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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
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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.