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...house, shield and traps of the Gun Club are being moved farther back from the Speedway. The traps will be ready for use in a few days. Members are now using the Wellington traps...
...building of the Shooting House and traps has been postponed on account of the making of the speedway. Within two weeks, however, the new quarters, some two hundred yards east of the old location, will be ready for occupancy...
Work has been started on the speedway and river drive across the Soldiers Field marshes. A railroad has been laid to be used in the operations and three dredging machines are now removing the material from the Charles, with which the dike and drives are to be built. A gang of men is putting down a system of piping to drain the marshes back of the dike...
...driveway is to be about 160 feet wide in all, with two separate drives, four sidewalks and a bicycle path. It will follow the river bank to a point opposite Longfellow Park, thence the speedway proper will extend straight to the abattoir, at the southwest corner of the field, a distance of about a mile. Enough ground will be allowed between the driveway and the river, just above the Boylston street bridge, for the proposed University boat house. It is not thought that these improvements on Soldiers Field will be entirely completed within two years...
Harvard College has recently conceded to the Metropolitan Park Commission forty-six acres of land lying along the river to the westward of Soldiers Field. The Park Commission has definitely decided to build a speedway on this and the Longfellow Park land, which will run along the river to the Abattoir Bridge. Room will be left between the speedway and the river, on which to build the University boat house. In return for the land given by the college, the Park Commissioners have agreed to improve the ground and make it attractive, and to secure it from intrusion...