Britisher on Lakes

With the Union Jack flying at her peak, the steamer Norhilda, of Bristol, England, ran into the harbor at Erie, Pa., for the first time last week. Erie was the western terminus of the long cruise of the new vessel when she left the stocks in the ship yards on the river Tyne, England, six or seven weeks ago.

The Norhilda was built for the Donaldson Steamship Company, of Bristol, England, and No. 18 Broadway, New York. She is a sister ship of the British steamer Querida, which is in the pulpwood trade, and is a frequent visitor at Erie. From the Tyne, the Norhilda went to Calais, France, where she loaded a cargo of chalk, for New York City and went to Sydney, Cape Breton, Canada, for coal, which was unloaded at Quebec.

From Quebec the Norhilda went to the port of Bersminus, Que., on the St. Lawrence River, where she loaded a cargo of 8009 cords of peeled pulpwood, consigned to the Hammermill Paper Company, Erie.