An unusual legal situation has arisen in connection with the yacht Vidor, a palatial craft owned by an American millionaire. The boat was. on its way from the Great Lakes to New York by way of the ship canals and. the St. Lawrence River, and while in the last lock of the last: canal, it! proceeded too rapidly, and crashed into a turntable bridge before the bridge was quite open. The result, of the smash was that the captain of the yacht was ordered to deposit a sum of $15,000 in a Montreal! bank to cover the material damage done. Having done this, he preceeded on his way, but in leaving Montreal, failed to take out the proper clearance papers. The port officials discovered this, and propos ed to settle with the captain when he stopped at Quebec to let off his pilot. "Meanwhile, the traffic of the Canadian National Railwas's elec tric suburban line had been unable to cross the bridge, and company' officials hastened to filo a suit against the owner of the yacht, intending to have this served at Que-bee also. Whether or not the eaptain received word of all this does not seem to be known, but, at any rate, he decided not to stop. He took the trouble to make it dificult ter the pilot to leave the bent, and the latter finally escaped from his cabin and jumped overboard into the iey waters of the river. The pilot soon was picked up by @ passing launch, aa!, when he reached Quebec, he commenced an action against the captain for the Lreatnion he had received and for the Joss of his clothes. In general, wuutters were sufficiently involved to induce the Government to send a schooner in chase of the Vidor, but kindly fog enabled the yacht to get away, and at present the var-fous cases are awaiting settlement,
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