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THE "SURREY SIDE" OF LONDON.

A DISGRACE TO CIVILISATION.

FAMOUS ARCHITECTS VIEWS ON PROPOSED CHARING CROSS BRIDGE.

For some reason or other-the physical character of the site, it may be, og some accident of history great cities seldom bestride the river on the banks of which they stand with any approach to im- partiality. One side seems to be unduly favoured at the expense of. Mr. Lansbury's Zeal. the other: Rome, for example, One more important point on the Vienna, Dresden, or Cologne and North side is the preservation of this is certainly the case with Lon-our parka We do not want them don, says Sir Reginald Blomfield, converted into football pitches and RA. writing in

tha Erening running tracks and paddle-ponds Standard. All its wealth and mag-excellent things in their proper pifcence and architectural effort place, but not in, Hyde Park or are concentrated on the Middlesex Regent's Park. In his benevolent side, and the South or Surrey side zeal, for the people the Firsting, in fact, all this vitally import

What is to become of postly long felt that it is here that the and gigantic building in the great effort should be made, that all kis part of London should be future it is difficult to see. Peopit cleared and cleaned, and replannel will not continue to be able to pay with broad streets, sufficient open the high rents and excessive pricespaces, healthy bouses, and a river front converted to the use of the which alene justify them finsa public as on the Middlesex file, by cially

an Embankment, a roadway, and garden extending from the County Hall to Blackfriars Bridge.

Ideal Made Impossible. It might be done so well, yet' the whole of this most urgent recon struction is likely to be blocked by the official scheme for the proposed allotted to the tation in that new Charing Cross Bridge: The site scheme would form a solid wedge with Waterloo Station shutting off Lambeth from Southwark, szerise-

is still a dreary and interminable Commissioner seems to have for ant part of the site next the river wilderness of mean buildings and gotten that the vast majority of to the Southern Railway. Moreover, tordid streets. Here the real task the people" are hardworking posed site with the railway diverted Ff the station is built on the pro-

sober persons who want some quirt into it, it is certain that the lower- place where they can rest froming of the railway and station their labours, on grass, not mud, underground, the ideal of the town planners, will never be carried out and under the shade of trees, not in the future; on the contrary, there will be further indulgenge in the poisonous habit of building viaducts amid howded buildings.

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Moreover, the main lines of traffic east and west and north' and south in London north of the river are fixed and cannot now be chang-pavilions. ed, though they may be improved in detail, so that it is not use look ing here for any large and drastic reorganisation All that can be dont ds to keep a watchful eye.on the prodigious buildings, erected by syndicates, that keep springing up in unexpected places.

Cheerful Red..

16 is only fair to add that some of these buildinga are well designed One and pleasant to look upon. welcomes, too, the return to cheer- ful red brick, and a eparing uso,; of stone instead of the everlasting stucco and the needless cost of Portland stone.

The little bits of embankment suggested would be whally, inade- quate and appear to include a space of about 20 feet by 80 feet with a low headway all cavered in by the new road which would be at public nuisance

Obstacle,

There is magnificent scope for the energy of an enthusiastic First Commissioner across the river, and the real field for comprehensive and most necessary reorganisation is on, the Surrey side, that block of land which extends from South Lambeth on the west to. Deptford on the

Insuperatio. Igast_bonuded or heat, north ferere no statich next the and east sides by the river, and river, Belvedere-road, which u extending south to the roads that comes a mere cul-de-sac in the, ran from Vauxhall Bridge to New official scheme; might be widened Cross.

to sweep round the Embankment and its gardens till it joined Black friars-road opposite its intersection with Southwark-street. But the official scheme appears to place, an insuperable obstacle in the way of any comprehensive schemes of traffic and town planning,

Maze of Mean Streets.

In this great area, nearly four miles wide east and west and two miles north and south, the only opon spaces are Lambeth Palace and its grounds, Kennington Oval and Kennington Park on the west, a. few small and unhappy-looking squares, and, far away on the cast near Rotherhithe, Southwark Park. The rest of this district is covered by a maze of little streetz. mean houses, a few churches, and the various viaducts and stations of the Southern Railway.

It is believed that of the twelve or thirteen millions (the figure is quite vague) which is the net estimated cost of the official scheme, not less than two-thirds will go in compensation and reconstruction, out of hich the public gets no sort of benefit whatever. That eight, or nine millions would go a long, wa towards starting the re- part of London is disgrace to organinaLAN “Tondon at the our civilisation, and all

If only the architects will keep clear of silly ornament on the hand, refrain from taking factories as their models on the other, use good materials and pay attention to such time-honoured elements of architec ture as mass silhouettes, proportion and relevance to the site, one may look forward to "n compléte change. The condition of things in this in the architecture in the main streets of London; north of the river.

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Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (April 1) Lammerts Auction: Furniture, 230 p.m.

Household

Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.18

D.11,

English Association: Loture by Father Macdonald "Literary Links between the East and West," Cathe drai Ball, 5.30 p.m. 3.

Queen's Theatre: "Skinner Steps" Out,"

World Theatre: "Moana." -Star Theatre: "Battle of the Sexes,

Tea Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 8.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Horz Kong, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels,

8.30 p.m.

European Mails:-Outward: Europe rid Marseilles (Menelaus), 2.30 p.m.

Wednesday. (April 2.) Hockey Club V. H.K.S.R.A, Marine ground, 5.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: New York Nights."

World Theatre: "Moana" Star Theatre: Battle of the Sexes."

Tea Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 6 p.m.

Dancing Display by Miss Violet Capel's pupils, Theatre Royal, 5.30 P.m.

University Lectures by Mr. C. E. Moors' on "Architecture" 5.13 p.m., by Mr. H. G. Hughes on "Rous scau, 8.30 p.m.

Pianoforte, Recital by Mr. H. Ore, Helena May Institute, 8.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre New Tork Nights."

Tempest."

Our Dancing

World Theatre: Star Theatre Daughters "

Tea Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 8 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong,

Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels,

2.30 p.m.

European Mails: -Inward: Europe i Negapatam, letters (Patreclus), parcels (Khyber).

Friday. (April 4.)

Christian Fellowship Meeting: Helena May Institute, 10.30 am,

Hockey Club 'v, H.K.S.R.A., King's Park, 4.45 p.m.

World Theatre

Tempest.” "Our Dancing.

Star Theatre: Daughters."

Tea Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 5 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 8.30 p.m."

European Mails:-Ou't ward: (Mishima Europe vid. Siberia Maru), 8.30 am...

Saturday. (April 8.).

Third Extra Htce Meeting Happy Valley

Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling. Football:--Senior Division ;

Shield Competitions. Junior: ILA

Club, St. Joseph's.. Somerests, Chinese "A" Kowloon, Chines "B". .. Ewo, 8. China “A” v. S. China “B”, Eastern . Recreio,

H.K. and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., Ordinary Yearly Meeting, Ex- chango Building, 11.20 a.m.

St. John Ambulance Brigade, Y.M.C.A. division, Concert Chinees Y.M.C.A., 7.20 p.m.

Star Theatre Our Dancing Queen's Theatre: "New York

Farewell Dinner to His Honour Bir Henry Gollan, . Et, C.B.E., Public Meeting: ArrangementsILD., Kain Ling Hotel, 8 p.m. for Reception of H.E. Sir William Peel, K.B.E., C.M.G., City Hall, Daughters," Dinner Dances:"Hong Kong anda13.15 p.m. Peninsula Hotels, 8.30 p.m.

St. John Ambulance Brigade, European Mails:-Outward2 Y.M.C.A. division, Concert Chinese Europe vid San Francisco, and vidY.M.C.A., 7.30 p.m. Siberia (Tenyo Maru), 5.30 am. University, Lecture: by Mrs. P.

E. Barker," Plays Old and New," Dianer Dances: Hong Kong, 8.30 p.m.

Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, Fancy Dress Dance, U.S.R.C., 8.30 p.m.. 9.15 p.m.

European Mails:-Outward: Queen's Theatre: New York Europe vid Marseilles. (Katori

| Maru), 0.30 a..

Thursday, (April 3.) Gande, Price, & Co., Ltd.: 23rd Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders, St. George's Building, noon.

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