Show IAL T LAKE ON TRANS ROUTE a 91 BIG AI AIR FLEET Will UNITE Nn AND ATlANTIC Mc Monster onster Congress of Aero Acro Men to Meet in N. N Y in February to Complete Details for Huge luge Venture WITH aeroplane transportation y 1 tion for commercial pus pur purposes poses looming nen nearer er each day an air line hue acro across s the continent from New York is now being mapped out and anti Salt Lake i is expected to be an important station on that hl highway hway Representatives of ot cities and towns along the aerial road will meet in New York in February when the second annual aeronautic congress s swill will be held under the direction of ot the Aero Club of or America Announcement was made today at the theoffice office of If Mayor W. W Mont 1 Ferry that if It this city is represented represented represented rep rep- resented L. L B B. will probably probably probably ably be th Salt Lake delegate At that meeting the stations and man many of ot th the landing places for tor aviators will probably probably ably be designated War ar department aviation experts re recently recently re- re visited Salt Sale Lake to 81 select t a II landing place for tor war var machines and It is understood they tentatively chose chop IT ITa iT iTa jf a field at Welb Welby on the Salt Lake Lake-d- Bingham road It is probable that th field will also be le designated as IlS tr U- Salt Lake station on n the coast to cots o Sr air route ture FAVORS LOCAL ACTION and sad For some Iome time I have realized lh the future Importance of ot aeroplane tt trane said Mayor Maor Ferr Ferry Of or course it may not become a reality until after atter the war but I believe the city Is justified at this time In doln doing anything in reason to make sure of ot its obtaining the tho recognition it deserves when the air lines JInes are designated The United States will have l airplanes by next August The chart of ot the proposed airways with their thelt branch connections will look like ilkI the wide curves on tho dally daily weather map Owing to the lack of ot established landing places which would enable an no aviator to land almost anywhere incase Incase in incase case of ot motor trouble United States military fliers cannot at present b lw he taught cross country countr and night flying and cruising This experience If is absolutely absolutely absolutely necessary to the military aviator aviator aviator avi avi- ator whether he Js is to be employed in dropping bombs scouting or taking photographs These landing places can also 12 0 be he used b by the postoffice as aerodromes for the mail man carriers The duties of or an sin n aerial mall mail carrier will nece necessitate much overland fI flying day and night and anti the dropping of or mailbags mall mail bags duties similar to those of ot the service fliers engaged In bombing LARGE FORCE OF RESERVES Therefore it is suggested that till the postoffice can while transporting mail mall faster fasler form Corm a n. large reserve of or trained aviators which could be he taken over by bythe bythe bythe the army and naV navy In case Me of or need ned The postal air service would thus be- be Continued on page page 4 4 41 i BIG AIR FLEET Continued from page 1 come a practical training field for bombing aviators The four transcontinental airways and three coastal airways proposed are areas areas areas as follows Woodrow Wilson Vilson airway New airway New York to San Francisco via Cleveland Toledo Chicago and Salt Lake Wright Brothers airway airway Washing Washington ton to San Diego via North Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Louisiana Louisi Louisi- ana Texas New Mexico and Arizona Langley airway airway Washington Washington to Los Angeles I Chanute and Bell airway Boston airway Boston to Seattle via yia Albany Syracuse Rochester Roches Roches- ter Erie Buffalo Detroit Grand Rapids Rapids Rapids Rap Rap- ids Minneapolis Bismarck N. N D. D and Great Falls Mont Atlantic airway Bangor airway Bangor Me to toKey toKey toKey Key V West st st. touching at every important city on the coast Gulf airway Key airway Key West to mouth of the Rio Grande following the coast and touching at important cities Pacific airway San airway San Diego to Puget sound following following- the coast with stops at important points |