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...West End Railway Company will not run cars over the Harvard Bridge at present on account of the condition imposed by the Cambridge Aldermen requirat least six cars an hour to be run from Harvard Square to the Tremont House...
...petition to have the cars stop at the college entrance will have a hearing before the Board of Aldermen Thursday evening...
...practically impossible to increase their powers Most of the inefficiency is due to the division of responsibility. To illustrate these evils, suppose there is a vacancy in the municipal government. The mayor is immediately surrounded by a horde of office-seekers, most of them members of the board of Aldermen which confirms the mayor's appointee. They compel him to appoint the man they want or refuse their confirmation. As a rule the mayor is forced to make a "deal." The appointee, too, must pledge himself to whatever the confirming board demands. This is the condition under which many...
...have been corruptible. Such a statement would be vastly too strong to apply to the average of the mayor. Therefore the appointments would be much better, if the mayor were not subject to a confirming board. The mayor's responsibility is much greater than that of the board of aldermen, for there is not one man in a thousand who would ever think of blaming the latter...
Today is the last day for signing the petition to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The petition as stated in Thursday's CRIMSON is for the purpose of having established an additional stopping place for the electric cars at the main entrance to the college yard, between Holyoke and Linden Streets. Every one must appreciate the need and advantage of such a stopping place and as it is wished to have at least five hundred signatures, every one who has not yet signed is urgently asked to do so today at Leavitt & Peirce...