246 VEDBBAL BEPOBTEB. �Crossing that of the City Point, and involvîng risk of collision ; that, in spite of the precautions taken by the City Point, the Narragansett struck the City Point with her stem about amid- ships; that the collision was caused by the negligence and improper conduct of those on the Narragansett in not having a good and sufficient lookout, in leaving their pier at the time and on the course they did, in not keeping on the starboard side of and out of the way of the City Point and in not stop- ping and backing in time to avoid the collision, and was not caused by any fault or omission of those on board the City Point. �The answer denies ail fault on the part of the Narragan- sett, and charges that the collision was caused entirely "by the gross mismanagement of those on the City Point; that she was not in her proper course, but was passing unnecessarily and too close to the docks, and but about the length of the Narragansett from the mouth of the Narragansett 's slip; that the Narragansett was about to leave her dock when a long blast of her steam-whistle was sounded to indicate that she was about to leave her pier; tothat long blast no response was given by any vessel or steam-boat; that thereupon her angines were started and she commenced to move slowly out into the river; as her bow emerged from the slip, the City Point, whieh had been previously hidden from the sight of those on the Narragansett by the sheds on the piers on the southerly side of her slip, was discovered hug^^ing the piers on the New York side and then about abreast of pier '^8, bound up; that immediately the Narragansett blew one whistle to indicate to the City Point that she, the Narragan- sett, would cross the bow of the City Point, to which signal the City Point, although she then had the Narragansett on her starboard hand, and should have given way and kept out of the Narragansett's way, responded with two whistles indi- cating that she, the City Point, would hold her course and cross the bows of the Narragansett; immediately a second and single whistle was blown by the Narragansett, and her engines were reversed at full speed, although she was then but ����
