The Abram F. Skidmore

ADAMS, District Judge.

These actions arose out of a collision which occurred about 2 o’clock p. m. on the 5th day of September, 1906, in the East River in the vicinity of Riker’s Island, between the schooner E. T. Whitmore bound west, with her sails furled, in tow of the tug Crescent on a hawser of about 50 fathoms in length, and the scow Ina, belonging to William E. Cleary, bound east, in tow on the port side of the tug Abram P. Skidmore. The tide was ebb,. *266running west about 2 miles an hour in the center of the channel and about a half of a mile on the north shore. It was somewhat stronger…