Evening star., 1924-11-15
CH|CAG0-Mi1fN YORK
AIR MAIL SPEEDED
s to 9 Hour, Double Track
Service to Be Started Early
Next April.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. November l5.--Nine-
hour overnight air mail service from
New York to Chicago and an eight
hour service over the same course
eastward, due to prevailing winds.
will be inaugurated early in April
, OF the coming year.
, Carl F. Egge. general superin-
tendent of the Air Mail Division. Post
, Office Department. announced the
new service yesterday after COM
pleting "A report to Col Paul Hender
son, Second Assistant Postmaster
General
The report included detailed plans
for the illumination of the 7So-mile
, course and provided for emergency
, landing fields. The new service will
-be supplemental to the transconti-
mental service which has been in sue
cessful operation since July | be-
tween this city and San Francisco.
1t was announced last night that
the Eastern air mail terminus will
be Hadley Field, near New Bruins
wick, y. ]. This field has the ad-
NantaSes Of being free from the fog
common closer to New York City and
or being 80 miles nearer the Chicago
end or the route. A fve-Ship hangar
will be erected
hus night flying would be in prog
reSs over the entire transcontinental J
route and there would be two de-
liVeries of air mail daily, instead of
the present one, at all points along
the route. The air mail service
would be double track" throughout
as soon as the demand of patrons
westward from Chicago promised to
make it feasible.
Night mail will leave the New
York air terminal at II pm. reaching
Chlcaso hours later &C a.m.) for dis
trioution with the first regular delivery.
Night mail will leave the Chicago air
terminal at PM, reaching New
York hours later (6 amo. also for
the days first delivery. Due to pre-
Naliing winds, the westward flight
VIII be an hour longer
Train Requires 70 Hourx.
Mr.. Egge pointed out that the best
mail train time between the two cities
now is 70 hours. and virtually two
nays are lost In the transaction of
business by train mail But with the
air mall, he said, a lo-hour service
from post office to post office would
De maintained. Letters mailed al the
close of business in terminal city
or any intervening air mail station
would be at destination for the OPEN
ing OF business the next day.
fostal rates Will be 8 cents an
ounce-the present air mail rate for
zone l, which includes Chicago In
the meantime, the transcontinental
service will continue on the schedule
lnaugurated last July l, with de-
partures from the established termi-
nals at New York and San Francisco
each morning. According to Mr..
Egge the tonnage on this route,
which slumped after the first few
nf
iectors lost interest has since grown
steadily and consistently
Bankers for Service.
Installation of the new service was
ordered upon the findings of a sur
Ney conducted in New York and Chi
cago by Luther X. Bell, traffic man
ager of the Post Office Department
II indicated that eight to nine
hours delivery would be appreciated
by thousands of business men who
daily carry on transactions OF i'm
portance between the two cities"
bankers were reported especially de-
sirous OF the installation.
Hadley Field, the new night-serv-
Ice terminal is about SO minutes by
train and truck from the New York
primarily because 1t is inland and
free from the fogs which prevail
over Long Island fields. 1t will be
surrounded by boundary lights, will
have "a five-plane hangar, radio
masts. a 00.00O.000 candlepower bea-
con with I50-mile range, and flood
lights of equal power.
% Emergency Fields
Bellefonte. Pa. 22o miles from New
York, Will become a main field. SINH
larly lighted Intervening will be 90
emergency fields. with 100000 can
Glepower beacons. hangers. person
mel and equipment. Several of these
emergency fields will be in the high
est pa sses of the AIleghanieS
The number Of airplanes in the
service between here and Chicago
will be increased to 3s including
spare machines. Eleven pilots now
in the transcontinental service have
been assigned to the overnight route
At present the department has 94
airplanes in the New York-San
Francisco service.
Extension of night flying on the
transcontinental route eastward from
Chicago to Cleveland and westward
from Cheyenne to Rock Springs was
revealed by Mr.. Egge as a necessity
enforced by the shortening of the
days as Winter approached.
AS a result. he said, IL new emer-
sency fields had been installed west
ward Of Cheyenne and II eastward
Of Chicago, while Cleveland and
Bryan, Ohio. had become main
fields" at their end of the night
route.