Word: subway
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Society has placed a tablet in the post of the Yard fence adjoining Wadsworth House, to indicate the site of the two earliest College buildings, the foundations of which were discovered in December, 1909, and February, 1910, in the course of the excavations in Massachusetts avenue for the Cambridge subway. For a few hours the stones were to be seen in their original places after having been covered for more than 275 years; then they disappeared therefrom forever, and one more link with the past was broken. But the exact position of the stones was measured and recorded, and when...
...reported to the Public Service Commission yesterday that the Cambridge subway is operated at an annual loss of $400,000, and therefore the petition of the residents of Cambridge to build a station at Dana street has been turned down. It would mean an additional loss of $60,000. The company has decided however, to make another exit at Central square to better accommodate the late-afternoon crowds...
...issuing of an order from the Public Service Commission on Monday an escalator in the subway station in the Square becomes an assured fact. The escalator will extend to the surface from the Mount Auburn level and work is to be started on its construction at once. Ever since the subway from Park street to the square was installed there has been considerable agitation for an escalator but it has not been until recently that the Service Commission would take any action in regard to the matter. Owing to the complex construction of the Harvard square station it has been...
...Boston Elevated Railway Company has made adequate preparations for increased traffic on its surface as well as in the subway today on account of football game...
...Cambridge subway trains will start at 12.30 o'clock on a 2 minute schedule which will continue until 2 o'clock, all trains running through to the Stadium station. After the game trains will start from the Stadium station at regular intervals of one and three-quarter minutes...