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TELESCOPE G r e a t La k e s M o d e l Sh ip b u il d e r s ' G u il d B E L I E IS L E D E T R O I T 7, M I C H I G A N Vol. 2__________________ MARCH 1953____________________ No. 3 THE MOVING HAND WRITES One hundred years ago, next year (ninety-nine now), a man by the name of Cunningham entered a model of the steamer "Mayflower" in a contest sponsored by the Michigan Agricultural Society. It won first prize. Today it is in the Museum of Great Lakes History, telling us just what a luxury liner that day was like, -- not in the dim and uncertain lines of a photograph or through the possi­ ble inaccuracies of a painting, but in three dimensions, and so well that contemporaries gave her the palm. Through the haze of time, and the maze of history, we are able to see, and clearly, Just what the people of a century ago, in this area, enjoyed as luxury passenger transportation. Types of vessels changed; vessels came and went. The excursion business on the Detroit River and adjacent waters waxed and waned. It flowered in the steamer "Tashmoo". One set of plans is all that remains of her, besides photographs, that will enable us to do for her what Cunningham did for the "Mayflower". Even that it more than we have on some vessels. One day she will appear in model form. That is assured. Meanwhile, the moving hand writes, and another type of excursion boat may be on Its way out. Just recently it was announced that the steamer "Put-in-Bay" would be sold at auction. The reason is evident, and her fate is almost certain. Scrap prices are high and in no way related to sentiment. Here is a challenge to our organization. Volunteers are needed to measure, and take detail shots for use in model building. Let's act, be­ fore It is too late.