The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-01-28
COCKTAILS TO FLOAT
A SHIP THIS YEAR
Panama Engineer Chccrrd BY
l.chigh Engineers. Who
sing at Him Too.
CtI.EBKA Cl'T Is TUE KEY
Believes Water Will Hold tn Its
Sliding slides After
June | Next.

AnNnpdS who's been getting worried
ahuut th' Panama Canal may rest easy.
col George W Gu,lhals. tn boss Of
b" = di,rh, t.ld the \,w York Lyh!gh
University tlub last nlGht that uuless
| TIA, 'ul"hr1 cut Las h,cn mishohdNing
vors" than hr believes since he came
away he'll sur,lN put a ship through
the canal before to" end Of the year.
Most people think well of Col Goe-
thjrlS, hut Ia" lchieh men are "ns inccrS
! themselves. and hast night at their din
n"r a the lIujc, Astur come 400 of
them tried t. tel The Colonel how much
they liked him ana his work For an
army man the Colonel isn't very steady
under iir", at least OF Il. kind he faced
| last night, when for five minutes after
n" had r,Scn IN n'~ place Lthiah SAM,
ana shouted his praises
Before that br. Henry : Drlnkcr.
pre- sidcut ut the university. had said.
"tol. Gocthals has in the successful
carrying on, and now IN the practical
completion, Of his great work received
many well deserved compliments and
expressions 1T appr.C idtiuu and conf
demo" from his fellow cpuntrymen. hut
doubt II any OF them have carried the
peculiarly concentrated professional
tribute that tins gathering uf engineers
Of imperial New York S!Nos him"
Then when pause IN the cheering
.aN" him a chanr" br Drink.r read =
letter from President Tu!t. whu wrut,
tHat be va, very sorry hc couldn't b,
'h"r" :" greet Col Go.thtl- and that ''it
Us source # special pride 10 mo tat /
recommended t. pr' >idont ROOSEVELT
the appointment of Cot. Goeth,ls us
.Ch'"t engineer OF the Curll" Pro. dent
TAFT also wrnt" that hocauSc ui tu, wa,
tn colonel had don" Things H. lad
recommended l!s appointment To- tie
rank and ray of a MaJ"r-G.n-rai
There Was Il big laugh and a bigger
cheer when b!. brnksr read the las;
paragraph II President Tafts letter
which said.
The conditions are 80 peculiar IN Con-
Gress to-day wIth reference To- the rec
concentrations OF the Executive, that we
cannut tApect tE!S recommendation to
hc adopted into law at once" hu' | have
40 doubt that Ii, force ut pubic "pia-
ion among the American po oJp.c Will COM
pei tA- n"At Congress - r,GupuIlc the
justice ui the suggestion aad t. give 10
Col. Guctha,s the rank h" q, serves"
The Colonel told Of the attempt Il
administer th- canal WORK through IN
dependent departments which, he said.
F"su ted IN situation III which the dig.
E!ns Ct the ditch seemed OF less I'M
p"rtdnC" than teaching Central \in.r!-
"an States the kind uf Government we
had up ~ tIr United states FINALLY
IN 1905. lie said, the President decided
that n" wanted to have The canal
built and lssUcd an order liking the
responsibility on one executive head.
SO YOU see 1t" said, my predcces-
sors didn't have ~" power. Tha, wus
all iA" trouble. | huNr tried to gct :,
treaty Of reciprocity with Washington.
and ! try never tu submit question
thor" than ! can decide Tor myself
They don't always rcripruCatc - we'll"
Col. Go"thals said his attention had
been called t. = despatch stating tha.
the canal would not he ready for shi Jins
until well into 1914. The question of
completing the canal, he said was a
question of completing Culehri cut and
the lock gates. lie expected To have
the last uf the gates in place by June
and would then be ready to cut The
d!kes ana let in the waters of the two
oceans. The water would HELM 10
bolster UP the sliding sides Of the cut, he
said, ana with the Mater thcr. by the
rainy season, d. he meant to have H. a
snip would pass from thn Atlantic To the
Pacific before the end Of the year
oth,r speakers were Vice. Pre- Sidcnt
Ira \, Place of The New York Central,
who invited everybody 10 be on hand
neNt Monday morning al I2;02 to wit
ness the opening or the new Grand
Central terminal; John Hays Ham.
mond and Rear Admiral Robert j..
Pcary.
Schuyler II Knox WAS toastmas.er
and with him az the guest table were
John A Bensel pr, ~ X Price, William
II. Iiuiick, Nelson T. Lewis. Prof T..
T.. Mckiblcn. j waldo Smith. Public
Service Commissioner w n Wilcox,
william @, McAdoo, !. T. Carty, pr
Alfred Noble and Or. James Gayley