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 .924 FEDERAL REPORTER. �guished. In these services the Bramell and Forest City rendered some assistance to the White. �Immediately after the steam-boat and sehooner collided they drif ted with the stream and tide towards the left bank of the river, until the Terry's anchor brought them up nearly along-side the steam-tugs For- est City, Commodore Foote, and Constitution, then lying at a wharf hard aground, and none with steam up; and, they being to lee- ward, the fiames from the entangled vessels, or from one of them, set the Forest City and another tug on fiire. The evidence as to the aid given by the Forest City to overcome the fire on the Terry dis- closes that it was not until it was under control and almost extin- guished by the White, that the Forest City, — then within 10 feet of of the Terry's starboard bow, — as she endeavored to subdue the fire on herself and the other boats, would throw a little water occasion- ally on the jib-boom of the Terry from her hand-pump, which a wit- ness says cast a larger stream than the steam fire-pump of the White. "And when the fire on the sehooner Terry was nearly extinguished, and when she had eonquered the fire on herself, and on the Foote and Constitution, she threw more water on her than at first," and that the fire on the two tugs was vanquished before the Bramell returned to the sehooner, Kates says : �" 1 saw the Forest City playing upon the tugs that were moored at the wharf; I think this was the principal thing siie was doiug; I only saw her throw an oceasional spurt on the jib-boom of the Terry, and I was looking; I do not Icnow how long she was playing before I saw her; I think not aboye five or ten minutes," �Hudson says that— �"The fire on the Forest City was put out by their own crew before I went to the Terry, and then they directed their efforts to put out the lire on the Com- modore Foote and the Constitution." �Thus I have presented an outline of the controversy, and such testimony as is material to a clear understanding of the case. �Salvage ofifers a premium, by way of honorary requital, for intre- pidity and timely assistance to save property as well as life, and is not » question of mere remuneration pro opera et labore. �The prompt movement of the Bramell in steaming to the burning vessels and towing off the Wheeless is well worthy of commendation; for it 18 manifest that this effectuai action was the pioneer that ena- ��� �