Show president approves widening canal locks washington president roosevelt has approved the recommendation of the isthmian canal commission in by secretary tatt taft increasing the width of the locks of the canal from one hundred hundven to one hundred and ten feet the president simply approves the recommendation for the increase of the width in the locks but makes no comment thereon in a memorandum to secretary taft the commission says the cost of all the locks at one hundred feet wide Is estimated at while hile a width of feet will cost a difference too small to be considered assuming the necessity for the ln in creased width to be us as stated by the navy |