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In March, 1915, he flew from Palm Beach to Miami in one hour and fifteen minutes, with a passenger. His operations were moved back to Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the spring for another season of passenger work.  In June he had a competition when Beryl H. Kendrick of Atlantic City began operating his new Curtiss flying boat carrying passengers at the beach.  That season moonlight flights were introduced and later in the year Jaquith was also instructing students.  He entered the Curtiss Marine Trophy contest and on September 23rd flew from Atlantic City to the Columbia Yacht Club at 86th Street and the Hudson River, New York City, carrying G.L. Larrabee of Philadelphia as a passenger.  On October 26th Jquith flew his tests for a hydro license on Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, and was granted F.A.I. Certificate No. 40 on November 3, 1915.  He finished out the 1915 season at Atlantic City after reportedly having carried over 3,000 passengers without an accident.
In the spring of 1916 Jquith resumed his passenger business at Atlantic City.  Early in the year he was selected for possible service in the First Aero Squadron to Mexico, but this did not materialize. On July 27th he flew from Essington, Pennsylvania, to Atlantic City via Cape May, 140 miles in two hours and ten minutes.  In September he considered starting a passenger service between Atlantic City and Philadelphia, and that fall introduced the sport of hunting duck from the air for his passengers and announced plans to open a flying school at St. Augustine, Florida, for he winter.
During the spring of 1917 Jaquith flew from Atlantic City to Miami, Florida, in easy stages.  Later in the spring he was instructor for the Yale Coast Patrol Unit at Mastic, Long Island, New York, teaching instructors.  On June 2nd he flew from Atlantic City to Mastic, Long Island, 225 miles in one hour and fifty-five minutes, carrying a passenger. During June, he and a passenger flew to a fire ten miles away on Long Island and helped extinguish it.  Through the remainder of World War I he taught Coast Patrol instructors and organized Patrol Units. 
In the spring of 1919 he returned to Atlantic City and resumed passenger work with Beryl Kendrick to from the Kendrick-Jaquith Flying Company.  There early that
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