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w @: ES) Sixty Years Ago _ Great Lakes news for April of 1908, as reported by THE MARINE REVIEW of 1908 -~ Sixty years ago spring arrived on April 1 when D & C's CITY OF DETROIT, A.J. Mc- Kay, Captain, opened the Detroit-Cleve- land service. A lengthy article tells about the two new fireboats being built at Manitowoc for the Chicago Fire Dept. Reportedly, these were to be the world's first boats to be electrically driven. When they went into service Later in 1908 they had been named JOSEPH MEDILL (i) and GRAHME STEWART. The MEDILL was ae ane an 1948. but the STEWART is stil ab a Canadian tug. Another sign of modern times was the an- nouncement that the JAMES E. DAVIDSON had been fitted with Jones ay rien stokers during the winter. As far ane able to tell, the "Little" DAVIDSON was the Second Laker to have stokers--at Least of the Jones type. The first was EUGENE ZIMMERMAN. She stayed —_— un- tik just a couple of years ago GRAND eanie Pes wonder 4§ she kept i Jones to the end? ca mine for April 9, 1908, told about the new steel mills that were being e- rected on the south shore of Lake Michi- gan by U. S. Steel, and about the model city that was to be built beside it, to 1968 finds Gary far from a model city but the steek mel part of the story is being repeated a few miles farther east at Burns Harbor. If you like to see freighters launched, April, 1908, would have been the month for you. On Saturday the 4th you could have had your choice of FRED G. HARTWELL built by the Toledo Ship Building Co. for the Mutual Steamship Co. (G. A. Tom linson, Manager) at Toledo or you could have gone to Bay City to see the Ameri- can Ship Building Co. launch the ALEXIS W. THOMPSON for the Valley Steamship Co. (W. H. Becker, Manager). On the follow- Saturday you could have seen the launch of A. E. NETTLETON at the Wyan- ydotte yard of American Ship Building. She was built for the Wilkinson Trans- portation Co. A week later, on April 18, you could have been in Lorain and seen American launch WILLIAM H. WOLF for the Gartland Steamship Co., Capt. D. Su- llivan, Manager. The final Saturday of -- with 1968 comments by Dave Glick April, the 25th, would have presented another choice. You could have gone to Ecorse to watch Great Lakes Engineering Works launch WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE for Tomlinson's Mutual Steamship Co. or you could have gone toWest Superior to see A- merican put RUFUS P. RANNEY into the wa- ter for the Triton Steamship Co., J. R. Davock, Manager. To top off the month, you could have been in Cleveland Tues— Pe age 28 when American launched HOW- . HANNA, JR. for the Richardson eepartaettn Co., Richardson, Manager. What a bot 06 history these seven have written on our Lakes. FRED G. HARTWELL, the first of that name, ib Stith CROFT although she has been in Lay-up at Ernie for quite a few years now. ALEXIS W. THOMPSON went on to become W. H. BECKER, EDWARD N. SAUNDERS, JR., and as ERNEST R. JOHNSON was scrapped at Hamilton in 1962, after serving in ix fleets. TTLETON 48, 0f course, still on the go in the Wieson sleet. WILLIAM H. WOLF served her entine Life ain the Gartland Fkeet, being scrapped at Hamilton in 1966. The other "Wete- dam,' WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE had her days extended when she was converted to a sekf-unloader in 1948. She had been renamed S. B. WAY in 1936 and since her conversion we know her as CRISPIN OGLE- BAY, Athough RUFUS P. RANNEY was not one of the two "Aprik '08" boats built for Tombinson, she spent most of her Life, prior to being towed to Itaty for Scnapping in 1961, under Tomlinson man- agement. HOWARD'M. HANNA, JR. really got around. She stranded near Port Aus- tin on Lake Huron in the Great Storm of 1913. After salvage she was sold Canad- dan renamed GLENSHEE in 1916, MAR- QUETTE in 1926, GODERICH in 1927, and since 1963, we have known her as AGAWA. A’ AS all these names were not enough, Several sources show = Sabla ing LAURTER as one of her names. the of- ficiak sources tevetanonts 4 or Lloyd's) fail to mention this name. Anyway, she has gotten around but if current rumors ane to be believed, she is close #0 the end of her time. Continued on Page Four