New Britain herald., 1925-10-07

Its harbor can usually ind somt
other place to dock,
The more adequate aviation fields
we get, the more successful flylnl
Will become. The more successful
flying We get the greater will be the
confidence the public will have ir
aviation and air accidents will be-
come very few II we get satisfactory
aviation fields"
Reasons For Haste
Continuing, the governor stated
other reasons why New Britain
should lose no time in going after
an airport,
THE Connecticut Yankee Is q
manufacturer by necessity and not
only Connecticut but all of New
England is isolated from the rest of
the country for the purpose of OBJ
tanning raw materials and market
ing manufactured goods. There
fore the question OF transportation
is a particularly vital one in this
vicinity.
since the beginning OF the In
dustrial revolution in the middle of
the last century the history of
transportation has been largely one
of traIilc congestion and disastrous
embargocs followed by the invcn-
ton OF new means of transportation
by way of relief.
Each new means Of transporta-
ton has met with opposition at
first, the most recent case being
that Of the motor truck which is
now almost universally accepted,
not as a dangerous competitor of
our great railway system, but as a
short haul feeder to our trunk line
railroads. Each new means of con-
veyance must fit into our nation
wide transportation system or else
perish.
Aviation has Of course the great
advantage of speed In distributing
the enormous quantity OF manufac-
tured goods which our American
system of mass production has made
available, at a price which can be
met by large proportion of our
citizens. But the greatest economic
value Of aviation today lines not in
its speed but in the fact that it
operates through the air, which is
Il nj ,,-.1i inv
through which TO operate and
which will allow a complete relief
to any future periods of transport
tation congestion for many many
generations to come,
Facts Apply to New Britain
"All Of the above facts apply
particularly to the city OF New
Britain, q large proportion of the
wealth Of which lies in its vast
manufacturing interests. Therefore
the support Of aviation by the city
of New Britain would be justified
on this ground alone, namely, that
of giving support to this new and
growing means Of commercial
transportation upon which the man
ulacturing interests of New Eng
land must so largely depend in the
future for the sake of the happi-
ness and welfare Of it's citizens.
However, there are more speci-
fic reasons why Now Britain should
Immediately establish an airport Of
its own--reasons which are more APP
parent and tangible than tho one
already given. Some of these are
as follows:
Under the Kelly bill passed by
our last national congress provision
has been made for the letting Of
contracts to private corporations for
the conveyance of United states
Mail between Boston and New York,
stopping at Hartford en- route, and
with the transcontiuental
air mail line through Chicago to the
Pacific coast. New Britain lies on
IN almost direct line between the
Hartford airport whore the air mail
planes will stop and the field at
New Brunswick, n. j., which viii
serve for the time being as the Now
\ ork airport. -Four private cOrpor-
ltionS have already entered bids for
he United States mail contract from
he Bcston-Ncw York route and it
s understood that the award of tho
contract to one OF these companies
will be forthcoming within Il very
CIV weeks,
when this air mail service is in
'fioct it will I've possible for bUsinrsa
men in Hartford to post q letter at
he end Of the business day and Eayc
t on the desk OF their branch man
,rcr in Chicago on the opening Of
1UsinaSs the following morning. IT,
he ait mail business from Now Brit |
in TO chicago should. warrant i. it
vould b" far more advantageous for
he New Britain business man toi
md load of mail direct frnm thojr
,Wn CITY 10 New York by air. tF2n
o navc to mail their letters curliorI
II tho day and have them carried 10
Iortford by truck and meet the air
N9il plan" there.
IN the SECOND place the establish
ncnt Of an airway over which the
nail planes will have to fly viii
1scossitatn tho lacation Of emor-
rpncv fields at short intervals along
he way, and unnucStionabIY on" Of