on arrival looked like spinach decorated with silver ribbons.
Some ice cream met a somewhat similar fate. A manufacturer in New York was to supply the dessert for a luncheon in Philadelphia. At nine o’clock the packed boxes were put aboard at Newark Airport, and the plane left on schedule. Unfortunately someone forgot to remove them at the Philadelphia stop and they went merrily on to Washington. There they were held while inquiries were made up and down the line as to where they belonged. After some delay, they started back to Philadelphia. I do not know just what subsequent travels the ice cream made, but about six thirty it turned up in a liquid state at the place where the luncheon had been—mute testimony to airline efficiency.
The most routine blunder, at least in the beginning, was to sell the same seat to two persons. When eleven passengers appear at the last moment for a ten place plane there is an element of embarrassment.
With the New York, Philadelphia and Washington Airway, as with all others, weather really held the whip hand. Under certain conditions it is impossible to fly, as I have explained. When planes had to remain on the ground, schedules were cancelled and passengers reluctantly turned over to the railroads.
However, the bugaboo of weather is being progressively overcome. Experiments are continuously
