Word: parks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pamphlet. It contains accounts of the field work being done by the different classes, of the surveying and geological mapping of the Middlesex Fells Reservation and of the different explorations recently carried on by members of the department in Nova Scotia, among the Rocky Mountains, in the Yellowstone Park and in other localities...
...park commissioners have now prepared a number of hockey rinks, which are to be kept in good condition. They are at Billings Field, North Brighton: at Franklin Field and on Columbus Avenue, near the South End Grounds, Boston. These rinks may be engaged for match games. There is good skating on the private rinks at the chutes in Boston and at the Cambridge Skating Club; also at Spy Pond, Arlington; Hammond's Pond, Chestnut Hill; Artificial Pond, Cambridge; Leverett Pond, Roxbury; Ell Pond, Melrose; Bour Pond, Woburn; Lake Quanapowitt, Wakefield; Crystal Lake, Newton; Charles River, Waltham; and the Mystic Lakes...
Both of the skating rinks on Soldiers Field are now practically finished, and can be made ready for use at a day's notice. The rinks this year are placed parallel to the park-way, and are both 180 feet long by 80 feet wide, with rounded corners. A pipe will be brought over from the locker-building, to supply the city water which will be used entirely for flooding the rinks. The fence around the hockey rink will be about two feet above the ice, since it was found that last year's fence was too high. There will...
...annual run for the intercollegiate cross country championship will be held today at New York, over the Morris Park steeple-chase course. Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia will compete. Terms of ten men have been entered, of whom six will run. The length of the course will be six and two-third miles, and will include forty obstacles, consisting of the famous Liver-pool jump, hedges, water jump, and ditches...
...parkway of the Cambridge Park Commission which now extends for a short distance above the Boylston Street bridge is to be continued to a small landmark known as Gerry's Landing. To this point the Metropolitan Park Commission are to extend the Fresh Pond parkway and here they intend to build a bridge connecting that park system with Soldiers Field...