The Mattie

INCH, District Judge.

About midday .September 21, 1922, the tug Mattie was towing the scow Roslyn up the Bast River. It was a clear bright day with apparently no wind to speak of or any unusual condition of weather or tide. As one witness said, “It was a fine day.”

The scow was loaded with sand and gravel and was being towed behind the Mattie, by means of hawsers. These hawsers were about 40 feet long and ran from the stern'of the tug to each corner of the bow of the scow.

The tug and scow was proceeding up the East River and running with the tide, which was just beginning to flood. .At Willis…