Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 42

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D." C. OCTOBER 14, 1928—PART 1. HOME OF BARRIE INLONDON DOOMED Along Thames May Become | Hotel Site. ! Rpecial Dispatch to The Star. | LONDON, October 13.—The famous | Thames-side Adephi Terrace, which | &till houses Sir James Barrie and the renowned Savage Club, and which was until recently the home of George Ber- nard Shaw, soon may be swept away. | It has been rumored from time to #ime than an American hotel may rise fts head on the Adelphi's grave. The Freemasons, too. were considering the | slte for a great temple However, the new report of the So- | ciety for the Protection of Ancient | Buildings reveals tifat when this well known London terrace was put up for #ale no bid rcached 2 sum the owners could accept, so its fate is still in the balance. Behind the Strand and overlooking | the Thames Embankment, Peter Pan’s | creator lives in his shy seclusion in| these famous buildings, which Shaw left for a newer home in Whitehall Court. Barrie himself soon may be com- pelled to seek a new flat. But the walls of the Savage Club, one of the oldest in London. are lined with spears and weapons of all kinds, and it is said rvery member will arm himself to the | tecth in common resistance against any order to quit. British Drama League. Cn the terrace, also, is the British | Drama League (which now has 3000 members) with its delightful yvellow Adam library. old marble mantelpiece, Jovely ceiling and all—cne of the few Adam ceilings with a painting in the center. I Adelphi must pass. with it will pass one of the finest relics of an age of elegance, of panels and meTallions deli- eately painted by Angelica Kauffmann, Zuchi and Pergolesi: of graceful houses designed in subdued colorings by the | taste and genius of Robert Adam: of | heautiful chairs, of satinwood and ma- | hogany. Tt appears that nothing short of its purchase by the nation as a mon- ument can secure the preservation of Adelphi. Although the design and situation of Adelphi Terrace make it d feature of Londan none can ignore, there are few who realize the delicate beauty given this row of houses by the Adam brothers. Perhaps this is because the river front was disfigured in the 70s of the last century by the false cement decorations beloved of that period. Unique to London. The Adelphi group of streets and | buildings is built upon arches and bounded north by John street and | south by the famous Adelphi Terrace front. There is nothing quite 'like it anywhere else in London, nor will there be. Its Greek name signifies “brothers.” | Four brothers, Robert, John, James and | William Adam, sons of a Scottish ar- chitect, bought the estate of Durham | Yard (once the garden of the Strand ! palaces) in 1768, when nothing was | there but unprofitabic ruins, washed by | the mud of the Thames. There were no Embankment Gardens then and no | Embankment. - Steps led down from the Strand to the wharves, the ground sloping steeply to the riverside. i The brothers planned a series of | well built streets on the Strand level, with & high and noble terrace over- | looking the river. The river then was an important thoroughfare, and the| wharves had to be considered. To raise their site the brothers bulilt a series of mighty brick arches and arranged for | a spacious archway to connect the wharves with the Strand. These arches have been compared with the vaulted subterranean channels beneath Rome, which have done duty 25 sewers for 2,500 years. Their condi- tion is probably as good as when they were constructed. They were under- pinned and strengthened in 1872-74. Tides Flood Arches. The high tides interfered with the Adam brothers’ progress, flooding the arches, but they obtained permission to embank the river from the southwest corner of the buildings, called the Savoy, as far as the southeast corner of York buildings. The ecitizens of London also interfered. They resented what they considered an encroachment on their waterway and their feelings were expressed in the following lam- poon, which shows that the river was still regarded as a vital highway for | trade: “Four Scotchmen by Adams, ‘Who-keep their coaches and their madams.” Quoth John in sulky mood to Thomas, *Have stole the very river from us! ©O Scotland, long has it been said Thy teeth are sharp for English bread: What, seize our bread and. water, too, And use us worse than jailors do?" But the brothers completed the work, though they eventually had to sell their l2nded property for funds. In the 70s of last century the old Pndeavour was running on the ‘Thames—"“the ha'penny (one cent) boat” from London Bridge to Adelphi Arches. One used to land on barges and walk through the arches—very dark they must have been, with their one little gas jet inside—right up to the Strand. Endeavour, Jupiter and Crick- et were the three boats on this service, the tug Cricket finally being blown up one night as she lay head on to London sl2irs where her master had gone ashore for a drink. Old Haunt of Rogues. One of the most curious streets in London is that which slopes steeply down from the Strand, beside the Tivoli moving picture theater (and beside the | old Tivoli stage door) and winds darkly | under John street into the wide arch that leads to the Adam Embankment, and which led in the old days to the wharves. 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