Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hearing of the Charles River Dam Commission yesterday, it was decided to put an end to the present system of oral hearings. There will be one more session on Thursday at 10 o'clock in the rooms of the Metropolitan Park Commission, 14 Beacon street. The Committee will then receive written statements, reports and data from the engineers retained by the parties interested; the counsel will put in briefs concerning the various points of discussion; and conferences will be held, for a time not to exceed four days, between the committee and the opponents of the plan. This system...
...Harvard Chess Club has received an official notification of its standing in the Metropolitan Chess League. The team ranks sixth in the league with two games won, three lost and two drawn. Several of the games, however, have been lost by default owing to the mid-year period. The next game that Harvard will play will be with the B. A. A. in Boston on February...
...menaced by the construction of the dam, in spite of the fact that a large amount of sewage is poured into the Charles River daily. Following the reports, the Committee proposed a series of questions in connection with the sewage problem to W. M. Brown, engineer of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission. Mr. Brown was likewise of the opinion that the discharge of sewage into the river would be harm-less even if the dam were built...
...Charles River Dam Commission. No stated decision was reached, but the statement of the Cambridge city engineer showed conclusively that the building of a dam would benefit the working of the sewerage system. The first report directly in favor of the dam was read yesterday by the Metropolitan Park Commission urging its construction on the ground that it would beautify the river and add to its utility...
Representatives from the cities of Cambridge and Newton, from the Metropolitan Park Commission, Associated Board of Trade, Boston Chamber of Commerce and from several private concerns spoke briefly at the hearing. They were united in the belief that the advisability of building the dam should depend first, upon its effect on the general health; second, upon its effect on the harbor and commerce of Boston; third, upon its effect on the park system...