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Show 1 1 FLYING TRAINS The country' has broken out in a rash of airplane companies, if one credits the flow of items which bubble bub-ble up each morning to attract the newspaper reader. The lastest project proj-ect is a New York-to-Chicago airway.... air-way.... there to connect with the Chicago-and-San Francisco planes, already operating. The fare will be 0400; the flying time 32 hours. Trains take 90 hours; cost S140. Actual facts from the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America in-I in-I dicate that the solid citizen is skeptical skepti-cal of airways. Last year only 7,G51 citizens paid for tickets on U. S. I flying trains. At least two compan-I compan-I ies, lacking passengers, evaporated, i Flying taxicabs, specially charted j planes and short-ride airplanes which carried people curious "just to see what it was like" did better business. Nearly 670,000 people too their first bird's-eye views of life thus. Airway travel is roughly three times as fast as railways; costs three times as much. There are eight passenger airways now operating. oper-ating. The figures: Chicago to San Francisco, by air 22 hours, 40 min; fare, $200.00. Railroad, 68 hours; $79.84. New York to Boston, by air 3 hours, 5 min; S30.00 Railroad, 5 hours; fare, $8.24. Portland to Los Angeles air, 11 hours, 15 min.; fare, $113.50. By railroad, 39 hr., 30 min., far $40.88. Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, by air 7 hrs. 15 min., fare $60.00 By rail, 30 hr., fare $28.05. Chicago to Minneapolis, by air, 5 hr, 50 min. Fare, $40.00. By rail, 12 hr, fare $14.66. Cheyenne, Wyo., to Pueblo, Colo., by air, 3 hf. Fare, $25.00 By rail, 8 hr. Fare, $8.16. Detroit to Grand Rapids, Mich, by air, 1 hr. 45 min. Fare, $18.00. By Rail, 4 hr. Fare, $5.49. San Diego to Los Angeles, by air, 1 hr. 10 min. Fare $17.50. By rail, 3 hr. 30 min. Fare, $4.55. |