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1924 and 1925: The Watershed Years (Continued) By the next spring, the White Star fleet of five day boats was reduced to three active companies, each with a single steamer, while OWANA and CITY OF TOLEDO were idle and up for sale. GREYHOUND became the property of the Red Star Line, named for a predecessor that until 1899 had owned the 01d wooden GREYHOUND from which she inherited her engine. From Toledo she took over a route to the Lake Erie Islands vacated by the burnt steamer ARROW, but she was really too big for the run and was laid aside in a few years. WAUKETA kept her morning run from Port Huron under the Detroit-Port Huron Steamship Company, but soon became an excursion boat at New York City. A new White Star Navigation Company acquired TASHMOO and Tashmoo Park. Water slides and other "rides" from Sugar Island were installed at Tashmoo Park, and TASHMOO received a hardwood dance floor forward on the main deck. TASHMOO enjoyed twelve more years on the St. Clair River before this last of the White Star Liners was lost in a river accident. Of the other Detroit excursion lines, the Ashley & Dustin Line to Put-in-Bay and Sandusky had been down to one ship for several years, the fine propeller PUT-IN-BAY of 1911. The Detroit and Windsor Ferry Company made improvements during the winter to its Bois Blanc Island amusement park and its excursion steamers COLUMBIA of 1902 and STE. CLAIR of 1910. At the park the old Cafe by the riverbank was replaced with a larger cafeteria facing the dock, and the dock was enlarged to serve both steamers simultaneously. New hardwood floors replaced the canvas decks in the ballrooms of both steamers. (Continued on page 4) CITY OF TOLEDO Pesha Photo Steel passenger sidewheeler (US. 126738) built in 1891 by Craig SB. Co., Toledo (Hull #45): 212 x 31.7 x 12.8; 1,003 gross tons. Taken to the Niagara River as a ferry in 1932. Scrapped at Hamilton in 1948. a3