The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

of air craft plying between Vermont and
other places.
Mr.. Woodhouse hints that Vermont
may also become center of the aer0nau-
tic industry Communities that partici-
pate in and encourage the development
of aeronautics are very likely to be re
paid in the near future by being selected
, as aircraft construction centers, which
will bring to these communities q lot OF
business and international and national
distinction and prominence he writes
In his letter Mr.. WOodhouSe pays high
compliment to Gov. James HartnesS as a
pioneer.in the science of aerOnautics. His
letter, in part, follows:
Mr. Warehouses; Letter.
while making the wall maps of the
United States and Canadian airways and
the world airwayS, Admiral Peary, Capt.
Robert y Bartlett and the writer were
impressed with the fact that. Vermont IS
ideally located geographically to become
an aerial junction fer transatlantic and
intercontinental air lines. ...s ..
: AS You will note on the wall map of
the United States and Canadian airways,
the state of Vermont is crossed by the
Chanute and Bell airways, which extend
across the continent from Boston on the
Atlantic to Seattle and Portland on the
Pacific crossing or touching MaSsachu-
setts, New Hampshire, Vermont. Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, Canada,
Michigan, Wisconsin. South Dakota,
North Dakota, Montana, Idaho. Washing
ton This airway was named after the
American pioneers in aviation. Octave
Chanute. who encouraged and assisted the
Wright brothers aud Alexander Graham
Bell, the inventor of the telephone, and
Mrs. Bell. who paid for the early expert
ments of Glenn II. Curtiss.
This map also shows that Vermont IS
on the Atlantic airway which extends
from Maine to Florida. which connects the
Red airway, which extends frem St.
John, Newfoundland, across Canada, to
, Vancouver and around the world. touch
ing all the British possessions and, as is
shown by the wall map of the Eleven
Hundred World Always, connect with
every part of the world.
Names Air Ccnters.
Because the state Of Vermont occu-
pies such a prominent geographic position
economically many cities like Spring,
field, Bennington, Montpelier may become
aerial functions where the huge aeroplanes
and dirigibles of the Atlantic and
intercOntinental air lines will be loaded
with the passenger and aerial mail and
express matter which viii have been car
ried thither by hundreds of aircraft ply
ing between Vermont and other places.
L ne ESTABLISHING OF the landing HeIi
at Springfield Vermont reflects commend
able foresight and the state Of Vermont
Is to be congratulated for this as we'll a.
for having as governor the Hon. James
Hardness. man of many high distinctions
not least of which is the distinction of
having been one of the first coo people in
the United States to learn to pilot an aero
plane, and one of the airSt hundred Ameri-
can gentlemen who took up aviation for
the sake of progress and learned to fiy and
qualified as aeroplane pilot; and the only
governor of a state who holds an aero
plane pilot license"
FavOrs Newfoundland Route
1t may interest you to know that it
is the general opinion of people interested
in aerial transportation that the New
foundland route will be the fav3rite trans
Atlantic route for transatlantic air
liners. and it is evident that the larger
craft will fly on to centrally located ter
minalS in New England states. while
smaller ones will either take on fuel at
St Johns. Newfoundland. or unload their
cargoes and passengers, to be relayed to
central terminals by other aircraft"