| Show TAFT ORDERS o HASTE IN I WORK VORK ON PANAMA CANAL t J WANT IT DONE IN fOUR YEARS Plan Being Considered to Have Canal Force Work Twenty- Twenty four Hours in Shifts and to Keep Going Night and Day J TAFT APPROVES TASK AS NOW BEING DONE Str Strenuous s Program Is Mapped Out for fOJ N Next Next- President From Thu Thursday day Next Until Day of His His' H Inauguration a PLANS LANS OF MR ROOSEVELT 4 M 4 4 44 4 M Mt I t BY WIL WILLIAM HOSTER ROSTER S t f V I- I Pan Panama ma Feb 7 In In order to 4 f carry out the l Idea iea ea of or President President- 4 elect W W. H IL Taft Tart that the Panama 4 canal can call be finished within four 44 4 4 years Lieutenant Colonel Goethals Goe- Goe 4 la Is considering a plan to 4 work the canal force twenty- twenty 44 4 4 four hours In shifts Dr Gorgas Gorcas 44 4 1 4 Is 15 already of the opinion that the 44 4 4 mosquito will not interfere with 44 4 4 night work ork on the tile lock and dams darns 44 4 4 while the days das can bo be given up 44 4 4 to the excavation 4 4 O t 5 4 4 4 4 4 45 4 O p The The President elect soiled fled for tor Ne Orleans at 4 1 p. p m. m today Before Betor boarding the ship h hs Issued a a. statement In which he gave unqualified fled fied approval to the CIte work that la is now being done dono upon the canal Ht His plan lan tc to have board ot of e eng ra f fi a tT pl I ii proy r i ho ve cH ua na It It tr Is Ja positively Known th that t thc they will wll approve th the tho present plans toe for the lock systems mind the Uta no I atun damn dam ratified b by tho the President President- elect tI t. t I 1 an am not yet prepared to make a a. statement of the tho results of ot my trip to the tho I Isthmus said lUre Mr Taft today I except to my say that I have o found tho most satisfactorily work progressing throughout hout tho canal conal zone Th The or- or l I before n If Js better than ever i The he esprit do dc corps Is la excellent and the he determination of ot all nil to build thonol thor tho tue j canal arial nol has 1119 Impressed even every member r I of ot f the tho board o of visiting engineers as asI asIt I It has hns impressed me In reference TO a the type of oC the canal and the towing following fol Col- to- to I wing lowing out of the the present present plans the en engineers promise that they will be beable able abl ble to hand me a report by the tho time we e land In New Orleans Plans for Cor or Cut l An ln n official announcement nt will wit be mafe mae setting forth the plans for the Culebra cut from Crom rem to feet teet This means eans an additional cost of DO and the additional o of cubic ie va yards ards ds of or rock reck and earth Th The President elect left ett Culebra Culebra Cule Cule- bra ra for or Colon at 2 o'clock amid a a. creat neat demonstration He Is due at pw Orleans Thur Thursday day morn morning Int and will Ill remain there until Saturday I thence mence proceeding leisurely to his Ohio home me to to moke final preparations for tor his Ills New P Orleans F Feb Fb b 7 The The speakers for the banquet In honor boiler oC ot elect lect Taft at the hotel in this city Friday Frida night Feb I 12 are Governor Sanders of ot Louisiana Louis Louls- lana iana Mavor avor Martin 1 Behrman of or New Orl M 3 Sec of War Var Luke E. E rh and Judge Taft It has been decided that the menu shall hall consist solely of or c cne poe and Loul Louisiana lana dishes BUSA Program for Taft rort Po Taft and party will arrive arro here Thursday afternoon From his hla orr arrival orral al on Mr 11 Taft has t Isid ld out a 3 himself elf From Front m for him pw 1 O O-lonn he e will sro go to his home In InCI CI On 0 th the 2 Uh or ho howll wll Ip Cincinnati for th the t Mme ime PS a 0 private citizen and on F February 1 will mf p kp an address before the I students and the faculty of t tip tint tint- ver of or Penn Ia at Philadelphia Philadel phia hIa On rv 2 t he hp will deliver deliveran an nn ad sq at hall boll in Newl Now New Condoned l on PUle Three TAFT ORDERS HASTE IN WORK ON PANAMA CANAL Continued I from from Page O One York and l February 26 ho Is due luc to meet his hI'S secretary of or state Philander C. C C Knox Senator Root Hoot and Frank Frunk II H. Hitchcock for tor an Important conference conference confer confer- ence in Now York Tork On February 27 i Mr Ir Taft raft will wUl be back In 1 Washington ton and between that time and the date of the tion expects to clear his desk so that he will bo free treo to enter tho the White House without an item of or work left o On the tho evening evening- of ot March Mardi 3 by bj in in- in invitation of or Pr President and Mrs Irs Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt cH tho the President elect and Mrs Taft Tart and anti their family will go so to the White House They Thoy will remain at nt the mansion over o night as the guests of tho the Roose and President and ond Mrs Roosevelt Md bid them good ut at me the inauguration ceremonies at ot the Roosevelt Hoose leave the White House to go EO to the capitol thc they will not return but jut after the Inauguration will wm as has a been jeen announced tako take a carriage fo for r the he railroad station to go to their r home at O Oyster Oster ster Da flay Bay |
