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hips of the NICHOLSON TRANSIT COMPANY & Predecessors, continued: str. Fae PAEPSON 1888 Milwaukee 288 X 42, wood. ELLOWCR. 1888 Buffalo 256 ¥ 40, wood. EX-ROBERT MILLS. us FLEETWOOD. 1887 Bay City 265, xX 40. EX-WILLIAM H. GRATWICK. iy F.E. HARVEY 1899 Toledo 133 X 31, wood. Ex-JOHN ROBERTS, CITY OF ROSSFORD. " HILTON 1867 =.Saginaw 110 X 26, wood " PLEASURE 1894 Bay City 127 X 31, wood. * Formerly a ferry. " — ROUMANIA 1887 W.Bay City 273 X 39, wood. OUMANI (WILLIAM H. WOLF) 1887 Milwaukee 285 X 42, wood. NOTE: Your auth- or includes this vessel with some doubt. Conflic- ting data state it was and it was not in Capt. Ni- cholson's fleet. At this time the vessels of the Nicholson Transit Company had black hulls and stacks and white cabins. In 1922 the Nicholson Transit Company and the Universal Carloading and istributing Company merged to form the Nicholson-Universal Steamship Comp- ny. Hulls were dark green, with a tire painted on the bows and a monogram ‘eaturing the letters "NU." Black stacks and white cabins, The following wooden freighters from the old Nicholson Transit Comp- any went into the new fleet in 23 Strs. THOMAS DAVIDSON, FELLOWCRAFT, FLEETWOOD and ROUMANIA. (To be continued next month) The Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. FELLOWCRAFT -- in war paint HILTON -=- Photo courtesy of Photo by Kenneth E. Smith William MacDonald WILLIAM H. GRATWICK -- from ROUMANIA -- Pesha Phot 5 the Kenneth Smith collection the collection of Pr.Dowling