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Show ENTHUSIASTIC OVERPAHAMA CHEAT DITCH Colonel Goethali Says the Time to Se t Is Before j Water h In. . WASHINGTON, June . Evarybody who mssts Coloaal Osorgs W.' Ooathahi, tha Panama eaaal bvUdaf, ttka hi tha kma juastloa: How'a th eaaal eotnlag oat" It most aouad moastoaona ta hint, but he slwava apswers shsorfally that . th canal ia tatting aloag ia isa shape. k-'lonol Oootnals hss boon epeadlng a Taw day ia Wsshlagto aad aa) talked to tka president about tha work in th eaaal sane. H a peat bobm tisa at ta eapitol, waer ha met a lot of caagreasmaa who have at various timea paid a visit to tha son of tka groatset engineering work new going o aajr where ia tha world. "Th time to see whet he boea doee at Paaaata,'-' said Ooetkals. "i anlors th water Is 1st into tha canal ... Water la Dtteh la 1913. i - "That will bs vaar from ant April. Popl who go down there after th canal ha boon ailed will never be able ta ondorstaad -what a big pises ot work has been dona. Thav will wonder won-der why ia th werld tka linitsd States spsat all that - aaaa aad whore It went to.'' ' ' To. " aaid a onmaamaa who over-baa over-baa rd this rsmark. '"snd aoma day yon will sw gg invsstigatioa by ooagraaa to Snd out why tko eaaal eoet ao much money. Those who go dowa will aa a ditch full of water and it will look so saiy that thsy won 1 ss wber th million of dollar war spent." Tka colonel do not talk about tka eaaal as anything lika aa enparimeati He apsaka of it aa if it war a moat ordinary andsrtsking, simply requiring requir-ing eeTlaia amount of tiro lor ita completion. "We ar a little akaad of the schedule." be said, "aad every t hi sg is Eoing along as wtl) as any of ua eould op. Th humaa element that enters into th construction ef ths eaaal per hapa ia- it moat lassreetiag feature. We kava our joy and out trial in this respect, but ft is certainly one of the eat remarkable feat area of tk work." CUd Will finally Oeaa. Colossi QosUals ' stteatioa waa sailed to tkat recent statement by a nit who visited tha eaaal bob aad waa declared that tha slide which have from time to tint boea prineed ia tka Culebrg cut aad other places would cootiaue aad alwaye threetea tk aaaal. "That Is not tru," aaid Coloaal Ooethals. "W' kava kad twaaty-two slid thus far aad will aavs more, but three elide meea tkat tha material through which wo are cutting tha eaaal ia seeking its nstursl Isvsl. A great many digsront kinds of material ara encountered aad tka anglee at which they will coma to real vary greatly, for laetaaes, a pile of aaad will soms to a rest with its slide at as asgls of about 44 dsgroo. W kava material at Paaama, principally slay, where we eaa make tka eida of a rut almost perpendicular. per-pendicular. Oa tka other hand, we havs material that will slide us til it rorae to a rest at only 25 degree abov tha Borises tel. Tkat ia Its sat aral pea at of slopping. Tko Paraso si ids waa oaa at the largest eaooua tend, but it was sntirsly astaral aad to b expected After it kad sees to a net we kad te maka aaotker tea-feot tea-feot eat aad it slid again. But that alwaye waa to bo expected, neoaoss wasa tka materials of which thsy ara eempoeed reack their aatural level they will soms to a root aad atay thara.' |