The Scow No. 1

CHATFIELD, District Judge.

An information has been filed against Scow No. 1, for proceeding, in tow of the tugboat Turtle, across the waters of Great South Bay on the 21st day of August, 1907, with some 350 passengers, without having a life-preserver or float for each passenger, as required by the rules and regulations adopted, as amended, by the board of supervising inspectors in the month of January, 1907, being section 22, p. 77, of said regulations, and reading:

“Barges carrying passengers on any routes shall have a life-preserver or float for each and every person allowed to be carried.”…