Big Pay For Little Work

The nimiber of aceidents which have befallen the big steamship lines have heen surprisingly few. When mishaps have occurred large soms have been awarded for eomparatively trivial services, such as towing for a (lay or two. The American liner Suevia, from New York to Hamburg, broke her shaft off the Irish coast on Jan. 27, 1885. and was towed into Queenstown harbor by the tramp steamship Istrian, bound from Boston to Liverpool. The Istrian was awarded $23,2oO salvage. The passenger steamship City of Richmond, from Liverpool to üíew York, was disabled at sea in November, 1882. She was taken into Halifax harbor by the tramp steamship Circassia, a service involving fifty-four hours of towing. The sal vaere awarded by the British admiralty