WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.
[To THE EDITOR OP TEE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I overlooked the remark quoted by your correspondent, " S. L. P.," or I would have at once answered your challenge.
I do not, of course, know how liberally you interpret the word
"productive ;" but if I may substitute " intrinsically useful," I can at once point to a piece of work the completion of which
would be of the greatest benefit to Londoners as a whole, and to a certain section of the poor specially. I allude to the Thames Embankment. Since the Westminster and Strand side of the Embankment has been completed, whenever there is an excess of rain, the Thames has been forced over on to the Lambeth and Southwark side of the river, and the floods have done much damage to the houses of the poor. The assistance which the completion of this work would give to the plane for the better drainage of London must be evident to all who consider how much those plans are hindered by the habits of those who live in small houses close to the river, but who would be separated from it by the Embankment. Perhaps even the addition to the beauty of London might be now admitted to be a consideration affecting all, and not merely a select few. Why this has not been nrgecLmore constantly. on the Metropolitan Board of Works,
I do not know.—I am, Sir, &c., C. E. MAURICE.
South Lodge, Squire's Mount, Hampstead.
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