The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
THRILLS? NOT IN THIS
FpOCHAL AIR SERVICE
rrDDY.BEAR coTUMEs DIS
"a rARDED, ALSO LIGHT WRAPS,
Curing LONDON TO PARIS
Trip IN AERIAL LIMOUSINE.


Arp EXPRESS, LONDON TO PA
nIc-We have entered upon new
wa aob in aerial travel. An eight-pas-
ePorn air limousine just put into
SenSI daily service by the "Airco"
reg "-@ and in which / am now writing
4 tI,is' dispatch, definitely solves the
tniSb of combining speed with
Pau,fort saws the correspondent of
the Philadelphia Public Ledger;
III London and Paris have long been
oniv two hours distant by air, but
one travelled disguised as teddy
hear This bus is the most luxurious
oirnIane ever built, but in two hours
~ ma also will glide to earth at the
Ponrget airdrome to find automobiles
n,aiting to convey US to any address
", paris we choose. Although far
inrgor air Goliaths now are in daily
40 between the two capitals, they
+af2o almost twice as long and have
,'nt overcome the, discomforts of
n ,1o from the motor OR closeness of
the air. -,
victory, we gathered at the Victory
Hotel in Leicester square at $3.50
n'cjock to take automobiles to the
Crovden airdrome, where the flight
hogan. The Victory Hotel is head
quarters for all of the air passenger
service from London. It's big wait
mo room is done in chintz with dain-
tv lace at the windows and a profu-
sion of flowers on the mantels and
tables. Neatly uniformed mattresses
serve coffee for the late passengers.
The only suggestion of railway
terminal is the large timetable pla-
carded at the entrance announcing,
in addition to the Paris services
which are about every three hours
until nightfall-that the auto for
the Amsterdam plane leaves
at 9; for the London-Brussels plane
at ten and so on. Croydon has the
same aspect of trim buildings with
much chintz and lace, well-tended
lawns, flower beds and hedges. The
passport examination is perfunctory
except for the German winging it
home via Amsterdam, and who, after
being passed, posed for the profess
fessional photographers in front of
his airplane, wearing smile OF
snug satisfaction.
Pigs Carried as Freight
A half dozen machines were in the
field testing motors and loading
freight. Several large trunks were
tossed into the underbody from our
limousine. Also the Royal Mail"
A couple of squealing pigs were
hoisted into the bus for Brussels.
The balloons hanging about the
field indicated no wind. The air chart
showed that calm prevailed over the
entire distance.
At $50, precisely, we took the
air, and a final glimpse of the towers
of the Crystal Palace before the fog
and distance obliterates them. But
somewhere there is always sunshine,
and we are in it now. But at about
5000 feet.
All Wear Debated Air Belts.
Passengers have laid aside their
hats and wraps. The sliding glass
windows on the lee side are wide and
open and the air is as balmy as the
springtime. The only reminder that
the passenger airplane still is an
infant industry is in the fact that we
all wear Debated life-belts out of
respect for the English Channel. We
figure we can initiate them quickly
enough if anything happens.
While several passengers half re
cline in big leather chairs and talk
to each other and discuss the trip,
they decide there is not as much mo-
ton as on a train, and that there is
no sensation of speed. The speedo-
meter now registers more than 101
miles an hour. One Sophisticated
young thing" who informed us that
this was her fifth trip, is therefore
reading a novel. A monocled BritOn
of the type for whom a betrayal of
emotion would be very bad form is
consulting the stock quotations in the
Times.
The clouds directly below resemble
a limitless, frozen sea, but already
there is a line of blue on the horizon.
The channel is in sight. We are over
it. There is a fleet of boats that look
like peanut shells chucked out on the
water. Both England and France are
Equally visible and the channel of
Seasick terror drwarfs into fair-sized
river, its waves fattered out and
still.
Gaze Down Upon Toy Houses.
We are looking down at the toy
houses, factories and churches of
harbor, pigmy autos and horses, and