The Cincinnati

THOMAS, District Judge.

At about 8 o’clock a. m., on the 5th day of November, 1898, the libelant’s steamboat William Fleicher, after lying at pier 14, North river, overnight, started down the river for the purpose of reporting at the Battery. A dense fog had delayed her departure, but it lifted sufficiently to justify navigation. However, she proceeded down the river to the neighborhood of the slips of the Pennsylvania Bailroad Company, when the fog again closed in and compelled the tug to turn about, and, her previous position having been occupied by another vessel, she tied up at the end of…