The Valvoline

THOMAS, District Judge.

At Edgewater, N. J., February 1, 1900, the tug boat Valvoline lay head upstream, and some 85 feet below the upper end of a pier. At the end of the next pier above, lying head downstream, was the canal boat Barker, with her bow projecting a few feet into the slip, which was about 100 feet wide. The time was 4. p. m. The tug remained in the position stated about 1-J hours, and then, according to her captain, backed out into the river some 400 feet from the lower pier, went ahead diagonally towards the New Jersey shore, until within a point 260 or 285 feet from a point 10…