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1924 and 1925: The Watershed Years (Continued) SESHA PASTS CITY OF ST. IGNACE Pesha Photo (MHSD) Steel passenger sidewheeler (US. 126333) built in 1886 as a) CITY OF CLEVELAND by Detroit Dry Dock Co., Wyandotte (Hull #71): 272 x 40.6 x 14.6; 1,924 gross tons. Renamed b) CITY OF ST. IGNACE in 1906 and c) KEYSTONE in 1929. Scrapped at Hamilton in 1949. Two weeks later, GREATER DETROIT was on her sixth trip to Buffalo when she passed GREATER BUFFALO in the darkness of Lake Erie, out on her builders' trials. GREATER BUFFALO was delivered to D&C soon afterward, but went immediately into winter quar- ters. The pageantry of her maiden voyage was saved for May 12, 1925. This time the Buffalo Police Band journeyed to Detroit to join the Cass School Band and other par- ticipants in the customary parade to City Hall. After a tour of auto plants, the visitors from Buffalo boarded GREATER BUFFALO at Third Street wharf, and Buffalo's Mayor Frank Schwab presented the ship with her set of flags. That evening she left on her first trip to Buffalo. Captain Lee DeNike who brought out GREATER BUFFALO was to command her until the Navy was to make her an aircraft carrier for training pilots in World War II. The Cleveland route now received two other great sidewheelers with appropriate names, CITY OF DETROIT III and her smaller consort, CITY OF CLEVELAND III of 1908. In turn, they displaced the sisters EASTERN STATES and WESTERN STATES which had inaugurated the Buffalo service in 1902. Two older sidewheelers with "walking beam" engines were laid aside and soon sold, CITY OF ST. IGNACE of 1886 and CITY OF DETROIT II of 1889. In the summer of 1925 EASTERN STATES and WESTERN STATES established a new D&C route. Each began making three round trips a week between Detroit and Chicago, stopping only at Mackinac Island for several hours along the way. There had been an earlier D&C service as far as Mackinac, with calls along the Lake Huron shore, but its steamers had been sold off in 1921. Now, four years later, D&C services were spread as far afield as they ever would be. But this was a tribute less to D&C prosperity (Continued on page 4)