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...Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health, it was proposed to build a dam near Craigie Bridge. That the recommendation of the joint board were not then carried out was due almost entirely to the vigorous opposition of certain residents of the north side of Beacon Street, whose objection grew out of the proposal to pay for the dam by filling in the basin in he rear of their houses so as to create land on which a new row of houses could be built. The plan now put forward does not contain this obviously objectionable feature...
...Copeland's Life of Edwin Booth, to be published in the Beacon Biographies series, there will be a number of hitherto unpublished letters from Booth to Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich who was one of his life long friends...
...Harvard men are assisting in industrial and evangelistic work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. Fifteen men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill where from 75 to 100 Chinamen attend regularly. These men come at first simply to learn the English language, but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back again for the religious teaching of the school. Not a few of these Chinamen have become Christians, and some have gone back to China...
Twenty-five men have entered the B. A. A. handicap cross-country run which will be held this afternoon at 3.30. The run will start from the B. A. A. Club House on Exeter street. The course is up Commonwealth avenue and Beacon street, to Coolidge's Corner and back by the same way, to the club house, a distance of about 4 3-4 miles...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold an open handicap cross country run on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 3.30. The course will be from the B. A. A. club house through Exeter street, Common- wealth avenue and Beacon street to Coolidge's corner, around the switch and back to the Club house by the same road, a distance of about four and three quarters miles. Checkers will be posted at different points, and any competitor failing to have his number on the checkers list will be disqualified. Prizes will be given to the first six men, and an extra prize...