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Ward closed down the shipyard in 1873, but A. Cameron built the small steamer Music in 1874, and A. Fraser built the schooner Fred L. Wells the following year, both in the same area. The stave mill run by Fred Tank, engaged in making barrels for the Lake Erie island wineries, continued to utilize the canal. Dredging was carried on as far as the village of Curtice. The schooner City of the Lakes was still carrying coal from Toledo for the dredges in the 1890's.12 But by the turn of the century the bulk of the timber had been taken out and the canal fell into disuse. With the exception of Cleveland and Sandusky, the only wooden vessels built during the period from 1880 to 1900 in the other Ohio lake towns were steam fish tugs and small schooners. At Conneaut, Perry White built the schooners Kate Grant (1880) and Venture (1881), and the tug Gem (1882). A. R. West built the small tug Star (1882). The last vessel built at Conneaut was the sloop All Talk (1892), by J. B. Capron. At Fairport, J. W. Averill, Jr, built a few tugs, including the Ethel J. (1883) and F. P. Eschbacher (1889). As late as 1904, Great Lakes Towing Company, maintained a floating dry dock at Fairport for servicing tugs from Ashtabula and Conneaut. This was the dry dock purchased from Pat Smith, at Cleveland. But business did not warrant, keeping it at Fairport, so it was returned to Cleveland. Louis Pouliot built a few fish tugs at Vermilion, among them the Richard B. (1901), Mary and John (1917), and Victory (1919). John F. Squires built the tug Favorite in 1894, and D. S. Crosier, the fish tug Edward K. in 1899. The tug Barney Cohen was built at Huron as late as 1889. Only Sandusky held out in the building of wooden ships, launching them as late as 1925. John E. Monk continued building vessels in his yard at the foot of Meigs Street. The largest vessel built there was the popular sidewheeler A. Wehrle, Jr. (1889). Monk also built the small propellers and tugs Norma (1884), Walter Stone (1889), Peerless (1893), and Elsa (1895). John E. Monk died on July 12, 1896. His yard was taken over by Dave Dussault and operated as the Sandusky Shipyard and Drydock Company. Dussault already had built the steamers Josephine (1879), at the foot of Warren Street, and D. Dussault (1886), at the foot of Washington Street. The Sandusky works built the tugs Silver Spray and F. W. Wheeler in 1898. In September, 1904, Louis Pouliot, Charles Mischler, and Joseph 86