Show I I I lEAST FAST MAIL ROUTES BY AIR ITO TO COVER UNITED STATES or Of hs cr o. o 1 t on or 10 t o f th kI k 1 c I I 4 I c I f 1 1 i I 1 I. I Aul AulS SMA To lI S I fw Postoffice department map showing plans for the immediate future I I The Tho flying mailman will soon be an established carrier between Ne New York and Chicago and nd a new period In American transportation will be bo opened What hat a few tew years ago would have havo been regard cd I as an astonishing feat teat becomes becom 8 now a L part of the dally daily government goy gov ta task taek k And ju Just t as the tho earlier er between Washington n and NewYork Now New York served as a a. working laboratory for or the longer route between the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic seaboard and the tho Great Lakes as the latter iatter wilt will prepare preparo for tho transcontinental system which Otto second assistant postmaster general hopes to see established within a year or two In the closing days dar of oC tho the war Val when hen tho the Ingenuity of or nations was WRe taxed to creato create engines of or destruction It became apparent that once peace was restored inventiveness h could bo shifted Into constructive constructive con con- channels and thus the postoffice postoffice post- post office d department seeing In the battle- battle plane piano the el elements ments of or a swift commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial vehicle prepared to transport tho the malls mails b by air nil as soon as the necessary equipment could be obtained The airplane which will make the first flight from New York to Chicago I It is a n. Curtiss n- n R it-I. specially modified Tho The one which will fly from Crom Chicago to New York Is a Do De 4 4 as adapted to American n use Each machine machino ma- ma chino chine is capable of or an ordinary speed of ot miles an hour but as Improvements Improvements Improvements Improve Improve- ments are arc Introduced It is certain that tho the present nine hour schedule as against the one twenty hour record of offered offered of- of b by tho the fastest mall trains will bo be further lowered Speeding Speeding- Up VI Service Actual shortening of oC the tho distance be between between between be- be tween tho the Great Lakes and New York City with tho the north and south air line lineIn linein In operation from Now York to Washington Wash Wash- ington and with another extension northward to Boston in preparation assure a speeding up of or mall mail service throughout practically the entire United United United Unit Unit- ed States A letter Jelter sent upon a n long Ions Journey depends for tor Its total time In transit largely largel on tho speed maintained en Ca tho the slowest st stage ge And hereafter crossIn crossing crossing cross cross- an any mail mall matter traversing or In ing the air all routes must have the tho benefit benefit ben ben- of tho the Increased facilities offered The accompanying map which Is re reproduced ro- ro produced from ono one Issued by the post- post office department shows tho the plans for tor forthe tho the Immediate future It is 25 miles mUes from Washington to Ne New Ney York CH City via Philadelphia Train time tImo averages s six x hours airplane two and ono half to three hours It Is S 3 mites miles from New York to Chicago o. o and on this route the tho air mall cuts down tho the running time b by at least one half so that as other units to the tho west aro are added it Is expected that mall man may bo be sent from Crom New York to San Francisco In forty I hours ours X TT York to o Boston Next It la is predicted that Now New York Boston service will bo be the n next to get ct under underway underway wa way with sIth a possible Extension In co cooperation cooperation co- co operation with the tho Canadian government govern sovern- ment mont to Montreal From Washington a lino is to run southwest to Atlanta dividing at that point for or Key West Vest est estand and New Ne Orleans Another unit will extend almost duo westward from Washington ton pa passing through h Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincin Cincin- nati nat and St. St Louis and terminating at Kansas City Chicago It Is expected will wilt become Just such a 3 center for Cor aerial transportation as it has for tho the railways as From Chicago there thero will radiate lines to Milwaukee Minneapolis Min Mm- lIn- lIn neapolis and St. St Paul Omaha Denver Cheyenne Salt Lake City and San Francisco St St. Louis Dallas Austin San Antonio and Laredo connecting at atthe atthe the last named point with the tho Mexican malls mails S I |