Nothing is more striking as one bout London than the vast of pulling down and rebuilding with everyone complaining where does all. thi from? Millbank is Being transformed into a boulevard Of enormous stone palaces, so is the Strand where the old brick -housee and cramped shops that one remem-Bors from one's earliest years begi 4 look very dingy and pitiful. The "Daily Telegraph" offices in Fleet Street have been turned into a huge white cubist-looking building, with] 8 prodigious clock gaily framed in red, blue and gold.
The growing transformation of mayfair into a business quarter has frequently been remarked. 'The atest step in this direction is the sale of 540 ft. of frontage in Berke-Fey Square and Bruton Street to the Canadian Pacific Railway whi Intends to build a hotel of 790 rooms on it, The price is understood is exeatd' 1,000,000 "very considerable."
Big' mansions are going one after another, The Duke of Norfolk's hugs house in the southeast corner St. James's Square is for sale. In Park Lane, the flats on the site of Dorchester' House, rising some 14 Btoreys are'die to be finished early] next year. There are two other very, Dig. blocks of flats in Park Lane, comploted in the last three years. But the expected rents are not too} easy to get.
At the bottom of Hertford Street, mayfair, an immense clearance and reconstruction scheme has been held] up in an odd way. There is one house held on lease by an old man} "who flatly declines to get out, Everything round his house has been torn away, There it stands, propped up with beams, sheltered by tarpau-Tins, like a single decayed but} obstinate tooth in a oxane's jaw.
ye the lease has still three} jars to run and so the land around ies idle, eating up interest, charges on the capital of ders. who tried to force this mayfair Hampden from his house and failed,
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