The Silk Association announced that a special seaplane service has been organized to hasten the receipt of documents covering raw silk shipments from the Far East. Through the efforts of its Cransportation Committee arrangements have been made with the Post Office Line. whereby seaplanes will meet—steamships eighty miles off Seattle and receive especially addressed document mail. Upon arrival at Seattle this will be despatched at once, bringing the documents to New York before the arrival of the silk.
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