Show LOCKS FOR CAMAL the engineers commission now considering si the plans tor a canal across the isthmus Is salato have decided that a beca lovel canal was not necessary to success or even essential to expedite the passage of ships through the waterway walter wellman in a washington dispatch quotes one of the engineers one great argument in favor of a sea level channel is that it would make a better canal because ships could go through it more and with less danger but upon careful examination of the sublet most of us have come to the conclusion that the argument Is not well founded in point of fact ships could pass through a properly constructed lock canal quicker than through 1 sea level canal it is not locks that consume time because a big ship can go through a modern lock in twenty live or thirty minutes it the locks are placed at the termini of the canal the locking will practically consume no time at all tor ships always tie up an hour or two on arriving in a canal port and do the same at the other end ona of the plans we have under consideration calls for a canal with only two locks one at cither end and athla plan is very attractive the president carefully refrained from expressing an opinion on that subject because he did not want to seem to be trying to influence tho expert engineers in fact he plainly told them he wanted their best judgment of the whole question of type regardless of any opinion or prejudices |