Dixie II. and Standard Off. 
The fast power boats Dixie II., owned by 
E. J. Schroeder, and Standard, owned by Price 
McKinney, were shipped on the steamship 
Germania for Marseilles last Saturday. This 
vessel is due at Marseilles on March 19, so 
that those in charge of the two boats will have 
some time to tune them up before the racing, 
which will begin at Monaco on April 4. Stand¬ 
ard a few weeks ago, while being tried on the 
Hudson, ran into a submerged log and had a 
hole knocked in her hull. This damage was 
satisfactorily repaired, and the launch was given 
another trial before it was planted on the 
streamer. In that trial, which was in charge of 
Clinton H. Crane, the designer, the boat showed 
up very favorably, considering the conditions. 
It was a bitterly cold day and a strong wind 
was blowing, so that the water was quite rough. 
The hands of those on board were numbed with 
the cold, and it was impossible to get the engiiic 
to run at its best. In spite of all these adverse 
conditions, the launch made better than 30 
miles an hour, being tried with and against 
the tide. 
Dixie II. is practically an untried boat. She 
has a new hull, which, if anything, is better 
than her old one, and the same engine she used 
in the international races last summer, so that 
there is no reason why she should not be faster 
than she was when she beat the British boats 
Wolseley Siddeley and Daimler II. 
These two boats are to race in the Prize 
of Monte Carlo, 31 miles, the International 
Grand Prize 62.1 miles and in the mile and 
kilometre speed races. The total value of the 
prizes for these events is 29,000 francs and a 
cup worth 10,000 francs. 
This is the first time that American-built 
racing craft have competed at Monaco, and 
those interested in power boat racing on this 
side will watch the performances of these two 
boats, as much depends on their performances. 
It is not at all improbable that the visit of 
these two American yachtsmen to Monaco 
will result in several foreign motor boatmen 
coming here next summer and entering their 
craft in the races for the British International 
cup, which are to be held at Huntington next 
August under the auspices of the Motor Boar 
Club of America. 
New Power Boat Craft for Bermuda Race 
Another aspirant for honors in the power 
boat race to Bermuda has announced himself. 
The new craft, which is being built from designs 
by T. D. Bowes, is for J. G. N. Whitaker, of 
the Yachtsmen’s Club of Philadelphia. Last 
year he owned the sloop Marchioness, which 
took part in the race for sailing yachts to Ber¬ 
muda last year. The Yachtsmen’s Club has 
taken an active interest in the long distance 
races, and it is very probable that its members 
will be interested in many of these contests this 
year. _Mr. Whitaker is a member of the 
Corinthian Y. C., of Philadelphia, the New 
York Y. C. and the Larchmont Y. C., and at 
one time owned and raced the schooner 
Iroquois. 
The new boat is to be named Hys, and is be¬ 
ing built at the yard of J. C. Vanderslice, at 
Camden, N. J. The dimensions are 50 feet 3 
inches on deck, 47 feet S inches on the water- 
line, 10 feet 6 inches beam and 3 feet 3 inches 
draft. She has a nearly plumb stem and a 
raking stern, with considerable dead rise, par¬ 
ticularly aft. The sections forward are quite 
sharp, with an extreme flare above the water¬ 
line. She has a raised deck which extends aft 
to the engine room bulkhead. On this deck is 
a small low trunk cabin to take the place of the 
usual skylight and hatch. This trunk cabin has 
ports in the sides and in the forward and after 
bulkheads, so that the engine room and galley 
may be ventilated when the ordinary skylight 
and hatch would have to be closed and covered. 
.A steering wheel and engine control is lo¬ 
cated at the after end of the trunk house for use 
in good weather. Aft of the raised deck there 
is a trunk cabin with windows in each side, 
with deck on each side of the house. The 
windows and companionway entrance are quite 
high, so that there will be little danger of the 
cabin being flooded from a small sea on deck. 
Aft of the trunk cabin is a flush deck for chairs, 
instead of the usual cockpit. On the after end 
of the cabin is a steering wheel and engine 
room telegraph for use in bad weather. 
There is a watertight bulkhead well forward, 
then the galley and engine room, the latter hav¬ 
ing lockers, pipe berths and toilet for crew, and 
next another watertight bulkhead with hair felt 
between the two thicknesses of timber to 
deaden the sound of the engine. The cabin is 
quite roomy. It will be fitted with wardrobes, 
extension davenports, with lockers back of 
them and drawers under. Aft of the cabin, on 
the port side, is to be a large toilet room with 
linen locker and bathroom cabinet. Opposite 
will be a companionway with a locker under it. 
Next comes the stateroom, which will be com¬ 
fortable. 
It will have an extension davenport and 
wardrobe on the starboard side, while at the 
after end there will be a small bureau. On the 
port side, opposite the wardrobe, there will be 
a folding lavatory with a small bathroom 
cabinet above. With this layout, each compart¬ 
ment can be reached from the deck without go¬ 
ing through any other. 
The motor for the boat will be a medium 
weight 25-horsepower Hall engine, of the four- 
cylinder, four-cycle type. Its rated power is 
at 600 revolutions a minute, but in this race it 
will be timed to run at 480 revolutions, at 
which speed it will rate about 20-horsepower. 
Under the after flush deck there will be two 
90-gallon gasolene tanks and the fresh-water 
tanks. These tanks will be carried regularly by 
the boat. In the race 320 gallons more will 
be carried under the floor of the main cabin. 
.'V small ten-gallon auxiliary tank will be placed 
in the engine room, and the gasolene from the 
other tank will be forced into the auxiliary 
tank by air pressure. There also will be in¬ 
stalled a gasolene pump, so that should any¬ 
thing happen to the air pressure the gasolene 
can be pumped from the main tanks into the 
auxiliary tank. Two gasolene pipes of annealed 
■copper will extend from the tanks to the engine 
room, with filters installed near the tanks. The 
intake pipe on the engine will be forked and a 
carburetor placed on each end of the fork. In 
this way one carburetor and gasolene line can 
be cleaned out while the other is supplying gas 
to the engine. The engine room will be well 
ventilated by forced draft and a complete 
change of air will be made every three minutes. 
The boat will carry a jib and gaffed headed 
storm trysail of special material made by F. 
Vanderherschen & Sons. The tanks will be of 
seamless steel with baffle plates. These tanks 
were adopted after considerable thought, as it 
was considered they would best stand the 
pressure, and could be best chocked in place in 
a substantial manner. The engine room will 
be fitted with a revolution meter. The boat will 
be equipped either with electric or acetylene 
gas lights. 
The engine room will be in charge of P. P. 
G. Hall, assisted by either H. J. Bowes or W. 
H. Sloan, of Baltimore. In the deck crew will 
be Mr. Whitaker. Thomas D. Bowes, two other 
amateurs and one paid hand. 
Want Canals Kept Open. 
A BILL has been introduced in the Senate, 
which, if passed, will close the canals and in¬ 
land waterways on Sundays. This would 
seriously interfere with the pleasure of owners 
of cruising power boats and cause many un¬ 
pleasant delays in their cruises during the sum¬ 
mer months. The Executive Committee of the 
American Power Boat Association, always 
alive to the interests of power boat owners, 
held a meeting at the home of President J. 
Howard Wainwright last week and passed the 
following resolution: 
“That the American Power Boat Association, 
through its Executive Committee, representing 
sixty-four yacht and motor boat clubs com¬ 
prising a membership of upward of 25,000. pro¬ 
tests against the enactment of any legislation, 
the result of which may be to restrict in any 
manner the free passage at all times of any 
yachts or motor boats through canals and other 
inland waterways of the State of New York, 
ainl particularly against the passage of Senate 
Bill 434, introduced by Senator Allen.’’ 
It was resolved that the secretary of the as¬ 
sociation be instructed to send a copy of these 
resolutions to the chairmen of the Canal 
Committees in the Senate and Assembly, and 
to the Governor of the State, 
Power Boat R.ace to Shelburne. 
Last year a power boat race was arranged to 
start from Boston and finish at Shelburne. 
N. S., but for some reason or other it was not 
held. Arrangements were made by the 
Binnacle Club of Harvard, and a cup was 
offered by Thomas Eleming Day. This 
year the Boston Y. C. will have charge, and 
the race will follow the Crescent Athletic Club 
race from Bay Ridge to Marblehead, and it is 
probable that some of those who took part in 
the contest around the Cape will enter the race 
and so make a long cruise frorn New York 
Harbor to Shelburne. The Binnacle Club was 
not in a position to handle such a big event, 
and Mr. Day has turned the cup over to 
Hollis Burgess, who will act with the committee 
of the Boston Y. C. The conditions of this 
race are very similar to those governing the 
race to Marblehead, and boats under 40 feet 
over all length that are strictly cruisers are 
eligible. 
Prizes for Bermuda Race. 
George S. Runk has notified the committee 
in charge of the sailboat race to Bermuda, 
which will be started this year by the Atlantic 
Y. C., that he will give a cup for the small 
class yachts under 50 feet. He will also enter 
his yacht, the schooner Margaret, in the race. 
Two other yachtsmen, it is said, will also offer 
prizes for this race, and with the prizes already 
announced, there will be lots to Induce yachts¬ 
men to enter their racers. The races to Ber¬ 
muda this year promise to be more interesting 
than they have ever been, and not only is there 
to be a boom in the sailing race, but it is very 
probable that there will be quite a large fleet 
entered in the power boat race. 
Another British Yacht for an American. 
Cox & King, of London, have just completed 
designs of a new steam yacht 165 feet long for 
an American yachtsman, and have placed the 
contract for building on the Clyde, according to 
the Yachting World. This yacht will be the 
first in which Parsons turbines, water-tube 
boilers and oil fuel are combined, and a high 
rate of speed is anticipated. 
