The Archey Crossman

BROWN, District Judge.

Before daylight on the morning of December 3, 1898, as the tug Grade was coming eastward out of the Kills, she came in collision with the libelant’s boat C. & T. Jefferson in tow on the starboard side of the tug Archey Crossman, going in the opposite direction. The collision was in the Kills, a little to the westward of Constable’s Hook, and occurred in the dense smoke that came from the copper works on the north side of the Kills, and which in the light wind from the northward spread out thick upon the water. , The lights of. neither were seen by the other until the two…