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Men like James Van Cleve brought new inventions from the coast. It was the interest and energy of Van Cleve that built the VANDALIA, the first propeller on the Lakes. This was 1041. Progress in the next hundred years was rapid. The names of Harvey, the Sault Canal, Frank Kirby, Alexander McDougall, the Detroit Dry Dock Company, the Globe Iron Works in Cleveland, and many more were all familiar names in the history and advancement of marine engineering. Modern-day firms such as the Skinner Engine Co.,Westinghouse, General Electric, and many more are all continuing this great heritage passed on by our early pioneers. In the laboratories and on the drawing boards the Fultons and Frank Kirbys of today are preparing the way for gas turbine engines, boilers fixed by atomic power and creating a new type of engineering that will make the engine rooms of our Lake vessels more efficient and better places to work. This is the story we are going to endeavor to tell in the coming months. It is the story of the past, the present, and the future. The tale of the black gang is long overdue and the men who toiled in the heat of an open furnace, who cursed and sweated over a cranky engine and kept her going under impossible conditions, will be our heroes. They gave the Captains and the Mates the unseen power to plow great hulls majestically through our rivers and Great Lakes, took down the sails from the masts and placed a big stack in full view, so all could see that man had harnessed the God of fire and he was working for them. MARITIME NEWS OF 1855 Nov. 1, Telegraph Lines In Canada- Canada now has 3^00 miles of telegraph wire in operation. The last link of the line, ending on Lake Huron at Goderich, was finished last week and business commenced. (See page 14.) OLD PORTS IN MICHIGAN, LELAND, AND NAUBINWAY Phyllis Robertson Many chapters of Michigan's thrilling history has been written by her Great Lakes ports. Many of these ports are completely forgotten. Of some, there is not a trace left, others are,today,busy little fishing villages. Two little fishing communities on Lake Michigan were once rather important ports. Leland on the west shore of the "little finger" of the mitten of Michigan and Naubinway at the head of the lake about 50 miles west of St. Ignace. Leland, today, is famous as an artists' colony, artists coming from all over the United States each summer. "Fish Town" with its many fishing shanties and nets drying is a popular subject for both painters and photographers. From here, commercial fishermen operate ten months of the year. It is located near the mouth of the Carp River, below the power dam. This dam and the powerhouse beside it are on the site of a sawmill erected in 1853. At one time several sawmills were in operation. Four docks supplied cordwood to steamers for fuel. An iron furnace consumed thousands of cords for fuel. Two large masses of iron and slag in the park nearby stand as reminders of the smelting operations carried on between 1870 & 1884. Naubinway is today a small commercial fishing settlement. It was settled i n 1880 by French fishermen and soon attracted a group of lumber operators. Both lumbering and fishing expanded rapidly in the 1880's until the village had a population of 1,500. It has 34 fishing tugs, a sawmill employing about 600 men and a pier to accommodate ten lumber barges. Undoubtedly much of the white pine sawed here was shipped down Lake Michigan to Chicago to rebuild that city after its disastrous fire. The mills closed in 1896. Second-growth timber attracted new operators in 1906 and a sawmill erected in that year continued operations for a decade. But fishing is still a big industry. King fisheries, during the fishing season, ship about a ton of fish every night except Sundays, to Chicago and Milwaukee markets. But is is shipped via train from Engadine, a small community just north of Naubinway on the Soo Line.