SUBWAY TO PARK STREET

Work on the subway from Cambridge to Boston has not yet been begun but the plans have been pretty thoroughly laid out. At the Cambridge end there will be two inclines, one on Massachusetts avenue near the common, and the other on Mount Auburn street west of Brattle square. Cars from out of town will enter at these two points and join under Harvard square. Just before arriving at the new Cambridge Bridge, below the Harvard Bridge, they will come to the surface and cross the bridge in a reservation in the centre at a level with the other traffic. At the Boston end of the bridge instead of descending like the bridge road-way to the level of Charles street the tracks in the reservation will keep a high level passing above Charles and West Cedar streets and then veering to the right will run in a subway under Beacon Hill to the Park street corner. At Park street there will be a station either on a level with the present one or underneath it. It is probable that sometime soon the line will be extended under Winter and Summer streets to the South Terminal Station.

The number and location of the stations between Harvard square and the bridge has not yet been determined. The railroad company has proposed to have only one station, namely, at Central square. The city government of Cambridge, however, through the Mayor, has expressed itself in favor of having several stations and it seems not improbable that the plan finally adopted will be to have one more station than the company proposed, namely a station at some point midway between Central square and the west end of the bridge. In this way the two main objects can be fairly well accomplished, rapid transit and reasonable accessibility from any point along the route.