ILLINOIS

The steamship "ILLINOIS" on the beach south of the pier, August of 1907.

ILLINOIS

Freed by tugs.

FAVORITE

The "FAVORITE" was a wrecking tug, considered to be the most powerful on the Great Lakes.

The story goes that when the ILLINOIS went on the beach south of the piers the local tugs threw lines on her and proceeded to try to pull her off. Since they were paid by the hour it looked to most of the onlookers that the effort was commensurate with the reward involved. Word of the ILLINOIS beaching had been flashed to the FAVORITE, which was somewhere in Lake Superior. She headed immediately for the scene. It was said that when the FAVORITE appeared on the horizon the efforts of the local tugs took on a new vigor, and in no time at all the ILLINOIS was freed, without benefit of a line from the giant tug.

FAVORITE

FAVORITE