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REPRINT IMPORTANT: All who plan to go on the Society's Georgian ane) Geet late this month, are requested to bring full fare ($47.00 balance owing to the September 15th meeting. There you oe receive a ticket Exchange Order from Mr. Keith Smith. About twenty-five have indicated their intention of making the cruise, SHIPS The former D.&W. ferry CADILLAC is now operating between Cleveland and Cedar Point, and Cleveland and Erieau, Ont. After being laid up several seasons at Windsov, the vessel served in the U. S. Coast Guard during the war as the cutter ARROWWOOD. Recently she was taken to Cleveland, and last spring underwent some alterations topside, and was put back into the Passenger service under her original name CADILLAC. Being a small ship her accommodations are limited, and she seems to be encounter- ing some difficulty with Lake Erie's chop on her long open water route. Her appearance, however, is quite attractive. 4 few months back the tugs HELENA and PATRICIA McQUEEN towed the huli of the Lake Michigan steamer ILLINOIS past Detroit and on to Hamilton, Ontario for scrapping. This ship, and her sister the MISSOURI, were gala ships in the early years of this century. Built at South Chicago for the Northern Michigan Line, they were about 240 feet long by 40 beam, with a gross tonnage of 2400. They had cabin accommodations for 200 and carried 1500 tons of general freight. The MISSOURI was broken up at Muskegon last summer, These two beloved ships are the last of their typo on lake Michigan. Perhaps you have seen the black sandsucker K. V. SCHWARTZ around Detroit recently. She is an old Wyandotte-built ship, dating back to 1884. She came out as the SYRACUSE, an iron package freighter of the New York Central's Western Transit Line. Later she was the LAKEWOOD of the Port Huron and Duluth Line, and still later was converted at Buffalo for the sand and gravel trade. She is one of the last survivors of the package freighters, and one of the oldest hulls in active service on the Great Lakes. he little gas tug AMERICA which was tied up at the foot of Dubois Street most of last year is now at Port Huron assisting in the raising of the hulk of the ferry CITY OF SARNIA, which lies in the mud near the junction of the Black River and the Ste. Clair. During the past month, a veteran lakeman and collector of pictures, Captain Edward Carus, passed away at Manitowoc, at the advanced age of 97. He commanded nearly a dozen ships in the old Goodrich Line, and was en authority on that fleet, as well as on the history of the port of Manitowoc,