District Court, S.D. New York March 15, 1874, Case No. 7,113 (The Ivanhoe)

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

These two libels grow out of a collision which took *178place in the East river, opposite New York, on the 13th of February, 1S72, about ten o’clock a. m. The barge Pilgrim was being towed up the river by the steamboat P. C. Shultz by a hawser astern. The steamboat Ivanhoe was going down the river. The schooner Martha M.