Word: dam
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Ira N. Hollis will speak on "Practical and Theoretical Engineering" at the Prospect Union tomorrow night. On Wednesday, April 16, George Howland Cox, chairman of the Cambridge Park Commission, will speak on the merits of a dam across the Charles River for the purpose of forming a great water basin...
...final hearing on the Charles River Dam was held yesterday morning. Dr. Henry J. Barnes, who appeared for the Tufts Medical School, said that if a permanent dam were constructed the Fens Basin would become a stagnant pool and that sewage would collect there in the absence of frequent flushings...
Lewis S. Dabney, representing the Beacon street residents objected to the dam on the grounds that it would create a mill-pond, full of sewage, with a sluggish river flowing into...
...hearing of the Charles River Dam Commission yesterday, it was decided to put an end to the present system of oral hearings. There will be one more session on Thursday at 10 o'clock in the rooms of the Metropolitan Park Commission, 14 Beacon street. The Committee will then receive written statements, reports and data from the engineers retained by the parties interested; the counsel will put in briefs concerning the various points of discussion; and conferences will be held, for a time not to exceed four days, between the committee and the opponents of the plan. This system...
...hearing of the Charles River Dam Commission yesterday morning the plans for the dam were discussed at length by engineer Blake and City Engineer Jackson. Mr. Jackson said that the construction of the dam would be beneficial to the upper harbor and would improve the condition of the district about the basin...