New Britain herald., 1925-10-07

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New Britain.
II Is only human nature that H
New Britain has made some tangi.
BILE effort to assist the air mail serv.
Ice, that service will make every ef.
fort to do something in return fol
New Britain.
Passenger Air Service Abroad
I'VE here IN this country still look
askanee at airplanes as passenger
carriers. This attitude is unoues.
tionahly partially justified due to the
results OF the haphazard methods OF
controlling Of passenger carrying
planes IN this country up to the pres
ent date. However, 1t is interesting
to note that Professor Edward War
ner of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology who has just reached
from complete survey of CONNER
| clal passenger carrying lines OF
Europe states that people abroad
patroniae absolutely reliable and
safe airlines with as little thought
OF danger as We in this country
would give to a ride from New Brit.
ain TO New York on a steam train.
"By the use OF all metal triple
motored planes n line IN Sweden has
been operating regularly for the last
four years with but one forced land
ing. Since the first Of January up TO
the first of July. 1925, this line car
Iried $4,000 passengers not only with
ont fatality, but on an absolutely
regular and reliable schedule, with
out delays or mishaps of any kind.
1T is therefore not only quite con-
ceiYable but very probable that in
the next decade we will find the citi-
zcns Of New England using air mail
passenger routes, at a tariff quite
easily within their means, for the
purpose Of saving time in passing
from such points as New Britain to
New York, Boston, Chicago, etc.
TT is also worthy of careful con-
sideration that travelling by air is on
an average far more comfortable
and convenient than travel by RAJ.
or automobile.
"With these facts as premise 1t
is quite evident that If New Britain
is a competitor in the industrial and
commercial world with other large
cities it will be at great disadvan-
tage If the citizens of Hartford for
In OF q "a;
be in Wall street in New York in the
course OF an hour, whereas New
Britain citizens will have to drive all
the way into Hartford by automobile
or go in by train before even start
ing on their westward journey.
ut is Il we'll known fact today that
the tremendous development of the
North American continent would
have been absolutely impossible
without orr great intricate transport
tation system. Moreover history al
most since the dawn Of civilization
shows that any nation which has
been great enough to rule the world
has always been one noted for the
excellence of its means of communi-
cation,
Wherefore not only any nation,
hut every city and town, whether
large or small must pay particular
hcod to its means of communication
with the outer world if it wishes TO
survive and prosper"
Discussing the freight embargoes
which faced New England during
the war and which tie up shipping
in this section during winter months,
the governor said There is no traf-
Iic problem in the air. The air is
free and congestion is impossible"
II" added that there would be no
cmbargoes possible in air traffic.
Freeman Pictures Future
ut will only be a short time until
people will regard stepping into an
oirplaNe to 90 TO New York or Chi
rago about rs commonplace as get
ting onto train" said Major Talbot
o. Freeman, state commissioner of
and commander of the
11Sth observation squadron. who was
present during the interview.
Major Freeman pointed ont the
trans-contincntal mail route has
been operating for several years and
planes travel "as regularly as clock
work, despite the fact that they use
very inefficient and unsatisfactory
Ten years from now it
will be as common to step into an
airplane rs it is now to get onto a
trai'l"
Major Freeman has Investigated
European air travel and spoke on
the three motored Junker planes
which fly from Sweden to Holland.
These planes carry a number of pas
son&crs, including baggage, and in
four years have had only one acct
lrnt and but ono fatality, which he
contends Is, safer than railroad
travel. From January 1 to July /.
1"95, these planes have carried IS
100 nassrn-ers without even a single
forced landing. He said fog or moth
ing over stops them.
He repeated statements he has
mad publicly in New Britain upon
a number Of occasions, that aviation
is goin. ahead by leaps and strides,
that when properly regulated it is
safer than automobile travel now,
and that an airport in New Britain
will br essential in u short ti1rr