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...turn Congress has been induced to pass the required legislation to permit the construction of a drawless bridge, the Massachusetts Legislature has made the necessary provisions as to land damages that may result from the bridge, and specified that the Metropolitan Park Commission shall have the construction in charge, using money to be donated for the purpose. Now the cities of Boston and Cambridge have to be induced to consent to the building of the bridge and to agree to undertake the comparatively small expense of preparing the approaches...
...payment of damages to any persons up river whose rights of access by water are injured by the drawless bridge, and for the determination of these damages by a commission, also providing for a bond issue of $50,000 to provide the Metropolitan Park Commission with money to buy land in Boston to connect lands on the river now in its control...
...approaches have been settled and the money has been formally donated. One plan is for a bridge at the minimum height of 12 feet above the basin water level. This would necessitate approaches on either side of from 170 to 200 feet and there would be no land damages to abutting owners on either side, for the reason that the land affected is owned by the state, and is mostly Metropolitan parkway. The University might have a small claim but it undoubtedly would be waived...
...other plan is for a bridge 16 feet above the water level. This would necessitate approaches from 280 feet on the Boston side to 360 feet on the Cambridge side. There would be small possibilities of land damages in this case also, for with the exception of two small parcels, all the land affected is owned by the State or by the University. In either case the gradient of the approaches would be three per cent. With the 12-foot bridge the rise above the existing bridge would be about 3 1-2 feet and with the 16-foot bridge...
...biplanes over the same course, which was won by Lieutenant T. D. Milling, U. S. N., in a Burgess Wright machine in 5 hours, 22 minutes, 27 seconds. The only other man to enter the Globe contest was Stone, but he had trouble with his motor and had to land at Medford. He was granted a consolation prize of $1,000, however. While these long flights were going on, Grahame-White and Sopwith made several creditable performances on the field...