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April TELESCOPE 74 Business Meeting, Visitors are welcome Board of Directors. General Meeting, The subject for Friday 30 April, to these meetings of Friday 21 May, this meeting Institute Notes Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. the Institute's Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. will be announced in the May issue of Telescope; please notice that it has been set forward a week to avoid a conflict PAST MEETING REPORTS A short business meeting preceded the general meeting of March 26. A nominating committee was appointed for the coming elections, with Bill Hoey as chairman. Members suggest° ing candidates for nomination should first make sure that their candidate is willing to serve, and then offer his name to Mr. Hoey at 1421 Langley in Clawson, Michigan. The D&C Fund= raising campaign was discussed at length, and it was announced that Messrs. Lee and Brown would be going to Cleveland the following week to open negotiations with the owner. The business meeting was then ad- journed, and the directors joined the large crowd that gathered in the main hall for the evening's talk. Father Dowling, Honorary President of the Institute, spoke on the East- land disaster, which has its 50th anniversary this year. Father first explained Eastland's history up to the time of her accident. She had been built for Lake Michigan ser- vice, had gone to Lake Erie for Cleveland-Cedar Point service, and had returned later to Lake Michigan with the Memorial Day weekend. for Chicago~St. Joseph service. <He outlined her past history of insta- bility, citing several occasions on which she had shown herself to be crank. Using a blackboard, he ex- plained the reasons for this insta- bility. Father continued with a description of the accident and the rescue work, together with each of the rescue craft involved. Also in- cluded were the most common reasons given for the disaster, each of which he evaluated for plausibility. The most probable explanation was that the ballast tanks intended to correct Eastland's instability had not been properly used. A descripâ€" tion of Eastland's later career as the training ship U.S.S. Wilmette concluded the talk. "Tragedy at Clark Street Bridge" was based on a paper Father has prepared for a forthcoming issue of Steamboat Bill. â€"-William M. Worden, Secretary COVER: Our cover drawing by Bill Moss shows Kingston backing from her Toronto pier bound for the Thousand Islands on September 17, 1949, to close her season--and, it developed, the Torontoâ€"Montreal route for good.