MODELS OF C. K. G. BILLINGS’’ STEAM YACHT VAN ADIS. 
Model of Vanadis. 
C. K. G. Billings, owner of the steam yacht 
Vanadis, has had two models built by the H. E. 
Boucher Manufacturing Co., which are possibly 
the finest pieces of work of their kind made. 
It is a fad with yachtsmen now to have models 
of their yachts, and some have ordered sets of 
models, fully rigged, embracing every boat they 
have owned. Vanadis is a vessel 277 feet long 
and the model is but Rj-inch to the foot, or 
i-48th the size of the original. One of these 
models shows the vessel resting on blocks m 
the dry dock apparently, and not only shows 
the form of the hull of the vessel, but gives all 
her deck fittings, rigging, navigating instru¬ 
ments in perfect detail. On the main deck is 
seen a big touring car, which can be hoisted and 
slung over the side of the vessel on to a pier 
ready for the owner’s use. On the model this 
car can be hoisted just as it is on the big yacht. 
The rigging is set up with turnbuckles, the 
lights are in position, boats and launches are 
on the davits ready for lowering and the falls 
run through blocks, so that they can really be 
lowered. 
The other model shows a longitudinal sec¬ 
tion. One side gives a view of the interior of 
the vessel, and the other shows her apparently 
steaming through the water. The interior view 
gives one a fine idea of what these floating 
palaces are like inside. The structural steel 
work is shown in detail. Then on the lower 
deck are store rooms properly fitted with coils 
of rope, blocks, brushes, brooms, paint, varnish 
and the many other things required on a yacht. 
There is the refrigerating plant next, and then 
come the coal bunkers, sectional views . of 
Scotch boilers, furnaces and then the engine 
space. In this space are a turbine and a re¬ 
ciprocating engine. The other turbine is on 
the other side of the vessel. Aft again is the 
auxiliary machinery, the electric light plant, oil 
and water tanks piped and with pumps, and fore 
and aft are compartments for trimming the 
vessel. 
On the berth deck is shown the forecastle, 
officers’ rooms, more storerooms. On the main 
deck is the dining saloon finished just as it is 
on the larger vessel, the butler’s pantry, galley 
for the owner and another aft of the smoke¬ 
stack for the crew and then quarters for the 
owner and his guests. These staterooms are 
furnished with brass bedsteads, bureaus, etc. 
On the upper deck is the chart room with 
bridge above, wireless room and sun deck. 
Henry A. Morse, of Boston, is having models 
made jMs-inch to the foot of the schooners 
Dervish and Vision, the sloops Cossack and 
Brigand, the knockabout Aspinet and the 
Sonder boat Vim, all of which he has owned. 
Frederick Fletcher is having a model made 
of his cruising motor boat Cristina, the 
schooner Rosemary and some knockabouts. 
For the Eastern Y. C. fully rigged models are 
being built of Emerald, Spokane, Arbella. Vim, 
Joyette and Wolf. J he New York \. C. is 
having built fully rigged models of the cup de¬ 
fenders Mayflower and Puritan. 
Narragansett Bay Schedule. 
The schedule committee of the Narragansett 
Bay Yacht Racing Association has arranged the 
racing dates for the coming season. The Fall 
River Y. C. will start the racing on May 30. 
and the last race will be sailed on Sept. 17 at 
Taunton. Race week will begin at Bristol on 
Aug. 13, and on that day the first of the inter¬ 
bay catboat races will be sailed. There are to 
be five of these inter-bay races for the chal¬ 
lenge trophy, and a special race will follow 
under the auspices of the Edgewood Y. C. The 
Marblehead races for 18-footers are to be sailed 
on Aug. 6 to 13. The schedule follows: 
May 30—Fall River Y. C., open championship. 
June 4—Edgewood Y. C., open championship. 
June 11—Weetamoe Y. C., motor and 18-foot 
championship. 
June 18—Rhode Island Y. C., open cham¬ 
pionship. 
June 25—King Philip B. C., open champion¬ 
ship. . . . 
July 2—Bristol Y. C., open championship. 
July 4—Washington Park Y. C., open cham- 
onship. 
July 9—Conanicut Y. C., 18-foot, Class P, cat 
id 15-foot championships. 
July 16—Edgewood Y. C., open championship. 
July 23—Association sail and motor boat race 
> Edgarton. 
July 23—Edgewood Y. C., moonlight race 
-ound Prudence Island, start 8:30 P. M. 
July 30—Bristol Y. C., Brenton’s Reef race. 
Aug. 6—Open date. . 
Aug I3 —Bristol Y. C., open championship 
id first race for inter-bay catboats. 
Aug. 15—Edgewood Y. C., open champion- 
lip and second inter-bay race. 
Aug. 16, a. m. —Barrington Y. C., open cham- 
ionship. 
Aug. 16, p. M. —Rhode Island \. C., open 
lampionship at Potter s Cove and third inter- 
ay race. 
Aug. 17—Edgewood Y. C., special race for 
iter-bay catboats. 
Aug. 17—Fall River Y. C , open champion- 
Aug. 19—Newport Y. C., open championship 
and fourth inter-bay race. . 
Aug. 20—Conanicut Y. C., open championship 
and fifth inter-bay race. End of race week. 
Aug. 27—Open date. . 
Sent. 3—Bristol Y. C., open championship 
at Pawtucket. 
Sept. 10—Open date. 
Sept. 17—Taunton Y. C. 
The inter-state 18-foot class races will be 
sailed off Marblehead during the week of Aug. 
