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TELESCOPE Page 123 A LITTLE WHITE STEAMER, A MAN IN GRAY, AND TWENTY THOUSAND SHIPS by HOWARD F. SPRAGUE The following story is reprinted, with strolls along the riverside of Belle no change whatsoever, from the original Isle near Detroit may see, almost ' ,' text which appeared in St. Nicholas Mag- ' azine prior to 1922. While written for a any time, some part of the grand youth audience (this was a magazine fot parade of the lake ships. boys) your editor feel that the story of The shingling and crunching con- a by-gone era has a place of merit in i ' : Telescope even though our readers are more tact of the first steamer's bow is sophisticated students of the Lakes. It is hardly heardin the ice of the Strait also interesting that the author is more of Mackinac in April before the well known as a marine artist whose works 1 t f he 5 are heavily represented in the holdings of early-starters 0 t 1s ae e are the Dossin Museum, and are used to illus- under way from Chicago with the trate this artiche...Ed. first loads of grain in the new sea- son. While these cargoes are being The visitor to the Great Lakes who stored in Buffalo elevators, the Subject of this article is the C. F. BIELMAN, JR., later renamed DOVE. After sinking at her dock in Detroit, she was sold to Stan- ley Komendera and taken to Toledo for private use, on March 28, 1962. She was built at Ferrysburg, Michigan in 1907.