District Court, S.D. New York April 5, 1900 (The Chicago)

BROWN, District Judge.

About 7 o’clock in the morning of December 4, 1897, the ferryboat Chicago, as she emerged from her slip at Cortlandt street, North river, bound for Jersey City, came in contact with and damaged a car float on the port side of Central tug No. 20, going down river near the piers against the flood tide.