Word: parks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speaker. He said that the objections to the dam had come from small groups of persons representing comparatively insignificant interests. The principle reason for erecting the dam is to promote the health and happiness of the 400,000 people who live within easy walking distance of the seven mile park that would probably follow its erection. Furthermore, the construction of the dam is necessary to the proper sanitation of the valley below Watertown, because great areas of the river bottom are often left exposed at low water...
...Arthur A. Shurtleff, instructor in Landscape Architecture, will talk in formally tonight at the Prospect Union on the "Forests of the Massachusetts Park Reservations...
There is good skating on the following ponds and rinks: Jamaica Pond, Hammond's Pond, Charlesbank, Holmes Field, Jarvis Field, Wood Island Park and Cambridge Skating Rink...
...meeting of the Charles River Dam Commission yesterday morning, the effect of the construction of the proposed dam on the public health was considered. Reports on the subject were made by H. H. Goodenough of the State Board of Health, Assistant Engineer C. B. Putnam of the Boston Park Department and W. F. Learned, town engineer of Watertown. These reports showed that the public health would not be 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...
There is good skating today on the following ponds and rinks: Cambridge skating rink, Holmes Field, Jarvis Field, Spy Pond, Billing Field, Wood Island Park, Jamaica Pond, Columbus avenue play ground, North Brighton play ground...