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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge water-works. (search)
which will store two thousand million gallons of water. This, with Stony Brook, will furnish the city with an abundant supply for many years to come. Another large storage basin can be made at the head-waters of Stony Brook, when needed, including Beaver Pond, a location for a dam having been already secured and surveys made for another storage basin, plans of which are on file in the city engineer's office. The Water Board is also now building a high service distributing reservoir at Payson Park, with a capacity of forty million gallons, which will greatly increase the security against fires, and furnish head for buildings on the highest lands in Cambridge. Before the city bought out the private companies, there was a difference of opinion among some of our best citizens as to whether it was best to buy, or not, some thinking that a department would be created in which jobs would be let out detrimental to the city, an enterprise which private effort had failed to make profitab
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge parks. (search)
ad Cambridge Common, Winthrop Square, Arsenal Square; in Ward Two, Broadway Common; in Ward Three, no open spaces; in Ward Four, Washington Square, Hastings Square, and River Street Square; in Ward Five, again, there was no open space. Fresh Pond Park, begun by the wise foresight of Chester W. Kingsley and his fellow-workers on the Water Board, had already been somewhat developed, and the esplanade of the Charles River Embankment Company, near Harvard Bridge, was in process of construction. w Fresh Pond Lane, reach our beautiful pond, set in the midst of surrounding hills, which Mr. Olmsted has been free to call one of the finest natural features about Boston, a statement with which we, who know the spot, fully agree. In Fresh Pond Park, with its broad outlooks, improved as it will be by the able efforts of the Water Board, we have a goal where our drive may satisfactorily end. On that day in the future toward which we look when, in reality, we shall have taken this drive, we may
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
eir work, 120; Broadway Common, 121; the East Cambridge embankment, 122; Cambridge Field, 122; Rindge Field, 123; four miles of river parkway, 123; the basin of the Charles, 123; Captain's Island, 124; views from the river parkway, 124; Fresh Pond Park, 125; Lowell's description of the Fresh Pond meadows, 125. Parsonage, the, 10. Parson's allowance in 1680, 10. Parsons, Emily E., 277. Peabody, Rev. A. P., 162. Peirce, Prof. Benjamin, remark of, 76. Physical training, 164, 165;ered, 113; authorized to take the water of Fresh Pond, 113; buys out the Aqueduct Company, 113; becomes the property of the city; sources of supply, 113, 114; Stony Brook and its tributaries, 114; storage basins, 114; distributing reservoir at Payson Park, 114; objections to municipal control, 114; its financial standing, 115; a help to the poor, 115; street improvements by, 116, 117; surroundings of Fresh Pond, 117. Weights and Measures, Sealer of, 405. West Boston Bridge, 29, 495. West