Word: parks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...route will be: Start at B. A. A. club house; Exeter street to Commonwealth avenue, to Beacon street, to Coolidge's Corner, turn around post in the middle of the road to the other side of Beacon street, straight in to the Park, into Commonwealth avenue, to Exeter street, to finish in front of club house. The entries will close with John Graham at the B. A. A. on Wednesday next...
These alterations became necessary to make way for the new park road which is in process of construction along the river bank and are being carried out by the city of Cambridge, George A. Moor of Boston, being the architect. The carpenters have practically finished and a good deal of the filling in and grading work has been done, thought this will not be finished until spring. On the whole the general appearance of the house as well as its convenience has been much improved by the alterations...
...poet, James Russell Lowell, on Brattle street, has been in danger of being sold and divided up into small lots. A committee, consisting of President Eliot, Bishop Lawrence, Professor Norton and others, has been trying to raise a sum sufficient to redeem the land and make a park of it. $19,000 of the necessary $35,000 has already been subscribed; but in order to make interest in the matter more widespread an appeal has lately been sent out by prominent men in other parts of the country...
...game. The N. Y., N. H. and H. R. R. is issuing round trip excursion tickets for fifteen dollars, good for eight days, but the rate is somewhat cheaper by the Fall River boat instead of by train to New York. The "Federal Express," leaving Park Square station at 7 p. m., is the best through train, as it arrives in Philadelphia early the next morning...
...dangerously near the baseball diamond. The fact that it is 450 feet from the home plate is enough to allay such fears. Subsequently it will be surrounded by paths and trees and will look very attractive. In fact the whole situation of Soldiers Field will be improved, as the Park Commission have definitely decided to build a driveway along the shore line and the city of Boston has taken 20 feet for the widening of North Harvard street, which will be begun next summer...