Show Wi WILL DECIDE t 1 KIND OF CANAL CANALi f i i of C Engineers Will Meet Today COMPENSATION IS FIXED L i EXECUTIVE ORDER ISSUED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT VEL T I on Aug ug 81 The board o of consulting engineers engineer of ot the Panama canal commission which is to make rec roe recommendations recommendations as to whether hether the Pan Panama Panama Panama ama canal shall be constructed with locks lOck or should be a 8 sea level canal will wilt meet here lere tomorrow This board Is 15 1 made up of or army officers and emin eminent eat ent nt engineers of ot America and foreign countries The board waa created by President Roosevelt in an executive or del der made last June and to it will be referred all data that has been ben collect collected ed by y the commission bearing on the thO type of the proposed canal The board is to make UK it recommendations to the isthmian canal canul commission which in 10 turn will ivill report to the president Today Toda General George W V Davis chairman of the consulting board Gen General GenaNt eral erel aNt Ernst General Haines Halne Admiral and und Major Majol members of the isthmian 1 canal commission held helda a meeting and discussed the preliminaries preliminaries preliminaries aries of tomorrows gathering with a aview aView view to bringing before the board the data which the commission has on hand hanl in a manner to secure the best results and expedition The data consists of reports surveys s maps mapa and other docu m beering be upon the subject to be considered Several Seral members of the consulting board boud have hae personal knowl knowledge knowledge edge adge of ot conditions on the Isthmus as they have served Herd on other oth r commissions com which have made mude a 8 thorough study tudy of at the canal problem |