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...Charles River Basin Commission has advertised for bids on its contract for the dam which is to turn the Charles river into a freshwater basin unaffected by the tides. The dam will be built on the present site of Craigie bridge, and its total length will be 1300 feet, the width varying from 140 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pole foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. At the ends the height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean...
...cubic yards; filling, 400,000 cubic yards; concrete masonry, 41,000 cubic yards; piling, 490,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 1,100,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riprap, 10,000 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies the smaller lock will be used as a flood-sluice...
...Alps in the Great Ice Age" yesterday afternoon in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum. In this lecture, which dealt with "The Climatic Variations of the Ice Age," Professor Penck thoroughly discussed the means of discovering both the probable climate during the great glacial periods, and the length of time since these topographical phenomena were in existence...
...course, which was 6 1-4 miles in length, led from the centre of the athletic field at Travers Island over a causeway to the mainland, through the Pelham Manor woods towards New Rochelle, and then back by the shore road. This circuit was covered three times and was provided with a number of jumps and ditches, the final 300 yards being run on a cinder path...
This is the second year that the run has been held on the Travers Island course, which is six miles in length and is laid out after the fashion of the English cross-country courses...