| Show first mail plane from salt lake speeds to los angeles NEW ROUTE OPENED aa AS GOVERNORS DAUGHTER NAMES SHIP ESCALANTE BIG CROWD ON FIELD FOR CEREMONY CRAFT FROM WEST ARRIVES ON TIME the official party that old bid the escalante good luck on its malden maiden voyage with mall for los angeles sunday were miss gertrude neaten and father mayor C C betsy dern daughter of gov dern of utah jas taylor B F redman thos ke cearna ans and E A Culbert culbertson sont members of aviation committee mr redman la Is chairman salt lake city and now the air brings salt lake aake and los angeles closer together two planes winged their way between the two carrying tile the first exchanges of felicitations feli citations on the establishment of the new service in both cities inagi inaugural iral festivities started the pilots off rejoicing in salt uke lake miss aliss betsy dern the governors daughter christened jimmy james ship by the name of another breaker of trails across the west escalante salt lakes interest was manifested by the 1500 who took the dust of jimmys pro propeller whon lie he went aloft with pounds of mail for the closer neighbors of the west jimmy wait a minute when the post postoffice office truck chugged onto the field with tile the mall mail separated from tho the pouches of tile tho plane from rock springs and points east cast hla his helpers stuffed the cargo into thi blimps hold and oft off and up sho she wont right on time tho the christening ceremony was brief heibe fliers seem to be business bent without frills miss dern clambered to fd tho the wing and crashed a ribbon draped bottle of water from great salt balco against a support that was waa all alit there any speeches there much cheering but bill every useful eyo eye at the iho field was watch is until tile tha Esc escalante alanto was less than a mosquito size in tho the blue of al 1 tile tha wo western skies mayor C clarence Cla renco nealen B F redman chairman of the chamber of commerce aviation committee halt a dozen motion picture and newspaper paper phot photographers ogra pliers notables of the city and just juat crowded about the tha escalante for an hour before its departure they wanted to know all about this new venture its machinery and its men benr so jimmy patiently and most accommodatingly told them everything about it while tho the load of pounds was not by any moana means capacity for the tha ship it must be remembered that it takes a jot lot of letters to make one pound people to the east have yet to learn about tills this now new line out of salt luke lake when they do and they will that burden will be increased J 1 i 0 1 1 at I 1 IN I 1 NT 0 rw A 41 I 1 y betsy dern daughter of governor Gove enor dern christening the air mail plane of the western air express on its initial mayor C C of salt sait L lake ake jimmie james pilot and ben C redman while the Kac alanto fo beat beai through I 1 it alio 10 clouds along fa same invisible trail came captain maury Gra graham liam maury settled to woodward field as lightly as it a in hla his great creat douglas fl plane piano ile iio was tired ot of course course nut but the alio trip Is easy he declared ito found folind fog a time or two and somo some raint storms to the south otherwise lie he encountered only air in fit hla his history making trip from los loa angeles to 19 salt lako lake in fit something more than seven hours but tits his arrival rival was no such celebrated event as Jim jimmys illys departure that Is there was not many at the field to welcome acome maury representatives ot of tile tribune employees at tile tho ah aft port part and less than a of at casual basua visitors none ot at character ay 1 w I 1 ft M r era the only groeters greeters gree gre tors eters when maury floated d down 0 wn itt at 0 clock iut but the main inal n thing about tile tho day clay Is that the undertaking proved itself air transportation bet between vicen salt lake and los angeles la Is d a reality tile tho bony express and tho the railroad must acknowledge a competitor taster faster by many hours tho the aretice will continue people peep wll will become acquainted with its wile benefits and will uso use it it took a little while allo to got get some people to use tho the railroads anti and tile the automobiles but the west now nov could not do without laher of of them so too tho west soon 1 wilt demand and have air tra atton another now new da day 11 has as come jimmy and ma maury ry have surely start A something ri 1 4 41 NIS r A v 1 t f 4 4 I 1 1 V q it ay 4 e r loading the U S mail on the initial salt lake to los as anodes angeles jimmie james pilot |
