Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regular November dinner of the Boston Congregational Club this evening at Ford Hall, Boston, President Eliot, Charles M. Barney, the Mayor of Lynn, and Robert Luce '82, one of the best known and most efficient members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, will talk on "Municipal Government by Selectmen." After dinner the addresses will be made, President Eliot speaking at about 7.45 o'clock...
...clock Secretary C. R. Woodruff will address the National Municipal League on "The Battle for Betterment," and Hon. Brand Whitlock, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, will speak on "National Parties in Local Elections...
City Engineer Jackson is preparing an estimate of the cost of putting the bridge in safe repair, which will be submitted at the next meeting of the Bridge Commission on November 26. It seems probable, judging from statements made by him, and by Mayor Wardwell in an interview last Tuesday, that the old bridge will merely be strengthened, and that a new bridge will not be built for ten or fifteen years...
Besides the Cambridge Bridge Commission, which is composed of Mayer Fitzgerald of Boston, Mayor Wardwell of Cambridge, and Engineer Leavitt of Cambridge, and which has charge of the building of new bridges, there is another commission, composed of Mr. McDonald of Boston and Mr. George H. Clukas, the Superintendent of Streets of Cambridge, whose duty it is to look after the care and maintenance of bridges in Boston and Cambridge. It is impossible for these two commissions to work together, as they have no connection whatever with each other, and if there is to be a new bridge...
...number and location of the stations between Harvard square and the bridge has not yet been determined. The railroad company has proposed to have only one station, namely, at Central square. The city government of Cambridge, however, through the Mayor, has expressed itself in favor of having several stations and it seems not improbable that the plan finally adopted will be to have one more station than the company proposed, namely a station at some point midway between Central square and the west end of the bridge. In this way the two main objects can be fairly well accomplished, rapid...