Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Under the auspices of the Engineering Society, Mr. H. A. Miller, chief engineer of the Charles River Basin Commission, will deliver an illustrated lecture this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Peirce 110 on "The General Features of the Charles River Basin, and the Construction Work accomplished...
...argue for it. It will bring about cheaper and better service for the people, because the system will be operated for the public interest. It will be profitable to the city, because the street railway system is a paying investment. It will improve the city government by removing the chief cause of political corruption and by placing the city authorities in a better position to solve its social problems...
...first considered the effect it would have on the politics of the city. The franchise-holding corporations are responsible for by far the greater part of the corruption in New York City, he said: The street railway companies, because of their primacy in power and wealth, have been the chief agents of evil. They have secured their franchises by bribery; they have swindled the city out of millions of dollars in taxes; they have purchased legislation almost openly. Even the courts have been in their hire and control. These facts are to be found in official reports...
...inadequate remedy. Municipal ownership will mean a better and a cheaper service for the people because the system will be operated in the public interest. It will mean a paying investment to the city because the street railways are tremendously profitable. It will diminish political corruption by removing the chief cause of corruption, and the city will be in a better position to solve its social problems...
Under the auspices of the Engineering Society, Mr. H. A. Miller, chief engineer of the Charles River Basin Commission, will give an illustrated lecture on "The General Features of the Charles River Basin, and the Construction Work on the Dam," next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock, in Pierce...