Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-12

Clarence Chamberlin's hop to New
York from the deck of the steamship
Leviathan suggests to many students
of aviation problems that a ship-to-
shore service will be the first practi-
cal contribution of the airplane to
ocean transportation.
This fight" says the Rock Island
Argus, demonstrates that the great
ocean liners can carry airplanes, pro.
viding ship.to-shore service, expedit.
ing mail and accommodating passen-
gers who are in haste" The Worces-
ter Evening Gazette views the feat as
valuable commercially. as well as a
much-needed advertisement for Ameri,
can passenger vessels. Once the
service is established regularly" con.
tinues the Gazette, "it should result
in increased mail and passenger
carrying by the American flag ships
making use Of it."
Again America takes the lead in
a new development in aviation" de-
clares the Winston-Salem Sentinel.
with the suggestion that Chamberlin
has rendered a service that is of
considerably greater value than a
fight across the Atlantic would be
at this time" The Chicago Daily
News also contends: "In view of all
recent experience. 1t Is likely TO be
long while before aviation enthusiasts
realize their ambition to establish
regular nonstop flights across the
Atlantic. The weather hazard is too
serious. The ship.to-shore service,
while it will not reduce Lindbergh's
time in going across. will be welcomed
by many travellers"
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Despite the fact that we may have
optimistic views regarding the de.
velopment Of ocean travel by air."
according to the Charlotte Observer,
1.-The fact remains that even the most
enthusiastic air supporter could hardly
expect such a passenger service until
the industry has been more fully de-
veloped. But the idea of hopping off
a steamship when 1t has come to
within few hundred miles of it's
destination is not beyond reason, by
any means. Such flights would be
comparatively safe and would also
deduct many hours from the total
time required to cross the Atlantic by
steamer. Such part-of-the-way ocean
flights are the proper ones rather than
any wild idea of carrying people all
the way across at one flight, at least
for the time being"
The ST. Paul Pioneer Press holds
that Tin this age of speed, every hour
clipped from a journey adds another
victory for mans ingenuity" and
that lit would be a rash prophet who
would attempt to set any definite
limits to what he may do in the
future" The Schenectady Gazette
emphasizes the fact that "a combina-
ton of water and air travel lessons
materially the fuel needed for the
latter" and adds that Chamberlin's
feat "again calls attention to the sug.
gestion of gigantic RATS. or. as they
might be called, artificial islands sta
toned in the ocean along airplane
routes"
"It Is pretty certain that in the
future craft that navigate water and
craft that navigate the air are to be
close companions and helpmates," pre-
diets the Detroit News, which adds
that ''the brave men who have ven
tured all in these first aerial trips over
the Atlantic are more than flying
fools They combine with their
courage inventive genius and capacity
for constructive thinking. History
will perpetuate the memory of such
men," The Passaic Daily Herald re-
fleets that "Chamberlin's demonstra.
ton of the ease with which an air.
plane can rise from an ocean liners
deck and fly ashore with mail or pas
sengers is just another incident in
series Of surprises"
THE feat Is packed with commercial
possibilities" In the opinion of the
New York Sun, which directs attention
to similar achievement with the
statement: "As long ago an October
rs, 1922, Navy airplane hoped of