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TITE MORMNG OREGOXIAX. MOXDAY, APRIL. 20, 1903.
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ALL KINDS OF
BUILDINGS GO
Dwellings Being Erected and
Projected in All Dis
tricts. ARCHITECTS RUSH WORK
En ft j Scenes In Residence Sections
Give Evidence of Hcmnrkahlc
Growth of City, Kspeclally
In the New Additions.
A. Ewart. architect, tia hoen com
mliaioned by M. Fallay to prepare plans
for a three-story apartment -houpo on
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the site recently bought of W. Pcl.ash
muth, situated Fourteenth and Columbia.
The building is to be 81x103. and will con
tain 33 apartments. The building is now
estimated to cost from $46,000 to $iA0O0.
Tiling is being laid on floors from the
second to the sixth story in the Con
cord building:. Stark and Secgnd streets.
Architect Thomas Jones has been au
thorized by the School Board to pre
pare plans for an eight-room schoolhouse
at Albina.
Competitive plans and rpecitlcations are
to be asked for from Portland archi
tects for the new high school building
to be erected at Emerson street. The
middle of June is the date when tlie.se
plans are to be submitted. The cost of
the building is placed at $T0.000.
The cornerstone of the Y. W. (.". A.
bulldlns was laid on Wednesday. April
IS. Work of const ruction is progressing
favorably, the Ilrst story bcinfj about
completed. Frames for the larse arched
windows of tho assembly-room on the
northeast corner are being7 placed in po
sition. Receipt of bids for tho G. Bettman
residence in Kearney street, between
Twenty-second and Twenty-third, will
.lose today at 1 P. M. at the ofi.ee of
Kable & Kable, architects.
W. I Morgan has in preparation plans
for two frame btiilding.s for the Mc
Afinnvllle College. One building will be
utilized as a science hall, 60x100, and the
othr the conservatory of music, 60x100.
Both buildings will be frame, with a
height of two stories. Their estimated
cost is l.VO0O. Mr. Mrtrgan is also plan
ning a heating plant for the present
college building, which will also serve the
new science hall and conservatory . ot
music.
Emil Sehacht has about completed
plans for the two-story brick warehouse
to be erected for Wallace & Devlin,
100x100. at F-ast Taylor and First streets,
which ts to stand on concrete founda
tions and is estimated to cost HS.uOO.
Fennes. Hendriek & Tohey are ready
to receive bids for the $12.10 residence
of W. J. Van Sehuyver. to be erected'
at Twenty-fifth and Marshall streets.
R. J. Tracy is preparing to build a
fcrsidence on Eleventh street, between
.Main and Jefferson, to cost Jtooo.
Work has been started on the. residence
of William McMurray. general passenger
agent of the Harrtman lines in Oregon,
at East Clackamas and Seventeenth
streets, which is estimated to cost about
Contracts were let Saturday for the
construction of three dwellings on East
Mill and Eighth streets, by R. Martin,
Jr. The houses are to cost 2500 tach.
Ina Park Second I'nited Brethren
Church Is to have a parsonage built in
that place to cost about Moon.
Poyle & Patterson's plans, submitted in
compietitlon for the proposed addition to
the First Presbyterian Church, hare been
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I accepted. The addition la to, occupy the
te on which the manse now stands and
tvill he erxlK).
W. R. Stokes A Company will erect
a small fiat building on Clifton street,
between Ninth and Tenth, to cost
Amonp the plans belns; prepared by
P. A. Cariander are a $90u0 residence
for m M. Haller and one for R. M.
Schmeer to cost about $w0.
Bids were opened for a number of new
buildings last Saturday. Among them
are the Star Brewery, tn Bouth Portland,
by Emil Hrhacht; Charles Sigglin's resi
dence on East Alder, by the same archi
tect; Hawkin s three-story brik at Sec
ond and Main, by R. Martin, Jr.
City authorities have decided not to
beain the erection of the East Side water
office for the present. Joseph Jaeob
heraer made the plans for the building
that was to have been erected at East
Alder and Seventh.
Bids are being received by Claussen &
Claussen for the erection of a flat build
ing for E. C. Fety. 3tix50, at Second and
Main, to cost approximately $7500.
Contract has born let for the con
struction of a factory building for b. B.
Thompson at Front and Mill streets,
100x100. to cost between $10,000 and $15.
uoa. Whidden & Lewis are the archi
tects. Plans have been completed for the
DeYoe flats, by Travis & Wilson. There
will be two apartments of six rooms each
MODERN APARTMENT HOUSE
HII.L APARTMENTS, 1TI KING
and the cost of the building is placed at
Rumors are revived of Inquiries for a
site for a new theater, in fact for two,
as tho East Side Is again agitating the
question of a place of amusement. Orand
avenue seems to be the street most fa
vored for the proposed theater. On the
West Side several localities are being re
ferred to as possibilities for such an
improvement.
Experiments are being made by Mr.
Robinson, father-in-law of Signor De
Caprio. on a fireproof paint. lie has
succeeded in producing a mixture, the
base of which is a silica clay from the
mines at Silica City, which promises the
best results.
Otto & Harkson report the sale of
W. H. Calvan's 50-acre improved fruit
farm near Canby, Clackamas County.
H. McCormiek Is the present owner.
Seven thousand five hundred dollars
was the 'consideration.
Since the opening- of the Salem elec
tric road several tracts in the imme
diate vicinity of Portland have been
platted, and buyers for Investment are
picking; up other tracts which will be
platted when those now in the market
are fairly well disposed of. The same
comment is made with reference to
tracts along- the Mount Hood road.
BURNT CLAY PRODUCT.
The new building of the Toung Wo
men's Christian Association will be a
monument to Portland enterprise and
Portland public spirit from top to bottom.
Every cent of the money for its con
struction was subscribed by Portland
people; every stroke of the labor will
be done by local workmen, and all the
material used in its construction will
come from Oregon soil and Oregon tim
ber. The structure will be of Oregon brick,
than which there is none better. In ad
dition to its being the quickest method
of bulldtnc. brick construction is also the
most enduring and least costly. There
Is not a single argument, save that of
rapidly passing fad or fancy against
brick as in favor of anything else short
of granite or marble.
If proof of the merits of brick con
struction is wanted as compared to any
style of concrete or other material yet
c'.iscovered, hrlck authorities urge the
most scrutinizing examination of brick
structures and of brick walls that have
passed through the most severe tests of
time. fire, water and every other ele
ment of nature.
Portland furnishes a few splendid ex
amples. The walls of the new building of
the Haslewood Creamery Company and
the walls of the building occupied' by the
Pacific Coast Rubber Company are cases
In point. Both these buildings were re
cently subjected to very hot interior fires
and came out in perfect condition.
Though the walls of the Hazelwood build
ing were still green, the mortar being
scarcely dry. they are uninjured.
The results of tests like this on walls
of other material can easily be ascer
tained, as they should and will b by
conscieauous ouuaers.
GOOD SALES IN
ADDITION LOTS
Buyers Pick Up Bargains in
Outlying Districts for
Investments.
NIBBLE" AT OLD SITES
Investors Attracted to Lands AJong
Lines of New Railroads and
Are Buying Against Future
Demand for Towusltes.
Pales of lots in the newly platted
additions are reported as being brisk.
In nearly all the selling: agencies pros-
STREET,
pective buyers during the past week
have kept salesmen busy either clos
ing up deals or showing their tracts.
Saturday afternoon and yesterday num
bers of intending: purchasers made
tours of the several tracts. The open
ing of I-oveleigh. at iorth Piedmont,
for purchasers Thursday produced un
expected results, the owners reporting
the sale of 30 lots that day. The tract
contains about 300 lots. While most
of the sales reported in the new addi
tions are made to intending: builders,
there is a percentage of sales made for
investments by purchasers, in the be
lief that values are to advance with
the continued demand.
There is a condition as regards
down town sites, which is referred to
by dealers as a "nibbling'- market
Several deals are reported to be on
the verge of closing which will, in all
likelihood, come through within the
next few days. Holders of desirable
sites are not disposed to let go unless
considerable advance on price paid for
the property is offered, and buyers
realize that the day ot "snaps" In this
class of realty is past.
The Moore 4 Frost Land Company
reports the sale to B. C. Ely of lot 13,
block 3, Maywood. for 900.
Mall A Von Borstel have sold for F.
E. Cooper to William Tegart the north
west corner of Sixteenth and East Da
vis streets; consideration. J4300. Mr.
Tegart bought for an investment
Demand for acreage within a radius
of ten to 15 miles of the city limits is
unusually active. Tracts of land suit
able for gardening and small fruit cul
ture are in good request and the more
desirable locations are being taken up
rapidly. At no time since the city
awakened to its possibilities could
sites for manufacturing plants be ob
tained on more favorable terms. Own
ers of tracts are willing to practically
donate land for the establishment of
such enterprises, realizing that the re
maining lots will be enhanced in value
bj their location.
The following sales were recently
made by Thompson & Swan; Forty
acres, one mile from Brush Prairie,
Wash., formerly owned by O. W.
Thompson, to G. Van De Iander. for
$3000: five acres near Vancouver Lake,
formerly owned by the Quigley estate,
to William Town, for t-000: 40 acres!
one mile east of Proebstei, from J.
I.awhead and wife to J. C. Pohle. for
3150: 0 acres, three miles north of
Vancouver, from Paul Brows' and wife
to J. W. Branstator. ior $7500; 52 acres,
five miles east of Vancouver, from V.
A. Shade and wife to J. W. Bullock, for
$5000; 40 acres, five miles northeast of
Vancouver, from F. o. Triebly to Lovd
Leach, for $200: 133 acres, ten miles
northeast of Vancouver, from R. S.
Brown to Paul Ramsey, for $12,500;
lots in "Beacon Place" and city proper
ty amounting to $500.
Large quantities of machinery are being
ordered by Japan from Great Britain.
Among the latest orders is an immense
heating plant, for a group of manufactories,
and a compl.te outfit for a new sugar-making
Industry.
PACIFIC IRON WORKS
O. E. Heintz, Kanager. 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 Channel.
l'axlVa to 8x8-Inch Angles
East End Burnside-Street Bridge, Portland, Oregon.
BARRETT'S
Gas and
Electrical
FIXTURES
408-410 MORRISON STREET .
Phones: Main 122 Home A 4154
LOWE BROS. "HIGH STANDARD" PAINT
Gives Best Results
RASMUSSEN & CO.
Second and Taylor Distributers
Repair WJrk Given Prompt Attention Founders, Machinists and Boiler
makers. Building and Structural Work,
PHOENIX IRON WORKS
E!GIEBRS.
Office and Worku,
Hawthorn. Av.nn. and Eaat
Third Street.
Now is the Time to Paint Get Oor Estimates.
SUTCLIFFE & BLIED
Hamer Sulellffe EalRbllahed 1S78 John Blled
WALL PAPER, DECORATING, HOUSE PAINTING, GRAINING,
KALSOMINING,
Phono i Main 1S73, A 22tt.
We have a neat line of Gas, Electric and Combination Chandeliers, and
will be pleased to see any one interested in -wiring or fixtures.
We will meet jou evenings by appointment.
A. T. Samuels W. W. Sansom-
THE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO.
490 Washington St. Phones: A 3881, Main 4884.
J. C. BAYER
CORNICES, ROOFING, SKYLIGHTS, METAL
SHINGLES, VENTILATORS, ETC
Phone Main 467. 263-267 Second St.
FAVORS MORE SOCIALISM
Mr. Cyrus Diwusses the Elimina
tion of Individualism.
SCIO. Or.. April 18. To thff Editor.) I
read with much interest an editorial in last
Sunday's Oreronlan on "The Soread of
Anarchv" and am pleased with the fair
nee? and truthfulneM with which were set
forth the tnets of the two diametrically
oppoeed schools of thousht anarchy and
socialism.
Thousands of well-meaning but unthink
ing people do not know that our present
form of government has anything in com
mon with either socialism or anarchy. They
have not given enough thought to sociology to
know that there cannot, from the very na
ture of things, be more than the two theo
ries of government that all forms or con
ditions of society must be either socialistic
or anarchistic, or else a mixture of the two.
Our present form of government, as The
Oregonian states, is a mixture. Now,
are we suffering1 from too much
socialism or too much anarchy, in this mix
ture? Evidently it must be one or the
other. If the trouble is caused by the offend
ing parties following too closely the "social
will," then we already have too much social
ism. But. on the other hand, if the trouble
Is cauped by the offender folio wink hV
"individual will1' too closely, then we have
too much anarchy in the mixture.
It seams to me from what 1 have been
able to gather from a study of the human
race, or rather the history of the race, that
our advancement In government and social
conditions has been Just in proportion aa
society has taken away the power of the
Individual along governmental lines, or
along any line that interferes with the wel
fare of the people as a whole. in other
words, it has been a constant growth to
wards socialism since the days of primitive
man. when anarchy reigned supreme. If
anarchy is the true theory regarding gov
ernment. If It is really nature's law. as its
advocates contend, how comes It that the
growth of society has been oonataatly away
from It. and all unconsciously, too, u to
comparatively recent times, and why do
we find so much socialism Incorporated In
modern" society? Could this growth of social
ism be anything other than the workings
of nature to eliminate the evils of indi
vidualism or anarchy?
And now, since a large and ever Increas
ing number of people are becoming con
scious of the direction In which the forces
or nature moved when men were uncon
scious of it, is It reasonable to suppose that
they will right-about-face and go marching
back to that anarchistic condition out of
which necessity forced them? Well. I can't
think so.
Since we now see the direction in which
nature has forced us to travel, and since
history proves that the social conditions of
man has constantly grown better, it seems
to me that it is the part of wisdom to
get in line with nature, and I am confident
that our pTesent-day social or governmental
ills will be solved Just as they have been
in the past by a further application of the
principles of socialism and the elimination
of anarchy, or that milder term, which
means the same thing, "individualism."
O. B. CYRUS.
AMERICAN-BRITISH TREATY
Writer Hints It May Be Considered
at a Meeting Here.
PORTLAND, April 10. (To the Editors
Several week ago the distinguished Phila
delphia Jurist, Hon. Michael Ryan, In his
offi'-IM capacity as National president of the
United Irish League of America, mailed a
copy of a circular letter to this city, re
questing Irishmen to protest to the editors
of local newspapers against fals reports
of the political conditions in Ireland, cabled
by so-called special correspondents and
others, whose purpose Is to picture Ireland
a In the hands of an Irresponsible mob of
Get Our
Estimates
Phone East SK.
PORTLAND, OREGON.
PAPERHANGING
Shop and Ptore 403 Morri.on Street.
"cattle drivers" 'and other alleged law
breakers of various kinds, and moreover,
that the "church party" whatever that
means had turned on the "agitaors" and
was about to declare them anathema. In
fine, that these "fake" purveyors of "fake"
news would have the American people be
lieve that Irishmen of the present day are
unfit for self-government anol little deserved
the sympathy, much lees financial aid. for
political purposes from the Irishmen of
America.
This matter may come up at a mass meet
ing, called for Sunday afternoon In this
city, a word of advice to my countrymen.
I am not an apologist for newspapers in
Portland. I am not sure that they need one.
I assume that their editors are not trans
Atlantic mind-readers and that they publish
what is cabled them from London and Dub
lin for what it is worth, and I have seen
no secular editorial comment In this city
on which to base a protest by Irishmen. But
I have seen "cawtholic" editorial expression
in this city within the past 4i days, advising
Iriph-Amerfcans to attend to their own busi
ness and not to worry over the troubles of
Ireland or the Irish, for the reason that
they can do little to help Ireland anyway
that their real mission here in America is
to follow the smoke of certain people, whose
Jove of the Irish and their welfare would
seem to be. from recent events, dependent
solely on the length of time they can hold
their snouts In the political trough.
No matter what they may do. true Irish
men will never forget Ireland and will al
ways be true to the old land. It follows,
then, at the coming mass meeting, that If
there la any protesting to be done it will
not be to the Portland dally newspaper. As
to others, we shall see.
In its news columns this morning. The
Oregonian states, from English sources, that
Irish societies which are sending protests to
the Department of State at Washington. D.
C, agafnst a treaty of arbitration with
Great Britain, are not patriotic. Irish-American
societies do not have to seek English
advice or Instruction as to what is their
patriotic duty as American citizens.
If they believe such a treaty to be in
jurious to their country, they are bound In
conscience to protest against it. The his
tory of the United States depicts England as
a persistent and treacherous enemy of this
country. On the floor of Congress yester
day, England was accuse of trying to trick
us In- pulling her chestnuts out of the fire
In the Congo State matter, and Ambassador
Reid was ridiculed as an asinine flunkey in
knee breeches.
If Irishmen, by experience, did not know
the true character of British diplomacy and
did not warn their countrymen of the same,
they would be false to their oath of allegi
ance to the United States.
I hope this mass meeting "Sunday will
have the true Irish ring. If they invite me
to speak I will pay my compliments to a few
political "stiffs" in thta city, who think they
carry the Irish xote in their vest pockets.
' M. J. M URN ANTE.
Tevlsfrn to Pave Streets.
LEWISTON. Idaho. April 19. CSpecial.)
The City Council of Lewiston last night
passed the initiatory resolution which
launches the movement to provide the
city with a pavement throughout the
principal business district. Ail the area
from First street to Ninth and north of
Main to the Clearwater Is included In
the proposed paved area. A committee
of citizens from the Commercial Club,
after an exhaustive canvas of the prob
lem of paving material, considering the
questions of durability, sanitation and
cost, have agreed on the use of wood
blocks, and will no doubt utilize the native
tamarack In the construction, because it
is available and ranks high In durability.
Drops Dead at Work.
ALBANY, Or.. April 19. (Special.)
James Murray, an employe at St. Mary's
Hospital, In this city, dropped dead with
heart failure at the hospital yesterday.
He was a native of Ireland, it years old.
Mr. Murray formerly live at Jefferson,
WE INSTALL
STEAM, HOT WATER OR WARM
AIR HEATING PLANTS.
Absolutely nothing but the best, and a
"McPherson" guarantee goes with
every plant.
THE W. G. McPHERSON CO.
HEATING ENGINEERS
Go to the Comet Electric Co.
SALESROOMS, 412 MOHKISOX STREET.
FRED D. WIl.SOX, PRES. A. V. PARKS, SEC.-MGR.
Experts In Modern Wiring and Coniult Work. Estimates and Speclfl-
v cations Furnished. ,
piioxes main r.nsn am) a ir.44.
- Suce.NSorM to the Ifins; Department of the Barrett Company.
THE ADAMANT COMPANY
Manufacturers of
HARD WALL PLASTERS
The Celebrated "Crown" Brand Hair Fibered Cement Plaster.
FACTORY i Foot Fifteenth St.) Pnelflp Phone. M 210t.
OFf'HEl 433 Worcester Bids.; Pacific Phoue Main 7 IS. Home A 1318.
Jos. Hornung, Res. Phone E. 1359. E. Fischer, Res. Phone E. 4587.
CITY IRON WORKS
Structural and sheetiron 'workers, blacksmiths, boilermakers; fire-escapes,
sidewalk, joors and hose casings a specialty..
Tel. Main 7155. 303 Front St., Corner Columbia, Portland, Oregon.
THE J. McCRAKEN CO.
Ajrents in Orejrou for ROCHE HARBOR LIME. Also dealers in Im
ported Fire Bricks, Imported and Domestic Fire Clays.
231-235 Pine St. Thone Main 270. Portland, Or.
S. C JAGCAR . J. E. MAXON
MORRISON ELECTRIC COMPANY
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS
FIXTURES, WIRING, SUPPLIES
291 EAST MORRISON ST. Phones East 3128; Bl 625
but has resided in this city the past year,
He was for years a railroad employe and
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Saxton. Architect. 242-244 Security
Rank Building, Minneapolis.
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There Is a full basement 7 feet 6
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both f) feet liigh. sisse 26 feet wide and
48 feet long. Finished throughout in
Washington fir, with birch floors.
By special arrangement with The
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