. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. tionalMunicipal Congress. Thus there willbe a model building code compiled anda model set of public health ordinances,a model set of ordinances regulatingtraction, water works, etc. At the fullmeetings of the Congress in the largehall, the formal addresses will be deliv-ered. Each division will be assigned anumber of addresses that will be givenon the main program in the large meetings will be open to the the speakers who will appear willbe: Pres
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. tionalMunicipal Congress. Thus there willbe a model building code compiled anda model set of public health ordinances,a model set of ordinances regulatingtraction, water works, etc. At the fullmeetings of the Congress in the largehall, the formal addresses will be deliv-ered. Each division will be assigned anumber of addresses that will be givenon the main program in the large meetings will be open to the the speakers who will appear willbe: President Taft; James Bryce, am-bassador from Great Britain; GovernorDix of New York; SenatorLa Follette;Dr. W. A. Evans; Mayor Gaynor ofNew York City; Brand Whitlock, mayorof Toledo; Dr. Le Grande Powers,head of the government statistical bu-reau, and Bion J. Arnold, Chicagostraction expert. The cities of America, Canada andEuroi)e have responded liberally withexhibits. A delegation of Japanese ap-pointed by the Mikado will be presentto obtain ideas on municipal administra-tion to apply to the government ofJapanese ?THE CHARLES RI\ER LOWER BASIN Wanton Waste of Recreation Resources EARL F. GATES Assistant Organization Secretary, Hoston-191.) In accordance ivith a vote of the Youth Conference of Boston-\^)\i), an investigationof the further uses of the Charles River Basin for recreational purposes is now underway. A portion of that investigation is summarized in the foUoiving article.—Editor. MEASURED by its possibilities,the Charles River Lower Basinhas been a failure. I refer par-ticularly to that i^ortion of the LowerBasin and the Embankment stretchingfrom the Cambridge Bridge to Charles-gate, above the Harvard Bridge, and tothe park upon the Charles River the Lower Basin includesthe Dam, with its highway and parkarea, the Charles River Embankment,along the rear of Brimmer and Beaconstreets on the Boston side, various otherlands above the Harvard Bridg
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