Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — START ON LONG FLIGHT [ARTICLE]

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CROSS-COUNTRY AIR MAIL PLANES ON THEIR WAY. Three All-Metal Flyera Leave New York for San Francisco With First Consignment. New York, July 30. —Three all-met-al monoplanes carrying the first transcontinental aerial mail left the flying field at Central park, Long Island, for San Francisco. Eleven airplanes escorted the transcontinental machines in a farewell flight over New York before the Jump westward on the pathfinding trip to establish an aerial mall route between here and the Pacific coast. The monoplanes carried letters from the mayor of New York to the mayors of San Francisco and other cities along the route, which will follow in general that of the transcontinental flight of army planes last summer. Cleveland is the first scheduled stop. Other"stops will be made at Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Reno and San Francisco. The trip not only is" expected to make possible, the establishment In September of regular aerial mall service from coast to coast, but to yield Information of value to the war department.