Report on Proposed Improvements of the Charles River Basin.

Special Commission on the Charles River Basin. The report contains the first published plan for development of the embankment. It also contains a plan by Perry, Shaw & Hepburn to build a four-lane parkway along the river, which is opposed by the newly-formed Charles River Protective Association and by Helen Osborne Storrow, who planned to contribute $1 million toward the construction of parks and recreational facilities. The controversy prompts the New York Times to note, “In no city is unification of public sentiment more difficult to obtain. . . In none more numerous or more various plans offered. . . . will the thing be done? Who can tell? This is Boston.” The parkway proposal is subsequently dropped and the park is completed in 1935.