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TELESCOPE Page 114 MEMBERSHIP NOTES e@ The G.L.M.I. will sponsor a model shipbuilding contest on the weekend of October 18-19th. The sixth annual Marine Flea Market will be held in DeRoy Hall at the museum on Saturday, December 6th from 10-3 p.m. Those interested in table space should contact the museum as early as possible as space was sold out for last year's show. The Association for Great Lakes Maritime History will hold their third annual meeting in Detroit on October 9-11th. Registration will be on Thursday, October 9th at the Hotel Ponchartrain. On Friday, October 10th the association will meet at the Dossin Museum to hear these speakers: Harvey Nissley - "Building Museum Quality Ship Models", LuAnn Kozma - "Great Lakes Light- house Keepers Oral History Project", Malcolm McAdams - "Public Programs". After lunch the group will have a tour of the Detroit/Windsor waterfront. Dinner will be on the Lansdowne and the Underwater Research Associates will have a slide program for the evening's entertainment. The cost for the 2-day conference is $35.00. Dinner on the Lansdowne is $25.00. On Saturday, October 11th, a special workshop titled "Great Lakes Freshwater Vessels - Their Preservation, Care and Operation" will be held at the Dossin Museum from 9-5 p.m. Presentations will be made on the following subjects: "Making the Decision to Preserve", "Restoration", "Operation of Historic Vessels", and "Preservation - the cost and how to pay for it". At 7:30 p.m., Mr. Harry Wolf will present a multi-media show titled, "Preserved Freshwater Vessels - A Pic- torial Essay'. Mr. Wolf will tell the story of floating museum vessels and dry land museum ves- sels. This night meeting is a joint meeting for the Marine Historical Society of Detroit and the G.L.M.I. The cost for the vessel preservation workshop is $25.00. Those wishing registration for one or both of the conferences can receive an application form at the museum. MEETING NOTICES e@ Mr. Harry Wolf will be our guest speaker at our annual dinner on the Lansdowne on Friday, September 19th. (See notice on page 139.) The next Board of Directors meeting (which all members are invited to attend) will be held on Friday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. William Carey will be our guest speaker at November's entertainment meeting on Friday, November 21 at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Carey will show slides of ships that he worked on in the 1940's and 1950's. Members that attended slide night last January will remember his slides on the Bartelme. CONTENTS e Membership Notes, Meeting Notices, etc. 114 Stranded on the Hometown Piers by Paul Wiening 115 Franklin Phelps - Chaumont Shipbuilder by Richard Palmer 119 In Search of the Henry Clay by Bob Johnson 123 Photo Gallery: Manitowoc Harbor McDonald Collection Photos 126 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Don Richards 129 Curator Robert E. Lee Dinner 139 Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing Specialties. OUR COVER PICTURE .. .As the procession of older ships continues to the scrapyard, boat watchers along the lakes take special notice when a laker such as the Beechglen passby. She was built at American Shipbuilding in Cleveland in 1923 as Hull 496. In 1960 she was lengthened 72 feet by an addition of a partial midbody and T-2 class stern at American Shipbuilding's yard in Lorain. This photo of her was taken by Richard Kruse in July, 1985 while she was in the St. Marys River. O Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.