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In 1873 they moved their location to Ironville, at the foot of Niles Street. Here they built a graving dock which was 236 feet long on the blocks, fifty-five feet wide at the gate, with nine feet of water over the sill. No vessels were built at this yard until the l880's. They did, however, carry on an extensive business in vessel repairs. The best known shipbuilding firm at Toledo was that of the Bailey Brothers. They had formerly operated shipyards at Madison Dock and Fairport. Rising costs and lack of timber in that region of Ohio had forced then to move further west. In 1864 they established a yard at the foot of Ash Street. That same year they built the propeller G. W. Reynolds. Between then and 1881, they turned out some of the most famous sailing vessels on the Great Lakes, including the M. I. Wilcox (1868), George D. Russell (1870), M. R. Warner (1873), J. E. and Daniel E. Bailey (1874), George W. Adams (1875), Seldon E. Marvin and David Dows (l881), They also built the propellers Fred Kelley and Mary Jarecki (1871), and tugs A. Andrews, Jr. (1873) and Annie Robertson (1878). John J. Hill from Sodus Point, New York, was foreman for the Baileys in 1868. He later operated a shipyard at Marine City, Michigan. Of the three Bailey Brothers, John Emery is best remembered by Toledo. The others, Alanson C. and Daniel E., left Toledo after the ship- yard was closed down in the early 1880's. Alanson died in 1915 and is buried in Madison Center Cemetery, at Madison, Ohio.109 Daniel went to Buffalo, and about 1894 on to New York. What became of him after this is not known. John was born at Burk, Vermont on September 30, 1817, and moved to Ohio with his parents in 1819. Probably realizing that the days of wooden shipbuilding were numbered, he bought a controlling interest in the Summit Street Railroad in 1875. He later purchased several other local lines and combined them into the Toledo Consolidated Railway Company. He was on the city council in the late 1870's, and at the time of his death, on August 21, 1898, was vice-president of the Merchants' and Clerks' Savings Bank in Toledo. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo. The informal manner in which business was conducted--at least by today's standards--is interesting. Imagine a businessman of today contacting a shipbuilder as M. E. Hooper, the owner of the Hooper House in Toledo, did in 1880, and on a one-cent post card, no less:   Jno. E. Bailey, Esq. Dear Sir: I am desirous of having a boat built the same as the "Sportsman," now lying on the east side of the river a little 68