Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-27

tracks and Summer street would be
about II feet, and at Union street on the
west, the filing would be about IL feet,
a trestle being necessary to carry the
street over the spur track cf the Holyoke
machine shop, which would be below
the grade of the street. Raising the
tracks here would cause a depression of
4 feet in the street and a raise of Is feet
in the tracks, giving a 21a per cent grade
west Of the tracks and a 4 per cent
grade east of the tracks to Summer
street
Exchange street would have to be
raised 151a feet if the tracks are lowered
AZ feet according to the plan of the
commission, necessitating a fill of 612
feet at Union street and a big fill toward
Summer street. According to the plans
of the commission, it is proposed to
close up Exchange street at the cross
ing if the tracks are raised, so that the
freight tracks of the railroads may not
be disturbed, this difficulty being OBJ
Waited by extending Blackstone street
parallel to the tracks to Central street,
the outlet being through this latter
street.
Bridge street now passes under the
tracks, and If the tracks are lowered at
this point there will be a great change,
the street being raised q feet and the
tracks lowered 141s feet. This would
necessitate a fill of II feet at Foster
street and a fill of four feet away out
at Mechanic street, the fill in front of
Bassett's shop between Foster and
Manchester street being II feet while
the grade Of Manchester street would
have to be changed for almost its entire
length. If the tracks are raised here,
they will have to go up only two feet
and the bridge now in use can be
raised without much damage resulting.
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be lowered 12.1 feet and the stret raised
10 feet. the change in the grade on the
north side of the tracks beginning at
Fulton street, while on the south side
the filing in front of Bowker's block
and the United States Hotel would be
about six feet. If the tracks are raised
at this point, they would go up 1915 feet
and the street would be lowered IA
feet, the grades in the street being
about 8 per cent on the north side of
the tracks and per cent on the south
side.
At Shrewsbury street, the tracks would
go down 1875 feet and the street would
be raised IA feet, necessitating fill of
five feet at Mulberry street, If the
tracks are depressed. The change in
the grade of Mulberry street would be
for a distance of about 150 feet. On the
Washington square side of the tracks,
the grade would be SO per cent If the
tracks are raised, they would have to go
up IL feet and the street would be de-
pressed seven feet, giving grade of 2
per cent westerly from the tracks and
grade of per cent easterly.
The commission gave little considera-
ton to the changes that would have to
be made in the Union station, but went
almost Immediately across the square
to the Grafton street crossing, where, If
the railroads are lowered, they will be
sunk 1872 feet and the street win be
raised rs feet, giving a grade of 9.13
per cent south OF the tracks to a point
opposite Temple street. The street
would have to be raised 4.6 feet at its
intersection with Franklin and Bloom
ingdale streets, and Franklin street
would have to be regarded to point 220
feet west of Grafton street, while Bloom
ingdale road would have to have new
grade 150 feet east of Grafton street.
If the tracks go over the street, they