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In the mean time we are going to place a deposit of $500 on a Jenny 0X5, and pay the balance upon delivery f.O.B. Weston Airdrome, price to be in the vicinity of $2300 to $2500. 
This passenger carrying will bring us a lot of publicity and enable us to interest tangibly some of the people we have on our list. Of course it will be dam remunerative for the International, but it will give us the pep we require to push the financing to a speedier conconclusion, and at the same time put some working each in the Treasury of Brooks, Banks & Smith Corporation,
What do you think of it so far?
But listen to this. Next we called on General Emery and he told us that he had leased the Muster Field to the U.S. Air Service and as it was out of his jurisdiction he could not help us any, and referred us to Colonel Drennan. Smith and Banks had met him previously, at the Aero Club banquet and the airdrome at Weston, and on telephoning the Colonel he arranged an interview at once. We had a very fine chat with him and he told us that he intended having three machines and a hanger out on the Muster Field in a few days. Upon explaining our mission, and advising him as to our organization, personnel, etc., he expressed an opinion that nothing should interfere with both of us using the field, and gave us permission to use it as much as we liked. We feel that this piece of news is great, no merely from the standpoint of our own business but it is bound to deveope Framingham into THE aviation centre of New England,