The Asbury Park

THOMAS, District Judge.

The tug Brown was going to sea, having in tow the mud scow McGirr No. 22, and, eight or ten feet aft thereof, the scow No. 38E. When in the middle of the channel, and 1,500 to 2,000 feet below the fort at Governor’s Island, the swells of a steamer passing on the tow’s starboard side so disturbed the scows that the stern of scow No. 22 got under the timber across the bow of No. 38 and lifted it, and for such injury the libel is filed.

The master of scow No. 38 was not produced, as he was in California. Pirro, master of No. 22, testified that a steamer “going rather fast”…