Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This particular wedding trip takes one through a singularly level and uninteresting country. There are a few merry moments--as when a hazy suggestion of genuinely funny plot is seen in the distance, or when an occasional haunting tune is heard afar off. But most of the trip is much less enjoyable than we expected with an escort like Mr. De Koven...
...track leading to Boston is on a level slightly lower than that of the outward bound track, in order to make it more convenient for passengers coming from Boston who wish to change cars for Arlington and Newton, and vice versa...
...Cambridge subway near Harvard square is being pushed in order that it may be completed in time for the opening of the new rapid transit line in December. The steel frames for the machine shop and for the inspection shed, built on solid concrete foundations several feet below the level of the surrounding streets, are already erected. Several tracks are also laid from the mouth of the subway leading to the yard and shops. The terminal yard lies between Boylston and Murray streets. Beside the shops there is a large storage yard for the subway trains...
...under consideration by the Metropolitan Park Commission which will have charge of constructing the bridge, after the preliminaries incident to the 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...
...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...