Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...November 1903 the work of construction commenced under a contract calling for completion in two years, but, owing to bad weather conditions and strikes, progress has been considerably delayed. The Power House has been providing light and heat to the buildings since November and is complete except for some minor machinery. The Animal House is finished. The four large laboratory buildings are completed outside, but the interior requires painting throughout and some other details. The Administration Building is rapidly nearing completion. Some stone-work on the cornice remains to be set in place besides a number of floors, light fixtures...
...speaker went on to show that the whole trend of contract letting in New York City has been honeycombed with graft and bribery. Tammany is opposed to municipal ownership as a party issue, knowing that it will never be popular, since the graft in it is so obvious...
...Charles River Basin Commission awarded the contract for building the dam and lock in the Charles River to the Holbrook, Cabot, and Rollins Corporation. The basis of the award was $801,-507.50. In the work so far piles have been driven under the lock in the Boston cofferdam and under the sluices in the Cambridge cofferdam. A few piles also have been driven along the sea wall and in the canals to strengthen them in order that the dredging may be carried to a greater depth...
...constructed by the City of Boston, extending from Charles Bank park to Charlesgate East, making a drive and walks in the rear of Brimmer and Beacon streets. On the Cambridge side an embankment park, for which the land has already been purchased, will come nearly to the dam. The contract calls for the completion of the work by July...
...about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level. Part of the engineering scheme for the construction of the dam provides for a temporary shut-off which will establish the level of the basin at about the same level as the permanent structure. The terms of the contract call for the completion of this shut-off dam by August...