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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 154, 24 March 1908, Page 11

To-day there is probably no business in ffhioH; sterling honesty lias so great an actual monoy-making value as.it has in clog-dealing, mid none; in which deception and cunning so Burolj/ireoil on the head of 'tho' ; tricl-:stcr.— "Keliiiel Magazine," ; .-jSpeaking'or London markets for the benefit off'tho,.poor, especially in tho. East/End of; London, Mr. R. : Sandilands at Cavershani oh evening' said that Columbia Market at Shorediteh,': built by tho Baroness Burdett-Coutts at.a ,cost of a £250,000, was a sidib'ui a beautiful example of philanthropy.' It 'was (meant to supply tho' : daily requirement! poor people. It was compared by wmo.wiih'the great Cathedral building; the gat>3 are'; masterpieces of scroll -wrought iron w6rk;the : roofs are groined arches of polished teak : v >;ovpry pillar is. of ' polished marblo and granite;-and .the capitals/of each richly ornar menied; v-Towers"/and ,b ( elfrics meet the eyo at- every ; turn. ; Tho, gr,eat hall, is built in the-Second ' pointed style,., with crossed roof arid ;solished, granite columns. • Tho. hall is .sUrrtliirided <by shop 3 lined with Irish marble. this , colossal ;building itshoived upon its walls indications of decay. Stately buildings aro ranged • round tho cental 'hall," which has teen closed for years, alrd'it's' windows broken and boarded up in manyj;placcß.' Tho shops in the: quadranglo aregiven, over to. tho Shorcditch furnituro polibhera! ' Tho costormonger could not bo penusided; to movo out of tho open street. The: Baroness gavo tho property as a fre-o gift;,oyer, to tho Corporation of London, and, as sdmeono has proposed to do in regard to our; owri Frco Library, it transferred it oack to Ker, as it found it a veritablo white elephant.'; It seomed a most remarkable thing, if it is true, that any ring or number of rings could, as has'been stated, bring about » failuro c/i deplorable.