Word: dam
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reports from the engineers who have been holding conferences for the past month in connection with the proposed dam across the Charles River will probably be presented to the committee the latter part of this week. The expert engineers have been examined by Mr. J.R. French of Providence, who has recently been appointed head of the water works in New York. The petition that the time be extended has been granted by the State Committee on metropolitan affairs, so that the report of the Dam Commission will not be presented until the next session of the legislature...
...first of a series of private conferences by expert engineers, representing those who are opposed to the construction of the Charles River dam, will be held today at the rooms of the committee, 14 Beacon street. From the material gathered at these conferences, together with the great mass of testimony already received, the committee will make out its report, which is intended to be complete by next December. Definite action upon the proposed dam will probably not come until the session...
Those opposed to having a dam constructed across Charles River have secured a postponement of all action on the matter until May 1, when there will be a conference of the engineers who represent those who favor and those who oppose the construction...
...Friday President Pritchett of the Dam Commission presented a petition to the Legislature asking that all action be deferred until the session of 1903, since all the evidence needed has not yet been collected. The request was referred to the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs...
...Chairman of the Cambridge Park Commission, will give a lecture next Wednesday evening at the Prospect Union on the subject, "The Dam across Charles River...