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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ants, inits provision for expeditious travel and transportation. AH along its line from New York to Boston the New York, NewHaven and Hartford Railroad Company has eliminated gradecrossings, straightened and improved its road beds, laid new, steelrails and built new bridges. It has tunnelled through East Provi-dence, under College Hill, and constructed a heavy bridge acrossSeekonk River, to facilitate and develope to a still greater extent,the commercial relations of Fall River with the outside world. Atthe cost of several millions of dollars it has combined with thiscity to eliminate grade crossings here and to erect granite wallsand iron bridge crossings for streets where grades were changed,for the protection of life and property. The New York,New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company how-ever contemplates large additional expenditures to advance its owninterests,and to aid in the further improvement and commercial de-velopment of Fall River. It is already conceded that the Slades 48
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X o A o H7) Q O Ferry Bridge is inadequate for present transportation to and fromthis city by rail; it is already determined that the freight yards ofthis company in Fall River along the shores of the bay, must beconnected with the freight yards in the eastern part of the city onthe table lands 140 feet higher; accordingly without unnecessarydelay this company will construct another new and modern com-bination bridge across the Taunton River, with both highway andrailroad facilities far superior to those now in use, which will beheavily built and with ample tracts,to take care of developing traffic.The joint ownership of this location by the city, the county,and theOld Colony Railroad Company complicates conditions slightly,but, rapid development and public opinion demand this improve-ment; and public opinion is a most important factor of our time.The elimination of grade crossings being completed, ourviaducts and other improvements in localities used for rail-road purposes seem finis

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