The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-08-24
BEAT THEIR
SCHEDULED TIME
Mail Pilots Spawned Cont
uent Again
CUT DOWN RECORD
Made Trip In Little Over
Twenty-Seven Hours
Today
Associated Press Dispatch.

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Chicago, August 23.-Two min
utes under the hoped for twenty
eight hour transcontinental air mail
delivery planned by the postoffice
department mail which left San
Francisco at 1855 a. N. mountain
time yesterday, was delivered at the
air mail field at Hampstead, N. Y,
at 1922 D. m. esatern time today,
fulfilling the dream of American ay-
iators and postal officials since the
air mail was first established.
II was not the first mail carried by
plane across the continent but 1t es-
tablished a mark of q hours and 81
minutes elapsed time for the pilots
to aim Mt for the next two days OF
the Ave day test period.
Spawned Continent Twice
Twice since the test started Tues
day the continent has been spanned
time yesterday when New York mail
that departed at 11.01 a m, eastern
time Tuesday, reached San Francis
CO at SPA p. m. thirty four hours
and twenty three minutes after the
Digit across mountains, hills and
plains and more mountain. Under
the original first days schedule, the
westbound flight had been allowed
thirty hours, while the eastern sche-
dule which ii was believed would be
aided by winds at the aviators
backs, was set at twenty eight
hours. Today the arrival at Hemp
stead, N. Y, Of Pilot Paul F. Collins
completed the second successful
cross continent flight.
As the eastbound pilot swept on
to New York today nearly every re-
.ay pilot was an hour or two hours
ahead of the schedule, and west
bound as the third day Ayers started
from New York and San Francisco,
the air mail was ahead Of the seized
ule.
San Francisco, Cal. August %
Uncle Sans transconttnenta1 mes
senger service was responsible Tor
the delivery of hundreds OF New
York letters in the business dis
trict here last night as the result OF
a thirty four hour mail flight from
New York, which was completed
speed of one hundred miles an
when a plane, racing along at q
hour, darted out of the sky by the
Golden Gate at sunset yesterday.
Today as men in the commercial
and financial districts opened let
tiers from their New York offices
which were mailed Tuesday they
gave serious thought to giving most
of their New York messages here
after to Uncle Sam where they
formerly relied on faster forms OF
moving orders.
Crowd Greeted Pilot.
San Francisco was startled by
this unprecedented performance OF
the postal service augmented by
aviation, for it was remlniscently
engaged in a mental throwDack to
no early days of the pony express
riders when mail was relayed from
..issouri to California by horseback
The plane, piloted on its home
stretch by Clair K. Vance, brought
four hundred pounds of mail from
hours and % minutes after the first
Jouch had left Hampstead Field,
New York.
Pilot Vance was greeted by a
crowd of federal and city officials
augmented by 1000 persons who
had gathered on the hillside oil
Crissy Field to witness the newest
/ triumph Of aviation. The written
words had been moved four days
nearer to New York compared with
train delivery, many weeks con-
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press.
Arrived At Cheyenne.
Cheyenne. Wyo.. August %
Twelve minutes behind schedule,
the night air mail, west bound. left
here at 4:42 a. m, mountain time,
in charge of Pilot H. A. Collision.
A light overcast obscured the
sky, but air mail officials here were
confident Collision would be able to
make Rock Springs on schedule,
where a Few pilot will continue the
! flight.
East Bound Plane.
Chicago, August 23.-Piiot Dean
| Smith. in the eastbound mail plane,
! landed at the air mail field here at
three o'clock a. m, central stand
ard time, more than >two hours
ahead of the schedule.
| Landed At Cleveland.
Cleveland, Ohio. Aukust 23.-Pilot
W. d. Williams. in the eastbound
air mail plane landed here at 1927
a. M, eastern time from Chicago.
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