Word: locked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Commission have made the following calculations: earth excavation, 340,000 cubic yards; filling, 400,000 cubic yards; concrete masonry, 41,000 cubic yards; piling, 490,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 1,100,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riprap, 10,000 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies...
...will be furnished with a navigation lock, 350 feet long, 40 feet wide and 13 feet in depth below mean low water level, and with a drawbridge and sluices. The lock will be on the Boston side the sluices on the Cambridge side. When completed, the dam will convert the tidal estuary of the Charles into a fresh water basin covering about 800 acres...
...work on the dam, together with the construction of a lock and draw and the dredging of the canals and channels incident to the improvements, will be in accordance with an act passed by the General Court and approved last June, by the terms of which the dam is to be constructed across the lower end of the river, a short distance above the Craigie Bridge. A large fresh water basin, extending from the Craigle Bridge up beyond the Longwood Bridge, will this be created, and the variation of level due to the tide will be largely eliminated. The improvements...
Finally Klapproth returns home glad to escape from the eccentricities of the Pension Scholler. His consternation may be imagined when on the following day, the various "patients" on one pretext or another come to visit him. Of course he thinks they have escaped, manages to lock them up in different rooms, and telegraphs to Scholler, the owner of the pension for help. At last the misunderstandings are cleared up to the satisfaction and amusement of all concerned...
...maintain in the basin above a permanent water level not less than eight feet above Boston base. The top of the dam is to be at least 100 feet in width, part of this space being set aside for a highway. Provision is also made for a large lock connecting the two levels of the river...