Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second of the annual races between the Weld and the Newell Boat Clubs will probably be held on Tuesday, May 28. Three crews, a senior, an intermediate, and a junior crew, will represent each club. Later, in the Metropolitan Regatta on June 17, each club hopes to enter several crews; and there is also a possibility of a race between the club crews and the Columbia second...
...committees on Metropolitan Affairs and Harbors and Public Lands in joint session, voted yesterday morning to report the bill appointing a special commission to investigate and report upon the advisability of a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. The report is practically the same as the original petition presented to the committees March 29, the only change being that Governor Crane is to appoint the commissioners. The appointments will be made as soon as possible, and a report presented to the General Court early...
...annual meeting of the Metropolitan Amateur Rowing Association will be held in the Boston Athletic Association club house at 8.30 tonight. Each club in the Association is entitled to three delegates. The election of officers for the ensuing year will take place and arrangements for holding the annual regatta will be considered...
...from the War Department, but Secretary Root has written that he has no objection to offer. This removes all open opposition to the bill, and makes the prospect of its being passed appear very favorable. Up to the present time the joint commission, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands has made no report on the subject...
...joint commission of the Massachusetts Legislature, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, gave a second and final hearing yesterday on the project of building a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. At the first hearing a week ago, no opposition was offered, but yesterday members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and persons owning wharves on the river front objected to certain features of the bill. The principal speakers against the project were E. G. Prescott, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, J. F. Boyd of the Associated...