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The De€roit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 31 No. 8 April 1978 Rev. Peter J. Van der Linden, Editor, : 190 Green Dr., Harsens Island, Michigan 48028 Published Monthly Annual Dues $5.00 1924 and 1925: The Watershed Years By Gordon P. Bugbee Conclusion ’ wet: —— WAUKETA- : Pesha Photo WAUKETA Steel passenger propellor (US. 206077) built in 1908 by Toledo SB. Co., Toledo, Ohio (Hull #113): 175 x 38.4 x 14.5; 543 gross tons. Sold to east coast operators in 1930 and scrapped at Baltimore in 1953. In an economy move in the fall of 1924, the two greatest Lake Michigan lines were merged, the fifty-year-old Graham and Morton Line being absorbed into the seventy- year-old Goodrich Line. Since the First World War two business depressions in short succession had afflicted the lake steamer lines. Only in August of 1924 did passengers throng the steamers once again. For awhile it had seemed that the two big sidewheelers a-building were a great mistake, even if past profits had already paid for them. Still, it was already unlikely that the Cleveland and Buffalo line (Continued on page 2)