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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., The Mystic water-works. (search)
ly broken on Saturday, September 27, at the site of the reservoir. At 3 P. M. the members of the City Government and invited guests came upon the grounds. Mr. Edward Lawrence, chairman of the Water Commissioners, prefaced his remarks by asking a prayer of Rev. Mr. Miles and after a few words introduced the Mayor of the City, who after a short speech, received a spade and placed a sod in a wheelbarrow. Mr. Lawrence then made a speech and placed another sod in the wheelbarrow, after which Mr. James McDonald the contractor wheeled the sods away and placed them on the site of the embankment. The President of Aldermen, Chairman of Common Council, Chief engin Nothing is said in this record of Mr. Buchanan's about the wheeling away of these numerous sods, but in another column is the testimony of an eye-witness. Mr. Lawrence invited those present to his home, where a collation was served, thus ending the formal beginning of the work. Mr. McDonald sublet the construction of the e
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford Branch Railroad. (search)
, added to the estimate already given, total $34,735.10, to which ten per cent. ($3,473.50) was added for engineer, contingencies, etc., making $38,208.60. As yet we have not ascertained the actual cost of the branch, as only the accounts of the Boston and Maine can give proof. By this it appears that the recent Interurban project and even the defunct Mystic valley were not the first to consider a way paralleling the Medford turnpike. Mr. Hayward placed his report before Messrs. Bishop, Lawrence and others, the corporators of the railroad (Mr. Usher says a committee of citizens employed him), closing thus The distance to Boston by the northern route is thirty-two hundred feet greater than that by the southern route; and the southern branch will be forty-two hundred feet longer than the northern. They decided for the shorter branch, all within the bounds of Medford, but the longer distance to Boston. It was twenty years before the Wellington district began to increase materia