Word: dam
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Charles River Basin Commission awarded the contract for building the dam and lock in the Charles River to the Holbrook, Cabot, and Rollins Corporation. The basis of the award was $801,-507.50. In the work so far piles have been driven under the lock in the Boston cofferdam and under the sluices in the Cambridge cofferdam. A few piles also have been driven along the sea wall and in the canals to strengthen them in order that the dredging may be carried to a greater depth...
...previously announced the dam is being built on the present site of the Craigie bridge, and its total length when completed will be 1300 feet, the width varying from 340 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pile foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. The height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean low water, about the present level of the street at the Cambridge end of Craigie bridge...
...lower side of the dam there will be a roadway 85 feet wide, and on the upper side a park or embankment of 6 3-4 acres. There will also be an esplanade constructed by the City of Boston, extending from Charles Bank park to Charlesgate East, making a drive and walks in the rear of Brimmer and Beacon streets. On the Cambridge side an embankment park, for which the land has already been purchased, will come nearly to the dam. The contract calls for the completion of the work by July...
...construction of one or more subways from Cambridge to Boston. The way is now clear for the passage of a bill by the state legislature authorizing the Boston Elevated Railroad Company to construct two two-track subways from Harvard Square, one under Cambridge street to the Charles River Dam, the other under Massachusetts avenue and Main street to the new Cambridge bridge. The route will be continued in Boston by a subway running from the Cambridge bridge either to Park street or to Scollay square, as may be decided...
...city election tomorrow. The new plan for the subways which has been approved by the City Council calls for two two-track subways from Harvard square, one under Massachusetts avenue and Main street to the new Cambridge Bridge, and the other under Cambridge street to the new Charles River Dam. The legislation last year provided for a four-track subway from Harvard square under Massachusetts avenue and Main street to the new Cambridge Bridge, but the Railroad Company declined to build this system because prospective travel was not sufficient to warrant such an expense...