Show ir mail makes rapid strides ayi yate lines now connect at many points with government planes recently alie first washington bound flight of the latest airmail route linking rew lock to texas iiii in 26 hours clipping a full m from the fastest rill after at Clil cago the roual li dudes illinois kansas missouri 01 in j ana and alie terminal at D il j I 1 i texas this air mill ealce has jn called the latest bajt reports rom bartford Uart ford conn nn bounce a still newer elloit tine ta unit aerially the cities of loston nd bangor maine at the rate air mall serl ps airo S aging P all cr the counte RS andall oer several kotlier 9 le honor of being the latest Is in deed an insecure antl impertinent one P 1 some of these lines spring up so quick K alrand are so readily accepted b alie K public that the scant atten don outride of the immediate local ky of their operate m thus an air mall service has been in full swing for more shjan two mouths between ril 0 lev balse idaho and pasco ash md another line beewen S fort mers tamad and jack on vUIe the colonial air transport operates i po tal and express st atrice rIce between t boston and new jersey gl ing boston the benefit of the isea and ew torl chicago service just as st leonls already enjoys it b branch line through leorla and SprIng Held the government through the post of lice department has so fir been re for the amazing growth of clr mall trunk lines throughout the country but in future it will be the owned ow ned lines that will take the initiative in building subsidiary w extending to every part of the countr f fresh impetus last summer 1 t great impetus was given to the clr nail service last summer hen the government let contracts for four feeders to the transcontinental route including three north south trunks and over night sen ice between new york bcd chicago the north south exten alons included routes between new and boston chicago and SL elora bools los angeles and salt like city ako and pasco minneapolis st paul aind ew orleans ali st louis and memphis pittsburgh and new or arans and chicago and ew orleans via indianapolis louisville tad bore and more cities or all sizes are put on alie transcontinental aute oute ew york to san cities connect by plane with ionic point on the transcontinental onte or else forward their letter and post malls in train for connect alon at some center on the route last gane de bomes momes iowa and sacra calif were placed on the both east bound and west planes top at these points t detate on and leae mill and chesi cities in turn become centers tor f outside the air mill route late last year 17 ald were re elved by the post office department r the operation of routes in lading alie los angeles seattle route the salt lake city the ew york ghoston gB oston route and four others it was dijt ild that the new air service woula t directly connect 29 important cities kiy air mail routes with the 16 cities aldi have been receiving similar on the transcontinental air mail route for more alian a year in mitlon to these it was believed that many other cities would enjoy the ad of speedy transmission of by combining the air routes and ye railway mail services alie con ats for the eight new routes called or an extension of the air mall iafe of 4 ggs miles and require about miles of hying yearly on the i round trips per week scheduled for ich route I 1 following the lead of the govern nt in extending air mall connections nationwide scale several plo eera have already started privately ened mall passenger and freight es and this development Is looked rard to with unfeigned enthusiasm by those who hae alie interest of commercial aviation at heart aviation as an industry both herbert cooer secretary of commerce and ham s ew post master general have expressed the opinion tant it was tie proper fusic ion of the go eminent to aid in lie development of as an indus try M a tc to encouragement of the thing secretary hoover last ear recommended alie establish ment of a bureau of chil aviation in the of commerce to be charged with alie dut of providing services for commercial corn to lioce afforded lu the field of commer dul lails proposed bureau received warm atlon from mr new when hp president clr of last september tei brou glit out tha in alie last fiscal year air mall planes had flown more than two and one half million miles of which more tha i half a million miles were night ts great as and been the growth in efficiency of the go oper atel mall service mr new con tended ho boeer eer that the government should not permanently the sen ice under its own auspices he favored assigning the service to at agencies under contract just as Is done in the transportation of the mall b railroads and water carriers already some private concerns have entered the new field outlined by cooer and bew the eastern air transport inc linking isea england with the est bi means of the fed eral line was organized late last year shortly afterward the tt estera air express inc with main offices in los angeles began operation of an air mall and freight service between achl cago and california besides these several other lines are contemplated in st louis boston hartford des and other points so far due to the fact that the amount of freight must be limited private commercial aviation has not developed at the rate that some of its ardent advocates would like but this phase of the matter Is receiving serious study all over the country and it Is believed that the day Is not far off when planes will be able to carry more freight thus being of greater indus trial use barly this year henry ford entered the ranks of the pioneers in corn mercial aviation when he started to operate a private line between achl cago cleveland and detroit the first definite adventure of financial men into the field of commercial avla flon with the avowed intention of ex tending their activities to all parts of the country was announced in de cember 1925 with the formation of the colonial air transport inc this adventure was hailed as the first great step toward making commercial ablation practical and profitable on a large scale it was predicted that should the first efforts be successful he backers of the scheme would next to carry passengers on a corn basis postmaster general new explained decently that it was the intention of the government to tun tu n the air mall over to private interests tiie time is at hand when the government can step out of the air mail business and let private interests gradually take ov er the service he said I 1 dont think that the handling of mall alone will pay on air lines the successful lines roust be prepared to carry not onla mall but agh class express and eventually passengers that will come lian the american public has been trained to realize that airways have business possibilities it Is readily granted both here and abroad that in its air mall service the united states ranks first but ac cording to a review made recently by alie cv I 1 orl trust company in pas and freight service europe la far fit alie united states avla alon lines most of them privately owned with government subsidies are an established part of the transports tran alon service on the continent this review further states that in france now maintaining the strong est military air service with the largest number of planes alie opera alon of the thirteen commercial lines lias been consolidated into five heavily subsidized companies punctuality Is rated as high as 00 per cent with the same degree of safety as on the railroads borts torts are being made to es connections between paris and the main capitals of the world and to organize a mediterranean aerial tern connecting france with the lear east and south america the german lines although not as fully developed have shown less deficit than the french and are less dependent upon government subsidy according to the review their activity has been concentrated into three great trunk lines the europe system being the most powerful this system controls most of the strategic air routes in middle europe comprising airplane service in germany austria switzerland denmark sweden dan alg latala esthonia Esth onla finland and russia in the development of commercial aviation abroad turkey fills a novel chapter when late in 1925 the en over aviation became nation wide a committee composed of deau ties army officers and professional men made a house to house canvass seeking a contribution from each fam lly according to the income balls and fetes were given to swell the fund for the establishment of a passenger commercial and mall service between constantinople and angora thus commercial aviation Is progressing all over the world in eng land a new organization became ef in april 1924 when the existing companies were consolidated into the imperial air transport company ltd which has a monopoly of commercial operations in mexico the governor of the state of tabasco last year requested slon to establish a hydroplane service between villahermosa capital of the state and puerto mexico and vera cruz air service between states and cuba via key west and havana waa resumed last year in canada commercial aviation accord ing to reports Is progressing at an amazing rate plans to link europe with south american countries have repeatedly been considered both in paris and berlin down at the other end of the world in cape town the first south african air mall flight was completed success fully in february 1925 when airmen flew the miles between cape town and durban in eleven hours |