Downstream

charge, resulting in a
‘scrimmage’. The Borough
Surveyor won.
By now a large crowd had
come to watch, as well as the
Mayor and several
councillors. The officials held
a ‘parley’ on the tug, when
Captain Little ‘tripped’ the
two anchors at the stern of the
bath. His men were about to
cut away the chains holding
the pontoon when deputy
mayor Alderman Frederick