Show N. Y MAil SERVICE BY AIR IS ISI I I HELD PRACTICAL J II I I Plan Feasible If Congress r Allows Says 1 A. A R. R Hawley By George Martin United Press Staff Correspondent SEW NEW w YORK YO Jan 27 The The Aero Club of or America thinks the proposed New hica o York mail mall service Is a alne practical thing both for the fine lne f clency of oC the postoffice department of or fliers and md to train a R reserve corps corpa tot for use as war scouts In national deI de de- de- de I Speaking or of the government plan to establish the New Chicago York service sere ser vice Ice President Alan R. R Hawley of or the Aero Acro club today heartily Indorsed the plan Hawley recalled that Lieutenant Colonel George O. O hC d of the army aviation section rece recently Gr lo told d oem aero club officials that ho he believes the department will use aeroplanes in large numbers and willbe will willi willibe valuable be be Instrumental in to creating reserves of trained aviators for natIonal national national na na- na- na i defense Given the appropriation said Haw Haw- Icy ler the Ule plan Is Js practical and feasible ble in every wa way The only tentative I thing about it is the possibility tha tho I congress ma may not allow the asked b by the postoffice The postoffice authorities have done their best to encourage this development de dc- dc- dc 1911 and now that Ruth Law and Victor Carlstrom Caristrom and other aviators have shown the possibility possibility of oC making long distance stop non-stop flights nights congress should allow the appropriation appropriation ap ap- ap- ap needed to establish the aeroplane mail niall service Henry Woodhouse a member of the board of governors go of oC the club one of the prime movers in the movement to establish aerial mall mail lines since 1911 was enthusiastic over the announcement announcement announce announce- ment He said ADD NIGHT SERVICE This service can be conducted durIng durIng during dur dur- ing the daylight only until a chain of landing places have been established between here and Chicago which willbe willbe will willbe be during the coming year ear After the chain of landing stations has been established established es es- with special light houses to direct the aviator there can be added the night nigh t service After Arter four years ears of effort to get funds with which to experiment In mall mail carrying b by aeroplanes the tile postal authorities Issued on February 12 I 1916 an advertisement inviting proposals proposal pro pro- for carrying United States malls mans bv v aeroplanes over eight routes one In Massachusetts between Nantucket and New Nw Bedford and seven seyen in Alaska Unfortunately there were few trained aviators available and fewer men in ha having both the knowledge of ot aviation and executive ability required to manage aeroplane lines on eli a a com com- competitive corn com basis that is on a 3 basis permitting permitting permitting per per- the carrying of mail by aeroplane aeroplane aero aero- plane at not over the cost of carrying It in the usual way Hence the aeroplane aeroplane aero aero- plane manufacturers were unable to bid The Thc appropriation of by bv congress for this purpose will solve this economic problem and before another another an an- other year ear goes by there will undoubtedly edly be the trained personnel and facilities facilities fa fa- a- a in the aeronautic movement to Insure man many bids for mall mail carrying contracts Assistant Postmaster General Stewart Stewart Stewart Stew Stew- art outlined over one hundred additional additional additional addi addi- aeroplane routes and Assistant Postmaster General Otto has developed extensive detailed plans The first aerial post was luau inaugurated inaugurated In England September 9 1911 This demonstration occurred at Hendon Hendon Hen Hen- don London The mail was marked i First United Kingdom Aerial Post Demonstration lasted for two weeks and was a success ASKED The first experiment at mail carrying carrying carrying carry carry- ing b by aeroplane was made on September Sep Sep- 23 23 1911 when Postmaster General Hitchcock made a flight night in an aeroplane carrying a bag of ot mail mall at Nassau Boulevard Long Island On On January 17 1912 Second Assistant Postmaster General Joseph Stewart who had charge of or the transportation and of the postal business appeared before the house committee to explain explain ex ex- plain to lo the departments about the demonstration of DC the aerial post for Cor which the department asked for the cost of the e Congressman William imam G. G Sharp U.S. U.S. U.S. U. U S. S ambassador introduced a bill bUl in congress during the latter part of or 1912 and in 1913 providing for Cor an appropriation appropriation appropriation of or for the time experiments experiments ments in aerial mail service The bill wa was approved h by the committee on and post roads but unfaVorably unfavorably acted upon in congress The Aero Club of America and its thirty constituent aero clubs kept up the agitation and the tho subject of ot mail carrying ca by br aeroplane has been the main topic at nt the annual dinners of th the thc Aero Acm Club of or America since 1912 In 1915 the Aero Acro club authorities urged strongly the establishing of or aeroplane mail mall routes as a means of oC training aviators a for national defense Had the plan been carried out there would have been heen a lan large e number of I trained aviators available for or the Mexican campaign when Villa raided I Columbus |