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MARKET PRICES OF LONDON’S FA¬ 
MOUS PUBLIC BUILDINGS 
A STRIKING article which appeared 
* in London recently, describing the 
“ market” value of London, has a timely 
suggestiveness in connection with the 
battle between public and private 
interests over Copley Square, says 
the “Boston Transcript.” London’s 
greatest treasures are known by name 
to all, and London is so far away that 
the valuation put upon them will not 
stir other emotions than precisely those 
which it is the purpose of the statistician 
to arouse. Mansion House, which cost 
£70,000 to build, says the writer, is now 
valued at fully ten times that figure. 
The Royal Exchange, as a building of 
bricks and mortar, is worth £200,000, 
but land in that neighborhood has re¬ 
cently sold at the rate of $ 10,000,000 an 
acre, so that £2,000,000 is probably 
not an excessive valuation for the Ex¬ 
change. Eight bridges over the Thames 
cost £5,000,000 to build, but are now 
worth much more than that, while the 
tunnels underneath are worth other 
millions, and the embankment is worth 
probably double the £2,000,000 which 
it cost to make. “If St. Paul’s were 
private property, you might induce the 
owner to sell it for £10,000,000, but 
the likelihood is very remote. Those 
tattered banners which you have seen so 
often would arouse pretty keen bidding 
at the sales. Westminster Abbey is diffi¬ 
cult to value. But the sales give us 
some idea of what historic treasures are 
worth in the market, and I should not be 
surprised if the abbey—put up in lots 
--realized £50,000,000.” The British 
Museum, which anybody can see for 
nothing, could not be bought up by 
the millionaires in America. If it were 
absolutely empty it would be worth 
£ 1,500,000, and it is full of priceless 
treasures. The National Gallery is 
worth millions. “It cost, with the new 
Tate Gallery section, £350,000 to build, 
and has one picture which cost £ 14 an 
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