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...Cambridge Board of Survey has determined its recommendation as to the lines of the proposed boulevard from Quincy Square to the Parkway to be formed by the widening and extension of DeWolf street. The question came before the citizens of Cambridge early in 1902 as the result of a petition, signed by President Eliot, Charles F. Adams and others, asking for "a dignified approach to Harvard College." The Board of Survey held several hearings on the matter, at which both parties to the plan were heard...
...petition for the parkway is successful and the street widened. Quincy Hall will be removed. This change would enlarge Quincy square and give the hotel which will be built where the College Inn now stands, a prominent and desirable location on the corner of Massachusetts avenue and Bow street. In case DeWolfe street is not widened it is not certain that the hotel will be built...
...hearing on the proposed parkway, from Quincy square to the river, was held at the City Hall last night. James R. Murphy, the lawyer for those opposed to the parkway, argued that the hearing could not be called final, because, according to statute, the final hearing could only be the called after the plans had been advertised for thirty-days. He introduced witnesses to show that the traffic on De Wolfe street was not large enough to call for widening the street. Objections were made to the proposed changes on the ground that a wider street would so encroach...
...chief opposition to the petition came from representatives of the Saint Paul's Catholic Association, which owns a large amount of property on the route. Several representatives of the Association spoke against the petition, saying that if the parkway was built a strip of land 35 feet wide would have to be taken from the Association and that the loss of this land would destroy its chapel and interfere with the convent school and the future plans of the Association. They also claimed that there was no call for the parkway on the part of the public and that...
...Brien of Cambridge, proposed a plan for a parkway 60 feet wide to be constructed by widening both sides of DeWolf street. This plan, he said would take but 10 feet from the Church property...