Word: metropolitan
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...report of the Charles River Dam Commission to the Massachusetts Legislature has been referred to the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands for joint action. The joint committee has announced that it will hold public hearings to admit all evidence for or against the proposed dam. The first of these hearings was to have been held yesterday morning, but, in response to a request from the counsel for those opposing the improvement, it was postponed until the first week in February. After the committee has heard the evidence on both sides a report will...
...Charles River. In spite of strong opposition the commission reported favorably on the subject, but the plan was quickly abandoned. In 1891 Mayor Matthews of Boston was instrumental in the appointment by the Legislature of the Charles River Legislation Commission, which, in conjunction with a committee appointed by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the Board of Health of Boston, recommended that a dam be built for the purpose of keeping the water of the river at a fixed level. The opposition was even stronger than in 1869 and this project also failed. In 1898 the Legislature passed an act authorizing...
...years. The engineering problems connected with the project, while complicated, are entirely capable of solution. The chief reasons for the construction of the dam are the resulting sanitary betterment of the contiguous region and the value which such a basin would have in relation to the Boston, Cambridge and Metropolitan park systems. Moreover it would be a great addition to the attractions of the city proper...
...second match of the Chess Club with the Dorchester Chess and Checker Club in the Metropolitan League series was played last night and resulted in a score of 4-2 in favor of Harvard...
...chess team defeated the Somerville Y. M. C. A. team last night by the score of 4-2, in the fourth match of the Metropolitan League series. The individual scores follow: HARVARD. SOMERVILLE. Rice, 1 Hitchens, 0 Hutchinson, 1/2 Clement, 1/2 Belcher, 0 Fosdick, 1 Spaulding, 1 Pestell, 0 Estes, 1/2 Witham, 1/2 Bridgman, 1 (default...