The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-14
Night Mall Flights Made Possible
by Towers Installed From
Chicago to- Coast.

New York.-Giant night eyes, each
more powerful than millions cf" can
dies, will flare up into the dark when
the air mail service begins ITO span
America in few swift leaps. Cross
Ing "a 3Q00-mile continent in little
more than two dozen hours requires
great guiding beams = acthal land
lighthouses-to light the coud,flecked
pathway of the intrepid pilots after
Such bright-burning beacons will
pierce through the night;robed zenith
ina cleaning ROM stretching clear
from the foot Of Lake Michigan to
the southeast Corner of Wyoming,
when cross-continent mail delivery by
air starts within stherneNt few weeks.
The dweiiers I'M -heanys-two Sseore
towns will have these permanent au-
roras for their companions ever,
evening, and win 60 to bed with them
still osciHating high. above, their heads.
The circllng columns Of light will be-
come lmdmarksiof besnight,. for folk
who walk upon the earth as well as
for the giant grasshoppers oe the
slfies.
sels First In tho. World. gS..J
They will form the first installation
X their kind In the world-the first
sttempt to illuminate the highways Of
The heavens for1 constant use In. the
paramount affairs of man. On nearly
two score sites they wifi. be erected.
mounted 4, on !, slender. : .steel-legged
towers. operated by phrring electric
motors, automatically moving their
blue-white shafts Of light, silent, alone.
pnfaillng markers Of the aerial road
way that will almost, cancel the
thought in Kipling's classic ErEast =
east and west Is Mest. and -ne,er the
twain shall meet"
1t was Kipling. too, who wrote
"With the Night Mall" story OF just
snch -an enterprise as the United
States Post Office department Is about
to inaugurate. And>"new we have
really reached the era of night mail
within Kiplings own lifetime, so
swiftly do we move In these crowded
years.
The eastern edge of the darkness
zone, on. the transeentineatal air mail
route will be- Chicago. There a beacon
light OF 325,000,000 candle power will
be- .statiopeds = At the westeFh -be,iHtl
ar} of the zone, Cheyenne, Wyo., 800
miles away, another of equal dnten-
eity will stand guard. Between them
will be three others of this size. at
points where the permanent landing
Helds for the night mail are beinSla3d
jout-Iown CITY, 0fnaha' sandt Nortl
e At Lesser Intervals. every twenty-hYe
tniles, there lwilt be beacons of $500
goo candle power, ,inarRing what will
he known as emergency landing fields
u Install Thirty Light Towers.
W These smaller searchlights willcbe
Ilocated at more than thirty PLACES
Ihlong the route: Batavia, McQrr
IiFranklin Grove, Rock Falls and Cor
lddorva, in Illinois; Donahue lDIxon)
Moscow, WILLIAMSBURG Reasnorf Can
I1isle Bonneville, Caset, AAtIaptie, AQals
Hand and Montezuma, in Iowa; Wahoo
G1rriSyn, stypp6ergs. Centr9ls' Gralsi
rentrsk AeItdA,<L Sxingtonv Gbfsseri
hurg, Rxx1suA Bh&e,A AChappeIh sidpeS
E>otter and Kimball, in Nebraska, and
Pine Bluffs. .Wyomipg.
X The combined strength of all these
powerful fnys, ifpnited into one great
Eshaft Of sbrifiiahee, would be equlva
Hent to the light of not far from two
EbillioAi candles --toS be exact, & 1,S00
10000,
It hnsbesn eeneraus renarksd tfa,
kthe big lights to be SET up at the five
kpermanent S3snding. fields Chicago
iowa GtE oomnh@ North Plates pns
HCheyerhe e@are among thtsIdfgesf man
Hhfactured. Their rating has beer
given at various times as 660,0000Ot
candle poMer- each. but this Il IN real
Dty only theoretical rating, which will
pot tsfItsfIly ,stsifed at any t.!s,
Ewhenf t4dDilhts AfSp4 op4rationf i1Y
Hatink whfcif indft4teS whAtS tiie 6ctuAl
8lluminatIon intensity will be Is an
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