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3 THE JULY COVER Done by Rowley Murphy A Recipe for Romance: Into a quiet harbor, lined with wooden wharves, place two or more sailing vessels of any age or size. Sprinkle with well tanned sailors going quietly about their work bending or unbending sail mending, painting, splicing, and in many other ways making ready for all the countless exigencies of life at sea. Add a dash of tobacco smoke, nicely blended with the aroma of oakum and pine tar and the sound of creaking spars.Sprinkle lightly with sea gulls on the wing, and there you will have the makings of romance, Rowley Murphy, in our July cover has mixed most of those ingredients, as he shows the Great Lakes schooner "Guido"with one anchor down and the ,!Island Queen" lying at the wharf in Toronto harbor, fitting out for the 1907 season. Here we see ships at rest, but not for long, for spring is in the air and the open Lakes are calling. Tomorrow they will be away to many places with strange-sounding names--to Skilligalee, and Thunder Bay, to Tobermory and Penetanguishene and to Escanaba, beyond Death's Door itself. These ships will not thread the intricate passages among the Spice Islands. They will not in all their comings and goings raise Java Head, nor round Cape Horn, nor will they ever feel the sting of the salt on their bows, but the equal of them they will see, and do; and some will come home and some will go on to their final resting places on sandy points and rocky headlands or in the cold dark depths of Superior where he who goes down, frozen to the task at hand will remain at that task,unchanged through all time, until the last bell is rung and the last watch is called, --and beyond. But here we see them at rest, -the ships of the Lakes, as romantic as any, but little known beyond the rim of the vast lakes they sailed. J. E. Johnston MUSEUM NOTES Plans of the JOHN ERICSSON Under the careful hand of Mr.James Jones the plans of the whalebacker "John Ericsson" are nearing completion. A number of discrepancies were found in the set from which ours are being re-drawn, and fortunately for us the real "John Ericsson" has been passing back and forth close in, at the museum, and a number of details have been easily corrected. Before this number of TELESCOPE is in your hands the first drawing will be finished and some work done on the tracing. The drawing will be published in an early number of the magazine. This model has a number of interesting features and should be popular with the builders. Cont. pi. 7 THE SCOW SCHOONER MILTON This month we feature the plans of the scow schooner "Milton",built in Milwaukee,Wisconsin, in l8o7 by Els-worth. She measured 132.^ x 29.2 and had a molded depth of 8.7 feet. Her tonnage is given as 231+,probably net though that is not specified. She was of the square-bow type and was considered a good carrier in the lumber trade, for which she was constructed. She had two cargo hatches, and like all Lakes vessels of those days was fitted with a large centerboard, the trunk of which came above the deck as high as her rails. As lumber carriers the Great Lakes scows were popular for several reasons. They drew little water,cost less to build than the conventional types and because of their low tonnage got by on lower tax charges. Before the wind they were considered fast.Given equal conditions they could weather storms as well as any of the sailing vessels of their day,except in heavy head seas. Great Lakes marine casualty lists state that the "Milton" was finally driven ashore at Two Rivers,in 1885, one of 138 disasters of that year. The Guild is now prepared to sup-- ply blue prints of this vessel:Price $1.25, postage paid. One sheet,as is shown in this number of TELESCOPE.