Lawrence yesterday and today (1845-1918) a concise history of Lawrence Massachusetts - her industries and institutions; municipal statistics and a variety of information concerning the city (1918) (14764820671)

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Title: Lawrence yesterday and today (1845-1918) a concise history of Lawrence Massachusetts - her industries and institutions; municipal statistics and a variety of information concerning the city
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dorgan, Maurice B
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Publisher: Lawrence: (Press of Dick & Trumpold)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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spacious and imposing, and artistic in design. What is most satisfying of all is the fact that it is built for all time, capable of carrying the very heaviest traffic and requiring hardly any expenditures for repairs. The commission in charge of the construction of the bridge comprised John J. Donovan, chairman ; John O. Battershill. secretary ;Joseph J. Flynn, John A. Brackett and Otto Parthum, with City Solicitor Daniel J. Murphy as counsel. The engineer was Benjamin H. Davis of New York. The commission was appointed by Mayor John T. Cahill on January it,, 191 i. The first excavation for the bridge was made on October i, 1914, and the first concrete was laid on October 20 of that year. The structure was completed on March 20, 1918. The construction of the bridges over the North and South canals, approaches to the Central bridge, is at this writing going on, under the direction of the City Council, the Central Bridge Commission having completed its duties with the completion of the main bridge.
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9 o9 o <r vTO ^^ 1- c H E 5 ^ ,^ til C o o ^ R n: i51 S o 3 5: - ^ 176 LAWRENCE YESTERDAY AND TODAY The Essex Company, according to its charter, being obliged to construct and maintain sufficient bridges where new highways are laid out over the canals, and there being a disagreement as to the character of the structures the company should build, a compromise was reached whereby the Essex Company agreed to pay $40,000 toward the cost of the canal bridges upon the condition that the city construct the bridges and that the company be released from the obligation of maintaining them. An agreement was drawn up to that effect, and it was ratified by the State Legislature of 191/. The plans provide for two concrete structures whose architectural lines shall be in keeping with those of the Central bridge. They were drawn by B. H. Davis, the Central bridge engineer, who is under contract to supervise the construction. DEEP WATERWAY POSSIBILITIES A deep waterway to the sea would be a great contributing