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2 The TELESCOPE Published every month by the Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders Guild.Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Michigan. Joseph E, Johnston Editor Robert H. Davison.............Publisher Chairman Publicity Committee 15i per copy; $1.50 per year; free to members of G.L.M.S.Q, ___________ MUSEUM NOTES Recent Accessions Prom the power plant of the sidewheel steamboat, recently removed from Lake Huron, at a point about 2\ miles from Port Huron: 1. The pitman rod from the main engine, 22 feet long and 18 Inches wide, and 8 inches thick of pine, bound all around with iron, with one of the original brass bearings still attached. 2. The valve mechanism, with the four eccentrics still Intact. 3. The hub, or spider, from one end of one of the paddle wheels, This Is the only one of several to survive the blast required to reduce the machinery to parts that could be handled by the derrick. 4. A hand pump of strange design which looks simple, until you try to figure out how it works. The leathers In the pump were found to be in perfect condition in spite of having been sub-nerged for perhaps 'JO years. The gaskets also were in perfect condition.No difficulty was experier^ ced in completely dismantling it. All nuts were removed from tie bolts with comparative ease. These items were presented to the museum by the U. S. Engineers, who salvaged them. Seven reprints of very early maps of the Great Lakes region. Dates of originals: 1570.........1650.......1657 1720---------17^1--.......1782------1849. Also a map of Frankfort harbor,1939, all being from the Supplement to the Benzie County Patriot, of June 8>, 1939* Donated by Mr. Victor Schoen Editor and Publisher of LAKELAND YACHTING, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. SHIPS AND THE SEA ' Volumes number one and number two bound in beautiful green covers. From the nagazine SHIPS AND THE SEA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through Mr. Joseph C. 0'Hearn, Advisory Editor. NOMINATIONS OP 195»* OFFICERS At the regular meeting of Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild, October 30, 1953 the following members were appointed to the Nominating Committee by Vice President Robert «H. Davison, acting in place of President Robert H. Ruhl who was unable to be present because of illness in the family. The committee was instructed to nominate candidates for the follovAig offices in the Guild: President President Vice President Sec.-Treasurer The Nominating conanittee: R. A. Bishop W. J. Osborne Dennis Kovach Walter Massey Irs Agar J, K. Helgesen, Sr. A. H. Koeppner John Miller John Clements M. Oram Curtis Kovach Results Office Incumbent Vote Nominees Pres. R.L.Ruhl 1 R.L.Ruhl 9 R.H.Davison 1 John Miller V-Pres.R.H,Davison 1 R.H.Davison 8 John Miller 1 A.0.Henning S-Tres,J.E.Johnston 10 J,E.Johnston One ballot void. Respectfully submitted The NOMINATING COMMITTEE John Miller Chairman November 7, 1953 LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dear Capt, Johnston: My steam powered model of the Walk-in-the-Water is now complete and on two occasions I have sailed her. Yesterday' we brought her over to Belle lisle. They told me you were on vacation. We spent several hours sailing her in the yacht basin up rla^r from "J'nT« Wing1'. She does->t steam very long and I can only • • cont, pp. 7