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Show GOETHALS INVITES PRESIDENT TO PANAMA NEW XOHIC, Dec. 25. Panama advi ces published here say Colonel George W. Goethals. chairman and chief engineer of the Isthmian catml commission, has cabled to President Wilson an Invitation to spend part of his Christmas vacation In Panama and be the first to sail t.irough. tlie canal. Until a reply to this Invitation is ro-ceived ro-ceived no further thought win be ;lven to the question as to which vessel shall make the passage first, Tho United States special service steamer Buffalo could make the trip. |