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TWO LIFETIMES AFLOAT, AND EACH TIME A QUEEN, THE LAST OF THE ANCHOR LINERS CONTINUES TO SAIL ON LAKE MICHIGAN TELESCOPE Page 123 MILWAUKEE CLIPPER By CHARLES H. TRUSCOTT Jon This early Pesha photograph shows JUNIATA in her early years when she shared honor with TIONESTA and OCTORARA as pride of the Anchor Line. In recent years we have seen the demise of all of the old passenger lines on the Great Lakes, and each passing has brought back memories of boats that once plied these inland waterways; the City of Detroit III, City of Cleveland III, and the East- ern and Western States of the D&C Fleet; Lake Michigan's Goodrich Transit Company, the Crosby Line, and the Pere Marquette Line with the steamers Alabama, Virginia, Carolina and the great whaleback Christopher Columbus, along with Minnesota, E.G. Crosby and so many others. Also brought back to life are three Great Lakes triplets; the Tionesta, Juni- Photo courtesy Edward N. Middleton ata, and Octorara of the Anchor J.ine which was later to be part of the Great Lakes Transit Co., of Buffalo. What follows is the history of just one of these boats...the last of any of the passenger fleets still in overnight passenger service, with the exception of the car ferries on Lake Michigan. This then, is the story of the old Juniata which now sails on Lake Michigan each summer as the proud Milwaukee Clipper. The Juniata was built in 1905 in Cleveland, Ohio, by the American Shipbuilding Company for the Anchor Line, at that time part of the Penn- sylvania Railroad. Their hull number