The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-26
600,000 or More Acres Dis posed Privately and
 Through Auction.
INRoADS OF THE WAR
 REASON FOR SELLING
Several Peerages and Baro- netcies Threatened With
 Extinction.

mer" or were sold privately in one week in June 1t began to be under stood by large part of the public that an era without parallel in Btit ish history had dawned. Never has there been so much land on the market.
 In two weeks lately there has been been a sale of approximately $1O, 100000 worth of land, or s5,0OO, 900 weekly. Last year the sale of landed estates and other properties totaled s60, 900, ,0OO- This year promises to ex- ceed that figure by many millions. In fact, during the first week of July S5,0O0, 900 represented the price paid for land which changed ownership or just one-fourth of the amount paid in the three months July to Sep tember, 1918. During several other weeks In June and July of this year the sales have ranged around s2,5OO,- 900.
 It has been a socialistic strong point that the land of the British Isles was owned by fewer than 25. 900 per sons Already considerable amounts of the land which is now changing hands for the first time in numerous instances for hundreds of years is be ing sold to the tenants of big es-
  way to the new; the new land barOns seem to be buying up the land be- cause of their belief in the intensi- fled development of industries of in land transport and agriculture in the future.
 This amazing era of land transfer ence by it's former owners shows no sign of abatement. This great wave of industrial unrest, accompanied by labor's demands for Naturalization of mines railways and the land itself, only accelcrates it's disposal, as has also tho Governments promise of vast housing schemes. One reason given for the vast change in ownership is that in these unstable days 1t is bet ter to have one's assets more liquid: and many millions of dollars have. therefore. poured into Government loans or into industrial stocks It has even been charged that some of 1t was being invested outside the couu- try.
 Producers Covet Famous Estates.
 Then there are the prohteers. Many who have made fortunes during the war are anxious to become owners of famous estates, of historic castles or feudal halls. These have aspirations as the new "aristocracy" which one finds so much in evidence at resorts, and who. when peace-time travel IS assured again, will probably form considerable proportion of the British travelling public.
 In numerous instances the war has hit so hard financially some of the owners of large, but already heavily rnortgaged estates, that selling them is the only way out.
 "I have 200 names of distinguished d persons on my books" said we'll known dealer in antiques. Not one has invested penny in antiques these last four years. But l have a new aristocracy which Is taking it's place. We are actually doing more business than we did before the war. but we are doing 1t with the new rich. They have taken the place of the old aristocracy. and they have plenty of money"
 Britain's roll of honor shows how hard the war hit Its titled class. for among the slain were 23 peers. 3s baronets, IA knights, 151 sons of peers. 157 sons of baronets and PIT sons of Knights. The succession 10 PIT hereditary dignitaries has been changed. and the heirs to titles who have been killed number 179. Sev- erai peeraEes and baronetics are threatened others have been fin doubt as their holders have been among the miss ing"
 TGe inroads of the war among the titled has brought numerous estates into the market, to be sold by exc cutors where there are no longer any heirs. Some of the older families have become SO poverty stricken that it is necessary to sacrifice the holdinss which have come down to them through generations.
 In the opinion of the Earl oi Clarendon the sale of landed estate, and other property is a forerunner tt new class of landlord. He says
 ''Thc possession of land is today ar economic difficulty. what with the enormous increase in taxation. up keep. repairs and agency charges which seem to be the inevita bic anC important factor fin these matters. ] would not be quite safe 10 say to wha particular peiua the present con version of ownership is leading. but see nothing really gloomy in the de sire of landowners to give up theil possessions, except tEat nobody own ing land today could possibly hv, upon the net income derived from 2 and have sufficient surplus in hand tC educate oao's chiIdren.'"'
 The Earl Of Clarendon does not be liove much of the purchase money ]! leaving this country
 Famous Places Sold or For Sale.
 Rumor now has 1t that Ken Woo, ij ia the market. an estate owned 5l Lord Mansfield. 22I acres in extent adjoining Hampstead Heath, one O Iondon's famous open spaces. An at tempt is to be made to have it pur chased by the Government. It is rici in magnihcent woods, which hav been permitted 70 keep much of thei original wfidness,
 Al present it is occupied by Mrs Leeds. a wealthy American woman and prior ts it's being in her pos ression the Grand Duke Michael O Russia was iD occupancy, There | a noted room iR the old mansion il this biz estate kno~R as the "Adam room. for which an American is sal 10 have offered. St00, 0,0Oe, with vie' to it's being dismaRtled, and sent [ America. Tas estate is part of in ancient Forest Of MiddleseX.
 Among other well i-knOWn peers wh