The Beechdene

(orally). The case for the libelant is that he was employed by a firm of stevedores to assist in discharging a shipment of cement which had arrived at Philadelphia from Hamburg on the steamship Beechdene. The cement was stowed under hatch No. 4, and extended across the ship; being placed against the bulkhead forward, and next to a shipment of sugar in bags aft, and separated from the sugar by dunnage of boards. The gang of-stevedores started to take out the cement about 2 o’clock, and, working rapidly, had discharged nearly to the bottom tiers by 6 o’clock, when the accident occurred. The…