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Now, personally, I am in favor of advertising like the deuce, and getting up a lot of good circulars and pass them out to the crowds at the Muster Field, explaining who we are, and asking for patronage of the home town company, but Banks doesn't think it advisable because we are not operating our own machine.

I gave Wills the devil yesterday for telling Banks and I that he did not think he would come out here this year, and that his chief pilot Watkins was out of the game, then send the latter out here. He now announces that he intends to to stay all summer, because we are "butting in" on his program.

It would give me a good deal of pleasure to have two good Avros, ready for operation now, and owned by us, and put on a rip-roaring advertising campaign which would put him out of business around here. The more I see of the Avro the more I am in favor of it for passenger work. It takes off about half the distance of the Jennys, and your father seemed very much pleased with its performance when I happened in to see Bill last night.

We have come to the conclusion that there is something going on here, against us, -- at least I think so. This chap O'Bryan and Chatterton are catering to the Wills outfit and the former had Drennan out for dinner yesterday. I was told that it was O'Bryan who is keeping Wills posted on our developments, and advised him early in the winter that we were contemplation operations here.