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May 10th, 1920

Dear Brooks;

I am enclosing the advertisement which I failed to send in the last letter.

Also sending you a copy of our first airplane report. You will note that we banked five dollars yesterday. The Avro did not arrive until late in the afternoon, but we carried a few passengers, two of which were paid flights. Wills raked in quite a number of joy-riders, and when our plane appeared made a hostile demonstration against us, and objected to us using the field. Some nerve, eh? He claimed that we had no right on the field and that we were taking advantage of his paid advertising. As I was soliciting the crowd for the sale of tickets, he would follow me about and when I failed to get a party he would offer the same person a ride for five dollars just to cut on us. You see with one machine with two passenger seats we can take as many passengers as he with his two old boats. If tries anymore boycotting ideas I am personally in favor of writing him up in the paper altho I think personalities have no place in aviation. What he has done and is doing to discourage us and reap the harvest himself shows what sort of bird he is. If he had the future of aviation at heart he certainly would co-operate with us as much as possible.