Word: roades
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the ninety-seven baseball nine and five substitutes will leave at four o'clock this afternoon for Springfield by the Boston and Albany road. The team will spend tonight at the Winthrop House, Meriden, Conn., and then proceed to New Haven early tomorrow morning. They will return to Boston soon after the game, reaching Cambridge shortly before midnight. The recent changes in the make-up of the team have strengthened it considerably. The following is the batting order: Dean 2b., Beale l. f., Warren 1b., Stevenson 3b., Scott c., Stevens s. s., Garrison c. f., Anderson...
...Mott Haven team leaves for New York today at ten o'clock, to take the eleven o'clock train from Boston over the Boston and Albany road. While at New York the men will stop at the Windsor...
...West End road has three power stations, one at Allston, another in Boston, and a third in East Cambridge. This arrangement has been found far more expensive than it would be to have several more stations, and the power proportionately lessened. The current from these power houses is poured out through the feeders and returns through the ground, but this arrangement is very unsatisfactory, for the wear on the water and gas pipes, which carry the current, is very great, and pipes, which ought to last forty years often become worthless after three or four months...
...proposed widening of Concord avenue by the West End Road for their new line of electric cars, is a matter of considerable interest to the University. If the plan is carried into effect, the row of large spruce trees, which border the observatory grounds on the Concord avenue side, must be cut down. These trees are greatly valued by the observatory, not only for their beauty, but also because they shut off the grounds so completely from the street, and at night prevent the glare of the electric lights from interfering with the use of the telescopes...
...committee has received a promise from the West End road that there will be enough cars that evening to accommodate every one. The cars will be in Harvard square shortly after seven. They will also be ready for the return to Cambridge soon after the performance finishes...