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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 227
wheels and various kinds of woodwork, they were engaged in manufacturing
a sulky hay rake of J. HollingsAvorth & Co. for which they
Avere then filling an order for 1,000 to be sold at $60 apiece. They then
employed over 100 hands. Their plant covered four acres of ground.
In the season of 1907, 1,500,000 tons of coal were shipped from two
docks at Sandusky. On August 31, 1912, the Register states 200,000
tons of sand and 5,000 of fish had been shipped that season from Sandusky.
On July 1, 1913, Sandusky becomes a sub-port and Charles P.
CaldAAcll is placed in charge.
MODERN TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
Sandusky's transportation facilities consist of five trunk line steam
railroads, one electric line and by vessels to all points on the Great
Lakes. Of the five railroads, Sandusky is the terminal of four, and
furnishes direct and quick transit to all points east, Avest and south.
Freight loaded in Sandusky on Monday, is delivered to consignee on
Tuesday as far east as Cleveland, as far Avest as Toledo and south to
Columbus. "Next day" deliveries are also made to Newark, Alliance,
Lima and Dayton and intermediate points. Second d^y deliveries are
made at Buffalo, Pittsburg, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati,
Portsmouth and Wheeling. ' *
All five railroads have modern facilities for handling shipments,
Avhether in carload lots or less and the rates are as favorable as at any
point in this territory.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway is the great east
and west highway passing through Sandusky. It handles very much
of the city's traffic and its service is prompt and efficient.
The Lake Erie and Western, now a part of the NeAV York Central
system, has its northern terminus at Sandusky and brings to the city
much of the grain and farm products of the rich agricultural country
through Avhich it passes betAA-een Sandusky and Bloomington, Illinois.
Its traffic is handled at the offices and Avarehouses of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern.
The Baltimore and Ohio makes Sandusky one of its leading lake
terminals. The line entering the city AA'as formerly the Sandusky,
Mansfield and NeAvark Raihvay, the second oldest raihvay in Ohio and
extends south to NeAvark, but meets the tAvo main lines crossing Ohio
at Chicago Junction, Avhere close passenger and freight connections are
made. •
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis enters Sandusky
over the tracks of the first raihvay line built in Ohio. Originally it AVIIS
the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and extended from Sandusky
to Springfield. This line is now the lake division of the system and
passenger and freight connections are made Avith other parts of the
system at Bellefontaine, Springfield, Dayton and Cincinnati. Good
passenger and freight service is given and the road does a heavy business
in and out of Sandusky.