The Anthracite

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by William K. Hammond and others, the owners of the barge Sylvia, and cargo of brick laden on board, against the tugs Anthracite and William E. Cleary to recover the damages, said to amount to about $4,000, caused by the barge striking Mill Rock, while proceeding in tow, on a hawser, of said tugs from the North River to 139th Street, Harlem River, on the 27th of July, 1907. The Sylvia was the starboard boat in the last tier. The tide was flood and when in the vicinity of Mill Rock, the tugs turned toward New York to land one of the boats there and…