The George B. Ferguson

HALE, District Judge.

This action in rem is brought by three seamen of the schooner George B. Ferguson, who claim in their libel that:

“They each became entitled to demand wages for the whole voyage of the said schooner, or, as provided in section 4527 of the Revised Statutes of the United States [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3077], one month’s wages in addition to any wages each may have earned, to wit, the sum of twenty-five dollars to each of said seamen.”

The schooner is a two-masted schooner of 137 tons, engaged in the coasting trade between Bangor, Me., and New York City. The libel-ants were…