Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, March 16, 1908, Image 13

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Newspaper Page Text13 r-uy-. flf 1 'I r XjArJtW 1 11 1 Mill " Vwl r i,u?i -ran- -73B4 ' WVALUAiU "TTTTP iZS-- -S?"" I NO ABATEMENT IN CITY'S GROWTH PENINSULA LOTS ATTRACT NOTICE THE MORNTXGr OREGONIAX, MONDAY, 31 ARCH 16. 1908. MR. BUTCHER You Can Not Afford to Buy Gas or Electric FIXTURES Building Operations Keep Up to a Remarkable Degree. PORTLAND'S GOOD AVERAGE Cut Side Lots Are Being Covered With Dwellings of Better Class Than Ever Known In the City's History. Contract ha been awarded E. P. White for the general work on the addition of four rooms to the- Setlwood Bchool. His BUM BY THE ORIENTAL contrsct embraces construction and was let at $10,061. Glazing and plumbing were also swarded to the Central Door & Lum ber Company and Kuedy Bros. Bids for the construction of the new plant for the Star Brewery at First and iladteon streets will be received until April 1 by the architect, Emll Schaeht. Proposals are being received for the construction of sewerage extension at Vancouver Barracks. Buildinj permits last week run to about J160.A00, the hlBh average of the month to date keeping up. There is now no doubt that the month's total will show a com fortable Increase over the previous one. The Mrs. P. L. Schmeer flats on Park street, between Hall and .Jlarrison, a picture of which appeared lrh.'Jine Sunday Orenonlan. called for favorable comment from all who are interested in seefng artistic buildings among the new under takings. The records of building operations of the principal cities of the country for February make a much better showing than those of the previous month. Ac cording to statistics compiled by the American Contractor. Chicago, the per centage of lrvs compared with 1907 is becoming smaller, especially In cities ,of the Coast. San Francisco naturally is way behind In the comparison for the reason that a year ago large numbers of big buildings figured, while operations are now settling down to somewhere near a normal basis. Spokane leads Northwest cities in average gain and Tacoma also shows a gain. Seattle had a loss of 50 per cent and Los Angeles 46. while Denver gained IS and Salt Lake City 63. Portland broke nearly even, there being but b per cent loss over the record of last year. Sunnyside is enjoying a remarkable building boom, there being more new dwellings going up at present than for years past. The class of houses is well over the restrictions in cost. Mount Scott reports between too and 3W new houses recently erected or now In procew of erection. Average cost is placed at $"-W. A dwelling which fit '"V in IPOS to hulld at WoodstocSt week for J34S0. That district jg pace with other .localities in theVsrS ban East Side. H. M. Tomltneon. deputy City Attorney, is having a handsome dwelling finished at Fourteenth and Hall streets. The house Is estimated to cost j-tooo and was erected from designs made hy the owner. E. H. Wemme took out a building per mit last week for the erection of a garage on his quarter block at the northwest w j ! !. 1 " "" . " v ' r ...... , ....... . m ' ii pm.i. . i .1 . i i .1 1 .p 'av'v"-1 !!; . '!.;!'"!.' v:':r,,',,;V';,':v;",V:'.':':'1: :!: "IB 1 " 4-i:- 1 afc -?rir. Tp-l'il f I'll .j 2irypjir:it -t .: ' :5Tr$JbJr The permit calls for a building to oost $12,000. It is said that Harry L. Keats has secured a Jease on the new building when completed. Contract has been let for the erection of a dwelling at Lovejoy street and Cornell road for El L. Harmon to cost $7500. A building permit has been Issued for the erection of a dwelling on the Barr road for E. Corbett. which is to cost $5500. Mrs. J. Yocum is to have built a two-and-one-half-story house on East Elev enth street to cost $000. Eight stables are to be built at once on the grounds of the Country Club. The stables' are to be 30x130 each, and are to be used for housing racehorses which will be sent to the tract for training as soon as the track is ready. The con tractors. Newell A Gossett, are making good progress with the work on the grounds. The Southern Pacific has removed the old station at Eugene'and will begin the construction of a new one on the site. Bmll Schaeht. the architect. Is to re move from the Commercial building, where he has been located for 20 years, to the Commonwealth building. He ex pects to make the change April 1. Work of razing the old frame buildings at the corner of Fourth and Alder streets will begin July 1 to make room for the new hotel to be erected by the Hotel IX VESTMENT COMPANY, SECOND Investment Company. The leases will expire on the date named. Contract has been awarded for the steel construction of the new Fenton building to be erected at Seventh and Ankeny streets. The Morgan apartments at Park and Madison streets are practically com pleted. The building is a six-story brick and is 30x100. The building was started in September of last year. Mr. Morgan is both builder and architect of the build ing. The brick stables of Olds. Wortman & King, at East Seventh and East Flan ders 6treets have been completed and are occupied. The building is 100x100 and cost, approximately, 121.000. Offices in the new Commercial Club building are practically all let. according to the renting agent. Donald Woodward. The club is arranging to move into its Quarters in a few days. H. A. Heppner takes exception to the criticism of certain architects as to the quality of stone used in the construction of the East Side High School building. The objection urged was that the ston was Interior as a fire resistant. Mr. Heppner says that the Tenlno stone used In the building is of a superior Quality and is used extensively in lining furnaces, being considered better than flre-brtck for that purpose. He said the Government had made severe tests of the stone and had used It as being impervious to the action of salt water, and that if it were of that grade it certainly would resist fire as well. The furniture Rnd lease of the St. Philip Hotel, situated on the north side of Burnside street, between Fourth and Fifth streets: has just been sold through the agency of Devlin & Flrebaugh to A. E. Chisholm, formerly proprietor of the Hotel Oxford. Mr. Chisholm wll make extensive Improvements in the Vuildlng, which contains 62 rooms, at once and con duct same as an up-to-date hotel. The contractor for the erection of the new Forbes Presbyterian Church on Gantenbeln avenue and Sellwood street has already started work. Excavations are being made for the Sunday school room adjoining the foundation of the former church. The old foundation will be retained, which makes a saving of over $1000 in the cost of construction. The whole church building with furniture will cost about $15,000. Work is progressing on the building for the Yale Laundry Company on East Tenth, between Morrison and Belmont streets. It will be SOxHOft of brick and the cost is placed at S0.O00. It Is the fwF. - jieJentious structure of the sort Remarkable Activity in Real Estate in All Districts of the City. MEW ACREAGE IS PLATTED Factory Sites Again Being Picked Vp by Investors and Numbers of Important Sales Reported During the Last Week. Probably the most Interest at the present time for manufacturing sites is directed toward the Lower Peninsula, AND SALMON STREETS. where the new packing plants .are to be located, and in the neighborhood of the old Zimmerman plant in South Portland. The establishment of these plants, it is thought;' will attract other manufacturing conaerras to the localities, and besides, salef t lots are becoming more active as theseinenterprlses are now assured. Another tract is to be put on the market in the near future by W. A. Cadwell." The farm near Lents, which was bought In the '70s by his father. Is to be platted in lots and acreage tracts. The plat was filed for record last week. Mr. Cadwell has also an SO-acre tract on the Salem electric road which he in tends to put on the market. This tract is near Garden Home. Of 16.SM lots listed in the detailed re port published yesterday, most of which have been offered for sale less than two years, 9779 have been sold, and at the rate sales are being closed up, the balance will be disposed of before many months. Agents say that in most in stances, purchasers of these lots have either begun building or intend to do so the codling Summer. With 10.000 new houses to be erected on these plats and those to go up In the older parts of the city, the predictions of realty men of a record-making year In building operations seems to hav good foundation. Chapln & Herlow sold the 3 acre tract at Palatine hill near Riverdale, formerly owned by George H. Williams, for 13700. The purchaser is a local man, who will build a Summer home on this property in the near future. The Dunn-Lawrence Company reports an Increasing business in vacant lots and suburban acreage, especially at Covell, on the Oregon City carline, where Meta Morris and Isabel Hyatt bought five acres at J2600, Carrie Dunn, three acres, at $1500: James G. Hess, two one-acre lots for $950: M. L. HIggins. recently from Iowa, bought 11 acres for J6T50: Emmett O. Bainter. of Mount Tabor, bought three acres for $1350. and William Kennedy, of Sunnyside, three acres for $1350; the Holly Nursery Company is proceeding with its nursery plant on, land bought last month. All these places will be built on as soon as material can be obtained. - Smith & Covell are now in communication with parties connected with the Mechanics burg (Pa.) Automobile and Bicycle Works, offering them a free site for the establish ment of a branch of that industry, which is more than likely to be accepted. Samuel Holm has purchased the resi dence of Lee Hendricks, at 347 Ross street for $3500. George Pope, who recent ly sold his SVacre apple ranch at Hood River for $35,000, has located in the city and bought the residence of C. L. Roter round in Woodstock . for $3000. 'Tirmi and city property are in good , Until You BARRETT' v Most Complete 408-410-412 MORRISON ST. . ' Phones: Main 122, A 4154. 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 Beam. 4 to 15-Inch Channels. 1V2X1V2 to 8x8-Inch Angles East End Eurnside-Street Bridge, Portland, Oregon. DAVIS & Phone E. 691 Gas and Electric Fixtures We Are Located at 406-403 E. Burnside, Bet. with a new and modern IHe 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 ADAMANT COMPANY Manufacturers of HARD WALL PLASTERS The Celebrated " Crown" Brand Hair Fibered Cement Plaster. FACTORY t Foot Fifteenth St.; Pacific Phone. M 2100. OFFICKi 433 Worcester Bids.) Pacific Phone Main 718. Home A 1318. The J. McCraken Co. will be pleased to furnish quotations on Herring bone Expanded Steel Lath, Boston Sheet Sletal Lath, All'United Steel Studding, Expanded Metal, Trussit, Universal Corner Bead. THE J. McCRAKEN CO. 231-235 Pine St. Phone Main 270. Portland, Or. demand in Vancouver, Wash., and vicinity." was the statement made by Mr. Thompson, of Thompson & S-an, yesterday. They report the following sales made last week: A 15-acre farm, ten miles northeast of Vancouver, owned by William Carrigan. sold to TV. Lawson for 91250 ; 50 acres, five miles east of Van couver, formerly owned by V. A. Shade to Frank T. Bullock for 5O00: a house and lot in West Vancouver, from Aldy Simons to Mrs. Paulina Swendsen. $1500; a house and lot in West Vancouver, from Thomp son & Swan to Julian Waeser for J1250. Jackson & Deering report having sold to F. A. Knapp for unknown parties the block bounded by Eighteenth. Nineteenth, V'Aiiehn and Wilson. This block has side track fin' Wilson street, while the mainj line iruia uil iiic iiumiiuooi cu.iicl ui 111c block, making the location" a very desir able one for manufacturing purposes. No consideration 1 named, but it Is thought to have run well up into the thousands. This firm has also sold,. in the past few days, at prices running In that vicinity, about 100 lots on the Peninsula. There is considerable activity in real estate along the new Oregon Electric Railroad, both In lots and acreage. The Spanton Company reports the sale of 15 lots in Alder Springs, to Salem people, and although the property has not yet been placed on the market in Portland, they are receiving a number of inquiries. The doubling of the ear service on March 15 will have a tendency to bring lands alon the line prominently before the in vesting public, and undoubtedly property value will Increase rapjdly there this Sumnfcr. Heilman & Lothrop sold to Fremont Everett last week the Dr. B. F. Rowland home on Bast Stark for $6500. Mr. Everett is president of the Sheridan Lumber Com pany. Dr. Rowland and family are to go East soon. Architects Goodrich & Goodrich are preparing plans for a building for Churchill & Ross at Laurel wood, on the Mount Scott Railway, to cost $6000. It will be 100x72x17x114 and lnthe form of a flatlron and two-story. The ground floor will be occupied with, stores, and the sec ond floor will be occupied wiA offices, a ballroom and a lodgeroom.f It will be placed on a concrete foundation. Grcsham "Herald Sold. H. A. Darnall. principal of the Trout dale School, and formerly principal of the Lents School, has bought the Beaver State Herald, published at Gresham by Timothy Brownhill. Mr. Darnall assumes charge Of the paper April L Mr. Brown hill, who is an attorney, will at once move to McMlnnville, to enter on the practice of his profession, but his family will remain at Gresham until July. Mr. Brownhill bought the paper and plant in 1905. and at once infused new life Into It, until it Is considered to rank among the best weekly country papers In the state. He has entered personally into -all enter prises that promised to contribute to the prosperity of Eastern Multnomah and Clackamas Counties. To Con m Cold In One Day Tke LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablet. Drufffists refund money If it fall to cur. HL w. GROVS'6 aijrnature Is on each box. 25c. Have Called at Line in Portland. DRENNEN Phone B 2151 LUl. qjlnd Av?. and E. Sixth ASKS JUDGE TO SET CASES MAXXIXG. VkOVD SEND BASK WRECKERS TO JAIL. Ross and His Associates Fight Prosecntioii by Every Possible Legal Technicality. District Attorney Manning will re quest Presiding Judge Clcland, of the State Circuit Court, today to set the cases agaihet the wreckers of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company for trial the latter part of this month. Judge Cleland will also beasked to hold the Jury In order that the trial of the bank officials may be facilitated. Other wise, . the Jury will be discharged in about 10 days. Through their counsel, the bank of ficials J. Thorburn Ross, George H. Hill, John E. Aitchison and T. T. Burk hart are resorting to every known legal technicality to prevent, if possi ble, their case being brought to an is sue. But thus far District Attorney Manning: has checkmated each move successfully and the defendants have about exhausted their means further of delaying a consideration of their case in the courts. Their counsel has an nounced that he will Invoke every pos sible legal provision in order to pro long the case and it is understood he will todav file af general demurrer to the complaints. If this obstructive step is dismissed by the court, the alleged bank wreckers have still another plan to which they will resort, that of ask ing for a change of venue. This will be resisted vigorously by Mr. Manning, who maintains that the Indicted men are assured of a fair and impartial hearing in this county. "This case has dragged along in the courts longer than it should have," said Mr. Manning yesterday. "By their per sistent and dilatory tactics the defend ants have about used up every legal agency by which they may hope much longer to defer a trial on the charges. T propose tomorrow to have the cases et for trial and shall Insist on a trial of at least one of the indictments the latter part of this month. The new in dictments meet the objections that were first sustained by the court against the original informations and It is only the obstructive tactics of the defendants themselves by Interposing all sorts of frivolous motions that have prevented the cases coming to trial before." It has not been decided finally on which of the four indictments the in dicted bank officials will be tried first. It probably will be that charging the unlawful loaning of state funds, the specific offense being the loan of $10. G00, alleged to have been made to M. B. Rankin. The amount of the loan is said to have been taken from the state school funds which had been deposited temporarily in the bank. Pomona Grange Meets. The quarterly meeting " of Pomona Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, will b We 'want to talk to you NOW about that Ice Ma chine that you will need next Summer. People want clean meats. You need an Ice Ma chine to keep them fresh. Eliminate waste and gain trade by installing an Ice Machine NOW. THE. W. G. McPherson Go. 328 Glisan Street. J. C. CORNICES, ROOFING, SKYLIGHTS, METAL SHINGLES, VENTILATORS, ETC t Phone Main 467. 263-267 Second St. Repair Work Given Prompt Attention Founders. MachinlsU and Boiler makers. Building and Structural Work. PHOENIX IRON WORKS ENGINEERS. Office and Workn,. Hawthorne Avenue and I2aat Third Street. We have removed to 405 Morrison Street. SUTCLIFFE & BLIED Hamer Sutcliffe Estabjished 1878 John Blied Wall Paper, Decorating, House Painting, Graining, Kalsomining, PaperhangUig. Phone Main 1872. Shop and Store 405 Morrison Street. Jos. Hornung, Res. Phone E. 1359. E..Pischer, Res. Phone E. 4587. CITY IRON WORKS Structural and sheetiron workers, blacksmiths, boilennakers ; fire-escapes, sidewalk, aoors and hose casings a specialty. BeL Main 7155. 303 Front St., Corner Columbia, Portland, Oregon. Morrison Electric Company S. C. Jaggar ELECTRICAL Fixtures, Wiring, Supplies. Phones: East 3128, B 1625. 291 East Morrison Street. held next Wednesday in the hall of Evening Star Grange, on the Section Line road. A committee of 15 from Evening Star Grange has been appointed to pro Vide entertainment for those who attend the meeting of Pomona. A large crowd Is expected. It will be the most im portant meeting of Pomona for the year. It being the last before the state grange holds Its annual meeting. It is important also for the reason that there may be some action taken on some of the initi ative and referendum amendments pro posed. POLICEMAN DESERTS WIFE AV. E. West Leaves City After Re- ceivlng Small Legacy. W. E. West, a patrolman in the Port land Police Department for the past five years, has joined the great army of wife-deserters and fled the city. A few months ago W'est was notified of the death of his father in the Illinois town from which the officer came to Portland; also of the fact that his parent had left him a sum of money. Saturday the bequest reached Portland, consisting of $4000 in cash. The possession of so much money at one time seemingly developed an un suspected weakness In West's charac ter, for it now develops that he left Portland Saturday afternoon in the company of a young and handsome woman, abandoning Mrs. West and her two children by a former marriage. Yesterday afternoon Chief Grltz macher was made cognizant of WTest's departure by receiving a short letter from him tendering his resignation from the Police Department. With the letter came a package containing West's star and keys. West made no explanation In the letter of resignation except that he contemplated leaving the city. Mrs. West could not be located last night, but her husband's fellow officers say that before he departed he left $1000 with his wife, which is said to have been enclosed with a short note bidding her farewell, and Informing ler that he would not return. West is said by his superiors to have been a good officer, and had always borne a good reputation. A KBW DSPAKTX'RB. The cost of Interments has been greatly reduced by the Holman Undertaking Company. Heretofore it has been the custom o' funeral directors to make charges for all Incidentals connected with a funeral. The Edward Holmau Undertaking Company, the leading funeral directors of Portland, have departed from that custom. When 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 'h on each funeral. THE EDWARD HOLMAN UNDERTAK ING CO.. 220 Third St.. cor. Salmon. Volunteers Give Ball. The Volunteer Fire Company of Arleta will give a ball tomorrow night at the Kern Park skating rink, to Eecure fund with which to obtain tire apparatus. Telephone Main 852, A 1852. Phone Knur 2ft, PORTLAND, OREGON. J. E. Mason CONTRACTORS WILL REPLACE USECARS ELECTRIC TROLLEY FOR THE STREETS OF ALBAXY. Content Is Promised Between Welch's Company and Own ers of Old Line. ALBANY, Or., March 15. (Special.) That the present horse-car street railway in Albany will be made into an electric line at once and that cars will be run ning within 60 days. Is the announcement made today by J. E. Ross, local man ager of the line. -Machinery has already arrived at the power plant of the Wil lamette Valley Company to operate the cars. This announced change is doubtless to be made for the purpose of preventing an annulment of the present franchise and possibly to fight the franchise recent ly granted A. Welch for the use of several streets. The present line runs from the Southern Pacific depot up to and through the busi ness section of the city along First street. It covers only First and Lyon streets but when the line was built a "blanket franchise" was granted. It has been charged that the company owning the line has- not lived up to the terms of the franchise and" the City Council some time ago Instructed the City At torney to bring suit to annul the franchise. The meaning of the announcement that the horse-car line is to be electrified depends on the ownership of the line, which sems to a certain extent to be concealed in mystery. The line wag owned by Edwin Stone and Con Sul livan, former manager and superintend ent, respectively, of the Corvallis & East ern Railroad, and both of whom are now deceased. It was sold by the Sullivan estate to C. E. Sox, a local attorney, as trustee, for unknown purchasers, and some time later H. Hirschberg. of Inde pendence, announced he was the owner. Hirschberg Is now the ostensible owner but it is current opinion here that he Is acting for some corporation, possibly the Southern Pacific, which may want to defeat the Welch franchise. Ties have already been placed along Second street for the commencement of work on the Welch line and his agents here have announced that rails have been ordered and that work will begin within two weeks. If work thus begins on the rival lines about the same time, a legal warfare over franchises may result with Interesting developments. At any rate It seems that Albany will soon have electric cars In operation. Wife-Deserter Found. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. March 15. Sheriff Holmes, of Chicago, arrived here today and arrested George W'hlte, a young man, on a charge of wife deser tion. White, whose relatives here are prominent people, will be taken back to Illinois tomorrow. He deserted as tho result of a quarrel, it is said.