Annual Report of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners: For the Year 1891 (Classic Reprint) by Board of Harbor and Land Massachusetts (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners: For the Year 1891 Commissioner's Report. East Boston Bridge; Plan of proposed Bridge; Population and Growth of East Boston; Reasons urged in favor of a Bridge; Present Ferry Service; Comparative Ecomy of a Bridge; Division of Harbor by proposed Bridge; Value of proposed Bridge for Public Travel; Damage to Wharf Property; Injury to Commerce and Navigation; Increase in Size of Steam and Sailing Vessels; Danger to Steamships and Vessels of Large Tonnage; Effect upon Charlestown Navy Yard; Delays to Vessels in getting through Draw; Diminution of Anchorage, Area of Harbor; Physical Objections to proposed Bridge; Suggested Development of the lower East Boston Shore; Maverick Bridge Project of 1868; Growth of Commerce as compared with Population and Valuation; Growth of Foreign Steamship Business; Importance of Harbor and Commerce of Port of Boston; Proposed Bridge injurious to East Boston; Description of other Great Bridges; Conclusions and Recommendations; South Boston Flats; Progress of the Work; Congress Street; L Street Bridge; Commonwealth Playground; Provision for Continuing the Work; Harbor Lines in Boston Harbor; Charles River; Mystic River Improvement; South Bat; Neponset River; Removal of Wrecks; Gloucester, Essex and Ipswich Boundary Lines; Field and Office Work; Miscellaneous Surveys; Licenses Granted during the Year 1891; Receipts from Grants of Public Lands About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.