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...engineers of the Park Commission and the architects are now preparing the working drawings and the specifications of the new, drawless Boylston street bridge. Meanwhile an act has been passed placing in the hands of the Park Commission the authority to build approaches not costing over $30,000 each, the cost of these approaches being borne by the cities of Boston and Cambridge, respectively. Although the consent of both cities is necessary, no difficulty is expected in obtaining...
...passed last February, permission was granted by Congress for the construction of a drawless bridge of not less than twelve feet clearance in the main channel over the ordinary height of water in the Basin. In May the Massachusetts Legislature passed an act in accordance with the act of Congress, providing for the building of a bridge with funds donated for the purpose. The act also provided for a bond issue of $50,000 to enable the Metropolitan Park Commission to buy land in Boston connecting lands now in its control bordering on the river. The Legislature failed, however...
...turn Congress has been induced to pass the required legislation to permit the construction of a drawless bridge, the Massachusetts Legislature has made the necessary provisions as to land damages that may result from the bridge, and specified that the Metropolitan Park Commission shall have the construction in charge, using money to be donated for the purpose. Now the cities of Boston and Cambridge have to be induced to consent to the building of the bridge and to agree to undertake the comparatively small expense of preparing the approaches...
...that was passed by Congress last February permission was given for the construction of a drawless bridge over the Charles at Soldiers Field of not less than twelve feet clearance in the main channel over the ordinary height of water in the basin. The Massachusetts Legislature passed an act that was approved by the governor on May 13 last amending a previous act in accordance with the act of Congress providing for the building of a bridge with funds donated for the purpose, the payment of damages to any persons up river whose rights of access by water are injured...
...draw. One great obstacle that has prevented the construction of the new bridge has been in the past the opposition of the United States Government to obstructing the river approach to its property at the Watertown Arsenal. This objection was weakened materially by the construction of the West Boston drawless bridge and the Charles River dam and since then progress has been more rapid. One by one the obstacles have been surmounted, and now there is almost a certainty that a fine new bridge will span the river before another year has passed.--Boston Transcript...