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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1905)
THE MORNING QREGONLA.N, MONDAY, JANUARY 2; 1905, ? ik J i IK - . , ' "it? F II , "V. - J II 4? v IT HAPPENS to many visitors to an Ex position that they weary of constant ly seeing things new and wonderful, that the strangeness and novelty of the exhibits and the Trail wear off and they want to "take a day off" to see something else in other words, they desire variety in sightseeing. In such a case, one of a party may say: "Let's take a walk around town and see some of the fine buildings;" "let's go up those hills and have a view up and down the river; "let's ride out Into the suburbs and see -what the farming country Is like;" or "let's take a ride on a steamer." For one bent on sightseeing there is plenty to occupy the eye, and the city and suburbs arc so well gridironcd with trol ley cars that this pleasure can be enjoyed without wearying cither the logs with walking or the pocket with hiring car riages or automobiles. Starting from the Hotel Portland, on the opposite side of Sixth street Is the Post office building, now being enlarged. A block north oh Sixth street Is the Orego ni&n building; the finest and best equipped, newspaper office building on the Pacific Coast. ' A few blocks further north, front ing on Park street. Is the United States Custom-House, a palace worthy of this great Xation, in which are all the Federal offices, except the PostoflJce and Federal Courts. In front of it are the north Park Blocks, a strip of open greensward lined with forest trees, of which the counterpart is found further south on the same line. Turn down from there to Third street, and you find the principal -business thoroughfare, on which front many handsome buildings. Walk southward a few block?, or take a trolley-car. and you come to the Plaza, another small park, In front of the Court-House. a silll Im posing building, though outshone by the gorgeous City Hall, a block further south. The spacious halts and many of the rooms of the City Hall are occupied by an histor ical and natural history museum, which includes a complete exhibit of the wonders-of the Northwest, and many histor ical relics of Oregon. But you wish to stray out to the hills and look down on the city from above. Take a car up "Washington street they run every few minutes and In ten min utes you will be at City Park, a once rugged hillside, which the city, by the aid of the landscape gardener, has beautified and has peopled with a great variety of wild animals, until it has become a zoolog ical garden. Here band concerts are given on Summer evening?. )nce on the hill and looking down on the city, to which the tree-lined streets and blooming gardens give the appear ance of a great park, thickly dotted with homes, you desire to go higher and gain a more extended view. Take the Portland Heights car on "Washington street cars run every ten minutes ail the year 'round, and of tener in Summer and you will climb on a winding course among steep hills, whero the streets are lined with handsome residences In ample gardens richly per fumed with roses, to a point where .the street railway curves in a loop to descend again. You are high up. having -crossed the steel bridge on Ford street. 113 feet above Jefferson street, but. if your wind and limbs are sound, you will wish to climb EOO feet further to the summit of Council Crest. 1200 feet above the harbor. This Is the highest point in the range of bills west of the city, and a, natural pan orama will be spread before you, of which your eyes will never weary. To the east and north you will see the whole broad Valley of the "Willamette and Columbia for 60 miles, with the great wall of the Cascade range In the distance and five snow-capped peaks towering above it. To the north you can distinguish Vancouver on the further bank of the Columbia, while to the south you can see Oregon City and the Willamette Valley, dotted with many fine farms as far as Newberg. To the west is the verdant valley of the Tualatin, a great dairying country, ex tending beyond Ilillsboro, with the Coast Range visible In the distance. It Is but two miles from the city to the loop on the Heights, and a good road leads up the hill on easy grades to the Crest, a quarter of a mile further. To Rlverview Cemetery. If you desire a closer view of the Wil lamette Valley, it can be had by taking the Fulton car on First street, where cars run every 20 minutes, through Futton and the broad valley to Rlverview Cemetery. .four miles out. a lovely spot on a bold hill overlooking- the river and commanding- a fine view on the opposite bank. Do you wish" to sec the newer sub urbs? Take the St. Johns car on Third street, and ride across the Steel bridge, through Albina, where Is the largest flour mill on the Pacific Coast, through University Park, where many fine resi dences are springing- up on a broad, level plateau, and where stands Co lumbia University. After a ride of eight miles you arrive at St. Johns, a busy town on the Willamette side of the peninsula formed .by that river and the Columbia. Here are the woolen mill, several sawmills, a veneer factory, the Portland drydock and a shipyard. Cars run every 13 to 30 minutes. A ride of seven miles by car frdm First and Washington streets will take you through Woodlawn, a fast-growings suburb, and the rich meadow land which borders the Columbia, to the south bank of that stream, whence a ferry will take you across to Vancouver on the Washington side. This city is historic as the former outpost of Great Britain cn the Columbia and as the present military headquarters of the Department of the Columbia, where 1000 to 1500 troops are stationed. The troops may "be seen drilling on "the great parade-ground in front of the barracks. The whole trip occupiM. about 50 minutes and cars run every J man Park, a beautiful tract of 40 acres AO minutes. -I on the bluff above tfie river, with base- oaii grounas ana a aancins pavilion, A fine general view of the Fair as well as the city, thte two rivers and the mountains, may be obtained from Willamette Heights, two miles from the city. Cars run every seven minutes, or more frequently, out "Washington, Twenty-third and Thurman streets, over the Steel bridge, across Balch Gulch. 105 feet high, to a point 200 feet above the river. This is on the side of a deep canyon, which has been preserved In its natural wild beauty and has been given to the city as Macleay Park. Yet another excursion which will af ford a good view of rural Oregon scen ry may be taken from Third and Yam hill streets, over the new Morrison bridge to Mount Tabor, a wooded hill about 600 feet above the river, four miles from the city. From Its summit one may look eastward over several pretty suburban villages to a broad stretch of highly cultivated farm and pasture land extending- beyond the Sandy river, with the Cascades shut ting: in the prospect. Cars run to this point at intervals of five to 15 minutes, according- to the time of day. All these points are reached by the cars of the Portland Consolidated Rail way Company which, by a general sys tem of transfers, enable passengers to go from any part of the city to any other part with economy of time and money. To Oregon City by Car. Xo more delightful ride can be had than that on the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company's electric cars to Oregon City. They run for 15 miles thrqugh some of the city's prettiest suburbs, including Milwaukie, where the first orchard was planted in Ore gon: through rich farm and pasture lands and among orchards, always in sight of the river. They pass Willam ette Falls, which furnish. the power to operate the paper and other mills of Oregon City,' the cars and machinery of Portland and to light the streets and buildings. 'Below Oregon City is Cane-, owned by the car company. Steamers also run up the river to Oregon City, offering a delightful trip in Summer, and by a system of interchanging tick ets passengers who. go up by car may return by steamer, or vice versa. Cars run every 40 minutes. A novelty to an Eastern man will be a trolley ride of 35 miles through the unbroken forest of Oregon, along the Clackamas River to Estacada. where the same company has a fine picnic "grove of 40 acres and maintains an up-to-date hotel. Cars run there every two hours. Great Pc,wer Plant. A few miles further along the same trolley road is Cazadero, where the com pany is building an electric power plant of 20,000 horsepower, all of which will be transmitted to Portland. The dam will be 55 feet high and a canal of three-fourth3 of a mile, long will lead to a reservoir covering 60 acres. Op posite this point the Government is now preparing to build a salmoa hatch ery, which will be a source of great public interest. Yet another road of the same system leads to Gresham. 25 miles east of the city, in the midst of the rich farming and dairy country of the Sandy Valley, and beyond It to Boring in the lum bering country. Cars run there every two hours. A Great pleasure resort, to be called "The Oaks," is to bo built by this com pany at Oak Point on the Willamette, Just below Sollwood, at a cost of 5100. 000. It will be 'equipped with a scenic railway, a "shoot the chutes," a large dancing pavilion, bath house, German kitchen and various other amusements. Transfers are issued by the Portland Consolidated and Oregon Water Power & Railway Companies to one another's lines within the 5-cent fare limits of the O. W. P. & R. system. The fare on the Consolidated system Is 5 cents throughout.
