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[[stamped]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/stamped]]

taken ashore by a tug boat. Havens alone reached Michigan City, Indiana safely and well on his way.

Magneto troubles and continued extremely rough weather delayed Johnson and Beers from another attempt to get away from Robertsdale until July 12th, when they immediately had the misfortune to hit some floating wreckage which so badly damaged their hull that they were forced to abandon the event. Weather and mechanical troubles plagued the remaining contestants, however Havens flew into Detroit to win the event on July 18th.

Following this Johnson and Beers competed in a one-week flying engagement at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, at a Perry Centennial Celebration using the Thomas flying boat. Also flying there were Tony Jannus, Beckwith Havens, William Bleakley and Frank Burnside. Again they experienced bad weather and rough water which seriously hampered their operations.

After filling exhibition dates at Rome and Herkimer, New York Johnson and Beers moved on to Pennsylvania. On September 20th they flew from Grats to Elizabethville, via Millersburg, to fly exhibitions using a Thomas land machine. From there they flew to Lykens, Pennsylvania and Beers accompanied Johnson on those cross-country trips.

At the end of the 1013 season Johnson left the Thomas Bros., at which time Beers reportedly returned to Rochester, where in 1914 he was flying his own plane. There Beers was credited with being the first pilot to carry passengers in Rochester. That year he also did some exhibition work and flew with Thomas graduate Bud Cary at Vevay, Indiana on June 18th.

Evidently Beers barnstormed through 1015, then in the spring of 1916 rejoined Walter Johnson at the newly formed Philadelphia School of Aviation at Essington, Pennsylvania. This was a water flying school sponsored by Philadelphian banker, clubman and aviation enthusiast Robert Glendinning, and a new Curtiss flying boat with Curtiss OXX engine was used. Johnson soon gave Beers some instruction to acquaint him with the Curtiss machine and Curtiss control, and following this Beers assisted in turning out a sizable class of students that summer. Up

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