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In March, 1915 he flew from Palm Beach to Miami in 1 hour, 15 minutes with a passenger. His operations were moved back to Atlantic City, New Jersey in the spring for another season of passenger work. There in June he had competition when Beryl H. Kendrick of Atlantic City began operating his new Curties flying boat carrying passengers at the beach. That season moonlight flights were introduced and later int he 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 56th Street and the Hudson River, New York City, carrying C.L. Larrabee of Philadelphia as a passenger. On October 26th Jaquith flew his tests for a seeplane license on Chesapeake Bay, and was granted F.A.I. Certificate No. 40 on November 3d, 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 Jaquith resumed his passenger business at Atlantic City. Early in the year he was selected for possible service in the First Aero Squadron to be assigned to Mexico, but this did not materialize. On July 27th he flew from Essington, Pennsylvania to Atlantic City via Cape Bay, 140 miles in 2 hours, 10 minutes. In September he considered starting a passenger service between Atlantic City and Philadelphia, and that fall introduced the sport of hunting ducks from the air for his passengers and announced plans to open a flying school at St. Augustine, Florida for the winter. 
FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE
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 2d he flew from Atlantic City to Mastic, 225 miles, in 1 hour, 55 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 Petrol Units. 
In the spring of 1919 he returned to Atlantic City and resumed passenger work with Beryl Kendrick to form the Kendrick-Jaquith Flying Company. There early that 
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