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above Cherry Street Bridge, being caulked. The only difference perhaps being the extension of the cabin to the foremast with 1 ft. more hoist in the cabin. I should be glad to hear your price for such a boat, for I feel you have a large amount of surplus stuff you would work in.         Faithfully, M. E. Hooper110   Evidently the Baileys built yachts upon occasion, as the above undoubtedly refers to just this. The David Dows was the largest sailing vessel and the only five- masted vessel built on the Great Lakes. A further look into the Bailey accounts discloses a few interesting facts relative to the Dows and the Selden E. Marvin. An 1880 account shows that the Dows was built for $64,000 and the Marvin for $27,500.111 Other shipwrights in Toledo evidently came to the Baileys for some of their work as an examination of the account sheets from December 10, 1881 to March 1, 1882 discloses the names of the Gillmores and Moses Bowe, who built vessels in Toledo in the '80's. In 1880 a William Baker appears in the accounts of the Baileys, also. If this is the same person, he worked as a ship carpenter in several shipyards mentioned in this chapter. The last vessel built by the Baileys was in 1881, but they continued in the repair business through 1884.112 By this time it was assumed by most lake shipbuilders that steel would soon replace wood. The street railway interests were blossoming out, and so the Baileys closed down their shipyard. From the above account, this must have been about 1884. With their closing, only the Gillmores remained in Toledo. 69