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POLICE PREPARING TO HANDLE HEAVY TRAFFIC

NEW RULES WILL OBVIATE MUCH OF CONGESTION

In preparation for the crowds of pedestrians and the lines of automobiles that will jam every approach to the Stadium tomorrow afternoon, a special set of traffic regulations has been announced by the Harvard Athletic Association in cooperation with the Cambridge Police Force.

The chief effort will be made to eliminate congestion on Boylston Street, the main thoroughfare between Harvard Square and the Stadium. After 12 o'clock noon tomorrow Harvard Square and Boylston Street will be closed to automobile traffic. Side streets will be roped off and special policemen will be stationed at every intersection to enable the thousands going to the Stadium to move freely along Boylston Street. To eliminate further the crowding on this street, the officials of the Boston Elevated Railway have announced that after 12.30 o'clock tomorrow all subway trains from Boston will carry passengers through Harvard Square to the Stadium station near the Anderson bridge. After the game the station will also be open, and subway trains will leave for Boston at two minute intervals.

New Regulations Will be Enforced

In regard to automobile traffic, an important new regulation will go into force this year. The two main automobile bridges connecting Boston and Cambridge, the Cottage Farms Bridge, and the new temporary bridge, will be made one way toward Cambridge before the game, and toward Boston after it. The Allston Bridge, however, will be open for traffic in both directions.

Automobile traffic will be handled as follows:

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After 12 o'clock noon, Harvard Square from Quincy to Brattle Streets, Boylston Street, Cambridge, the Anderson Bridge and North Harvard Street, Brighton, will be closed to automobile traffic as far as Western Avenue, Brighton. The only automobile gates admitting to Soldiers Field will be on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street to Everett Street to Soldiers Fields Cars coming from Watertown and Waltham should come via North Beacon Street to Everett Street to Soldiers Field. The whole of Allston Bridge will be open for traffic. From 12.30 P. M. the Cottage Farm Bridge and the new temporary bridge will be one way coming towards Cambridge; at the end of the game, from 4.15 until 5.30, they will be one way going toward Boston.

Limit Parking Space for Autos

Taxis and other automobiles which do not park, if coming through Brighton may unload their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue about 200, yards from Gate No. 5. If coming via Cambridge by the Parkway from Boston they will be required to unload and turn at DeWelfe Square on the Parkway, about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side.

For persons parking automobiles either in the private parking field or the Brighton playground off Western Avenue there will be a special entrance through the wire fence directly into Soldiers Field. Persons parking cars on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton may enter either through the pedestrian gate at the southwest corner of Soldiers Field or through the gate opposite the Newell Boat House on the northwest side of the field.

Only Special Tickets Admit to Field

After the game all cars parked in the field and on the Boston Parkway west of North Harvard Street must leave by the Parkway westward, but the cars parked inside the Field facing Stadium Street may leave by North Harvard Street westward.

There will be no tickets on sale at any gate. All occupants of automobiles which park within Soldiers Field must show their tickets when entering the gate, in order to be admitted.

The police request the Harvard management to announce that all cars must be removed from the parking places before it is time to have the lights turned on, as the law regarding the lighting of automobiles will be strictly enforced. They further wish automobilists to be warned against leaving their cars in charge of the hometown boys.

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