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...buildings and kindred improvements amounts to about $4,500,000. The sums going to make up the total may be tabulated as follows: Widener Library, $2,000,000 Freshman Dormitories, $1,500,000 Medical School Power Plant, $250,000 Stadium Bridge, $200,000 Germanic Museum, $200,000 Tunnel, $125,000 Museum Extension, $100,000 Engineering Laboratory, $100,000 -- Total...
...Cambridge Board of Aldermen granted permission to the University on Tuesday afternoon, to build a tunnel under the city streets for the purpose of supplying the Widener Library. Sever Hall, and other buildings in the Yard with steam heat generated at the Boston Elevated Power House. The tunnel will run from the Power House between Smith and Gore Halls to Mill street, and thence up Holyoke street to Holyoke place. From Holyoke place it will cross Mt. Auburn street and continue up Linden street till it enters the Yard at the southwest corner of the Library...
...Dormitories demand so large an amount of steam that it cannot be supplied by existing boiler plants of the University, nor by additions to them, and the College, therefore, arranged to purchase the surplus steam from the Boston Elevated Railway. If this excess can be utilized through the new tunnel by the University, it would reduce the smoke nuisance from the power station, and would eliminate much of the smoke, and teaming of ashes and coal in the Yard...
...Board of Aldermen of the City of Cambridge will today vote finally on the project of a tunnel to be run from the Boston Elevated power house on the Charles River parkway to the College Yard. At the meeting on last Tuesday, the plan was discussed pro and con and it was decided to refer the matter to the Highway Commission. During the past week this body has gone over the draft and plans of the enterprise and the Board of Aldermen will pass on it finally this evening...
...question of building a tunnel from the Boston Elevated power station through to the Yard for the purpose of carrying heat to the College buildings will be definitely decided before the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, January 13. The project was discussed at length before the board at its last meeting and every phase of the question gone over preparatory to its settlement...