AERONAUTICS: New Routes

Last week, a new mailcarrier entered the Government service, a thin, slightly wizened little man of 62 with graying hair. He was no man for arduous marches in extremes of weather. But he had not undertaken his job because of the stoutness of his legs and constitution. He had a fleet of aeroplanes, a corps of pilots. He had contracted to whisk letters and packages from Cleveland and Chicago to his home city, Detroit, and vice versa. His first plane, though he was not in it, was met...

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