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January TELESCOPE 2 INSTITUTE NOTES: Business Meeting, Friday 26 February, Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. We welcome visitors to these Board of Directors meetings. General Meeting, Friday 26 March, Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. Father Dowling wiél tell us of the "Tragedy at Clark Street Bridge," as a Fif ieth Anniversary Year commemoration of the Eastland disaster at Chicago in 1915. His talk will be based upon an article he has prepared for the Steamship Historical Society's Steamboat Bill. The capsizing "of the excursion steamer Eastland accounted for by far the greatest loss of lives (about 835) of any single Great Lakes shipping accident. PROGRESS REPORT: THE CAMPAIGN , To SAVE THE GOTHIC ROOM, ETC., 1? or THE CITY or DETROIT III Most Institute members now know of our fundraising efforts for purchas- ing a large collection of D&C Navi- gation Company items momentarily available from Cleveland owners. A folder describing this campaign was mailed with the December Telescope and to members of several other or- ganizations as well--over two thous- and mailed, in all. If everyone who received one contributed five dol- lars, our campaign would be success- ful. Neither the Institute, nor the Museum, is in the fundraising busi- ness, generally speaking, but this collection is so rich and the pros- IN THIS ISSUE pect of its being scattered so imminent that we felt the museum must have it. We have had gratify- ing newspaper coverage of the cam- paign. The Cleveland Plain Dealer was first on the stands with a mag- Cover: Crawl Keys set a 29-day con- struction record at Great Lakes Eng- ineering Works in 1918. Photo by Great Lakes Eng. Works (see page 3). The "Lakers" : Part Four. nificent picture story of more than Lakers, Properly So Called, half a page on January 23. Curt by Rev. E. J. Dowling, S. J. 3 Haseltine's column of the February Highlights of the 1964 Season ... 10 1 Detroit Free Press illustrated the Reprieve of Canallers, Gothic Room along with a description by Skip Gillham ............... 14 of the campaign. As we go to press, Curator's Corner, we understand that the Detroit News by Robert E. Lee .............. 20 may also cover the story. To these Seaway Salties 3: Addenda, newspapers the Institute is deeply by George Ayoub ............... 21 grateful, We hope that our members Lakes and Seaway News, will be generous to this effort. edited by Robert Radunz ....... 22 --WMW