Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-01 | Page 1 | San Francisco Soon Fills Special Air Mail Letter Boxes

San w an Francisco S Soon Fills Special Air Airi AirMail AirMail AirI I i Mail Letter Boxes I SAN S AN FRANCISCO July Pilot AP Clair K Vance hopped off on the first leg of the new day and night air mail service from here to New York at a m today was there was little wind at the ground level The fog corn com Vance Yance to circle several everal times o get his bearing before heading vay away eastward Vances Vance's Yance relay runs to Reno where herB lie he Is due at 8 S o'clock farry Huking Is to take the mail molI mallon pa on from there LIKE PONY ro-r EXPRESS Vance Yance like Young Jim Wallace Vallace and lind Frank Stone Slone when they leap leap- leaped leape ed e into tho the sad saddles lles of or their pony mounts 64 years ago ngo for a day aten-day day tell dash across the great west eest was oft off to build Q a new newbridge b to the east cast but one that the far fat swifter mounts of modern all n mall all transportation would cro cross crosslin s liv hours where the wiry ot o old took days das For many inlay mlle mites today loday the tho shadows of the mail planes will darken dorken the troll trait of oftIe tIe pony express riders OF OP MAIL San San Francisco Franceo gave the new service ser an enthusiastic send Rend send Three special mall mail boxes set et up upon on downtown corners yesterday ester lay were we're vere tilled filled and refilled so on rapidly with letters s for tor transport on the firt carrier of or the service thata that I a full tuH planeload of al air mall mail was taken laken up by the collectors within Crowds stood In line IIno for an IL hour awaiting opportunity to deposit their missives The rhe first letter deposited was wae ad to President Coolidge was nailed mailed b by M U IL p pI I he 01 of the the San Francisco Chronicle and thanked the for foe Inauguration of If a of the government closer western public ou on