Though it has yet to be decided whether the aerial mail system has come to stay, significant facts as to the use the aeroplane has been put to in this connexion have reached here by mail. Over 100,- 000,000 letters were thus carried in the United States entailing saving of $42,500 on the New York-Washington route and over $100,000 on the New York-Chicago route. Yet the utter destruction of the air-mail service was threatened recently in the U. S. Hlouse of Representatives when the appropriation of $1,250,000 for the service was eliminated. There has been and is proceeding a decided opposition to the U. 8, internal mails being so transported, and the arguments used against it were those advanced against practices and methods which have by now become indispensable. A pity it were if the opposition to the air-mail in the House of Representatives eventually won their case, for in such utilities much more money has yet to be spent before either their full effectiveness or profit-earning capabilities can be fully tested.
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