New Britain herald., 1928-08-10
Plans TO link
Three BIGP0WERS
Alrmal Service Is Steadily
Expanding

Washington. d. c., Aug. 1o.-Lees
than a year after Colonel Lind
bergh's none-stop Washington-t to-
Mexico City flight, the air mail pre-
pares to follow him across the
border.
Post office departments of the
Mexican and the United States gov
eminent have fixed tentatively on
September as the month in which to
start the new international service.
Thus 1928 should see the creation
of an air mail route $500 miles long.
the longest in North America.
To Cut Longitudinal Section
Cities which will be stations In
the United States Mexico service
are: Boston, New York, Washington.
Richmond. Atlanta. Birmingham.
Mobile. New Orleans, Houston.
POSSIBLY San Antonio). Laredo,
Nuevo Laredo (where the Mexican
division begins>. Monterrey. San
Luis Potosi and Mexico City.
When citizens finally attain to the
privileges of stamped letter. the
new air route will unroll for travel
ers a longitudinal section OF the
continent. The service will slice
North America just as the New
York-San Francisco air line cuts a
cross section of the United States. In
about IS hours planes will pass from
the land of baked beans to the land
OF chill con carne; from the sea-
side metropolis of New York to the
mountain valley metropolis of
Mexico City: from the heat of WASH
ington and Richmond to the cool
breezes Of San Luis Potosi: from the
cotton fields and cane brakes of the
south to the orange orchards and
corn and wheat fields Of the south
ern republic.
Air mail planes leaving Boston at
6:15 p. m. will carry letters sched-
uled to arrive at Laredo at o:3O .. m.
the next day. The transit time by
train is four days. Although the de-
tails are yet to be worked out. Mex
lean planes will probably pick up
the relay at once reaching the capt.
tai about $50 p. M, cutting the let
ter-delivery time between New
York and Mexico City by three to
four days.
In one sense the service can be
considered tri-national creation
beca use the mail from Boston will
meet the mail from Montreal at
Hadley Field near New York city.
1t is even true that the three capt.
5als of North America, Mexico City,
and Ottawa, will be
connected by air when all the vari-
GUS services dovetail because Mon
Lreal and Ottawa are already con-
nected by air mail.
While Mexico must build an en-
tirely new air route over its section,
the United States must extend its
present service. The service south to
Atlanta went into operation last
spring and Is now being operated
regularly to New Orleans. From New
Orleans to Laredo a completely new
route must be prospected and ar
ranged tor.
Names Of all the American towns
On the route ring Familiarity, but the
Mexican cities. with the exception
# Mexico City are little known north
If the Rio Grande. Thumbnail
sketches will fix them in mind:
Suevo Laredo, Mexican twin OF
1aredo; Monterrey. the Chicago of
Mexico and San Luis Potosi. a rich
mining town.
Desert, Plateau and Mountains
Once in Mexico the new air mall |
quite will follow the National Rail-
ways of Mexico line south from
Nuevo Laredo. For 1865 miles over
he sunbaked. cactus-spiked. semi
lesert there is almost nothing Of in
crest; but Monterrey, the first stop,
s a good Introduction to Mexico,