| Show AERIAL MAIL SERVICE FOR ALASKA POINTS Aerial mail service to isolated points in Alaska and Massachusetts is contemplated by y the postoffice de de- Bids were asked today for service on eight routes seven of t them the hem in Alaska Oct 1 is named as th the the date for their starting If the service is successful it is announced a gradual expansion will follow Collow to other routes where transportation transportation transportation trans trans- is slow and inadequate The Massachusetts s route is from New New Bedford to Nant Nantucket 56 miles and return party by land and partly part part- ly by y water The Alaskan route forms a connecting connecting connecting con con- link from Seward to Nome thence to Fairbanks and back to Valdez Most 1 of them call for a service ser service ser her vice twice a week throughout the year On some sonIe some of the routes the cost now l is as high as a year and in winter six weeks is required to make the trip The aeroplane contracts air al- al al allow allow low Hy two days days for most df i r fife the trips The l longest route Valdez Valdes to Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks is miles The extreme time limit of six weeks on some of the routes is required ired because mail sometimes has to be e routed via Seat Seat- tle Postmaster General Burleson Burles n has been assured that capital already is considering bids ids and that estimates areli eing Bing made |
