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Show Four New Schooners For Alaska Trade SEATTLE, Wash.. April 7. Four auxiliary schooners, the Thrasher, Tyee, Hellenic and Silver Wave, are being fitted here this spring for trading trad-ing along tho Siberian and Alaskan coasts of the Arctic ocoan. They arc being sheathed in iron bark to protect them In bucking the ice fields. The Thrasher, tho largest, will lead the little fleet north. The Thrasher replaces the historic old trader Belvedere, Bel-vedere, which, after more than thirty years in service, was crushed in the Ice off Siberia last fall. The Tyoe and Hellenic will work along the Siberian coast and ascend the rivers. The Hellenic plans to remain re-main five years in the Arctic. The Silver Wave will work from Nomo, Alaska. I oo |