The City of Lowell

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by the Union Ferry Company of New York and Brooklyn to recover the damages sustained by its ferryboat Columbia from a collision with the steamer City of Lowell, about 7 o’clock in the morning of the 4th day of November, 1904, in the East River about off Wall Street. The tide was the first of the ebb and a dense fog prevailed. The Lowell, bound down the river, struck the Columbia, bound across the river, on the starboard side, just forward of the wheel and penetrated the hull.

The Columbia,' a side wheel wooden ferryboat, 165 feet long, built 40 odd…