The Media

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by Frank McWilliams, as owner of the barge John Barnes, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s steamtug Media, to recover the damages caused *149by the barge being left at the Iron Dock of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, at Elizabethport, New Jersey, on the 29th of January, 1903. The tug took a flotilla of boats in tow at South Amboy, bound for New York and vicinity, about 7 o’clock in the morning. Among these boats was the Barnes, laden with 762 tons of coal, bound for Newark, New Jersey, where the railroad company undertook to deliver her.…