Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-16

small houses in southern suburb seven
miles from London bridge, and he tells me
that when one house is empty he is sur
rounded with twenty applicants for 1t. 1t
Is in this district that the London county
council is building houses for 1900 families
AS soon as built they win all be occupied
The puzzle is to find out where the people
come from and how they live.
There are no trans in the vicinity, and
the nearest station is seven or eight miles
from Victoria, and even further from Lon
don bridge. 'Workman's fares make rail-
way travelling very cheap, but the forni-
dable character of the housing problem Is
pretty well shown by the one fact alone
that thousands of workingmen have to go
seven or ten miles every morning before
they reach their place Of work, and the
same distance in the evening before they
can get home.
Municipal property is, next to govern
ment buildings, probably among the safest
Of fire risks, and the scheme to save part
Of the premiums charged by insurance com
panies in England is now taking definite
shape Fifteen municipal authorities IN
London have combined to form board
called the Mutual Municipal Insurance
IIimited). Property to the value of 5000
600 will be covered at the outset and the
premiums OF f3 600 which have been PAID
to the companies will be the nucleus Of Its
funds. The Mutual Municipal Will have
no capital. and, in order to meet any heavy
claims like that for Colney Hatch Asylum,
it will have all risks over 5000 under
written on such favorable terms as VIII
leave a goodly proportion of the premiums
to form a reserve No profits are to be
distributed. Each local authority agrees
to continue its premiums for hve years.
These premiums will be reduced II the
success of the undertaking permits, and
they may be increased IL found necessary.
If the fire insurance succeeds, ana the
premium can be reduced, other risks may
be taken up in the future. Provincial coun-
ellis are interested in the scheme and many
are making ready to join.
Yesterday there came under Messrs.
Chrsties hammer thirty-three water color
drawings ard thirty pictures, the property
of the late Sir Hugh Adair of Flixton Hall,
Suffolk.
The highest price of the afternoon, $50
guineas, was paid for Constables House at
Hampstead" with figures 231s inches by by IVY
inches. "A Hill Stream in Summer Time,
So inches by AZ inches painted by Mr..
Leader In 1880, brought 1875 guineas; Poll
ticians" and "Village Gossips," by 7. Web
ster, 10S guneas: three tiny Thames views
in water color, by Birkett Foster, each 4
inches by inches, 100 guineas, and
woody landscape, 3S inches by 81 inches, by
teresting feature was the series of nine
drawings and single picture by Burne-
Jones, all save one from the sale of his re-
naming works in July, 1898. The sketch
of girls head in OIL q inches by II inches,
shows a rise of 20 guineas at 120 guineas;
pencil studies for a slave in the wheel of
Fortune and ''Andromeda fetched 60
guineas, the same sum as five years ago;
the head of an attendant in the ''Briar
Rose" inches by 21a inches, in pencil,
made AZ guineas, against 40 guineas in 1898.
and the eight works together show a total
of AL guineas, against 1881 guineas at the
Burne-Jones sale. l.. H. MOORE.