The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-19
TRANSACT BUSINESS AND.
SEEK PLEASURE IN AIR
WORLD ON THESH OL D OF
DAY OF AERIAL TRANsPoR-
rATION. AIR EPOCH NEAR.
WILL COVER ALL TERRITORY

Ae Pleasure Machines.
The dav when aircraft will hum
through the air carrying passengers
and freight from city to city in the
limited States and even across the
oceans to the Old World is fast ap-
oroaching. A decade ago the world
war brought the airplane to the front
GO an invention in which there were
many possibilities. Through the years
that followed the airplane was de-
veIoped from stage to stage-until to-
dav traffic in merchandise and passen-
GERS bids fair to move from the high
wavs and railroads to the air lanes.
Day of Evolution at Hand.
The day of evolution OF the airplane
from machine of danger to use
ful part of the commerce OF the nation
and the world is at hand. The United
States government has proved that
air mail is a success Airplanes have
already begun carrying freight, and
the sale of airplanes as pleasure craft
is being planned by leading figures
in the aeronautic world.
Within ten years, it is predicted, afr
planes will be carrying passengers
from place to place in the United
States and even from this country to
Europe; airplanes will be used as
pleasure craft; airplanes will carry
freight and perishable goods on short
routes; the air mail will have expanded
so that every important city is con-
nected with the others by air.
The first tests of the commercial
4 possibilities of the airplane was made
\ bv the United States government,
/. when the air mail service between
New York city and San Francisco,
Il California, was nauguarated a little
4 more than year ago. For year the
d air mail pilots carried mail across the
continent with only few lives lost
Il and no loss in cargoes. The fastest
n mail trains were as slowmovlng as
Il ireights when compared with airplanes.
And now, too, the air mail service
n is TO be the first to put commercial
Il aviation to its severest test-that OF
making it general both for freight and
passenger service.
Within A few months the govern
Il ment will give out contracts to prl-
Il yate concerns for the carrying OF
air mail between large cities IN all
parts of the United States. 1t is the
governments idea to get out OF the air
4 mail business now that it has been
successfully established, and private
organizations are eager for contracts.
+ Several of them have been let. New
& York City, Chicago, St. LOUIS, San
& Francisco and New Orleans are to be
some OF the new air mail stations.
Planes Will Garry Passengers.
lust the other day an airplane car
h RED two baby grand pianos and sew
4 eral passengers from New York city
& 10 Washington, D. c. 1t was a sue
cessiul test for air freight service Ar
planes for some time have been car
# rying freight between the Detroit ana
n Chicago factories to the Ford Motor
& Car Company, with a. great saving IN
n Shipping costs in addition to speed
Il ing up of the service.
Then. too airplanes are beginning
n to be used in the carrying OF passen-
gers England and France have gone
into this phase of the enterprise on
big scale, but the United States is Tar
behind them. Passenger airplanes are
no longer uncommon in the larger
cities of the land. In fact scientists
have painted a picture OF New YORK
city century hence, with alrplane
landing fields on the tops OF the build
lngs and in place of streets IN many
sections of the city.
Dirigibes several times have been
tested as passengers ships across the
ocean between the United States ana
Europe 1t is reported even now that
II several European countries are oulid,
ing dirigibles which they intend shall
FL be used for trans-ocean passenger ana
freight service.
Freight to Be Carried in Air
That freight in the future will be
III carried in the air is an admitted tact.
NJ Perishabe goods especially Will De
carried in these airshipS, preventing
losses due to delayed shipping and al
lectlng savings in the cost OF shipping.
hree powerful groups of capital IN
ms country already are making plans
!or an overnight air freight service be-
tween New York city and Chicago,
.ile service being expected to begin in
aooGt a week. The interests involved
~ {he scheme are said to have fnan-
T5ai strength of more than $1,500,000.
! ne charge, it is reported, will be 81
pound for all express matter.
IL, Most startling of this evolution of
t tle airplane, however, is the prediction
;n". II will not be unusual for father,
o.. ''ie future, to go home from work,
~ f., out the family AIR hivver" and
sa He mother and the children for a
tb b-'I' ct facts warrant the prediction
~ n, ms dream will come true
t.ll ne development of the airplane to
f, GS stand on an equal basis of use
raH with the motor car and the
e Ti. oad train is a fact it is admitted
1i. Sn by the most dubious. The air
w ,a,le mas come to stay, not only as
sapon Of defense or offense, but al
H. an asset of peace and business.
A Gay OF the airplane is dawning.
VIII; sISShihcant fact is that large cities
n nm.lh some day will be principal air
to-, already are considering legisla-
An 10 regulate the traffic of the air.
Delng prepared for the airplane's