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attempted to turn the engine over by hand to pump the water out of the cylinders.

Early in June, 1913 Jones was employed as pilot and advisor for Gerald Hanley, a wealthy Providence sportsman who had purchased a Curtiss Flying Boat for sport and pleasure. Jones' first assignment was to go to Hammondsport to supervise the completion and observe the acceptance tests of the craft. Since his only experience was on a land plane with Wright control, he was given some instruction during the initial tests of the plane by Curtiss pilot Francis Wildman. Following this, the boat was shipped to Providence. Shortly after the boat was put into operation Hanley decided he wanted to learn to fly, so Curtiss instructor Raymond V. Morris was sent to Providence to teach him, and at the same time he gave Jones additional instruction.

Jones remained there through the summer season but on September 2nd he flew at a small Labor Day flying meet at Narragansett Park for the Rhode Island Aviation Association. Also flying at this event were Lincoln Beachey, Arch Freeman, Ruth Law who made her first public exhibition flight, and her brother Rodman Law made a parachute jump from a balloon. Beachey was the star performer. On October 1st Jones opened a flying school and passenger-carrying service at Narragansett Park. Late that Fall he also made exhibition flights at several points in the Providence area.

During the Winter of 1913-1914 Jones designed and built a Flying Boat and finished it in early Summer of 1914. He made a copy of the Curtiss Flying Boat hull, using Wright wings, dual chain-driven 3-bladed propellers and a Sturtevant 6-cyl. engine mounted low in the hull. Some flying was done with this plane but it did not prove to be a success. That summer he also did more flying for Gerald Hanley at Fields Point, Rhode Island.

Through the winter months of 1914-1915 he built an enclosed fuselage land tractor, using Wright wings and a 6-cyl. Sturtevant engine. In the spring Jones started a flying school at Squantum, Massachusetts. He finished his new plane