Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...basin. The Massachusetts Legislature passed an act that was approved by the governor on May 13 last amending a previous act in accordance with the act of Congress providing for the building of a bridge with funds donated for the purpose, the payment of damages to any persons up river whose rights of access by water are injured by the drawless bridge, and for the determination of these damages by a commission, also providing for a bond issue of $50,000 to provide the Metropolitan Park Commission with money to buy land in Boston to connect lands on the river...
...build either one of these approaches would require comparatively a small amount of wall construction, as at the beginning of the approaches they would be graded to meet existing park roads. Some rough wall probably would be necessary near the river, and the rest of the work would be filling...
...bridge on days of large crowds. It has been considered so dangerous that at times barges have been placed beneath the draw. One great obstacle that has prevented the construction of the new bridge has been in the past the opposition of the United States Government to obstructing the river approach to its property at the Watertown Arsenal. This objection was weakened materially by the construction of the West Boston drawless bridge and the Charles River dam and since then progress has been more rapid. One by one the obstacles have been surmounted, and now there is almost a certainty...
Second Marshal.--Reginald Candler Foster, Charles River Village, Mass...
...clock. It will pass through the drawbridge and anchor as near as possible to the finish, returning immediately after the race. The fare is $1.75. The "City of Lowell" will leave the wharf at New London at 3.30 P. M., and will proceed up the Thames River to the finish. It will return immediately after the race. The fare will be 50 cents...