Word: width
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...back as Third street. Main street is torn up, though a passage for street cars and teaming is still kept open. The work aims to make Main street, beginning at Kendall square, steadily wider and wider until, as it reaches the bridge, it shall have the full width of the bridge structure, 105 feet. This has made it necessary to set back the boiler shops and iron-working establishments on the westerly side of Main street some distance from their old position; but the relocation has been accomplished, and gangs of men are now at work grading and paving that...
...Cambridge street anywhere on the landward side of Charles street. It is expected, however, that Cambridge street will be widened in much the same fashion as Main street, and be made to spread out from the corner of Grove street until it reaches the bridge structure with the desired width of 105 feet...
...River Basin Commission has advertised for bids on its contract for the dam which is to turn the Charles river into a freshwater basin unaffected by the tides. The dam will be built on the present site of Craigie bridge, and its total length will be 1300 feet, the width varying from 140 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pole foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. At the ends the height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean low water...
...surface cars of street railway companies; also that it shall be built with or without a draw at a height not exceeding twenty-six feet above mean high water mark. The approaches are to be laid out separately by the respective cities, with a width of not less than sixty feet throughout their whole extent, and must be finished at or before the completion of the bridge. One hundred and twenty thousand dollars is the limit of total expenditure, which is to be divided equally between both cities. The act took effect upon its passage, and work on the bridge...
Work was begun yesterday on the rink which is to be constructed on Holmes Field, almost directly behind Hastings Hall. The rink will be 130 feet long by 80 feet in width and flooded to a depth of from 12 to 15 inches. It is expected that the embankment will be completed by Monday and the rink will be flooded immediately after completion if the weather is cold enough for freezing. In order to keep the ice in as satisfactory condition as possible, only members of the hockey squad will be allowed thereon...