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...gone toward making architectural triumphs for a larger endowment of the institution. The buildings are of brick and concrete and most of them two stories high, the central structure having three stories and a dignified facade with six concrete pillars. Parallel to Van Dyke street runs a two-story tunnel, topped by an open facade and from this branch out on either side the wards and out-buildings. The greatest pains have been taken in planning the details of the hospital and it is believed that from the standpoint of efficiency the plant is not excelled in this country...
...foot rest to raise the feet from the concrete. The outside of the embankment is to be made on a slope of one on two, covered with loam and seeded to grass. The entrance under the seats to the field itself is to be through a wide reinforced concrete tunnel made on a slope from the ground outside the embankment to the field; the entrance to the seats is to be made with smaller reinforced concrete tunnels arranged around the stands and running in level from the surrounding grounds and terminating at an aisle about the middle of the height...
...cost of the undertaking, it is estimated, will be about $12,000,000. The Boston portion of the tunnel has been built by the Transit Commission of the city of Boston and will be leased by them to the operating company, the Boston Elevated Railroad. The tunnel in Cambridge, however, has been constructed by the railroad company and is owned...
From the entrance of the tunnel at Park street to the exits beyond Harvard square is a little more than three and a half miles. The elevated part of the system begins at the juncture of Grove and Phillips streets, passing over Charles street at an elevation of 15 feet, and then over the Charles river on the West Boston Bridge...
...cars to be used in the tunnel will be 70 feet long. Five of these cars, which will make up a train, will occupy the same space as seven of those now in general use on any of the street car lines in Boston...