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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. ANNOUNCEMENT: with spring just around the corner, we announce again our annual Picnic Meeting, Saturday afternoon and evening, June 12th, at the Fort Mal-@ den Museum in Amherstburg. Mr. & Mrs.Botsford will be our hosts. The usualw picnic will be held in the afternoon and early evening on the grounds, and the meeting will convene in the Museum Annex at 8 P.M. (Detroit Time). Bring your basket of sandwiches and the thermos. Cream and sugar will be provided, and as always, there'll be extra coffee brewing in the Botsford urn. The speaker of the evening will be Mr.Dana Thomas Bowen of Lakewood, Ohio, well known author and leeturer. His topic will be "Ships and Things." Mr.Bowen will be happy to autograph copies of his books whtth our members ma have. You'll enjoy this meeting, so plan to come and bring your friends. Mr.Bowen is also Vice President of Marine Transit, Inc. which operat sightseeing M.V."Carol Diane" on harbor and river cruises at Cleveland. At this meeting wé will have the election of four members to our Soc ety's Advisory Council. Your ballot is enclosed herewith. It should be fill out and, either cast at the meeting, or mailed to your Secretary at 8236 For Van Byke, Michigan, so as to reach him not later than Thursday, June 16th. All members are strongly urged to vote. John E.Poole, Secretary. OK KR OK OK OK KOK OK OK OR OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OR OK OK OK KOK OK OK KOK KOK OK OK MASTHEAD The line drawing at the top of page one is taken from the letter- head of Robert McKinzie & Sons, early Yetroit blacksmiths. The vessel portrayed thereon is obviously one of the propellors of the Northern Transportation Company. George Lauhoff contributed the picture. RR KKK ROR OK KOK OK ROK KR ROK KOK RR OK OK KOK OR OR OK RK KOK KOE A OK OK KK NORTHERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, Continued from first page: — In 1860, a steamer left Ogdensburg daily for Cleveland, Sandusky & Detroit and tri-weekly to and from Chicago, Milwaukee and intermediate ports on Lake Michigan. Passage to Detroit was made in 2 to 3 days and to Chicago in 6 or 6 days. In 1862 service was increased to that a steamer left Ogdens- burg daily for Chicago and all intermediate ports. State rooms accommodated 30 to 40 first class passengers and berths in a second class cabin took care of 40 to 50 passengers who provided their own bedding and provisions. Fare for first class passage, including board and stateroom, was $7.00 to Cleveland or Detroit, $8.00 to Toledo, and $12.00 to Chicago, Milwaukee, Waukegan, Kenosha, Port Washington, Sheboygan, and Manitowoc. Second class, passage only, to the same points, was, respect- ively, $3.00, $.400 and $5.00. Children, 2 to 12 years, half fare. The meals provided for first class passengers were of excellent qual- ity and offered a wide variety of foods. A bill of fare for Thanksgiving Day 1875, aboard the propellor LAWRENCEoffered a selection of three soups, two boiled meats, 11 roasts and fowl, four entrees, four relishes, six vegetables ten pastries, seven desserts, three wines, the usual tea, coffee & chocolate. Such del&cactes as venison, qquirrel, hare, prairie chickem, pigeon and mal- lard duck were included in the menu. Freight rates were proportionately low. Shipment of a cow to Yetroit cost: $6.00, to Chicago, $8.00; horses plus feed $7.00 and $10.00, and sheep 75¢ and $1.00 each. Wagéns, sleighs, pianos, etc., cost from $4.00 to $6.00 to the above mentioned ports or intermediate stops. Although the Northern Transportation Company was an important fact in early Great Lakes commerce, current books on the subject do not mention the part the company played during the Fifties and Sixties in transporting westward many thousand settlers who populated and developed the states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. On the following pages is a list of the vessels owned or oparated by the N.T.Co., their tonnage where available, and their ultimate disposition.