Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge aldermen have granted the West End railway the right to use the cable system in this city...
Last Monday the Boston aldermen gave the West End Street Railway Company a hearing concerning the cable system that they propose to introduce in Boston and vicinity. Many strong arguments were presented in favor of the system, and but little opposition encountered. The various advantages of the cable over the electric and elevated systems were shown. The cable system can be operated at all 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...
...West End Street Railway Company has petitioned the Cambridge aldermen for the right to use the cable system in operating its cars in the Cambridge district. In the petition the advantages of the new over the old system are set forth...
...Cambridge aldermen have decided not to prosecute the druggists complained of by the chief of police, for violation of their licenses, because this violation was simply technical...
...second time the Cambridge common councilmen have killed an order passed by a large majority in the board of aldermen for the introduction of the police signal system...