Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — START MAIL PLANE SERVICE [ARTICLE]

START MAIL PLANE SERVICE

Airplanes Make Trips Between Chicago and Cleveland. Chicago, May 16.—“ The airplane mall is In 1” This was the cry of thousands in Grant park and along Michigan avenue at 1:25 o’clock in the afternoon when Pilot Trent C. Fry, driving United States mall plane No. 74, sailed down from the clouds with 300 pounds of mall from Cleveland. As he landed easily In front of the post office aerodrome, he completed a round trip to Bryan, 0., 180 miles away, having started from Grant park at 0:30 a. m. The plane he drove had come all the way from Cleveland, having been steered to Bryan, the half-way station, by Pilot Eddie Graham. A dispatch from Cleveland announced that plane No. 66, in which Pilot Fry left Chicago in the morning, reached Cleveland at 12:38 p. m., having made the trip from Chicago in three hours and five minutes, including a five-minute stop at Bryan.