Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1914 — Flying Postman. [ARTICLE]

Flying Postman.

The ministry of posts and telegraphs of France recently made plans to create an aerial postal service to carry late letters from Paris to the mail steamers for the West Indies and South America, which leave France only twice a month. Two hundred pounds or more of letters for South America arrive ip Paris during the evening and night preceding the departure of the steamer from Poulllac. To reach that port in time to go aboard the steamer the .mail must leave Paris by train at 6 p. m. A successful trial of the proposed auxilliary postal service was made. LieutRonln left Paris in the morning with ten kilograms of letters, and arrived at Paulllac in good season. The government plans to make other similar trials, probably between Paris and the Mediterranean ports. If the experiments succeed, a regular aerial postal service will probably be established. —Youth’s Companion.