Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Engineering Society, Shaft Sinking. (Illustrated with the Stereopticon.) Mr. F. W. Skinner, Jefferson Lecture Hall...
Considerable changes are to be made in Holyoke House during the coming summer. Heretofore rooms 4, 9, 10 and 14 of the second floor and the corresponding rooms on the three floors above have had two bedrooms; one on the outside, the other opening into an air-shaft within. These inner rooms will now be converted into large closets, and the space formerly occupied by closets will be added to the outside room, making one large double bedroom. It is hoped in this way to secure adequate light and air, which are not obtainable with the present arrangement...
...Weld '60 to the Weld Boat Club, and now in the course of construction at Seabury & Company's shipyard, Morris Heights, New York, is nearly completed and will probably arrive during this week. She is a few days overdue on account of delay in securing a bronze shaft for her propeller, but her trial trip will take place without doubt on Tuesday or Wednesday. A description of the boat follows...