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Show MAY MAKE ATTEMPT . j TO RAISE REPUBLIC I i NEW BEDFORD, Mass.. Feb. 3. Although Al-though she lies at thc bottom of tho Atlantic, in tho open sea, at a dopth variously estimated from thirty-eight to fiftj' fathoms, altoinplts may he mndo as an experiment lo raise the White Star liner Republic, which sauk after being in collision with tho Llovd-Ttal-iano steamer Jloridn. W. W. Vither-spoon Vither-spoon of the John Arbucklc Wrecking company, who had charco of the work of raising tho cruiser . Yankee, is now figuring on Che probable damage to thc Republic. "We havo beon looking for a deep water ,ib for some time." he said, "and n steamer wrecked in thc Klondike Klon-dike region was first to come under consideration. Tho Republic affords .iust the opportunity perhaps to demonstrate demon-strate tho method. The steamer is certainly cer-tainly worth saving. If it was a pilo of $ 1,000.000 in gold down at tho bottom bot-tom of the sea some one would bo goiii" after it." |