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...joint commission of the Massachusetts Legislature, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, gave a second and final hearing yesterday on the project of building a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. At the first hearing a week ago, no opposition was offered, but yesterday members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and persons owning wharves on the river front objected to certain features of the bill. The principal speakers against the project were E. G. Prescott, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, J. F. Boyd of the Associated...
...Friday the joint commission of the Massachusetts Legislature, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, Will give a hearing on the project of building a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. In connection with the building of this dam a committee composed of sixteen prominent citizens of Boston, Cambridge, Newton and Watertown has asked the legislature to provide for the appointment of a special commission to work out the details and report to the next General Court the probable cost of a project which, if in can be carried...
...seems desirable at this time to publish an authentic statement of just what this project consists. Its main feature, namely, to erect dam in the Charles River in the vicinity of Craigie Bridge is not new. In 1894, in a report made by a joint board consisting of the Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health, it was proposed to build a dam near Craigie Bridge. That the recommendation of the joint board were not then carried out was due almost entirely to the vigorous opposition of certain residents of the north side of Beacon Street, whose objection...
...American School for the study of Archaeology in Palestine has been started at Jerusalem. Professor C. C. Torrey, of the department of Semitic in Yale University, has gone as director of the school for the current year, and work has begun under his charge. At a recent joint meeting of the Oriental Society and the American Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, by which the Palestine school was founded, Dr. James B. Nies was authorized to try to raise by subscription $200,000 to be added to the present very small endowment fund of the school. Dr. Nies...
...House and Membership committees. Before expulsion, the Secretary shall be instructed, by a majority vote of these committees, to send the member a copy of the charges preferred against him; and, at the request of this member there shall be a hearing before the House and Membership committees in joint session...