Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1911 — PARCEL POST BY AEROPLANE [ARTICLE]

PARCEL POST BY AEROPLANE

Package Dropped on Deck of Outward Bound Liner Olympic—First Instance of Kind. , New York.—The first piece of merchandlse ever delivered at sea by aeroplane fell on the upper deck of the giant White Star liner Olympic the other day aa she steamed through the Narrows outward bound on her maiden eastward passage. W. Atlee Burpee of Philadelphia had contracted for delivery of the package before sailing, with a department store, which In turn engaged Thomas Sopwlth, the English aviator, who recently took UP Henry W. Taft, the president’s brother, for a skyride. With Richard R. Sinclair, secretary of the Aero duh, holding the package. Sopwlth rose from the aviation grounds at Garden City and timed his flight to meet the liner in the Narrows. While Sopwlth controlled the aeroplane Sinclair dropped the package at the given slgnaL No word came from on board of whether it had landed or not, bat to those as nearby craft and to the aviators it seemed certain that it had fallen true.