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

passengers. Later J.D. Smith also joined Rodger as a pilot there. On January 15th, 1915 Rodger obtained Hydro-aeroplane License No. 26 on his Benoist Boat. At the Exposition that winter Rodger carried many distinguished passengers on flights about the San Diego and Coronado area. On February 19th he had a smashup into San Diego Bay while flying alone, but he was not injured. During the late winter months of 1914-1915 Tony and Ericson started first flight tests of the new Jannus Flying Boat at Baltimore which were highly satisfactory. The design work on this craft was largely the work of Ericson, who was a close friend of Max Lillie and had attended technical school with him in Sweden.

In May the Jannus Brothers Company signed a contract with the Toledo Railway & Light Company of Toledo, Ohio to operate a Flying Boat at Toledo Beach Resort on Lake Erie for two months, starting July 1st. Reportedly they had received some orders for their new Flying Boat and the first one was shipped to W.E. Davidson of Detroit, Michigan, on April 28th, and Tony went there to supervise the assembly and demonstrate it. Then, for some unknown reason, Tony joined the Curtiss-Toronto Company about June 1st. Rodger fulfilled the summer contract at Toledo, giving daily exhibitions and carrying passengers. They also advertised a flying school there that summer. The Jannus Brothers venture was evidently dissolved at the completion of the Toledo contract. About this time Rodger also did some writing for the aviation magazines, advocating the use of flying for forest patrol,

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