Word: transition
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Bridge, of which so much is expected in the way of rapid transit between Boston and Cambridge, is at length nearing completion. A portion of the fence remains to be set up and the planking is yet to be laid on the Cambridge end of the bridge; this work will probably be finished within three weeks, when the bridge will be practically complete. The house to accommodate the draw tender and cover the draw machinery is not yet built, but its construction will not delay the opening of the bridge; the same can be said of the asphalt pavement...
After many disappointments it is thought that the hopes of the students for a rapid transit between Boston and Cambridge are about to be realized. A number of electric cars have been tried, but all have been found lacking in some particular or other, but yesterday afternoon a new one, of the Hewins make, ran successfully in Cambridge. The car, with the president of the West End road, and W. L. Stevens, the patentee of the motor used, on board, left the Cambridgeport headquarters, and went up Broadway to Harvard square, ascending the steep grade on Broadway without difficulty. From...
...seasons of the year, while the electric will not work in winter; the elevated system, by darkening the streets and stores in addition to making it disagreeable for second story dwellers, decreased the value of real estate along its route; while the cable system, by its rapid and easy transit would bring the suburbs nearer the city and raise the value of real estate in them correspondingly. The cable is run along a trench under the tracks; is operated by steam power at the ends of the route; is kept taut by a system of weights at its extremities, which...
Capt. Meigs gives a lecture to-night in Tremont Temple, on "Rapid Transit," and will describe his own system which was so nearly introduced between Boston and Cambridge not long...
...Transit gloria mundi, and with it there has departed one of the world's noblest thinkers. It is with deep grief that we announce the death of the Great American Traveller. Daniel Pratt is dead. We shall all miss his familiar figure when the spring of the year returns...