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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. Albert Bradley, President Curtis Haseltine, Vice Pres, John Campbell, Treasurer zone Zelesnik 35 Arm 13951 Faust 1575 Cleveland fooueeny Detroit 9, Michigan Detroit 23, Michigan Lincoln Park, Michigan pial Eeigereity Pl . rosse Pte., Mich | ANNOUNCEMENT: Vice Admiral Lyndon Spencer, president of the Lake Car- iers' Association, will be the speaker at our annual dinner meeting, Feb. 20, at the Norton Palmer Hotel in Windsor. Adm, Spencer will recount the history of the Lake Carriers! Association and tell of the many services it performs for the seamen as well as vessel owners of the Great Lakes. Our Christmas card this year, the passenger steamer IDLEWILD, was from the collection of William A. McDonald, who provides us with the following information regarding this fine vessel: IDLEWILD (US 85595) Steam paddle passenger, iron hull, No.33, built 1879 ey Detroit Drydock Co., at Wyandotte and Detroit, for the Detroit Steam Navigation Co. Original name GRACE MCMILLAN, renamed April 18, 1881. Dimensions 160.9 X 26.0 X 7.4, 363 gto Engine by Fletcher & Co., New York City, vertical beam, low-pres- sure. Cylinder 32" diameter X 10! stroke. Was originally in St. P. tug MAGNET built 1856 E. Saginaw, Mich. Made a schooner in 1878. The Detroit Steam Navigation Co., originally an independent line, was one of several companies involved in fights for supremacy on the Detroit-Port Huron, Detroit-Saginaw and Detroit-Toledo routes. For at least one season the IDLEWILD was at Buffalo, running Buffalo-Dunkir and/or Crystal Beach. Eventually the several companies settled their wars and in 1899 organized into the White Star Line at Detroit. IDLEWILD was dismantled in 191) at Detroit. Redocumented at New York City, 1919, as a barge. Declared "exempt" and dropped from reg- istration in 1923. The hulk was then lying at Peekskill, N.Y. Our cover illustration on the December issue brought quick response from savvy members. First over the line was Capt. Frank E. Hamilton, of Kelley Island, who told us it was the launching of the MARYLAND on July 14, 1890, at Wyandotte by Detroit Drydock Co. (Hull 103) for the Inter-Ocean Transport Co., of Milwaukee, Stephen Clement, president. Right behind Capt. Hamilton came Jack Miller with name, date and ship- yard. E. K. Haviland, of Baltimore, Md., came through with still more information. In addition to Hull No. 103, Engine No. 161 and Boiler Nose 92 and 93. As of 1891 the officers of I-0 T. Co., in addition to President Clement, were: R. C. Hannah, secretary; O. W. Potter, treas- urdr; J. Ce Ricketson, general manager, and F. B. Ricketson, assistant general manager. Haviland added that the illustration we used is also on P. 112 of Beeson's Inland Marine Guide for 1892, together with a picture of the steamer in frame. We smoke out more historians this way. Ex-Wheelsman Dr. Howard J. Parkhurst, of Toledo, comes back with more on George Schafer's What, where & when in November. Last month we reported a reading glass showed the boat in front was the QUEEN CITY. Dr. Parkhurst had figured her the JAMES B. EADS. He says he, too, has a reading glass and it plainly shows a middle initial so if it isn't the JAMES B,. EADS then it must be the QUEEN W. CITY.