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...engineers of the Commission have made the following calculations: earth excavation, 340,000 cubic yards; filling, 400,000 cubic yards; concrete masonry, 41,000 cubic yards; piling, 490,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 1,100,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riprap, 10,000 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided...
...Peabody Museum has recently received two rare boxes of birch bark, the gifts of Mrs. E. J. McNeil and Miss N. M. Betteley of Cambridge. The boxes are a hundred years old, and were made by Indians. They are ornamented with split spruce and with porcupine quills worked in colors. The Museum now owns five such boxes, and only one other museum in the country has any specimens of this rare Indian workmanship...
...Towing Out," 45,--a sketchy bit in sepia effect,--by H. W. Eliot '02; "Boats on Italian Lake," 90, by J. A. O'Reilly '02; "A Little Puritan," 109, and "Portrait: Miss H.," 110, by Professor Charles R. Sanger; "A Deserted Camp," 121,--a snow scene in the spruce woods,--by R. W. Shapleigh '02; and "On a City Yard," 145,--a picturesque pin-hole study by Mr. W. H. Tillinghmt...
...reception to delegates will be held at the Deanery of the Divinity School at 4 o'clock today, and at the Deaconess House, 708 Spruce street at 4 o'clock Saturday...
...VARSITY GLEE CLUB.- All men be at the Puritan Club, corner Beacon and Spruce Streets, Boston, tonight at eight o'clock...