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Show WEST MOVED 24 HOURS NEARER EOT PLANE Sky Postman Vies With Pony Express as Maker of History SAX FRANCISCO, BajBj 11. The west was moved twenty-four hours nearer the east today when the first trans-continental mull plane landed hero sixteen hours late When the service settles down to schedule the plaheS will deliver mall on the two coasts two days sooner than trains do t)OW Vising with the pony express and the fust fust mall trains as a maker of national history the plane swept oer San l'ianels o bay a few m'.nu'es after 2 o'clock and at 2: 25 cume lo i est on the Marina here, overlooking the golden gate. The mall It bore was transferred, to a waiting motor truck and rushed to the general office. Tonight BO the persons here read letters that started their westward trip last i dnesdhy morning at a. m. from .Mlneola. N. V. E. E. Mouton, a iwcno aviator, climbed out pf the plane and shook himds with Charles W Kay, postmaster post-master here, smiling after a trip thut had taken him but a few mlnutea moro than tw-o hours, though II occupies occu-pies the larger part of a da) when matte by train. While winging Its way here from Mlneola field the plain passed two cast bound trans-contineatal mail pianos which cleared from here yesterday yes-terday and today, the first to leave San I'Yan Cisco in this service. It brought seven sacks of mall, four destined (or San Francisco, one for Washington, one for Oregon and one for California points outside of this city. Among the throng which gathered ..t lAHlna i'IaWI frt rrrAr.f i!)a air plane were Colonel John A. Jordan, in charge of airplane mall operation between San Francisco anil Salt lake City, representatives of the railway mall service aad officials of the municipality- |