THE MOR-G OKEGONIAN, 3IONDAT, MARCH 2. 1903
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BUILDING PERMITS
MAKE NEW RECORD
Nearly Double Number Issued
Last February Is Reported.
BUILD HIGH-CLASS HOMES
Contractors, Architects and Artisans
All Busy Finishing or Starting
Xew Structures' in Various
Parts of the City.
be supplied. This conditfon applies to
apartments and flats as well.
Permit was taken out last week for the
erection of the Oregon hotel annex on
Park street. The foundations were com
pleted some time . ago and the concrete
building is to be. pushed forward as rap
idly as possible. The building is to be
seven stories. Upon the completion of
this annex another adjoining will be
undertaken. Mrs. H. C. Martin Is to build a J5O00
dwelling on Hassalo street, between East
Seventh and East Eighth streets. Me
Holland Bros, have the contract.
Marshfleld has voted to bond the city
for Jofl.OOO to raise a fund for two new
school buildings which are to oe started
about May 1.
Alterations are being made in the St.
Charles hotel, including a modern ele
vator to cost $2750.
A. H. - Lea is having plans made by
Kable & Kable for a( bungalow of seven
rooms to be erected at East Thirteenth
and Thompson streets-.
William McMurray. general passenger
agent of the Harriman lines in Oregon,
Is to erect a handsome residence at East
Seventeenth and Clackamas. The house
Is to be of seven rooms and two stories
In height.
SUBURBAN LOTS
SELL READILY
Market in Platted Tracts Is
Noticeably Brisk in All
Parts of the City.
LOWER PENINSULA ACTIVE
Establishment of Swift Yards and
Packing Plant Attracts Atten-
tion to Neighborhood Lands
of Investors and Builders.
A noted In The Oreennlnn some wee..s ! The office of the Perkins hotel is torn.' X.UCD interest is oemg tasen in paucu
aao. Philip Buehner. . treasurer of the up in preparation for extensive altera- tracts in the neighborhood of the pro
Eastern & Western Lumber Company, Is tlons in the arrangement. In the mean- Jected stock-yards on the peninsula. Al-
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lltIUKCK OK S. NORTO.V COHX, TWE'TV-SKCO'D AND J OHXSOX STREETS.
to build a high-class residence. The site
selected is on the west slope of Mount
Tabor, where Mr. Buehner owns a tract
of sixteen acres. Plans are being made
for the building, which is to ba of the
ColoniHl style of architecture, and is es
timated to cost about $20,000.
Three modern apartment houses are to
be built on Kearney street at the corner
of Sixteenth. The houses will eccupy the
quarter block and the investment, includ
ing the lots, will amount to $40,000. Each
building will contain four live-room apart
ments. The houses are to be built for
George Rae". of the firm of Inman-Poul-sen.
The Henry-Mallory building at First and
Columbia streets is ntariug completion.
The part to he used as the terminal sta
tion of the Salom electric road is con
nected with the other parts of the build
ing, which is cut up Into stores.
John Almeter has completed a fom
series flat on Savler street, between
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth. He has
also begun the erection of another flat
building on Jackson, that is to cost $7,00.
Builders will be Interested. in having
brouiit to their attention the excellent
work done fifteen years aRO in the Cap
tain Kerr mansion at Wavorleigh. sold
last week to Dr. T. W. Williamson by
Sharkey Co- With heavy foundations
and 13-Inch walls the Luilding shows no
siins of wear and if anything is pro
nounced to be in better condition man
when Hrst occupied by the son-in-law of
I'lyniton Kelly.
Plans have been completed for the
building for the Home Telephone Com
pany at Vancouver, which is to cost about
JJo.oVo. Goodrich & Goodrich are tne
architects.
Henry Gurr Is to erect a dwelling at
East Seventeenth and Division streets.
C W. Sherman is building two attrac
tive houses at a cost of about J300O each
In Ravenswood Addition, one on Thirty
sixth and one on Thirty-seventh street.
Charles A. Martin has charge of the con
struction, which' is done by day's work.
Offices in the new big structures are
bi ing taken rapidly, 'the Corbett and
Commercial Club buildings are filling up.
and the Board of Trade. Medical and
Beck will soon be ready. No complaints
are heard from ownes of the older build
ings, as they report that as fast as - a
cated offices are rented again, showing
that demand is not falling off. Some of
the old buildings In the wholesale dis
trict will be remodeled, however, to keep
abreast of the times.
It is said the Roman Catholic church
has in contemplation the erection of hos
pitals, schools and churches in Portland
during the year timt mill cost several
hundred thousand drillars.
Over building permits were issued
last month, the majority -being for resi
dences on the East Side. Despite . the
constant additions to the number of
dwellings, renting agencies say there is
a greater demand for houses than can
time the desk is located in the front part
of the room next the news-stand.
The Board of Trade moved last week
into its new quarters -in the northeast
corner of the Commercial Club building.
A flat building is to be erected by O.
W. Gilbert at the corner of Cherry and
Weidler streets to cost approximately
Frank O'Neill, of the Northern Pacific,
has completed a dwelling in Ravenswood
Addition.
MANY BriliDIXGS GOING VP
Kast Side Makes Good Showing in
Xew Contracts.
In new building contracts a remark
able showing is made for the past week
on the East Side. On Wednesday the
permits ran up to $54,650. For the Bast
Side the largest contract was for the new
edifice for the Forbes Presbyterian
church for $10,000. the contract being
awarded to E. 1 Sanborn. It means that
the new church with its organ and furni
ture and the present foundation will cost
$13.00 For the payment of the contractor
the main portion of the money has been
subscribed and much of it Is in the
hands of the building committee. On the
day this building permit was' issued there
was also a long list of permits for $1500
and i0 dwellings widely scattered. B.
C. Selberg will erect four dwellings on
Going street, near Williams avenue, for
$ii000. an average of a little over $1200
for each house.
O. U Gilbert will build a two-story
frame flat on Cherry and Wheeler
streets. McMillan's Addition, for $SO0O.
Mrs. H. L. Martin has started work on a
residence on Hassalo street, between
East Seventh and East Eighth streets,
at a cost of $5000. George Burchard is
erecting a two-story frame dwelling on
East Eighth, between Thompson and
Braxee streets, at a cost of $3000. At
6unnyside, on the corner of Belmont and
East Thirty-fourth streets, excavations
have been completed for the foundation
of a frame building that will cost about
$10,000. Herman Cuke will erect a two
story building on Union avenue, between
East Stark and Oak streets. The foun
dation has already been completed. '
Plans are being drawn for three dwell
inps for Mrs. Waif to be built on East
Mill and East Eighth streets to cost $7000.
or $2500 each. Dr. J. B. Keefer will
erect a handsome dwelling on East
Seventh street and ' Ainsworth avenue,
for which rlans are being drawn. It Is
announced that C. B. Moores. of Salem,
will start work on his $12.0iX residence
in Holladay Park early this Spring. A
four-flat series building will be erected
for Frank Amato on East Ninth and East
Lincoln streets at a cost of $6500.
The Oregon Real Estate Company Is
grading eight blocks in Holladay Park
Addition and the surplus dirt is being
used to fill up depressions east of the
park. A large number of new dwellings
are being erected In this part of the city.
George W. Brown will erect a $5000 dwell
ing on East Sixteenth street, near Clack
amas street, and Contractor McClellan
Is putting up a pressed brick dwelling on
Clackamas, near Eist Seventeenth, street.
ready two or three new plots are talked
of and the older plats are feeling the
influence of the promised building up of
that part of the district. Francis I. Mc
Kenna, who is handling the addition
known as McKenna's Junction, says
that quite an active inquiry has sprung
up for lots In that locality, and the
agents for lots in Piedmont, Woodlawn
and contiguous additions make the same
report. An extension of the Mississippi
avenue carline will furnish better facili
ties for getting in and out. and with the
spur that will lead into the yards, where
the O. R. & N., Oregon & Washington
and North Bank roads will maintain
passenger stations, the section will be
provided with the best possible transpor
tation. Holladay Park addition is being graded
and low portions filled In. Eight blocks
will soon be ready for buyers of home
sites, in the new. part. Gravel or maca
dam streets and concrete curbs are to he
laid down at once. Several new buildings
are already decided upon in this addition.
Real estate firms are better pleased
with present conditions in the market
than for months past. New Arms are
going into the business every few days,
and the old-established ones are putting
in more energy than usual. All report
more activity and a better feeling than
even the most optimistic predicted. New
tracts are being platted in the suburbs,
and agents for the older ones are en
couraged with the outlook. One Arm
handling lots to the southeast reports
sales equal to the brisk times last Fall,
and in other sections there is also good
business reported.
. Members of the Portland Realty Board
and others engaged in the business are to
meet at a banquet at the Commercial
Club tomorrow night. The long-talked-of
exchange will come up again for discus
sion, and in all probability the question
will be settled one way or the other.
M. G. Griffin, one of the most active
advocates of the proposed exchange, ex
presses the hope, that dealers will now
have had time to see the advantages in
having an. exchange formed, and will
enter Into the organization at this meet
ing. Transfers for the past week averaged
over $50,000 a day. On account of. the
large majority of recorded documents
naming but a nominal figure, the real
valuation represented in the transfers is
impossible to . determine. The fact re
mains, however, that in point of number
transfers are growing, at a rate that
clearly indicates a brisk movement in
realty, and when correct figures are giv
en it develops that valuations are firmly
held.
As examples of what lots are bring
ing In localities favored by builders of
small houses, the following, taken from
the week's report, give a fair idea:
The fractional lot at the southeast
corner of Front and Meade streets, oc
cupied by a dwelling, has been pur
chased by Max H. Berg from J. P. Coffey
for $3200.
A. J. Davis has recently purchased an
OUR steam-heating plants are installed right.
We don't leave out valves where they should
be put in. ' We don't use a small pipe where
there should be one of sufficient capacity. We don't
install a job and. let the owner kick after we've 'got
our money.
It pays tp employ a firm whose reputation for fair
dealing is well known. When we figure on a job, we
figure on a GOOD JOB not a cheap one.
THE W. G.
Heating Engineers.
328 Glisan Street.
You Can Not Afford to Buy Gas
or Electric
FIXTURES
Until You Have Called at
BARRETTS
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Most Complete Line in Portland.
408-410-412 MORRISON ST.
Phones: Main 122, A 4154.
S. C JAGGAR
J. E. MAXON
MORRISON ELECTRIC COMPANY
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS
FIXTURES, WIRING, SUPPLIES
291 EAST MORRISON STV
Priories, East 3128; B 1625
Phone E. 591
DAVIS 6 DRENNEN
Phone B 2151
Gas and Electric Fixtures
We. Are Located at 406-40S . Burnside,' Bet. Grand Ave. and E. Sixth
with a new and modern lHe 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.
THE J. McCRAKEN COMPANY
Beg to advise FRESH arrivals of ALSEN'S PORTLAND CEMENT
GILLINGHAM PORTLAND CEMENT STANDARD PORTLAND CEMENT
231-235 Pine Street. Phone Main 270. Portland, Or.
WAVER. LEIGH
all
W Stands for Waverleigh,
The addition that's
right, .
Where you are in view of the city
Both day and night;
Where the streets are graded
And improved with cement walks.
If you are wanting a building lot,
This is where money talks.
Jno. P. Sharkey Company
SIXTH STREET
PHONE A 2537 MAIN S50
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.
lV2xl'3 to 8x8-Inch Angles
East End Bnrnside-Street Bridge,
Portland, Oregon.
ERNEST MILLER 8 GO.
SECOND AND TAYLOR STS.
Paperhanging, Decorating, Tinting and Kalsomining,
Painting, etc. Get our estimates before letting your
work. Both phones. Main 5688, A 1103..
ALL WALLPAPERS AND INTERIOR DECORA
TIONS AT RIGHT PRICES
THE ROSS COMPANY
We positively retail at'wholeeale prices. Every article In our well
appointed store is positively offered at true wholesale values. Our line of
strictly first-class Builders Harcrware, Tools, Sash and Doora are second to
none and our prices are absolutely rock bottom.
THE ROSS COMPANY
87 Grand Avenue
THE ADAMANT COMPANY
Manufacturers of
HARD WALL PLASTERS
The Celebrated "Crown" Brand Hair Fibered Cement Plaster.
FACTORY I Foot Fifteenth St.? Pacific Phone. M 2109.
OFFICEi 433 Worcester Bide.; Pacific Phone Mala 718. Heme A 1318.
J. C. BAYER
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, JDregon.
Repair Work Given Prompt Attention Founders, Machinists aed Boiler
makers. Building and Structural Work.
PHOENIX IRON WORKS
Office aud wortcN,
Hawthorne Avenue and East
Third Street.
ENGINEERS.
Phone East 20,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
unimproved quarter-block at the south
east corner of East Sixteenth and Tag
gart streets. The property formerly be
longed to George Mazzie, and was sold
for 2700.
F. B. Ferris has sold L. 51. Htckok a
house and lot in Smith's Addition, Port
land Heights, consideration $2700.
Edward Deicke has purchased a house
and lot on Ivy street, between Williams
and Vancouver avenues, for J360O.
Elmer E. Thomas has purchased a
new residence in Vernon. The property
belonged to Joseph T. Ennis, and was
sold for $23o0.
O. W. Taylor has closed a deal with
W. R. Riley for three unimproved lots
in North Irvington. The holding is on
East Twelfth street, between Prescott
and Skidmore. The consideration was
$2000.
J. E. XHlgan has sold to U. N. Carter
three vacant lots on Williams avenue,
between Failing and Beech streets, con
sideration $2000.
Vanduyn Walton report the following
sales made during the past week in the
new tract known ss Crown Court, head
of King street, between Washington and
Davie: Mrs. Lottie Lacy, two lots, cor
ner Davis and King. $3350: Mrs. Annie
Terrv. King near Davis, . J3S00: John
Hause, two lots on King, between Davis
and Washington, $S200; Isaac Vanduyn.
same location., one lof. $4000; Captain V.
M. C. Silva, one lot near Davis. $3750.
Will Erect Xew Schoolhouse.
The Rockwood school district will erect
a new four-room schoolhouse to replace
the present building, which has become
too small to accommodate the children.
Rockwood grange has decided to pur
chase the present 'building and use it as
a hali. The building was put up four
years ago and is in good condition.
If Baby Is Catting Teeth
Be tun ind us thst old well-tried remedy,
Mrs vlps:ow's Soothing Syrup, for children
teething- It soothes the child, softens ths
sums. ally pain, colic and diarrhoea.
In 1769 a body of volunteers, consisting
enttrelv of Jews was formed In Charleston.
6. C. and fought under General Moultrie.
AMAZED AT CITY'S GROWTH
K.
P. SCHWERIX HAS KIXD
WORDS FOR PORTIiAXD.
Promises Xew Schedule Taking
San Francisco Boats Down Co
lumbia River by Daylight. -
"My attention has been particularly
attracted by the impressive evidences
of Portland's growth and prosperity
since I reached your city a week ago,",
said R. P. Schwerin, general manager
of the Harriman water lines, at the
Portland yesterday. "Prior to this
visit I last visited Portland In 1904
when, with a party of Caitfornians, I
attended the exercises' when the ground
was broken for the,Lewis & Clark Ex-,
position. In the Intervening four years
the growth of your city has been amaz
ing, not only in the business district on
the West Side, but In the residence dis
trict across the river. I obtained my
first reliable conception of this phenom
enal expansion today when I visited the
City Park and witnessed from that van
tage point what has been accom
plished." The visit of . Mr. Schwerin to Port
land at this time, he declares, is one of
inspection entirely. He declined to dis
cufis the plans of Harriman relative to
the water transportation service be
tween this city and San Francisco. The
San Francisco & Portland Steamship
Company Is now operating two steam
ers, the Rose City and the Senator, be
tween Portland and the California me
tropolis. The company's contract for
the Senator, which is under lease from
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
will expire in April, when the Senator
may be returned to the Alaska service.
In that event Mr. Schwerin is expected
to arrange for a companion steamer for
the Rose City on the Portland-San
Francisco route before leaving this city
next week.
Mr. Schwerin said the San Francisco
& Portland Steamship Company will
announce early in April a new schedule
by which its boats would make the trip
between Portland and Astoria, both in
coming and outgoing, by daylight, in
order to give the passengers the ad
vantage of the Columbia xtiver scenery.
CALL STORY . FALSEHOOD
Bishop Scadding's Appointments.
The Right Rev. Charles Scadding,
Bishop of the Episcopal church in the
diocese of Oregon, announce the fol
lowing appointments for the month of
March:
March 2 An 1 re a "Woman's Auxiliary,
Med ford.
March 3 "At Home" at Bishopcroft.
March 4 Ash Wednesday at St. Stephen's
Pro-Cathedral.
March 8 First Sunday In Lent. Morning
confirmation at St. Matthews'; evening,
preaching at St. Stephens', subject, "Com
parative Religion." -
March 10 Meeting of committee on dio
cesan seal. 8 P. M.
March 13 1 P. M.,- address. Woman's
Club, subject. "Gothic Architecture Illus
trated in French Cathedral."
- March 15 Second Sunday in Ient. Morn
ing, confirmation at the Church of the Good
Shepherd; afternoon, confirmation at St.
Helen's Hall; evening, St. Stephen's Pro
Cathedral, March 19 Meeting of school board.
March 17 S P. M.. meeting of committee
of arrangements for missionary conference
to be held May 20-22.
March 18 7:30 P. M., St. Matthew's
Church, first lecture on "Church History."
March 20 7:SO P. M.. St. . Matthew's
Church, second lecture on "Church History."
March 22 Third Sunday In Lent. Morn
ing, confirmation at Oregon City; evening,
third sermon on "Comparative Religion." at
St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral.
March 2.' Eugene, a mission for one
week In St. Mary's Church; Instruction
every afternoon; addreae every night.
March 29 Eugene, confirmation in St.
Mary's Church; night, fourth sermon on
"Comparative Religion." in St. Stephen's
Pro-Cathedral. Portland.
Marh 30 S P. M., meeting of the board
of missions.
Members of Missouri Society Xot
Assisting Mrs. Wayrnire.
Vigorous denial was made yesterday by
W. M. Davis, president of the) Missouri
Society of Oregon, of the published re
port that the society will contribute to
a fund to assist Mrs. Belle Waymire,
convicted of conspiring against Mayor
I-rfine, to appeal her case to the Supreme
bourt. Mr. Davis resents the intimation;
that the organized Missourians of the
state would permit themselves to become
identified with any such proceeding. Ha
denounced the report as a falsehood and
an Insult to the Missouri Society.
"The matter of assisting Mrs. Way
mire in any way has never been suggested
to the society," said Mr. Davis yester
day, "and It would have received no con
sideration if it had been. We have no
knowledce that this woman came from
the State of Missouri, and if we knew
that she did we would only consider that
it was. a disgrace to the state. I hare
always believed that the woman was in
volved In the scheme to blacken the
reputation of Mayor Lane and the readi
ness with which a Jury convicted her at
the trial convinces me of her guilt.
"Seneca Fouts. who assisted in the de
fense of Mrs. Waymire at the trial. Is
quoted as saying that several women be
longing to the society went to him and
assured him that they would assist in
raising the funds necessary to take an
appeal of the case to the Supreme Court.
If he will furnish me with the names of
those women I will take' steps to have
them ousted from the organization."
Fourteen, Birthdays 'In 60 Year.
ALBANY, dr., March 1. (Special.)
County Commiseioner Thomas J. Butler
was 60 years old yesterday and cele
brated his fourteenth birthday. He
was born February 29, 1848J Mr. Butler
has never had more than one birthday
in four years, and once dicr not enjoy a
single birthday for eight years from
lo to 1904.