Word: transition
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...necessary to build half a mile, and then make thorough trials of the merits and safety of the road before the track can be continued to Harvard Square, so we shall have to wait a year or two without doubt before the much desired means of rapid transit can be ours. The point at which the trial half mile begins is in East Cambridge, near the Bay State Glass Works, in the vicinity of Fourth Street, and it continues from there on the border line between Somerville and Cambridge to the great pork packing establishment of John P. Squire...
...promised that work on the proposed road will be begun in a short time and pushed to completion as rapidly as possible, it is now but a question of a few months when we shall be able to enjoy a more comfortable and rapid mode of transit than at present exists. The benefits of this closer connection with the neighboring city of Boston will be of advantage in many ways to a university city like Cambridge, and to the university itself. Situated so as to be free from the bustle and noise of a great city, yet within...
Washington University has received a magnificent transit instrument from George Partridge. They need an observatory as well...
...Rapid transit is fast coming to Boston, or at least to the line of communication where the crying need of it has been most sorely felt-the road from Cambridge into Boston. Residents of the university town must still jog along by horse cars three-quarters of an hour to get into the city. Various schemes of improvement have been suggested hitherto, but nothing has been effected beyond a new horse-car line in competition with the horse-car monopoly of the past thirty years. The elevated railroad project, which has received this week a large majority in the lower...
When the conservation of Boston capital shall have overcome its timidity and an elevated, quick-transit road from Cambridge to Boston shall have been built, we may look to see what is almost the last of the barriers between the two cities broken down. Already the two are practically one in all respects save that while Cambridge is more and more reserved for use as a residence suburb and a university town, Boston is more and more becoming a commercial metropolis and center of business. The local business of Cambridge has of late years indeed been of very slight account...