THE BOYLSTON STREET BRIDGE.

If it be true, as reported, that a graduate of the College has offered to build a new and artistic bridge to Soldiers Field, we would say, by all means let him build it at once. The insufficiency of the present ancient structure is revealed anew at every football game.

We understand that the War Department is postponing, if not preventing, the erection of the new bridge by insisting that it must have a draw. Now a draw is an expensive and unornamental luxury, but if the War Department is disposed to be arbitrary in the matter, then let us have a bridge with a draw, provided only that it be wide, strong, and reasonably artistic. The old wooden relic has been too long an eyesore in its attractive surroundings, a menace to the lives of the many who are forced to use it, and an obstruction to traffic.