Show CANAL OAL TO TOBE BE Enn SES SE 5 LEVEL run Board of Consulting Engineers Declare for it by Big Majority I I STUDY QUESTION CAREFULLY Will Cost More and Take Tal e Con Considerably Considerably Longer Time Timo to Build I BUT WILL BE OF GREATER USE Minority Xo XII Statement 1 Is I Sub initial mill I to In II I Ion W Nov NO 18 The board of or on engineers of o the Isthmian canal caMI commission today t Itself It by a large larse majority In tao favor of ot u II seu eu level leel canal The Tho conclusion lon las aa reached after a l llong long Ions and careful study of ot the subject Since the beginning of or September the th hoard board had luid held meetings and In special studied the plans for tor a sealevel canal with the tho he t care A trip to 10 the was las to enable enal le the members to t a bet better better better ter Idea of or tUe physical ph which had iad to be b The members of or the board are men I of lr the greatest reputation In their line tine of or work France Germany and Hol Holland Holland land iani had sent their most eminent ape at the request of ot this govern sovern government ment At the beginning It las wn evident that a 1 majority of nt the were In la favor of ot a canal Their point rint of ot view was even If IC It cost more than u II lock sock canal and would take longer In the It would ulti ultimately be of or o use UM as ne 8 It will un en I hip to make u a much shorter trip dip than Ihan It If they were wore obliged to KO go through I three or four locks oela Ioe On tile other hand I I Will wag a Il minority which wanted w nf d to p I the canal built In a ii al u II time tinte us liS po elbl and with the least cost declaring ing irig that a 1 tow few hours hourI longer for CO the thi trip through the Isthmus made little or 01 r no difference One of oC the members member Rave this explanation for tor hIt his way 1111 ot of voting It 11 may mn be tit tint t Several of ot us will 1111 not me C C tile the sea ea 01 level leeI ennal calla finished III In our life lICe time us It will 1111 tike consider abl longer longcr than 10 years Hut But then thell we hoe have the tue satisfaction to know that for or all the to follow fullow we weh hive h e made the shortest I and most pine way ny of or between the tho Pacific and Atlantic und mid an o long longIs ns Is wa we e had to decide lee Ide on a It m for tOi nil itil time we re do to not think that a fL few ell tw elly y ear ars more mON or 01 lets leiM let makes a u very lin I That Is the thc way ur party thought It and what Her ever may lOa be b said In favor t OI of or or 01 against t tIt It II we wc have IIrI this the Ih most t careful given Ilven an nn opinion as Ut IC we WC our oitt w U Uto uy to do It It statement will be given Riven Ien out before thu tho report t of oC f tin reaches President Roosevelt which vieh wilt will willbo 1 bo b itt I VIE New ew York Nov Nw O 17 1 M 1 Ilia lilu Ila formerly form minister of to C country countr the tue canal anal before hetor I tko Hie to Alliance 1 ln lo tact t night la ont n 11 1 wide deep dep lock lOBs In part he Public attention tills hits heretofore been limited to the thc contest between hell el the lock canal nail and the thc cea M ea level canal The Tho ho 10 muni Is l easier ensler anti to t o build than the hc sea 81 ca level According to the estimates of ot nil all 11 those thole who have studied the he I problem 0 I i to I o the I li old ohi and l the thc new ne Panama canal company OI Ins Ing 20 21 2 yea null yeats IB of II ac according C cording also nl to the first Isthmian the tho excavation for tOl the tile wu canal by ly dry H of ot vIll vl necessitate 20 O years or ni more moC when ii en u it lock Jock en tin I ran al I H be built ho II t in II 10 years eart or 01 lew leAl Out Dul If IC we IC want trant it ti I fico fien open olen com communication m between the two oceans wo we l must contemplate n IL I waterway U n fet feet deep d cp at nt the lowest oest MO r Q feet tt wide wl vId o at zit lt tilL the bottom freely open on both hOlh Ire tIl tl the Waters of ur tIl two Iwo great ocean OC IM IMIr of it Ir our planet In III II such Much a I voy 11 the thu of ot the greatest ships lit if present or future tines times will wl have waterway tan steer easily easl through the straits The Tl win can CLO Unit bo he lug dug Illg MO HO o that In iii four Thur 1011 years eur It I can lie lio ll und IMd by h boats boat and hl deepened ed HH 1 I that men lm In iii II J years rears eare can cnn h it 1 |