Steel ships can be built on the lakes at a materially smaller cost than anywhere along the seaboard.At the best, dolly parton fake however, seafaring on either lake or ocean is but an ill paid calling, and the earnings of the men who command and man the great ore carriers are sorely out of proportion to the profits of the employing corporations.Their weirdness was often enhanced by the dash of Indian blood, and they are better described as rangers of the woods and waters.For four years she held a monopoly dolly parton fake of the business.What a stretch of imagination is necessary to conceive of the great volume of traffic of the present time, passing Detroit in little schooners not much larger than catboats that skim around the lakes! Imagine such a corporation as the Northern Steamship Company, with its big fleet of steel steamers, attempting to handle its freight business in sailing vessels of a size that the average wharf rat of the present time would disdain to pilot.These were not the men who wanted steamboats and dolly parton fake fast sailing vessels.Marie which has caused this prodigious development of the lake shipping has been under constant construction and reconstruction for almost half a century.These are cigar shaped craft, built of steel, their decks, from the dolly parton fake bridge aft to the engine house, rounded like the back of a whale, and carried only a few feet above the water.Many of the ships have special guest cabins fitted up for their owners, rivalling the cabins de luxe of the ocean greyhounds.The richest coast in the world is that bordering dolly parton fake on the lakes.