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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1908)
TT MORXIXG OREGOXIAX,. 3IOXDAT,. FEBRUARY 3. 190S 15 . !i 1 : ; ! : i " I DEMAND GROWING FOR WAREHOUSES Wholesale Firms Ready Lease Larger Quarters at Once. to CHANCE FOR INVESTMENT ISuildings Klse In All Sections of City, With Seasonably ' Priced Dwellings the Most Numerous and the Kast Side Trending. Wholesale houses, that are now occupy ing premises in which growing bufineM requires more siwce, are in the market tnr linrir hnildincs. A leading broker aid Saturday that lie had three inquiries on hla books for buildings on long-term leases which would each occupy a block. These concerns, he said, do not care to withdraw from their working capital the amount necessary to build suitable struc tures, but seek sites on which owners would erect warehouses for their re quirements, which would be taken on Ions terms. This realty broker Believes IT investors would undertake to provide such buildings they would have no delay hi finding the very best class of tenants and that the revenue would be of the character requiring the least attention and be Imre of realizing a good rate. Now that money is easier and interest as a consequence is petting lower, investors look for the eftiploymont of their capital at the best rates, and the broker is of the opinion that the way suggested la one of the opportunities not to be lightly con sidered. So many housed have been built during the Winter months In Portland that mechanics employed in building trades have found steady work without cessa tion. Over one-half of the amount in value of permits for new buildings in the month Just closed were for dwellings on the Kast Side, and these are well on their way to completion. More building of reasonably priced houses is going on at the preseijt time than at any period In the history of the city. Bridge construction Is to be a feature , in local operations during the year. After considerable trouble with awarding con tracts for the new bridge to span Sulli van's ljulch at Union avenue, a Port land concern finally secured it at $i4.KjO. When the bonding matter is settled, the bridge at Madison street will come up for contracts and the Peninsula bridge- of the North Bank road will also figure in Hie year's building, work on the latter now being under way. ' Builders ni e watching the devclon tnentb in tho efforts of the commercial bodies of the city to secure some of the manufactories which every day or two are referred to in the daily papers. Sev eral Kastern concerns are reported to be in correspondence with Portland ' bodies on the subject of either moving their factories to this city or establishing branches here. D. C. Lewis, the architect of the Ore gon building to be erected at the Seattle Exposition, has made a few minor changes in the specifications to comply with provisions in the law requiring that all materials in the structure shall be of Oregon manufacture, so - far as pos sible. The commission expects work to be started in a short time on the pro posed building. The sale of the corner at Park and Mor rison, announced in The Oregonian yes terday, will cause speculation as to what sort of Improvement Is to take the place of the frame building on that valuable lot. for at the price paid for the lot, ShV.CiO, a modern large building will un doubtedly bo erected lo furnish a suffi cient revenue on the investment. Contracts have been awarded for the removal of buildings from Tenth and Alder to Tenth and Columbia, and for moving the buildings hack on the latter site to make room for those on the site of the proposed hotel building to be erected by Gus "Rosenblatt. It is now expected to begin work on the floata tions for the hotel in April. Bids will be aisked for February 28 for the construc tion of the Y. W. C. A. building and March 2 for the steel con struction of the Y. M. C. A. Contracts will bo let for the former building in its entirety, but on the men's building they will bo let from time to time as the work progresses. Plans have been made for a new tena-nient-house. of four Oats, for Mrs. Love riclge and others to be erected on the northeast corner of Grand avenue and Pacific street. The building will be of frame construction and concrete founda tion. Rach flat will contain tive roo'mfa. Excavations for the foundation of the Central Church building on Hist Twen tieth and Salmon streets have leen com pleted, it occupied a quarter block. The foundation will be built at once and the church, costing about $.13.'KiO, will be buirt this Summer. A local brick aseney estimate that 11.3ilf,0tl0 brick are now In Portland, avail able! for Immediate vsv and that burning of additional kilns will start March 1. after wliioh h monthly supply of about lO.OOO.OOH will be available. 'Foundation for a J:00 chapel for the Second I'nitcd Brethren Church, Rist Twenty-eighth and Alberta streets, has 'e' finished, and construction on the ";n. :ng will toe. pushed forward. ft cm has been , delivered for the new residence being erected on F.ast Sixteenth sirrt for Mrs. C. J. Colburn at an estimated cost of JiO.OU). . f'.ie East Side bureau of The Oregonian v. pi'.-ts that in the matter of new build Incf the predictions of Secretary Otto lc-rnann, of the Architect Association, ; new work would be starting up. w,i fully verified during the week, j; 'Ming permits for each day were r, ':-,ir y up to what they were in point of numbers in the busiest time of W". On ! Wednesday of the past week, 30 permits were issued for cottages, ranging up to $7V0, the uverago for cottages being $1300. Mrs. M. J. Graham has started on three cottages costing $1800 each on East Floyt and Thirty-fifth streets, or a total of J54O0. James A. Gray has "Started two dwellings on Belmont and Kast Thirty eighth streets to cost M000. F. T. Corlcss has started a residence on Killingsworth and Missouri avenues to celst $3000. Mrs. P. J, Colburn has started work on a J10.000 dwelling on East Sixteenth, near Halsey street. It will be two-stories. On Friday, January 24. the building per mits totaled ISO. IB, the cottages being widely scattered. On Tuesdny, January 2S, the total amount of building permits was 131,205. Mrfet of the nouses were cottages costing 11000 and 11300. George M. Hyland started a dwelling on Halsey and East Sixteenth street to cost 13500. K. G. Lundstrum started one on East Nine teenth near Tillamook street to cost 14000. Also P. J. McDonald has started a two istory frame dwelling on Wasco, near East Thirty-second street, to cost 14750. . M. Hamilton has started a dwelling on East Sixteenth near Tillamook to cost :;500. M. E. Thompson has started the erection of a two-story building on Shaver street and Rodney avenue to cost $10,000. Perhaps the most important building projected during the week (s that of J. M. Eggleston on East Ninth and Ankeny street, where he proposes to cover a quarter block with a flat. This is in Central East Portland. Over $200,000 is represented in the per mits for class A, B and C structures Issued In January. Several others are contemplated for the coming month and early in the year a number will be started which will bring the total up to the big records of last year at this .time. The paist week was unusual in one particular at least not a single thea trical building being mentioned as a cer tainty. Press agents must be getting weary of building theaters on paper. Poyle Patterson have prepared plans for a dwelling to be erected on Lovejoy street for E. L. Harmon estimated to cost $15,000. . Vancouver, Wash., Methodistts are con sidering the erection of a new church building at that place to cost $2500. REQUESTS ORGANIC UNION United brethren Church Passes Res olution Vrging the Merger. At the quarterly conference of the First United Brethren Church Saturday night, a resolution was adopted asking the pre siding elder for the state. Rev. S. W,. Jones, to present the question of organic union with the Methodist, Protestant and Evangelical denominations to all United Brethren churches in Oregon for indorse ment. The churches will be asked to pass resolutions approving the union. Dr. Jones is now In the city and occupied the pulpit of the First United Brethren Church yesterday. Tomorrow night the Men's League of this church will take steps to inaugurate the movement for organic union, among all the United Brethren churches in the United States. There are about 1500 ministers, all of. whom will be communi cated with by letter and asked to take up the question with their churches. The Oregon conference of the United Brethren Church will meet in Portland jn June, and delegates will be invited to attend -from the Methodist Protestant and Evangelical branches. Dr. Ward, of Seattle, pastor of the Methodist Protes tant Church, at that city, will be a dele gate. The evangelical conferences will appoint delegates later. The Evangelical Ministerial Association of Portland, which meets Monday. February 17. will take up the question of organic union. NOT IN HARRIMAN EMPLOY George S. Shepherd Answers Inquiry Made by Thomas McCusker. PORTLAND. Feb. 2. (To the Eedltor. Mr. Thomas McCusker, in a communcation published in The Sunday Oregonian, direct an extended inquiry as to whether In the event of being elected to Congress I would perve the people of OreRon or the Harriman Interests. Doubtless Mr. McOusker would not have considered It necessary to present this question had he been aware of the sit uation I am not in Mr. Harrlman's em ploy, as Mr. McOusker states. I was also 'flred" before announcing my candidacy for r 1 1 T . -:- At MITrHKl.L, I.KWIS STATER COMPANY'S NEW BUILDING. EAST SECOND CoTinresn. and Mr. SJoCuskerj attitude ia answer as to whether this process oT termin ating an employment warms one's xeal in the Interests of his former employer. The employment Mr. McCusker refers to consisted of the examination of a number of abstracts of title and the trial of some condemnation suits In the State of "Wash hiRton. My work was flnlehed. and likewise the undersigned. Besides, my chief aim and end Is to be able to accomplish some aood for the people of Oregon In the line o,' river improvement, and other pressing needs, and should I be the choice of the people for the place sought. I will never usa my office for any private ends or Interest. GEOIIGE . SHEVHURO. HEALTHY TOE IN REALTY MARKET Transfers Indicate a Brisk Movement at Advanc ing Prices. INSIDE LOTS ATTRACTIVE Lots for Residence Building Hcing Taken Kapldly, Especially,!". East Side Xewly-Plattcd Townsltes and Suburban Section. It is doubtless a good idoa for real estate brokers to entertain, or at least announce, confidence In prevailing real estate conditions. The history of business in all branches is that if persons engaged in any particular line continually talK "good times," .that is the sort of times they will experience. There is, however, no reason to stretch a point in reporting a healthy condition of the market now. for all who know anything about the busi ness realize that sales are being made at a great rate and that values are increas ing, but in a safe manner. By far the larger number of sales are of lots in suburban districts, which are being taken by homebuilders. The rapid settling up of the borders reflect on val ues in the older parts of the city, for it is a trite saying tnat the more homes the more business is to be done. and. in the natural course of events, in order to en gage in trade, facilities must be provided. Even now there are people who predict that the city of the future will extend to the Columbia across the peninsula, and that the vacant lands out across the sloughs to the eastward are bound to come into the market before many years; A brisk movement In lots to the north and west is attracting attention and val ues are rising accordingly. As an In stance, two lots between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, facing Thur man. sold last -week for $7300. Lots in the Exposition vicinity are also being taken, and building lots in King and Gold smith additions are showing a steady ad vance. Few sites in the factory and warehouse districts remain along streets having railroad facilities, and the result will be that contiguous streets must fur nish sites for those purposes in the fu ture. No sale of recent days has been as im portant In convincing the trade of the desirability of paying good stiff prices for inside lots, if they are to be secured at all, than the Park and Morrison-street sale referred to in The Oregonian. yes terday. The figure is not considered ex cessive, even by conservative dealers, and the vicinity is certainly to receive more attention from buyers than before. In the last year or two that section of the city has seen a marked change in ap pearance from Taylor to Washington streets, and along the intersecting streets. Bench lands are coming into the market for apple-raising in the Hood River Val ley. Last week Mrs. Marion Mac Rae closed a deal with F. B. Leighton. of Portland: for 20 acres formerly belong ing to Frank Chandler, at tl25 an acre. The land lies on the ridge between Hood River and Mosier. The daily list of transfers clearly proves the activity in the market and an exam ination of the records will bring out the fact that lots anywhere in the city, in any direction, are -considered good invest ments by people with money, whether lit tle or much. William Gedamke has just sold his farm of -53 acres, located on the right of way of the Mount Hood Railway Company, for $10,624. to Dr. J. M. Short. The land is improved and is in a' high state of cult!- , vation. ' . i i Amonr the sales of last week there are reported to this column: By the Dunn-Lawrence Company the following sales: Smith & Coveil to W. M. Kennedy and Emmet O. Bainter. each an acre tract in Oovell, J1330: Nettie Hess, a small tract. $430, and James J. Hess, one at J.100; L. B. Hendricks to Samuel Homes, place on Ross street, $3400; Marsh Brothers to J. Losli, house and lot on Corbett street, $20: John Mann, house i . . The Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Building Was Heated by Direct Steam, In stalled by The W. G. McPHERSON GO M Heating and Ventilating Engineers 32S GLISAN STREET J.I a. w CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER SHOP AND RESIDENCE EAST THIRTY-SEVENTH AND YAMHILL Phone East 5042 PACIFIC IRON WORKS O. E. Heintz, Manager. Pbone East 57, Home B 1157. Castings, Steel Buildings and Bridges ALL ARCHITECTURAL 'IRON Full Line of Beams, Angles and Channels in Stock , East End Burnside-Street Bridge, , Portland, Oregon. DAVIS 6 Phone E. 591 Gas and Electric Fixtures We are located at 406-403 E. 'Burnside, Bet. Grand Avenue and E. Sixth, with a new and modern line of Colonial and Mission Fixtures, suitable for the most up-to-date residences. Being in the low-rent, district, we can save the builder from 10 to 20 per cent on all kinds of lighting fixtures. and lot on East Alder street to W. M. Malnes. New Depot at Trontdale. Carpenters have begun work on the new O. R. & N-. depot at Troutdale. to replace the building destroyed by fire last Summer. It will stand on the same 't AMI EAST MORRISON STREETS, site and will be 20x60 feet in sifee. A new residence will be built for the use of the local agent. To Core m Cold in One Daj Take LAXATIVS BROMO Qulnlna Tablet. Drugeitfl refund money If It fa-114 to cure, ii. v. UROVE'S Big-nature la on each box. &o. GIVK SCENIC PHOTO VALENTl NE3. Clever, novel, rich. Kiser, 2-IS Aider at. Spain is the greatest lead-producing coun try and Germany second. m$iffW:3i r y-lmM PAN! A IFF lulu DRENNEN Phone B 2151 SPEAKS TO YDUNE PEOPLE REV. WIL-SOX URGES RIGHT USE OF POWERS. Declares Tiiat Youth Has Fiver Hecu MroiiR Factor in I lie World's Progress.- At Centenary Methodist Church. Bast Pine and Ninth streets. Rev. Clarence True Wilson delivered a special sermon to young men last nlnht on the topic. "The Forces That Move the World." The services were under the auspices of the Tenth Legion, which had sent Invitations broadcast through the city, with the re sult that there was a large number of young men present. Music was by the orchestra, male quartet and choir. TTie text of the sermon was I Timothy iv:!2. "Let no man .despise thy youth." The sermon was a strong and eloquent plea to young men to appreciate their powers ana possibilities. At the opening Dr. Wilson told of the different forces of matter and forces of mind. These forces were here, he said, before man. but they were of little use until the human mind grasped their limi tations and use, and the force that con trols the . powers of nature and utilizes them is not matter, birt mind. Taking up the subjoot. as directly applied to young men. Dr. Wilson said: The world and the church need the bai lat of age and the force of youth, .rightly combined and properly adjusted to give the steadiness of the one and the speed of the other. .The wise men of the, Chris tian centuries have recognised this fact, and definitely expressed it. First then: The glory of young men is their strength. Bodily vigor gives enthusi asm and enersry to outv.-ard activity, and makes youth the mightiest potentiality be neath the face of heaven. The deeds which Inspire the world from the cages of his tory were largely wrought out by the young. This is a young man's world; and youth is the force that moves it. What young men lark in experience, they make ud in en thusiasm. Their youth gives them the essen tial qualities that win; the daring vigor, the bounding confidence and the untrammeled de termination. We do not claim that youth is free from faults: it is full of fallings. But better make some mistakes,' while doing something, than never bring anything to pass for fear of them. The method of young men. -of planning and acting without considering all dilf Icultie-., in the way. 'has some advantages over the more cautious method of summoning the past to give its experiences of obstacles In the way. Age and experience have to do with the past; youth and enthusiasm look forward.. When this fresh and unfaced force is jul developed into lis full activity, it ihnmH -'WAVERLEIGH Lots $225 and Up. $25 Down and $10 per Month. Graded Streets and Cement Walks. JNO. P. SHARKEY CO. 12213 Sixth Street HOLLADAY'S ADDITION The oue BEST place in Portland to buy. ' GEOGRAPH ICAL CENTER and MOST DESIRABLE residence property of the city. THE OREGON REAL ESTATE COMPANY . 88V2 Third Street. THE ADAMANT COMPANY Manufacturers of HARD WALL PLASTERS Oar Celebrated "Crown" Brand Hair Inhered Cement Plaster Used Through out in Plastering the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Building. FACTORY! Foot Fifteenth St.! Tnelfle Phone. M 310. OFFICES 433 Worcester BI)Ik.. Pacific Phone Main 718. Home A 1218. The Ernest Miller Co., Inc. Wallpaper Store and Office, 201 Second St., corner Taylor. Interior decorating and tinting our specialty. Our facilities in all the different branches are unsurpassed. Only skilled mechanics employed. The Portland Tile OFFICE 217Marquam Building'. Ceramic, Mosaic, Enameled and Encaustic Tjle lUdKetHU. JAMES K. BARKER, Prop. Warehouse--355 Burnslde. near Park Ktrec-t. Branch Office and Salesroom, 451 Empire Building, Seattle, Wash. The Roofing, Metal Window Frames' and Sashes and Tinning the Fire proof Doors on. the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Building Supplied by J. C. BAYER Cornices, Roofing, Skylights, Metal Shingles, Ventilators. Etc. Phone Main 467. 2.63-267 Second St. THE GLASS On the Mitchell, Lewis and Staver Building was Furnished by the CENTRAL DOOR& LUMBER CO. Thirteenth and Glisan Streets Jos. Hornung, Res. Hione E. 1359. E. Fischer, Res. Phone E. 4o87. CITY IRON WORKS Structural, and sheet iron workers, blacksmiths, tioilermakers; fire-escapes, sidewalk, doors and hose casings a specialty. . Tel. Main 7155. 303 Front St., Corner Columbia, Pdrtland, Oregon. Repair Work Given Prompt Attention Founders. Machinists and Boiler makers. Building- and Structural Work. PHOENIX IRON WORKS KXG1XEEHS. Office and Wortu, Hawthorne Avrnne and Kant Phone Knit 20. Third Street. ' PORTLAND, OREGON. be consecrated to Christ and .his cause. Then its glory is radiant. A lower use of it dims its lustor. Degradation to purposes of sin turns Its splendor into shame. Only a life nobly lived is worth the living. Young man, "thy God hath commanded thy strength." What Is true of workers is true of think ers. Young men have not only rushed farthrr into' the thick of battle, hut Jiaye progressed deeper into the realms 'of thought. The Intellectual feat Nof brain athletics have tjeen performed in the vigor of youth. Tim possession of knowledge, of mental grasp, of reasoning faculty, of busi ness shrewdness, of imaginative power ar.d strength of will, are given to young men. Cliin'ose Character Entertainment. A .Chinese character entertainment will be given in the Taylor-street Methodist Church. Tuesday, "FVbruary For Coughs Never hesitate to ask your doctor about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It is a regular medi cine, a strong medicine, a doctor's medicine. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral REVISED FORMULA It would be very interesting to know how many years' your family physician . has prescribed Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs, colds, and all forms of lung troubles. Ask him the next time you see him. We know physicians who have used it for over half a century. We have no secrets t We publish the formulas of all our medicines. J. C. AYER CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Lowell, Mass. A 2537 Phones Main 550 & Mantel Company P1IOXK MAIN -5S73. Phones : Main 479o, A 1793. 4. at 8 o'clock. A programme consist ing of solos, duets, quartets and reci tations will be presented. The partici pants will be dreseed in costumes rep resenting 16 different nations. The pro ceeds of the entertainment are for tho benefit of the Methodist Chinese mis sion. Will Open Revival Tonlglit. Spci-iai services will begin tonight in the Third Presbyterian Church and con tinue during the week, closing Friday. Andrew J. Montgomery, the pastor, .will preach. " If Ban? Is Catting Teeth Be mum and use that old well-tried remedy. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup, for chtldrac teething. It eoothea the child, soften tns cums. allays pain, colic and diarrhoea. X 5 i