Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
new YORK AIR MAIL.
SERVICE DOUBLED
First Plane Leaves Capital to
Connect With Transconti-
mental Delivery.

Doubling Of the air mail service be-
tween this city and New York to con-
meet With the new transcontinental air
mail service, increasing of the local air
mail schedule from six to seven days a
week and the first anniversary OF the
establishment of the New York-Atlanta
air mail service were celebrated at Boil
ling Field Yesterday evening by leading
aeronautic and civic officials.
The celebration eliminated in the
taking off for New York of the first
mail plane on the new schedule. The
plane, piloted by Walter Shaffer, TOOK
of at $50 pm with mail for New York,
points tIunE he tranSContinental line
and the Pacific Coast.
In a brief address preceding the de-
parture of the plane, w. living Glover,
Second Assistant Postmaster General, In
charge of air mail, stated that the mail
placed in the plane last night would be
delivered in Chicago and Cleveland this
morning, ST. Louis this afternoon and
San Francisco tomorrow morning.
Mr.. Glover made an urgent appeal
for the establishment of a municipal
airport for the District of Columbia.
Regrets Lack of Airport.
ct regret, Maj. Davidson" he said
turning to Maj. Howard G. Davidson,
comnlandant of Boiling Field, that We
have to monopOliZe the Army field here.
It is a matter for sincere regret that the
District of Columbia has no municipal
airport, where these civilian mail planes
can land and take off. This city, OF
course. should have the finest mu-
nicipally owned airport in the country,
ard it is to be hoped that action soon
VIII be taken to bring about establish
ment of such a field"
Charles w. Darr, president of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce,
which was in charge of the ceremonies,
explained that the celebration was ar
ranged to commemorate the first ami
versary of Washington's inclusion in
the air mail system; to celebrate the eX-
tension of direct air mail connection be-
tween this city and the Middle and Far
West, and TO celebrate the inauguration
Sunday of seven-day-a-Week service to
the North and South.
1.-THE washington Chamber of Com
MERGE" he said, has taken the init
atiye in inviting you here because OF
its early efforts to bring about these
services and because of its desire to
express the deep gratitude OF all Wash
lngtonians to those members OF Con-
gress, of the Federal administrative
departments and other invited public
officials whose efforts were directly re-
sponsible for the development of Wash
ington's present fine air mail facilities"
Pilot Of in Rain.
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Glover's
remarks several sacks of mail were
brought out of the Boiling Field air
mail Office of Pitcairn Aviation Inc,
operators of the New York-Atlanta air
mail line, and were loaded into the mail
compartment of the Super Mailwing
plane by Mr.. Glover and Earl B. Wads-
worth, superintendent OF contract air
mail.
Pilot shaffer took off after short
run through the mud and water left by
heavy rains which stopped just before
the exercises began, turned at the South
end of the field and few back over
the crowd, pulling the fast plane up
into a steep climb as he passed, over
head, and headed toward New York,
in the face of heavy rainstorm direct
" across his path over Baltimore.
A second mail plane, held here as a
reserve, took off at the same time and
few. to Hoover Field, where Pitcairn
Aviation will maintain repair shop.
Both ships were flown from Hoover
Field to Boiling Field Just prior to the
exercises. b.
Among the guests Of honor at the
celebration, in addition to Mr.. Glover
and Mr.. Wadsworth, zwere Harold F.
Pitcairn, president of Fitcairn Aviation;
James c.. .Edgerton, pilot Of the first
air mail plane in the world. to fly on
a scheduled route. who carried the
route in the world, who carried the
first load of mail from New York. to
this city on May IS, 1918; Chase c.
Cove. Of the Post ONCE Department;
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the Navy Bureau of SAeronautics, and
walter c. Hinton, pilot Of the NC-4,
the first plane to cross the Atlantic