Word: roadway
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Work was begun yesterday on a skating rink which the Athletic Committee will build on Soldiers Field across the roadway from the new boat-house. It will be rectangular in shape, 400 by 125 feet, and the abutment of the roadway will from one of the long sides. Two hockey rinks, each 125 by 58 feet, will be fenced off at the east end and the remaining space, 284 by 125 feet, will be left open. The rink is to be flooded to the depth of one foot with water supplied from a fire faucet in the boat house...
...clained that public necessity demands their removal and this question, although debated at length, still remains unsettled. A measure was proposed which if adopted will save the trees and also remedy any inconvenience which the narrowness of Harvard street may cause. This plan provides for the building of a roadway twenty feet wide north of the row of the row of trees. An expenditure of $20,000 will be necessary to accomplish this and in addition it is doubtful if the land can be secured from the University authorities. The question was referred to the Committee on Roads and Bridges...