accidents whatever, and remember this
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