Show BIG CANAI NEAR completion navy Depart department went announces that the panama canal will be opened d to traffic next year washington the panama canal Is to be opened to traffic in the fall of 1913 this statement was made officially fici ally nt the navy department saturday with ith an announcement that the atlantic neet fleet would be rendezvoused at colon this winter before the water Is turned la ila the navys estimate la Is based on the latest deport from the army engineers secretary 16 meyer leyer alter atter consulting with tho the isthmian canal commission discovered that construction arlt work on the canal had progressed so far that action was taken immediately there was a probability that the men of the fleet would have no opportunity to examine the connecting link be tween the two oceans before it was la in operation the visit ot at the fleet will include railroad trips for the men throughout the canal zone |