The Wanola

HALE, District Judge.

The libelant, doing business under the name of Betts Bros. & Co., and as surviving partner, brings this libel for salvage services rendered to the Wanola, a three-masted schooner driven on the beach and wrecked in January, 1917, at Point Allerton, just outside Boston Plai'bor.

At the time of her stranding the schooner was loaded with a cargo of coal. The Scott Wrecking Company was employed in salving the schooner and cargo; it succeeded in saving a portion of the coal, and then stripped the schooner, taking everything that was movable. On January 17 the cargo was abandoned…