On the Map

Two years ago last Monday, Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew from New York for Paris. The flight made him a Hero (with the aid of the late great Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick). It made the U. S. air-minded (through the astuteness of Harry Frank Guggenheim). Before the flight, Lindbergh was a sober boy of 25, with four parachute drops from troubled planes as his outstanding feats (see map). This week he is a serious young man, with character hardened against flattery and cajolery, about to be married to Miss Anne Morrow, intent on founding a family and consolidating his fortune.

The afflatus which he gave to U. S. aviation has in the two years become a mighty thing. A two-hundred-million-dollar air industry has developed. The airmail, which Paul Henderson systematized with difficulty when he was Second-Assistant Postmaster-General (1922-25)*, at the beginning of this month was operating over 22,778 mi. of airways, with 3,975 mi. more scheduled soon.

Passenger traffic has become a more significant phenomenon than airmail or air express. The first passenger in a heavier than air machine was one Charles Furnas, employe of the Wright brothers. As everyone knows they were first to fly successfully, at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Dec. 17, 1903. A few months prior, the late great Samuel Pierpoint Langley's plane had failed to take the air successfully at Widewater, Va., on the Potomac.

It is now possible for an air traveler to fly completely around the country for an average cost of 9-c- per mile. The longest air line and at present the only transcontinental one is the Boeing Air Transport. Its Chicago-San Francisco run is 1,943 mi. Its nearest overland competitor is Pacific Air Transport's Seattle-Los Angeles run, 1,099 mi./-

William Edward Boeing, 47, founded Boeing and soon bought control of Pacific. He entered the transport business to make money out of mail, express and passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest in the U. S. devoted exclusively to the manufacture of airplanes. His transport systems are the largest in the world. Systems and factories were recently bought into United Aircraft & Air Transport Corp. Mr. Boeing is chairman of that corporation.

Appended is a timetable whereby the air traveler may calculate the distances, time, stops, costs of U. S. air journeying. Inspection has shown that schedules are closely kept.

Not indicated is the Transcontinental Air Transport system which is promised to go into effect this summer. T. A. T. is the hook-up of the Pennsylvania and Santa Fe railroads with planes. Passengers will take an overnight train from New York to Columbus, Ohio. Thence they will go by air to Waynoka, Okla. From Waynoka to Clovis, N. M. is a one-night train ride. Thence planes go to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

U. S. Air Time Table

Route Miles Hours Stops Fare Boston-New York 220 1:45 2 $25 (Colonial Air Transport) New York-Washington 201 2:15 1 30 (U. S. Air Transport) New York-Montreal 346 4:15 2 50 (Canadian Colonial Airways) New York-Albany 154 1:30 1 25 (Canadian Colonial Airways) Albany-Cleveland 443 9:20 6 60 (Colonial Western Airways) Cleveland-Pittsburgh 121 1:30 2 20 (Clifford Ball) Cleveland-Detroit ... 128 1:30 1 18 (Stout Air Lines) Detroit-Chicago 250 3:30 1 30 (Stout Air Lines) Chicago-Cleveland ... 320 3:45 1 37 (Universal Air Lines) Chicago-Twin Cities (Northwest Airways)... 365 3:55 3 30 (Northwest Airways)... 400 5:30 5 36 Chicago-Green Bay .. 210 3:10 5 20 (Northwest Airways) Chicago-Cincinnati . . 275 4:00 2 35 (Embry-Riddle) Chicago-Atlanta .... 623 7:30 5 65 (Interstate Airlines) Chicago-Evansville .. 281 3:05 2 36 (Interstate Airlines) Evansville-Louisville . 100 1:15 1 14 (Interstate Airlines) Evansville-St. Louis . 145 1:50 i 20 (Interstate Airlines) St. Louis-Chicago.... 268 2:30 3 30 (Universal Air Lines) St. Louis-Kansas City-Omaha 401 4:40 2 48 (Universal Air Lines) Omaha-Chicago 426 4:30 2 47 (Boeing Air Transport) Chicago-San Francisco 1,943 22:30 10 200 (Boeing Air Transport) Route Miles Hours Stops Fare Chicago-Cheyenne . . . 902 9:30 4 $96 (Boeing Air Transport) Cheyenne-Pueblo .... 200 2:45 3 21 (Western Air Express) Chicago-Salt Lake City 1,319 14:30 6 146 (Boeing Air Transport) Salt Lake City-Great Falls 500 6:10 5 50 (National Parks Airways) Salt Lake City-Los Angeles 600 8:15 2 60 (Western Air Express) Salt Lake City-Oakland 624 7 130 4 68 (Boeing Air Transport) San Francisco-Seattle (West Coast Air Transport 6 71 8:00 5 55 (Pacific Air Transport) . . 720 9:00 4 80 Seattle-Los Angeles . . 1,099 14:00 7 125 (Pacific Air Transport) San-Francisco-Los Angeles (Pacific Air Transport). 370 5:00 3 45 (Western Air Express) . 365 3:00 2 50 (Maddux Air Lines) ... 380 3:10 1 38 Los Angeles-San Diego 100 (Maddux Air Lines) Los Angeles-Phoenix (Maddux Air Lines) . . 5:20 3 35 (Standard Airlines) . . . 4:00 1 32 Los Angeles-El Paso 8:30 4 77 (Standard Airlines) El Paso-Dallas 7:00 5 71 (Texas Air Transport) Fort Worth-Brownsville 500 6:30 6 67 (Texas Air Transport) Brownsville-Mexico City 475 5:15 2 200 (Pan-American Airways) Fort Worth-Galveston 320 4:00 4 39 (Texas Air Transport) Dallas-Tulsa 308 3:15 3 29 (Southwest Air) Wichita Falls-Tulsa ... 220 2:40 4 25 (Universal Air Lines) Tulsa-St. Louis 370 3:15 2 36 (Southwest Air) Tulsa-Kansas City ... 225 2:20 2 22 (Southwest Air) Houston-New Orleans 319 3:45 2 35 (Gulf Air Lines) New Orleans-Atlanta. 483 5:30 3 50 (Gulf Air Lines) Miami-Nassau 188 2:00 1 50 (Pan-American Airways) Miami-Havana 261 2:15 1 55 (Pan-American Airways) Miami-San Juan .... 1,440 17:10 6 245 (Pan-American Airways)

*He is now vice president and general manager of National Air Transport. /-In between, but overseas, is Pan-American Airway's 1,440 mi. between Miami and San Juan, Porto Rico.