Canal Ready May, 1914.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 3, 1913:
Prediction of Col. Goethals — Culebra Work Hastens.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    COLON, April 2.— The excavation of Culebra Cut is completed, except three miles at Culebra embracing the area of slides. A little more than 10,000,000 cubic yards of excavation remains. This work will be finished in October.
    A steamship company cabled to Col. Goethals to-day, asking when it could advertise for traffic through the canal, and asking the probable date when the first ship would pass through. Col. Goethals answered that the canal would be completed and ready for ships in May, 1914.