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Portland hits the hie 150
■ From Stumptown to metropolis, Portland looks back on
150 years of mud, rain and hand-painted chamber pots
By Joseph B. Frazier
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Portland turns
150 in January, but they’re start
ing the party early Friday night
with a music festival by the
Willamette River, not far from the
clearing where William Overton
and Asa Lovejoy pulled their ca
noe over to rest a spell in 1843.
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