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al and 1925: The Watershed Years (Continued In April, 1925, the city councils of Detroit and Windsor met in joint session to promote a bridge across the Detroit River. This threat to the ferry monopoly had not always enjoyed such reputable auspices. In Chicago at that moment, a man named Russell Scott was imprisoned under sentence of death for killing a Chicago druggist in a hold-up. Only four years before, Scott had been the guiding genius of a com- pany selling bonds to build such a bridge. In any case, before the twenties were out there was an auto bridge and a tunnel, too. The Detroit & Windsor Ferry Com- pany retired its ferries at last in 1938, having discontinued service to Belle Isle several years before. Its "Bob-Lo" excursion steamers served another ten years before their retirement was announced. Happily, the Browning family took over the Bob-Lo steamers and park. After another thirty years, Bob-Lo continues to defy the hard reality that has overtaken all the other big passenger steamers of the lakes. GREYHOUND Pesha Photo Steel passenger sidewheeler (US. 86621) built in 1902 by Detroit SB. Co., Wyandotte (Hull #146): 276 x 38 x 15; 1,392 gross tons. Abandoned 1936 in Toledo. ANNOUNCEMENT. The Dinner Meeting of the MHSD will be held on Saturday, April 22, 1978, at Henry's Restaurant in Algonac. The menu will be perch, chicken, and beef -- family style at $8.00 per person -- with cocktails at 6:00 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. Please return the card included in the March Historian to Fr. Donahue at 1200 Wash- ington, Algonac, Michigan 48001, or call him at (313) 974-3301 if you have not already done so. The speaker will be Frank Mann of Wallaceburg, Ontario. His topic will be the Canadian side of the St. Clair River. aa