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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1908)
THE MORNING OREGON'IAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1903. lit r. -- 1 1 7"" LDING5 RISE ALL SECTIONS Permits for February Show Continued Activity in - Operations. SUBURBS GROW RAPIDLY Dwellings, in Spite of Remarkable Number Going Up, Are Still in Urgent Demand in All Parts of the City. Of recent building permits issued for dwellings, almost all were for the East i Side. Two dwellings are for Alblna. of EAST F -: Mkk y if Lvf hi''- I i- . . i 1 mfy-i THE WKBB FLATS, EAST MORIIISOX STREET, BETWEEN FIFTEENTH $4"i00 each. One is for Cordelia Krebs on Fargo street, and the other is for Herd man Bros., on Eiist Sixteenth street. A dwelling costing 1500 Is for Rllla II. Man ning, and will be built on Rodney avenue. A considerable number of tho houses for which permits were issued cost $1000 and $2000. A permit was issued for a $0000 store building on Belmont and East Thirty flfth streets at Sunnyslde, to A. Speer. Homes & Menefee will erect a $."i000 dwel ling on Broadway near East Nineteenth street. Mrs. A. J. Kraenick will erect a $5000 flat on Clinton and East Twenty seventh streets. R. B. Rich will build a two-story dwelling on East Sixteenth and Clackamas streets, costing $6u00. A two etory nat costing $fi000 on Borthwick and Stanton streets will be built for E. M. Drews. In the report compiled by the American Contractor of Chicago for January, it Is found that Spokane and Portland are the only Coast cities showing an increase in building operations over those of the pre vious year. Los Angeles shows a de crease of 49 per rent; Salt lakc tHy of 54; Seattle. 39, and Spokane an increase of 10. Portland, from the Building Inspec tor's figures, showed an increase of over 13 per cent. February, Judging from the half-month figures at hand, will make a much greater gain than in January. This Is largely on account of the continued building of residences. The Contractor, in commenting on the situation, says, "As forecasted by the de cline of stocks of every variety, the de crease in building operations, as compared with 1907 was expected, and has material ized, to the extent of 44 per cent In the aggregate of 47 cities presented In the comparison. The indications for Febru ary ere more favorable and a large vol ume may 'be expected as the season ap proaches, subject only to such restric tions as are presented each Presidential year. The Catholic Young Men's Club of St. Mary's parish, Albina, will finish and fur nish the new clubhouse on Morris street this year. The building is inclosed, but only the hall on the top floor is finished. It is a two-story frame structure, with full basement. The club will provide a gymnasium, library and billiard depart ments in the clubhouse. It will cost, when finished, fully $13,000. A carnival will be given In May to raise funds with which to pay for the work. A committee of ten has been appointed by Evening Star Grange. No. 27, Patrons of Husbandry, to provide ways and means for Enlarging the hall on the Sec tion Line road. The hall as it stands cost $21(0. Although finished three years ago, it has been found too small for the large attendance. A wing 60 feet long, to be bHilt on the west side of the pres ent building. Is proposed, the cost of which is estimated at $1500. Membership of the Grange is over 300, and others are coming in at every meeting. One of the matters to come before the 'next meeting of they Realty Board will be the start of a movement to have the Fourth street steam line changed to elec tric power. Advocates of the movement say that the presence of the steam line retards building operations on that thor oughfare and holds values down. AUerations on the Interior of the" Chamber of Commerce building are prac tically completed. Hartman & Thomp aon are to occupy the southwest corner rooms of the street floor and the Bank of California is to have the room now occupied by Hartman & Thompson. David C. Lewis, architect, is on a trip East and before returning? expects to take a tour through the Southern states and make observations of colonial styles in the old buildings in that part of the country. Mr. Lewis will be absent for Beveral weeks. The School Board has contracted for the building of a new schoolhouse In the Richmond district to cost $22,565; eight room addition to the Arleta School for K0.S54; six-room addition to the Shaver School for $16,564. Trustees of the First Universalis Church of Good Tidings, East Couch and East Eighth streets, have been author ized to report plans and cost of replacing the present structure with a modern church building. , E. M. Iazarus, architect, expects to spend $10,000 on his Nortonla hotel In repairs and alterations. When alterations are completed the hotel will contain 113 rooms and 30 bathrooms. William Travis. Jr., architect, is travel ing in Italy visiting points of Interest in an architectural way. He. will also tour Spain, France and England before, re turning home. F. L. Filter will erect a two-story frame building, 90x50, on the corner of Dawson and Flske streets, at University SIDE FLATS JUST COMPLETED. ac, v vJUl i'f Wi - rWkj .,.-..-....-...v...v.-.-..AJ.fo.yYiY'- Park, this Spring. It will cost $10,000. Plans are being drawn' for a four-room schoolhouse at Orient, on the Powell Valley road, for District No. 107, by Architects Benncs, Hendricks and Tobey. A four-llat building is to be erected by J. B. Lakln on Earrabee and Dupont streets. A house and lot at the corner of Page street and Vancouver avenue was sold last week by George Durbach to O. F. Hoffman for $3500. WANTS TARIFF REVISION Southern Oregon Man Says Stand patter Is Foe to Progress. ASHLAND, Or.. Feb. 15. (To the Editor.) I noticed in an editorial In The Oregonian of a recent date, a quotation from a lecture of President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton Uni versity, as follows: "If you live In a place where you can elt around a stove In a coun try etore, you are much more likely to have opinions than if you lived in New York." Ternilt me to help prove this assertion of President Wilson by giving The Oregonian's readers a little hot air from taa afore-mentioned stove. The people are demanding a revision of the protective tariff, and not only the people, but the management of many of our Industries are demanding this, but action is postpaned for the convenience of politicians. President Cleveland said In his last message to the Congress: "Our present tariff laws, the vicious. Inequitable and illogical source of unnecessary taxation, ought to be at onoe revised and amended." This was uttered some 15 years ago. In hi last message, President Roosevelt said: "This country is definitely committed to the protective system, and any effort to up root it could not but cause widespread in dustrial disaster." "Definitely committed" seems rather too etrong. The 'disaster In any effort to uproot it" 1 entirely controllable by act of Congress In a tariff law covering a limited period, with reductions of the dutica at stated intervals. Jt seems to me. however, that President Roosevelt's utterances have always been in favor of liberal revision of the tariff. In this country we have had revisions of the tariff, but in my opinion not In the interests of the people. To mention one group alone, the tax on "foo.ltuff" is a tax on life's sus tenance. The old shibboleth of "infant In dustries" la largely & condition of the past. Most of our Industries have reached maturity. They have been so long fed on Government "pap" that there is a plethora of over-fatness and atthe expense of the people. The "fitand patler" is a foe to progress and should not be heard In the councils around the stove In the country etore. The constitution of the' United; States Bavs: "Equal rights to all. special privileges to none." The protective system extends spe cial privileges to all of rmr Industries, and we. t!,e people, (there are SO.O0O.(XK of us) are paying tremendous tribute to every in dustry in our land, largely intensified by the greed and graft, now masquerading as vir tues. It Is asserted that the theory of the protective tariff is the father of trusts. Per mit me to add also, frenzied finance, graft and greed. Forsooth! The three latter are an illegitimate brood! To me the perfection of Industrial achieve ment will not be reached until raw materials are admitted free of duty. This contention, however. Is not the discussion of the hour, and I trust will not lead our friends around the etove in the country store from their ef forts towards revision of the tariff in the interests of the people. The changing conditions rampant today In our civic policy are an outgrowth of the pro tective tariff, unrevlsed. I trust that the de liberations and opinions expressed- by the peo ple, the newspapers and by those who sit around the stove in the country store, may speedily lead to a liberal revision In our tariff and to the elimination of greed and graft, hence to the benefit and betterment of the people. C. T. SAXFORP. SRNT SCENIC PHOTOS EAST. See Kiser's display. 248 Alder nL r ii-- SALE OF REALTY UNPRECEDENTED Steady Market for Sites for Dwellings at Well-Maintained Values. TRANSFERS HOLD UP WELL Sites In Suburban Tracts Are Being Bought by Builders of Homes, Though Inside Realty Is Not Moving. Otto & Harkson report the following I sales, made last week: The SH-acre farm owned by Adolph Schamoni, Tualatin, 3 i AND SIXTEENTH STREETS. Oregon, to E. D. Mitchell for $4400 cash. Mr. Mitchell recently came from Boise, Idaho; house and lot at 6S5 Vancouver avenue, formerly owned by John John son, 60ld to A. Hendrickson for $3350: va cant lot on Sixteenth and Alberta streets, M. Gross to William R. Beckett, for $700; lot on Haight and Skidmore streets, from H. Harkson to Atna Van Duesen, for $750. Gay Ixunbard, Joseph M. Healy and J. V. Beach have incorporated the 'Western Realty Company, with a capital stock of $250,000. Tire new company proposes to buy and sell all classes of real estate and erect buildlngsT Otto E. Panzer, the well-known expert muBhroom raiser and gardener, sold his Highland hothouses and property to M. A. Schuster for $5000. The deal was nego tiated through F. Fuchs. Among the sales of Rose City Park lots last week were five to F. N. Sche nauer and eight to F. E. Allen of Rose burg. Both purchasers intend to erect dwellings on their holdings. Fred Page sold a lot on Jackson street. Portland Heights, to M. H. Hauser of Pomeroy, Wash. The purchaser intends building a $15,000 residence on the prop erty. Mall & Von (Borstel havei. negotiated the southeast comer of East Ninth and East Clay streets for Otto W. Nelson, who in tends to erect five cottages on the cite. Former citizens of Switzerland, now res idents of Portland, have -decided to buy a lot and erect thereon a hall In which to hold fraternal meetings. Knapp & Mackey last week sold a five acre tract In Minthorn Addition. The same firm reports the sale of the property at 211 Lownsdale street for $7500. J3. L. Smith bought last week 16 acres in Township I South for $18,000. This land is in the Mount Tabor district and is a record price for that locality. Transfer records for the month, so far, average over $35,000 a day on values given, in most cases being nominal. Charles H. Ourry last week bought 10.000 square feet of land on Portland Heights from Judge George. Block So, Portsmouth Addition, sold recently for $15,000 to C. W. Webster and D. B. Thomas. Two lots in Block 102, Stephens' Addi tion sold last week to O. W. Nelson for $2600. J. E. -Marcy has bought two lots and two fractional lots In Sellwood for $2250. W. H. Scott paid $40O for a lot In Block 74, Sellwood, this -week. M. A. Soihuster has bought six lots In Highland Park, for $5000. Army Transport Sherman. ST. HELENS, Or., Feb. 14. To the Editor: Plea?e state the extreme length, depth, breadth, draught, displacement, coal hunker capacity and st'eed of the U. S. A. Transport Sherman. A. SUBSCRIBER.. Length, 44K feet: beam, 49.2 feet: depth of hold. 30 feet: draft. 20 feet: speed, 15 knots: displacement not measured. -5 &sr WwX. Mr, Builder You will They also carry a complete line of mantels, grates andirons, fenders and sparK guards, and' do all kinds ' of fireplace tiling and repairing. 311 STARK STREET, Between 5th and 6th Both Phones We Sold More Fixtures During the Week Just Past Than at Any Time for Four Months Let Us Tell ARRETT Phones, Main 122; A 4154 DAVIS 6 Phone E. 591 Gas and Electric Fixtures We Are Located at 406-408 E. Burnside, Bet. Grand Ave. 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 o .-. all kinds of lighting fixtures. PACIFIC IRON WORKS O. E. Heintz, Manager. Phone East 57, Home B 1157. CASTINGS OF ALL KINDS, STEEL BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES IN STOCK 3 to 24-Inch Beams. 4 to 15-Inch Channels. 1 1V2x1V2 to 8x8-Inch Angles East End Burnside-Street Bridge, Portland, Oregon. THE ADAMANT COMPANY " Manufacturers of HARD WALL PLASTERS The Celebrated "Crown" Brand Hair Fibered Cement Plaster. FtCTOBIi Foot Fifteenth St.; Pacific Phone. M 21011. OFFlCEi 433 Worcester Blds.i Pacific Phone Main 718, Home A 1218. POT BEGINS TO SIMMER POLITICS LOOMS IjARGK ON ST. JOHN HORIZON. Candidates for Leading OKlces Are Expected to Announce Them selves Soon. With the approach of tho municipal election in 9t- John there is curiosity as to possible candidates for the leading offices. For Recorder tho present In cumbent seems likely to succeed himself. At least there are no active candidates for the place as yet. For Mayor the situation is complicated. While It is not known definitely whether Mayor Couch will again be a candidate for the office, rumor has it that he will not be. J. F. Hendricks, who recently entered info business in St. John, investing about $10,000, Is now being mentioned for Mayor on the Republican ticket, and the sug gestion is meeting with considerable favor. Mr. Ifendrlcks has not been in volved In any way with any of the local questions, and would have quite an ad vantage. On the "Good Government League" the name of H. W. Brice and B. T. Leggett are mentioned, but the former more prominently. Mr. Brice served as councilman one term, and made a satisfactory record. It 13 conceded that he would make a strong candidate. George J. Perkins, secretary of the St. John Commercial Club, will be a candi date for City Attorney at the coming election. While Mr. Perkins has not an nounced himself In a public way, he has said to friends that he will be a candi date. He may run as an Independent candidate, depending on circumstances. H. C. Collier, who has figured somewhat in connection with the "Good Government League," may be nominated on the ticket favored by the league. 8. H. Greene, the present City Attorney, has said that he will not be a candidate for the office. He has served through the terms of Mayor King, Mayor Valentine and the present Mayor with fidelity and has many friends who would like to see him re-elected. The office heretofore .has been appointive, but under the new charter is elective. As to Councilmen It is conceded that several of the present ones will be retired to private life and there will be new faces save money, time and worry by having the M J.WALSH GO. install your Electric Light Wiring, Tile Flooring, Gas and Electric Chandeliers ETT You Why 408-410-412 Morrison St DRENNEN Phone B 2151 at the City Hall after "April 6. Besides electing officers the voters will vote on Issuing bonds for purchasing the present ferry or building another, bonds for erec tion of city- dock and securing grounds for a public park, and also on taking In more territory. It has not yet been developed how much strength the "Good Government League" will have. It has held three meetings, one -In a private office and two in the City Hall. It will hold another Wednes day night when. It Is announced, it will have Its platform ready to be given to the public. PLAN THROUGH STREETS Hose City Park Will Consider This Project Tonight. t One of the Important matters to come before the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Rose City Park Improvement League, at the Alameda schoolhouse, to night. Is the question of two through streets to the Country Club tract, one at the high and the other at the low level. - The league and the Country Club peo ple have been working In conjunction with the Rose City Park Association in bringing this question to an issue, and it is expected that all Improvement organ izations" in that section of the Bast Side will be asked to assist in this move ment. The fact that the permanent livestock show will be Inaugurated some time early next Fall renders it almost Imperative that there be better means of traffic from the business district of the Fast Side to this new center of interest Promises of gas. street railway and telephone Companies as to new or addi tional service for the district will also be listened to at the meeting tonight. A NEW DEPARTURE. The cost of interments has been greatly reduced by the Holman Undertaking Company. , Heretofore It has been the custom of funeral directors to make charges for'all incidentals connected with a funeral. The Edward Holman Undertaking Company, tha leading funeral directors of Portland, have departed from that custom. WJien casket is furnished by us we make no extra charges for embalming, hearse to cemetery, outside box or any services that may be required of us, except clothing, cemetery and carriages, thus effecting a saving of $25 to $75 on each funeral. THE EDWARD HOLMAN UNDERTAK ING CO., 220 Third St., cor. Salmon. The W. G. McPherson Co. Contractors for the Installation of Heating Plants Using as a Heating Medium: Fan Systems. Furnace or Steam Coils; Hot-Water Heating Plants; . Steam Heating Plants; Warm-Air Heating Ventilating Plants By th6 Fan System: Air-Washing and Cleansing Devices; Humidifying Apparatus. Refrigerating and Storage Plants For Apartment-Houses, Butcher Shops and Hotels. 32S GLISAN STREET Between Sixth and Seventh. WAVE The Home-Lovers' Paradise. Build now while others are building. Lots $450 and up; $25 down, $10 per month Jno. P. Sfiarkey Company 122V2 Sixth Street The Portland Tile S Mantel Company OFFICE 217Marquam Building. PHONE MAIN 5S73. Ceramic, Mosaic, Enameled and Encaustic Tile adRau. JAMES E. BARKER. Prop. Warehouse 356 Burnnide. near Park Street. Branch Office and Salesroom. 461 Empire Building, Seattle, Wash. CORNICES, ROOFING, SKYLIGHTS, METAL SHINGLES, VENTILATORS, ETC Phone Main 467. " 263-267 Second St. Jos. Hornung, Res. Phone E. 1359 E. Fischer, Res. Phone E. 4587. CITY IRON WORKS Structural and sheetiron workers, blacksmiths, boilermakers; fire-escapes, sidewalk, doors and hose casings a specialty. Tel. Main 7155. 303 Front St., Corner Columbia, Portland, Oregon. Repair Work Given Prompt Attention Founders, Machinists and Boiler makers. Building and Structural Work. PHOENIX IRON WORKS EXfilNEERS. Office and Works, Hawthorne Avenue and East Third Street. ESCAPE IN HOT CLOTHES LODGERS IN" DANGER IX EARLY MORNING FIRE. Couple Climb to Neighboring Rool and Are Rescued by the Firemen. An early morning fire yesterday, which was caused by a defective flue In a three story frame building at the southeast corner of Fourth and Columbia streets, came near costing the lives of several persons who occupied sleeping apartments on the top floor of the structure. The upper floors of the building are used as a lodging-house of which G. A. Durretto is proprietor. About 3.20 o'clock some of the inmates were aroused by the smell of smoke and soon spread the alarm through the building and most of the in mates escaped by the stairways to the street. Fred V. Egsert and wife occupied a room In the extreme southeast corner of the building, and before they were aroused, the flames had cut off their exit by means of the stairway. Mr. Eggert threw open the window and found that the roof of the home of D. D. Patterson, at 303 Fourth street, projected to within a few feet of the window sill. Hastily making up his mind he leaped for the adjoining oof, reached it successfully, and then turned and leaning far over the edge called upon his wife to lean as far out as she could. Graeplng her with one arm and using the other to maintain his precarious hold, tho husband succeeded in landing his wife safely on the roof of the Patterson home. Both were in then night clothes and the arrival of the fire men who soon took them off, was most welcqme. Neighbors took charge of them, as well as the other fire victims, and furnished them with quarters for the rest of the night. When the Fire Department reached the scene, the rear of the building for a space of several yards on each side of the flue from basement to roof was a mass of flames, and smoke was Issuing from all the windows. Captain Jay Stevens of chemical No. 2, and Captain Kerrigan of hose company No. 2, were the first to arrive and succeeded In . piloting a num ber of the Inmates from the threatened Furnaces. Phone A 2537-Main 550 Phone East 2!), PORTLAND, OREGON. building, while Patrolmen Porter, Barzee. Abbott and Phillips took up the task of warning the occupants of adjoining houses of the danger, for the flames threatened to spread. The firemen soon had several streams playing on the blaze and the flames were quickly gotten under control. The damage to the building is about $700, while furniture and belongings of the occupants will probably reach $1000. CHARGE A SERIOUS ONE Shocking Depravity Alleged Against Hans Nelson. One of the worst cases of moral deprav ity to come to the attention of the police, department fame to light with the ar rest of Hans Nelson, a man 52 years of age, . who is said to be foreman of the construction gang which is at present engaged in repairing Oak street between Second and Third streets. - Nelson was arrested yesterday after noon by Detectives Hawlcy and Inskeep and lodged in the city jail on a charge of contributing to tlio delinquency of a minor. This chargo was placed against him merely to insure his being held for further investigation when, according to the arresting oftlccrs. a more serious charge will be registered against him. According to the tale told tho officers by Ettie Ulrich, a child 10 years of age, the practices of Nelson were of the most revolting nature. The child's parents re side somewhere In Yamhill County, and the little one has been living with a family In North Portland. This family became suspicious of her friendship for Nelson and summoned Detective Hawley, who, witli. his working partner, followed the child yesterday. She left the home of her benefactors and went to a scow at the foot of Sixteenth street, and, accord ing to the officers, was met by Nelson, who caressed and petted her and took her into the house-boat. What took place inside the officers will not state, but say that they witnessed enough to warrant an ar rest. At the police station the child told a most revolting story, and if but a small portion of it is substantiated, the officers state he will merit a lengthy prison sen tence. Nelson strenuously denies any wrongdoing in his attitude toward the child and claims that lie has endeavored to be of assistance to the little one in the absence of her parents. The case will he brought to the notice of the Juvenile Court today, when it is possible that Nelson may have to face a more serious charge than the one on which he was arrested. 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