Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...important result of the Cambridge municipal election last Tuesday was the vote in favor of the construction of one or more subways from Cambridge to Boston. The way is now clear for the passage of a bill by the state legislature authorizing the Boston Elevated Railroad Company to construct two two-track subways from Harvard Square, one under Cambridge street to the Charles River Dam, the other under Massachusetts avenue and Main street to the new Cambridge bridge. The route will be continued in Boston by a subway running from the Cambridge bridge either to Park street or to Scollay...
...question whether the Boston Elevated Railroad Company shall construct an elevated structure or one or more subways in Cambridge is to be decided by the voters of Cambridge at the city election tomorrow. The new plan for the subways which has been approved by the City Council calls for two two-track subways from Harvard square, one under Massachusetts avenue and Main street to the new Cambridge Bridge, and the other under Cambridge street to the new Charles River Dam. The legislation last year provided for a four-track subway from Harvard square under Massachusetts avenue and Main street...
Unless the vote is in favor of subways the Railroad Company will be obliged to carry out the right which it possesses by its present charter to build an elevated structure in Massachusetts avenue, Main, River, Bridge and Cambridge streets and Western avenue...
...Canadian Passenger Association. In applying for certificates from ticket agents, mention the Archaelogical Institute of America instead of the American Folk-Lore Society. In consulting time tables it should be remembered that East Ithaca is the Ithaca station of the Elmira and Cortland branch of the Le high Valley Railroad. Cars meet all trains at this station, and all cars pass the hotels...
...arrangements for the Army and Navy football game have now been pretty well completed. For bringing the crowds to Princeton, the Pennsylvania Railroad has built eleven new terminal tracks, in addition to the nine tracks already laid below Brokaw Field. Immediately after the game, special trains will depart as fast as they are filled, the increased accommodations providing for the transportation of as many as 12,000 passengers at one time. Luncheon will be served in the old and new gymnasiums, as well as on the first floor of University Hall and there will also be two tents dispensing handy...