Show ing Look olot ei I ITo I Washington Oct Thin Tho Tho Initiative In the proposition of Ol Widening th the locks Jocks Jocks' of the Panama canal was taken torla today Secretary ry of t War Oliver Olivet called upon tho the Isthmian Canal commission for the Cor-the the reports of ot engineers upon tho the matter of lock hocks which according to lo th the plans originally orl worked out OUI are uro to bo he 1000 feet Ceet 1011 long and fiu feet wide wIlle Tho rho beam m of the largest larg st United States battleship is Sl SI fe feet t 2 Inches und and ac according according ac- ac cording CO to t te tIe e statement of IC Secretary Metcalf toda today based upon time tho opinion of en engineers tho locka stow now contemplated contemplated plated will HI he be able abiC to take tale III In safety n a ship of oC 99 09 9 feet feel beam Rut But while tho the foot locks s are arc more macro than ample for forthe forthe forthe the largest t ships now It I H Is said to tobe tobe tobe be apt Improbable that the Ye vessels ls of the future IDU may 9 lm a beam of or feet which would make it Impossible Impo for them to pass through the canal |