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heart causing instant death, at age 38. He was survived by his wife, two daughters, mother, sister and brothers. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery, Rahway. This tragic accident terminated the South American tour and was a crushing blow to the Boland aviation program, but it was announced at once that all plans for the 1913 season would be continued as scheduled. Until that time Frank had never had a serious mishap.

The company exhibited a plane and engine at the Motor Boat Show, held in Madison Square Garden in New York in February, and they planned to move their shop from Marion to better facilities in Newark on March 1st. To go on with the venture, Joseph apparently took over control after Frank's death and not long after that Frank's share in the business was offered a sale. In April the company announced their latest machine, a 36-foot span, pusher biplane, of the type taken to South America. At this time Joseph also advertised an airspeed registering device which the brothers had been working on for some time. While Joseph had done some flying, he was still more interested in the development and manufacturing part of the business, so at this time their former students Horace Kimmerle and Charles Hoeflich were flying for the company.

That summer Joseph began work on a flying boat, and in November pioneer [✓] aviator Leonard Bonney did some test flying of this new machine; then in December the renowned Charles K. Hamilton also did some flying for Joseph, first on land [✓] planes then in early January, 1914, he conducted further flight tests of the flying boat on Newark Bay.

Apparently, company reorganization proceedings were in progress at this time, for in March it was announced that the newly formed Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company of Avondale, New Jersey, had taken over the exclusive manufacturing rights of Boland planes and engines under Boland patents. Heading the new firm [✓] was Inglis M. Uppercu of New York, while Joseph and James Boland were evidently retained in the new organization. A more desirable factory was acquired at Nutley, new Jersey, and at this time another new Boland flying boat was announced, using a new-8 cylinder, 70 h.p. engine. This was good looking pusher biplane,

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