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Show AERIAL MAIL SERVICE Plans are being worked out in Washington by Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Postmaster General New which, when consummated, con-summated, will cover the United States with a network of air routes. In addition to this the postoffice department announces the speeding up of transcontinental air mail service by the purchase of fifty new Douglas airplanes. Under the new schedules mail can be sent from the Middle West to San Francisco in slightly more than twenty-four hours.N Birdmen recently sailed over the top of the world and every day now Uncle Sam's fliers are delivering the mail from one great American city to another. The day of air travel is at hand. Before Be-fore so very long passenger routes will be as common in America as they are in Europe. Twenty-four-hour mail service between Chicago and San Francisco is no longer a dream but a reality. It is a far cry now back to the good old days when horses filled in the gaps in the western mail service. The open spaces are filling up and although there is still plenty of space left in the West, civilization has enveloped en-veloped it all, and frontier days are gone forever. In the days of mail coaches the west was wild and holdups were common. Now the holdup in the open spaces is an event, and our gun-men have moved from the Black Hills to New York, Chicago and other centers of population. It would be more correct perhaps to say that the western bad man has disappeared except in the movies, mov-ies, and that the metropolitan gun-man is of an entirely different breed. At any rate the day of the mail coach has passed and the era of railway mail is threatened. The romance of the stage driver has given way to the romance of the birdman. |