Show TIME AND MONEY IS 15 CONSIDERED Panama Canal Not Liely Likely to Be Sea SeaLevel SeaLevel Level Waterway ENGINEER STEVENS VIEWS J COM COMMISSION MISSION WILL NOW TAKE UP WashIngton Nov the tho board of consulting en engineers has de decided de in favor of a fa sea level cana canal it itis is yet nn an open queston question the Palo Panama canal shall be a 50 leve level or ora ora a lock waterway Th The lon or of the theard hoard ard of consulting engineers Is not fina The decision of the boad board was reached b by a vote f eight to Ova five in favor of the se sea level leel project roje Generl General Davis and Burr Bun and Parsons joining wih with the five foreign engineers against a look lock canal cana Wi Will Be Two Reports The report ot of the bod board ot of engineers I probably wl will not b be submitted to President President dent Roosevelt for five or sIx weeks A As to te the character of the great pro project project the report wl wilt not be In fact two reports one by te the major majorI majority I ity und and one by the minority will 1 be submitted These rhese reports te the president twill lay before te the canal commission and Chief Engineer Stevens for con consideration Mr Stevens wi come ome to the United States from flom the isthmus to up the sUbject wih with time the slon sion and with the president I It is eon con conceded ceded by the advocates of a s sea a hevel canal that to construct such a water waterway waterway way wl will cost much more money and amid than to build a hook Jook caal canal I It i is known knon that In the mind of the president dent those are vital elements Lock Canal Favored I It Is his deir desire ex expressed ed to some of those who have ave discussed the subject t with him that thO the canal should bc b I built as expeditiously as possible and at atno po no greater expense than m be nece ear to provide a water waterway way He has indicated to some mine of those to whom hom lie he has hns talked tut lie he person personally aly ally favors a 11 lock canal but he Is determined that the subject shan shall be considered thoroughly from aU all 1 of reached view before a final decisIon Is Stevens Coming l iome me Chief Engineer Stevens of time the P Pana Panama a mi ma cona canal commission wi lee leave Colon for Washington next Thursday He is s coming to give the commission information ton tion upon different phases hase of the tho work on the isthmus but more particularly his views as to the type of canal canal These views are arc already alread known to Ul the who are In charge of the canal work hut an statement from the en enIs Is desired Mr r Stevens told who recently visited the istl isthmus mus that if a so see level luvel canal mal wa was to be the government ought to tobo put bo boys s under twenty years of a age e ein in charge of i It s so that the they wU swill last urt until the work was completed Likely to Disagree The Tho visit of Chief Engineer Stevens I for fOt the purpose of giving his views a as to the tho type or of canal i that the judgment of the hard board of engineer engineers is ie not to determine the type but that tIme the commission wi sty take up the thc subject iund make From what ha has been sid said b by of the and the tue views al alread already read ready officially expressed by them there seems little doubt but that the they will I disagree with the of I the board which hits hus I voted to ommer a ll sealevel canal |