The Oregon

CHATFIELD, District Judge.

The United States boat Traffic, while proceeding up the East River to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, passed about midway under the Brooklyn Bridge, and shaped her course somewhat toward the eastern side of the river, so as to round in to the Navy Yard at a reasonable distance from the pierhead upon the down-river side of the yard. Some distance up the river from the point where the Traffic would turn in to the Navy Yard was the ferryboat Oregon, proceeding down the river at a distance of 300 or 400 feet from shore, and following the general line of the pierheads, while an…