The McCaldin Brothers

THOMAS, District Judge.

On February 9, 1900, about 4 o’clock in the morning, the steam tug Stone took three scows on a hawser from Forty-Seventh street, North river, to tow them to the dumping grounds. Upon arrival near the Battery, a fog suddenly arose, and was of such a nature that the tug landed the scows at the breakwater or seawall at Merchants Stores, Brooklyn, in such a manner that scows Nos. 5R and 6R were headed downstream, while scow No. 10R, headed upstream, lay alongside the wall, the tug being on her port side, with her bow some 40 feet aft of the boW of 10R. • In this position…