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J. E. Johnston, Editor MEMBERSHIP $3.00 Supported Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild BELLE ISLE DETBOIT 7, MICHIGAN in part by the Detroit Historical PUBLISHED BY R. K. Davison, Associate Editor SUBSCRIPTION $2.50 Society. EDITORIAL THE END OF THE BEGINNING________ By the time this number of TELESCOPE reaches you there will have been an official announcement,by the Detroit Historical Commission, of the coming abandonment of the schooner "J.T.Wing" as a home for the Museum of Great Lakes History. This is not the beginning of the end, but merely the end of a very good beginning. For six years the ship has been her own billboard. At first she was the major part of the museum. Gradually our collections have grown and now they constitute values which can not be ignored. They must be adequately and safely housed so that posterity will have the benefit of the countless hours of research by the hundreds of persons who have contributed towards the preservation of the story of the development of commercial shipping on these Great Lakes. The good old ship, a present from Grant H.Piggott, of the J.T.Wing Company, and Joseph Braun, of the Braun Lumber Company, to the City of Detroit, has come to the end of her last voyage; a six-year voyage into the past. She comes in "full and by", which is to say in old nautical language,full to the last cubic foot and down to her marks. The term means that the vessel is loaded in a manner which will bring the greatest possible revenue, or returns. We believe this is true at this time.We regret her passing,but wind and weather and dryrot have taken their tolls. Most of us can remember her last voyage on the Detroit River, from 2*+th Street dock to Belle Isle. It was a glorious day, with a fresh N.W. breeze whipping up whitecaps, and the sky filled with wool-pack clouds resembling nothing so much as the ghosts of that vast armada of sail gone on before,--the Griffin, Nancy, Challenge,James F.Joy, Lucia Simpson,Milton, and all the others, back again, in the spirit, to convoy to her last resting place the last of their kind, though her keel was alien to these waters. And now? Those ghost-ships have returned to life, reduced somewhat in size, but not in detail. They live on in model form, and shall live, if protected, to tell the tale of one of America*s most thrilling achievements, Great Lakes Shipping. We turn now to the job of providing that protection. Our members,subscribers, and the public are invited to help* OFFICERS Robert H. Davison President John P. Miller....Vice President Joseph E. Johnston....Sec-Treas. DIRECTORS Robert L. Ruhl.. John K. Helgesen Frank Slyker.... Detroit Detroit East Detroit Walter Massey...LaSalle, Ontario Leo M. Flagler..Windsor, Ontario Donn Chown Detroit