Show FIRST 1 VESSEL PASSES 0 THROUGH CANAL LOCKS LOOKS seagoing sea going tugboat gatun galun cheered by hundreds as she passes from ocean into gatjen lake panama the most important step thus far toward the operation of the panama canal took place friday when the tile seagoing sea going tugboat gatun galun drawing twelve and a halt feet of water was passed successfully through the gatun galun locks and into gatun galun lake this wab the first attempt made to operate the locks on tho canal and the result was highly pleasing so to colonel goethals chairman of the canal commission and canal officials general generally ly hundreds of cheering men womer and 4 children withstood the burning rays of tn th tropic sun to see the act of passing the first vessel from sea level to the I 1 v 1 of gatun galun lake which friday had cached reached a height of a little over 65 fee feet or within 20 feet of its normal level |