Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1919 — USE FOR OLD FEDERAL PARK [ARTICLE]

USE FOR OLD FEDERAL PARK

Government Takes Over Plant at Harrison for Air Mail StationTime Is Saved. A useful purpose finally has been found for the Newark Federal league park at Harrison, now the possession of the National and American leagues. The postmaster general has asked the permission of the major leagues to use the field for the New York to Washingair mail service. The leagues promptly gave their consent It is the intentiop of the post office officials to have the air mail men drop the New York mail off at the Harrison park instead of taking it to Belmont park in Long Island, as is now being done. The mail then can be placed in the Hudson tube at the Harrison station and sent direct to, the downtown post office. By using the Harrison ball park it is figured that the air service between New York and Washington will be cut down fully half an hour. The government for some time had been searching for a suitable field much closer to the heart of New York than Belmont park. • As much of the mail will be delivered by air after the war, it is the Intention of the government to erect qalte an -alr station at the old Federal park.