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Overton told Lovejoy he’d like to file a claim on the clearing and offered Lovejoy half if Lovejoy would pay the filing fee of 25 cents. Lovejoy did, and becante half owner of what is now down town Portland. Overton got restless and sold his share to Francis Pettygrove for enough store goods to get him to California. Then Pettygrove and Lovejoy plotted some streets. Pettygrove wanted to call the place Portland, after his Maine home. Lovejoy fancied Boston, to honor his Massachusetts roots. They flipped a coin, an 1835 penny still in the possession of the Oregon Historical Society. And the rest is history. Portland’s official 150th birth day is Jan. 23, 2001. The city is getting a jump on its sesquicentennial celebrations Fri day night, with a fireworks dis play, a 100-foot birthday cake, and a concert by the Oregon Sym phony. The party, sponsored by the Bank of America, was timed to coincide with the year 2000 Rose Festival. Rich Brown, a Bank of America spokesman, said the Friday festiv ities are a “way to get it (the city’s sesquicentennial) on peoples’ radar, and the only time you can hold an outside concert is in the summer.” More events are planned for January. The events will pay tribute to a city that has risen to prominence * from very humble beginnings. The first wagon trains in 1842, traveling on what became known The advantages of the waterfront and the road gave the fledgling settlement a boost when it needed it most, and Portland took off. as the Oregon Trail, brought about 100 people to the Oregon country. But 900 came in 1843, 1,400 in 1844 and 3,000 in 1845. More were arriving by ship. While many were farmers headed for the rich soils of the Willamette and Tualatin Valleys, many too were businessmen, tradesmen and craftsmen. Getting goods in and out was becoming a priority. Lovejoy, whose real interests were in bustling Oregon City 12 miles upriver, sold out to Ben jamin Stark in 1845 for $1,250 and some cattle. Pettygrove got gold fever in 1848 and sold out for $5,000. The land boom was on. •All the while, “Little Stump town,” as the clearing was deri sively called, was one of perhaps a dozen settlements hoping to be come the dominant spot on the lower Willamette. Some, such as Linnton, St. He lens, Columbia City (now Van couver, Wash.), St. Johns and Ore gon City, all of which predate Portland, still exist. But Portland prospered and grew. The reason was perhaps stated best by a Massachusetts sea cap tain, John H. Couch, respected in the Oregon country and in the Eastern banking houses, who is quoted as saying, "to this very point I can bring any ship that can get into the mouth of the Colum bia River. And not, sir, a rod fur ther.” The river was starting to matter. Portland delegated Oregon City, its main rival, to second place in 1851 when it opened, to considerable celebration, a plank road to the Tualatin Plains in what is now Washington County to help farmers get their produce to the ships. The advantages of the water front and the road gave the fledg ling settlement a boost when it needed it most, and Portland took off. Despite the muddy streets and humble buildings of its early years there was money to be made, and some of the early set tlers made it by the fistfull. Portland showed off its pros perity in its early decades. Charles Addams-style mansions with Mansard roofs cropped up around the Park Blocks, and in the Northwest sector. And there was that spiffy new Saint Charles Hotel, which boasted a lock on every door, a bathroom on every floor and hand-painted chamber pots. Portland had its underbelly too, with one of the tougher water fronts on the coast, where a man who took a drop too much was likely to wake up on the high seas, Shanghaied. Guides to bare non-editoral tag ■Those searching for a school through college guides including ‘4 Year Colleges' and ‘Complete Book of Colleges’ will now see a disclaimer on school-provided information Peterson’s, publisher of one of the nation’s most popular guides to four-year colleges, said Thurs day that from now on it will dis close to readers that school’s pay for extra information about them selves in the book. The change will apply to the next edition of Peterson’s “4 Year Colleges,” due out this summer. The publishers of two other col lege guides — including the “Complete Book of Colleges,” published by the Princeton Re view — said they too charge schools for enlarged listings and will also disclose the practice from now. The decision by Peterson’s came after The Chronicle of High er Education examined the policy and The Associated Press in quired about it. "It never occurred to us this is something we should highlight,” said Cristopher Maloney, Peter son’s'senior vice president for marketing. Maloney said such payments probably date to the late 1960s when Peterson’s began publishing the guide to four-year colleges. Guides such as Peterson’s are often the first resource for college bound students and their families. The current edition of Peter son’s “4 Year Colleges” is 3,257 pages. About 1,000 schools paid for the second half of the book, spending $2,830 apiece for two pages of what Peterson’s calls “in depth descriptions.” Maloney said in the next edi tion, the preface to the paid sec (( If I wanted the school's opinion of itself, I would have sent for brochures. Neela Satyamurthy sophomore College of Wooster j l tion will read: “The colleges in cluded have paid a fee to Peterson’s to provide this informa tion to you.” The section will also carry the words “fee-based, in depth information,” all in capital letters. He said he is uncertain whether such payments will be disclosed in Peterson’s online guide at www.petersons.com/ugrad. The paid sections elaborate on a school’s history, its campus, facul ty and student life. The material is submitted by the school and edit ed by Peterson’s. The school does n’t see the text before it is printed. For instance, Stanford Universi ty’s paid entry describes how founder Leland Stanford “pat terned the university after the great European universities. He set a pattern for students to receive a broad liberal education, as well as a practical one, that was re markable for its time — one that would cultivate the imagination and develop character.” The Princeton Review’s latest “Complete Book of Colleges” con tains what it describes as 300 “special two-page portraits writ ten by the colleges and universi ties.” The next edition will identify the material as paid content — as will its Web site, said Evan Schnittman, who oversees the book and Internet site, www.re view.com. The publication charges colleges $3,500 each. A smaller publication, Miriam Weinstein’s “Making a Difference College and Graduate Guide,” said it charges colleges $275 to about $1,300 and will disclose the pay ments in its next edition. Neela Satyamurthy of Ohio said she expected an independent opinion when she read Peterson’s in search of a college. “If I wanted the school’s opin ion of itself, I would have sent for brochures,” said the 19-year-old sophomore at the College of Wooster. She said she was pleased by Pe terson’s new candor. The Associated Press
