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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...emergency exits. These are provided at every 1000 feet and furnish an easy way for people to find their way to the street in the case of emergency. Each of them is also to be used for ventilating purposes. Another innovation in subway construction is a system of underground sidewalks connected with the tunnel but outside the entrance gates at the Central square station. These sidewalks extend for about 350 feet on each side of the station. At Harvard square the walls at the point where the surface cars go down into the subway have been constructed of brick...
...Street Bridge. This is planned to accommodate the crowds on the days of football games in the Stadium. The tracks leading to and from this platform, which will be a covered structure about 300 feet long, will connect with the main line of the subway as it emerges from underground at Brattle square. It is possible that this platform will be ready for use by the time of the Yale game next year...
...subway itself will run through Brattle street to Murray street, where the "elevated trains," as the subway cars will be designated, will ascend to the street. Surface cars from North Cambridge and Newton will pass underground at the Cambridge Common and at Murray street, respectively...
...work in Harvard Square has been further complicated by the size of the underground station, which is being constructed with special reference to the quick handling of large crowds. In the centre of the Square there will be erected an exit and entrance station similar to the one at Scollay Square. Further entrances are being placed in front of the Co-operative Society's branch store and at the waiting room, adjoining Amee's Bookstore. Exits are being arranged near Dane Hall and across Massachusetts avenue from Holyoke street...
...Side Lights" are of transient interest. Toward the close of the number everybody seems thirsty. A correspondent urges the restoration of the Yard pump even if Fresh Pond water has to be artfully substituted for the perilous spring water that lurks underground near Hollis. His letter is accompanied by a portrait of the old pump and an ode of President Roosevelt's College days, reprinted in its honor. Later the editor demands a fountain. Just what he says about, I cannot tell, since my proof stops short in the middle of a word, and the time vouchsafed by the Magazine...