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The CHILI CHICAGO & DULUTH TRANSPORTATION CO. For six or seven years after 1908 this compeny operated a freight and passenger service between the two ports indicated in its official name. The operation was not an overwhelming success, and shortly before W.W.I. the four ships were sold to Canadian interests. CHILI, steel freighter built at Cleveland by Cleveland S.B.Co. for Drake Maytham. Sold Canadian c.1915 and eventually renamed SARNIAN. Stranded on Lake Superior in 1943. Hull salvaged & scrapped in 1944. FOO X4eux 23. Among other things had the honor of being one of the first units of the Present Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd. MINNEKAHDA (ex WILLIAM H.GRATWICK), steel freighter built 1 Wheeler at Bay City in 1893 for Capt.J.Mitchell. 328 x 42 x 20. Sold Canadian ¢.1915 and renamed GLENLYON. Stranded on Menagerie I., i Superior, 11-1-1924 and broke in two. Abandoned. NINNETONKA (ex ALVA), steel freighter built by Cleveland S.B.Co. in 1894 for Capt.Alva Bradley. 324 x 42 x 24. Sold Canadian c.1915. Later GLENFINNAN and RENFREW. Scrapped at Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,1937. MINNESOTA (ex HARLEM), steel package freighter, converted into a pas- senger liner after salvage, c.1909. 288 x 41 x 23. Built by Detroit -D.Co. in 188 for Western Transit Co. Originally had two stacks in tandem. Sent to salt water in 1917 and later sailed ovt of Florida. Idle through most of the 20s, and unoficially renamed FELICIANA, but never registered under that name. Scrapped in Florida in 1931. Port Huron & Duluth S.S.Co., Cont'd. PERE eS a 5 (ex F.& P.M.No.5), wooden freight & passenger ship built eeler at Bay City in 1890 for the Flint & Pere Marquette Steamer Line of L,,dington. 226-x, 38 x.2e4. This ship was chartered to many companies’ "auring her life on the Lakes. Spe went to the Atlantic in 1916 and foundered in heavy seas off Nanset, Mass., 2e25~1917. (NOTE: We published the fleet of the Rutland Transit Company in the May historian. Since then we have learned that this ship, PERE MAR- QUETTB 5,served in that fleet under charter during the season of 1892. Int.Ed.) PORTLAND (ex A.B.WOLVIN), steel freighter, built at Cleveland in 1900 erican Ship for Wolvin. Canal size. Purchased from ei sceburen SS. ®.c.1909. To coast, 1916 and foundered at Sea, 12-23-1916. (Cont'd. ,P.4)