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2. H E L E N BRID G E S It is with the deepest sadness that we advise our me mbers of the passing at St. Jo se ph's Health Centre, Sunnyside, Toronto, on August 23rd, 1993, of our dear friend and longtime member, H e l e n Eileen Bridges. In her 82nd year, H e l e n succ umbed to ki d n e y problems, with w h i c h she had been aff li ct ed for only a r e l a t i v e l y short pe r i o d of time. H e l e n was the w i d o w of Ch arles S. Bridges, her second husband, who had spent more than half a cent u r y d e dicated to the p r e s e r v a t i o n of C a n a d i a n ra il wa y and ma r i n e history. Charlie joined the Toronto Marine H i s t o r i c a l So ci et y in its very first year of existence, and carried m e m b e r s h i p n u m ber 17. He and Helen together attended our regular T. M . H . S. g a therings and only r a r e l y missed a meeting. For m a n y years, Charlie of fered the blessin g at our annual dinner meeting, and after his sudden pa ssing on June 28th, 1989, H e l e n took over those duties, which she filled with a devout s i nc erity admired by all. H el en was a true friend of the Toronto Marine H i s t o r i c a l Society. Even after the d ea th of her be loved Charlie, she continued to attend our me et in gs as f r e q u e n t l y as possible, and she always was sincerely c o n ce rned if one of the other regulars was absent, p a r t i c u l a r l y if due to illness. W h e n e v e r your Edito r en tered the room where one of our meeti n g s was to be held, it was the smiling face of H e l e n Bridges that always was seen first, and she never failed to go out of her way to make everyone feel welcome. She and Charlie together had p e rformed the same service at their church for many years, making c e r t a i n that nobody felt a stranger. Since his passing, Helen always mi s s e d Char l i e terribly and we are happy that she no w can be with him again. She leaves six s t e p - c h i l d r e n and several gra nd children, to all of w hom we express our most p r o found sympathy. A funeral mass for H e l e n was c e l e b r a t e d at St. Joa n of Arc Church, Toronto, on Thursday, August 26th, and interment was at Park Lawn Cemetery. Rest in Peace, Helen. You truly have ear n e d it. * * * * * M A R I N E NEWS The 1993 n a v i g a t i o n season c e r t a i n l y has not been a good one for the C a n a dia n grain fleet, but it p r o d u c e d two v e r y intere s t i n g wheat m o v e m e n t s on the U . S. side of the lakes. Mormac Marine Group Inc. deci d e d to put a part load of grain aboard its d e e p - s e a tanker M O R M A C S K Y on an Atlan t i c crossing to St. Petersburg, Russia, and needed two l aker-sized shipments to provide the load. The first ou tbound cargo went in the steamer J. L. MAUTHE, of M o r mac 's lake s h i pping affiliate, the Int e r l a k e Stea mship Company. She loaded 1 1 1 , 116 bu she ls of wheat from the ConAgra eleva t o r at Huron, Ohio, and then added 50 9 , 887 bu sh els at The A n d e r s o n s in Toledo, clearing the latter port for Mo ntr eal on June 26. The second p o r t i o n of the wheat d e s t i n e d for M O R M A C S K Y left To l e d o on July 6th aboard the A m e r i c a n St e a m s h i p Company's A M E R I C A N MARINER. The 78-foot beam of the latter vessel made her the widest ve sse l ever c l e a r e d for Seaway transit, and certain alterations to lock f e n ders had to be made at Lock Seven in the W e l l a n d Canal, and also in the U . S. s ect ion of the St. L a w rence canals in order for the ship to make her transit. A l t h o u g h the MA U T H E returned up the Seaway light, A M E R I C A N MA RI NE R p ass ed up the lower canals on July 15 w i t h a most unus u a l cargo of scrap me tal c o ns ig ne d to Ashtabula, Ohio. De spite the c e s sation of grain shipments via the M i s s i s s i p p i River due to the summer's disa strous floods, there have been no re p e t i t i o n s of the U . S. shipments via the Seaway.