The Young America

This is a libel in rem by the owner, master, and crew of the steam-tug Henry L. Waite to recover salvage for services rendered to the ship Young America under the following circumstances: At about a quarter before 2 o’clock on the afternoon of February 8, 1884, an oil tank exploded and a fire broke out in the yard of the Standard Oil Company, at Hunter’s point, on the East river. The place of the explosion which caused the fire was upwards of 200 feet back from the river front, and about 50 feet south of the canal or creek which is the northern boundary of the yard, and that separates it from…