Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...about one-thirty o'clock the Harvard Band escorted the carriers from the old office in Brattle square to the new post office. Speeches were then made by Mr. W. J. Cunningham, superintendent for Cambridge; Mr. G. S. Evans, chief post office inspector of New York; Colonel Thomas, postmaster of Boston, and Mr. John Read, the owner of the block. The speeches were followed by a flag raising...
...Thomas says that he has given special attention to the postal facilities of the city of Cambridge with a view to bringing about a satisfactory change of names for the different offices without curtailing the physical advantages of the present arrangements. Therefore he and Chief Inspector Evans are unanimous in recommending that no change be made at present in the location of the offices but that Cambridge be designated as "Cambridge A" and that Cambridgeport be discontinued and designated as "Cambridge B." If this recommendation meets the approval of the committee and the citizens generally, it will be at once...
...Chief Inspector Evans is preparing to find a new location for the post office in Harvard square after the name question is settled, for the present quarters are unsatisfactory...
...Tuesday a committee of citizens, which, it is understood, is representative, waited on Mr. Thomas, the Boston postmaster and claimed that the citizens of Cambridge would agree to have one central office, with a sub-office for greater convenience. Mr. Thomas and the chief postoffice inspector of the district now have the question of the locality of a possible central office under consideration, and will endeavor to settle the question satifactorily. The matter will probably be definitely settled in a fornight and if a central office is instituted it will certainly be near Harvard square...
...reply to yours of May 26, asking information as to the existence of malaria in the region about the Soldiers Field;- the Board examined the territory, in which the Field is situated, in 1893, and found the following conditions, as reported by the inspector who made the examination. The only place in the neighborhood where any cases were known to have occurred, was at Barry's Corner, where it was stated that there had been six cases in the course of three years. With reference to the Soldiers Field itself I quote the inspector's words...