The St. Paul

THOMAS, District Judge.

The steamship St. Paul was 550 feet long, her beam was 63 feet, her draft was 2ÓJ4 feet, and her tonnage displacement was estimated at 13,000 tons. Approaching the harbor, of New York, she rounded the Southwest Spit in the Main Channel, and passed the outbound tug Municipal, towing two loaded scows singled out on a hawser about 50 fathoms in length. The steamship’s swell caused the rear scow to dump her deck load of building stone. It is probable that the easterly set of the tide carried the tail of the tow farther eastward than her navigators appreciated; but the tug…