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Show Hf ID IVY MEN HAVE FULL COPJTRDL Officers NameH for Various Departments of Panama Canal ; Goethals Sails. WASHINfrTO, March 20. Ofllcora to have- chiiro of tho various department depart-ment of tho L'anania canal woro today announced as follows: Govornor and chief of the department of maintonnnco and operations, Colonel Goorgo W. Goothals; onpineor of main-tenuueo. main-tenuueo. Colonol Jlarry Hodpcs, army' engineer; superintendent of transportation, trans-portation, Gaptnin Hugh Kodman, V. H. N,; electrical engineer, Captain W. IL Rose, army enginocrs; captains for tho terminal portB, Commander 3). JC. Dis-mukes Dis-mukes and Licutonant Commander llon-ry llon-ry V. Butler, TJ. S. 3sT.; superintendent of Bhop8 and drj' docks, Naval Constructor Construc-tor D. 0. Nutting; general purchasing ofllcor, Major P. C. Boggs, army engineers. engi-neers. . Chief quartormastor, Captain It, L. Wood, United States cavalry ("temporarily, ("tem-porarily, pending reorganization ol tho Bupply'dopartment). Auditor, IL A. Smith; assistant, B. F. Hurrah. Chief hoalth officer, Lioutonaut Colonel Col-onel Charles H. Mason, medical corps, U. S. A.; superintendent of hospitals, Lieutenant Colonel Georgo Deslion, medical med-ical corps, U. S. A.j chief officer of tho quarantine division, Passed Assistant Surcoon Marshall G. Guthrie, United StatcB bureau of public health. Executive secretary, C. A. Mcllvaino. A large number, of civil appointments will bo mado for mechanical operation of tlio canal and to man the workshops, drydocks, etc. There will bo no places for new appointees, however, as the rule will be followed of reappointing to the permanent establishment employees em-ployees now on tho isthmuB. NEW YORK, March 20. Colbnel Goorgfe W. Goothals sailed for tho Pan-ama Pan-ama canal zone today after a month spent in tho United States. Tho steamship steam-ship Colonel was held until 4:30 p. m., an hour and a half later than her customary cus-tomary sailing time, to accommodate tho colonel, and then ho dashed up to tho pier in ra taxicab and hurried up tho gangplank so fast that none of the reporters waiting for a final interview was ablo to get a word with him. Mrs. Goethals, who accompanied her husband on the trip from the canal zono, returnod with him. Colonol Goethals Goe-thals arrived hero from Panama on February Feb-ruary 30 and wont immediately to "Washington to discuHs canal problems with President Wilson and other government gov-ernment officials. Efforts were made to induce him to become polico commissioner of New York Cit', but he went away leaving tho public still in tho dnrk ns to his intentions in-tentions regarding this proposition. |