. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation. exceeding two millions of was granted the city of Boston by the same GeneralCourt to begin the improvement of the river bank betweenCraigie and West Boston bridges. The following year powerwas granted by the legislature to Boston and Cambridge tobuild conjointly a bridge over the bay of the Charles from apoint on Beacon Street, to be determined in concurrence, andthe city council of each city made an appropriation sufficientto secure soundings for
. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation. exceeding two millions of was granted the city of Boston by the same GeneralCourt to begin the improvement of the river bank betweenCraigie and West Boston bridges. The following year powerwas granted by the legislature to Boston and Cambridge tobuild conjointly a bridge over the bay of the Charles from apoint on Beacon Street, to be determined in concurrence, andthe city council of each city made an appropriation sufficientto secure soundings for piers and plans for a structure. Earlyin 1883, committees of the two city governments agreed uponthe location of the bridge as an extension of the lines of WestChester Park. In February of the same year, the incorporatorsof the new Charles River Embankment Company, after a vexa-tious delay, took conveyance of about one hundred acres of theland within the territory to be reclaimed, and, in conjunctionwith other proprietors controlling some fifty additional acres,began the work of improvement. The first section of retaining-. THE HARVARD BRIDGE. 107 wall, one thousand feet in length, was built on a solid founda-tion of gravel during the summer and fall of 1883, and a largequantity of material was excavated by dredges from the flatsfronting the wall and deposited on the lands behind. This was the first material work done towards the adornmentof the Charles River basin and the devotion of its shores topublic uses. Boston began what is now her Charlesbank sometime later. Cambridge, recognizing the vast importance ofthe successful improvement of the large districts of offensivelands on her border at private cost, and appreciating the magni-tude and the difficulties of the enterprise of the EmbankmentCompany, wisely relieved it from the burden of increased tax-ation for a period of ten years, and in return the companyobliged itself to build over its lands a wide approach to the pro-po
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