THE; 3IORXIXG-' OREGOXJAN, FRIDAT, DECEMBER 10, 1909.
YEON SKYSCRAPER
BIDS ARE OPENED
JOY FIELDS SOUGHT
YOUNG WOMEN SELLING RED CROSS CHRISTMAS' STAMPS AT MEIER & FRANK CO'S-
j Install Playgrounds for Chil
dren, Mayor's Aim.
Price Falls Within Estimates
; and Early Construction
COMMITTEE'S REPORT DUE
Is Indicated.
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WILL BE TALLEST I.N CITY
Cost Wm Be About $5 35,000, and
Structure Will Be Orn WboIIy
Fireproof and Modern In
Its Appointment-.
Plans for 15-story busings" block. .nd
. office building, to be the largest and finest
structure in Portland, -were filed with City
Building Inspector Dobson yesterday, and
a building permit will be Issued within a
few days. The structure Is for John B.
"Yeon and the building l? to be erected on
the northeast corner of Fifth and Alder
mree. The. hulirilnK will be. the tallest
in the city, rising 13 full stories, to which
will be added a cupola.
The plans have been prepared by Reed
' Bros., of Fan Francisco. They bavf been
'. turned over to various contractors and
bids already have been received and
opened, not only from contractors here,
but from building firms all over the Pa-
cific Coast. Mr. Yeon said yesterday that
the figures were within the estimates and
the building will be constructed at a cost
of about $575,000. The exact figures were
not given out by the rrhit-3ei.
The building will ho used entirely for
stores on the first floor snd for offlices
on the upper floors. Mr. Vcon Is now
onrideriug a proposal to lease the four
lower floors to an Kastern firm for a de
partment store. No definite arrangement
. bss been made in this connection.
The property is In the hea rt of the dis
trict in which , the greatest amount of
building has been going on. Tt is a full
quarter block. l'xl feet, and 1s now
occupied by frame buildings, rented from
month to month. As soon as Mr. Yeon
and Mr. Reed return from San Fran
cisco, where they have gone to complete
the arrangements for financing the con
struction, thee' tenants will receive the
required 30 days' notice to move and work
will lie bPRiin.
The structure will be fireproof, but in
this connection the word fireproof carries
more with It than is usual in giant office
buildings. There will not be a stick of
wood in the completed building. The
window casements, the door trim and the
finishing will be of concrete or metal,
and the general design will be modern. It
is staled that it will be so constructed that
If a raging fire were built In one room the
interior of the adjoining rooms would not
be scorched.
The first three floors will present a
massive appearance, the design calling
for a solid stone base, which will extend
upward this distance. The whole ex
terior will be brick and Btone, with an
ornate lobby design, slabs of solid marble,
artistic metal work nd beautiful lighting
fixtures being features. The cornice will
be highly ornamental. The decoration of
the tipper stories will begin at the 32th
floor.
The building will be one of the many
line structures in the same neighborhood.
The Corbett building. Commercial Club.
Lumbermen's building, the Friede block,
the Swetland bujlding, Meier & Frank's
new store and numerous other structures
Tiavo been built recently along the streets
at the intersection of which the Teon
building is to rise, while on the same
block the Morgan-Bushong building will
ho erected and across the street is to be
built a beautiful structure ''for Lipman,
M'olfa & Co. The Klectrlc building is
being erected two blocks west of the
Yeon building. Plans are under way for
other large structures nearby.
JNTEltEST IX IiEASE IS SOLD
liuslionsr to Join With Morgan in
Building Downtown.
AV". A. T. Bushong has contracted to
buy a half interest in the lease held by
"VV. Ij. Morgan on 100x100 feet at the north
west corner of Fourth and Alder streets.
tTndrr the terms of the 30-year lease held
by Mr. Morgan, he was not allowed to
sell his lease until the building required
by its terms is completed, and for that
reason, instead of purchasing outright this
half Interest. Mr. Bushong has contracted
to buy it... He will, also provide one-half
the money required for the erection of the
building, work on which will begin on
March 1. and which will bo completed
within three months from then.
Mr.- Morgan leased the property two
months ago from the Wiley heirs. The
lease calls for a payment of $1500 a month
for the full term, save for the first six
months, when the rental will be $750 a
month. This gives a total rental of
$535,500 in 30 years. The lease also calls
for a building of not less than for stories
and costing not less than SSO.00O. That
the lease is not speculative is shown by
the bond entered into to secure It. Here
the bonding company has demanded that
the building be started on March. 1, re
serving the right to build itself if Mr.
Morgan does not do so.
Contracts for excavating have been let.
Mr. Morgan said yesterday that he had
not fully decided on the full size of the
building to be erected, but did not think
he would build higher than eight stories.
He stated, however, that he would break
every building record ever made in Port
land in speed of construction, rushing
work with day and night shifts, the -night
shifts working under electric light.
Mr. Bushong. who recently sold his in
terests in the Bushong printing establish
ment, will go to Kurope next month. He
will leave Portland on January 6. and will
sail from New York on January '20. The
price paid to Mr. Morgan for the lease has
not been made public. Mr. Morgan stated
that he was offered $75,000 forthe lease
after ho had erected tho building, as
profit in addition to the cost of the build
ing. This offer, he said, he rejected, but
he said that the price contracted to be
paid by Mr. Bushong was even better for
a half Interest.
Mr.. Bushong said that both he and Mr.
Morgan had been offered more than $75.
000 for a relinquishment of the lease since
the papers were signed.
QUARTER BLOCK IS MTUCIIASED
Holding at Thirteenth and Flanders
Brings $36,000.
The George W. Jones property, consist
ing of a quarter block at the southwest
corner of Thirteenth and Flanders streets,
was sold yesterday for $06,000. The prop
erty is improved with a two-story flat
building containing four flats. I in eight
room dwelling and a small cottage. The
owner. George W. Jones, lives in Jack
sonville. 111. lie was represented by 1
I'arker Bryon & Co.
The name of the purchaser is not made
public. It was said in Mr. Bryon's office
that another real estate agent appeared
and tendered a check for tho property
and. on its acceptance, asked that his
name bo withheld! for the present. . j
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MAYOR FAVORS PLAN
Police Station May Become
Fire Headquarters.
NEW HOME BADLY NEEDED
lresent Headquarters in Dilapidat
ed Condition City ' Executive's
Inquiry of Fire Houses Puts
Stop to Cry of Critics.
Mayor Simon and members of the fire
committee ' of the Executive Board are
unanimously in favor of- making the old
police station building, at Second and
Oak streets, the headquarters of ' the
Portland Fire Department when the po
lice move Into-their new home in" the
County Courthouse.
This developed at the fire, committee
meeting yesterday, when Samuel Connell
and S. C. Pier, the members present, so
expressed themselves, and the , Mayor
later added that he favors it.
"I certainly favor making the Fire- De
partment headquarters of the city's build
ing at Second and- Oak -streets, -said -the
Mayor, when informed of the statements
made by Messrs. Connell and Pier. "That
would be an ideal place, and an excellent
solution of the problem."
Proposition Meets With Kavor.
During the progress of the fire commit
tee's session. Chairman Connell expressed
the belief that the old police building,
properly remodeled, would be the proper
lace for the headquarters of the Fire
Department. Mr. Pier strongly favors it
also, and expressed himself accordingly.
"It would be an ideal site for head
quarters." said Chief Campbell. "It could
"One Million" Is the Slogan
of Red Cross Stamp Campaign
Nearly One-Quarter of This Number Is Already Disposed of, and Sales
Are Steadily on Increase.
Number of Red Cross stamps to be
sold : 1.00O.OOO
Stamps M for week beginning De
cern oer i 234.571
Balance to be sold by January 1 . . . 763,429
The slogan of this year's Red Cross
stamp campaign in Oregon is "1,000,000."
A brave showing was made by the
"white plague" tightcrs during the first
week, when nearly a quarter of a million
of the little stickers were sold. This Is
independent of the stamps sent to vari
ous towns throughout the state, and is
also exclusive of the number disposed of
in the various booths.
But three-fourths of the work remains
to be done, and the time growing short
in which to do it.
Statistics carefully compiled by the as
sociation officers show that by the ex
penditure of $1 a tubercular patient can
be cared for in his or her own home for
one day. Translated into stamps, this
means that each individual by buying
100 Red Cross stamps supplies a sufferer
from consumption with the necessities of
the present scientific treatment of tuber
culosis for 21 hours.
The Visiting Nurse Association .expends
the dollar as follows:
2 quarts milk , ,20
1 dozen egjes . . m "40
Falary of nurse .......... .H5
Alcohol .............I. 05
Total $1.00
The purchase of 1000 stamps means
that the individual buying them provides
one week of life-giving treatment in an
open-air sanitarium for the unfortunate
sufferer.
Kvery consumptive u 11 cared for is a
public danger, yet only one-tenth of the
LOCH BAl KIt, Bt VIMi STAMPS: MISS
HARRT LITT, SELI,1.K STAMPS.
be remodeled and made sanitary and fixed
so that we could house our water tower
there.- That is the proper place for the
tower, which we hope to get before long."
The proposition to use. the .police sta
tion for Fire Department headquarters
was brought to light by the discussion as
to . the advisability of the city repairing
and remodeling station houses at First
and Jefferson and Second and Oak streets.
Plans were started long ago to this end.
even prior to the present agitation of
certain individuals as to the alleged dis
content among firemen.
The committee had before it a report
of a local architect, proposing some al
terations and additions to the two houses
named, and the discussion took the form
of a question as to whether it would be
wise to make extensive repairs to the
house at Second and Oak. the home of
Hose and Chemical '. Companies No. 1,
should the' administration decide to con
vert the police station Into Fire Depart
ment headquarters. The matter was
finally laid over, pending further investi
gation. Present Home Dilapidated.
The present headquarters of the Fire
Department are at Fourth and Yamhill
streets, but the building is dilapidated,
and will soon have to be replaced. It is
probable the property will be sold, if the
city changes the -headquarters' location.
The committee declined to take any ac
tion concerning a petition signed "Port
land Fire Department," asking for addi
tional time off each week, and attacking
the system and rules of the department
in many particulars.
Since Mayor Simon made his unan
nounced trip of inspection through the
West Side firehouses Monday night, find
ing conditions good, the critics have been
silent. The Mayor saw for himself fire
men going about in these houses with
their coats off on the coldest day of the
Winter.- whereas it :had been stafed that
they were cold, and that they were shiv
ering and - suffering from the elements.
The members of the committee will visit
the two station ' houses to see what is
needed properly to house the men.
Chief Campbell recommended the dis
missal of Charles Specknagel, ' chief en
gineer of the flreboat, and the committee
will so report to the Board this after
noon. He is said to have fallen asleep
while on duty.
Today is positively the last day for dis
count on West Side gas bills. Read "Gas
Tips." "
cases are in the hospitals and' sanita
riums. That means that nine-tenths of
the victlnfs are fighting the dread enemy
in their homes, either intelligently or
otherwise.. But -in. both classes there is
tremendous need for help, and this help
the Visiting Nurse Association aims to
give, if only the people, will buy gener
ously of the .Christmas Red Cross stamp,
as the tubercular work of the association
is cared for entirely out of the proceeds
from the sale of these stamps.
A booth has been opened at the Hotel
Perkins, in charge of Mrs. Frank Rigler
and Miss Maude Howell. Today . booths
will be established in the hotels Oregon
and Imperial. . . .
Orders for more stamps are . being - re
ceived daily from, the public schools.
There is a . great deal of rivalry as to
which will sell most of the little stick
ers. I-incoIn High School is still -in the
lead, with several others striving hard to
take first honors. Those in charge of
the booths today are as follows:
In the morning- at Meier & Prank's. Miw
Ixutse MMick and ajwlstant; in the afternoon,
airs. George Marshall and assistant
id. JVortman & King's, Mrs. Alvln
Boody and Mrs. Howard Corbett.
At the Poatoffice. Miss Doyle add assistants.
Woodard. Clarke & Co.. In the momlns.
Mis Flora. Kletsohner and Mis, Louise
Vaughan. In the afternoon. Mm c. S. Jack
son and Mrs. L. Tarpley
At Lipman, Wolfe CO. Miss Alta Rush
and assistant. -
At the Hotel Portland, in the forpnoon, Misn
Lisa "ttoodi and Mi? Margaret Waiter: In the
afternoon, Mljss Sarah Jacobs and Miae; Ella
Jtummelin.
Hotel Oregon, Mrs. rrank Kerr and Mrs. H.
M. Oarlock.
Imperial Hotel, Mrs. Arthur Chance and as
i9tants. Perkins Hotel, Mrs. Frank Rigler and Miss
Uauiii Howell.
M.UtGAHET HOOT .MD MHS.
JOE DAY ACCUSED
Special Agent Charges Detec
tive With Brutality.
BEfT BOY, HE DECLARES
Arrest for Snowballing Women Is
Start of Trouble Maguire, Taken
for Interfering, -Retaliates
' With Warrant.
Charges against Detective Joe Day, the
veteran plain clothes man of the Port
land Police Department have . been
brought by R. J. Maguire, a special agent
of the United States District Attorney's
office, alleging brutality and abusive and
profane language.
The charges are the result of the ar
rest of Maguire, made 011 Tuesday, by
Detective- Day. for having interfered
while the detective was taking into cus
tody 15-year-old Harry Adier, a news
boy, whom the officer says was throw
ing snow balls at young women who
were passing, two of them having struck
the young women in' the" face. Maguire
declared' that Detective Day -without pro
vocation abused him scurrilously.
"I saw a largo crowd gathered ' and
went to see what had transpired." said
he. "I saw the boy in the grasp of the
detective, the officer choking him and
the blood streaming from the lad's nose.
I did not see the man strike the boy,
but other newsboys told me that he had
done so. I did not know the man was
an officer, and I stepped up to Day-and
asked him what the trouble was. With
out explaining that he was an officer he
cursed me in vile language and when I
told . him that he could not talk to me
that way be arrested me, too. and
charged me with interfering with him."
Detective Day is out of the city, having
been sent to Wisconsin to bring back a
prisoner. The arrest of Maguire oc
curred the day before Day was scheduled
to leave for the- East. The detective
reauested that Maguli-e's case be post
poned until his return, so that he might
see that the case was prosecuted. Ac
cording to the present plans of Maguire,
Detective Day himself will be arrested
upon his return to this city for assault
and battery upon the boy.
The day Alder was brought to the police
station Detective Day stated that the
boy had fought him all the way, under
encouragement from Maguire. and that
he had been obliged to exert force to
make the arrest and keep the boy from
escaping. .
HIS SONG IS DRAMATIC
Dr.- Wn liner Portrays Kmotions
Through German Lieder.
Dr. Wullner's wonderful art In por
traying passion - through song has cre
ated much comment. His American de
but last year took critics and music
lovers alike by storm. Forty concerts
had been arranged, but so tremendous
was his suceesB that he' was compelled
to give 120 to supply the demand.
This year the Pacific Coast is particu
larly fortunate in Abtaining him first, be
fore he is fatigued by the extraordinary
crush that is sure to take place in the
demand for dates eastward. His recitals
just given in San Francisco have aroused
a furore -of excitement.- No hall seemed
to be large enough to accommodate the
crowds that thronged the -box office.
Four concerts to immense audiences still
left San Francisco unsatisfied.
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That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QUI NINK. Look
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Simon Anxious to Equip Every Park
With Sport Spots for JuTeniles.
Cost of Apparatus
Is Slight.
Mayor Simon has decided to recommend
to the Park Board the creation of numer
ous playfields throughout the city. To
this end he will ask for a report from a
special committee of the City Council,
named by him some time ago. as to the
location and size of all municipal property
that may be used for such purposes. That
the most urgent feature of parks is the
small plot set aside for children is the
belief of the Mayor, and he is anxious to
equip a number of playfields in time for
next Summer.
"It is my purpose." said the Mayor yes.
terday, "to utilize quite a number of pieces
of city property in various sections for
playgrounds. There are a good many of
these small pieces of property that will
make excellent places for the children,
and I am strongly in favor of equipping
them with sufficient apparatus to enable
the children of Portland to have places to
play instead of playing in the streets, as
they have to do to a great extent now.
The cost" of fitting these out will not be
very great, and it will be a paying In
vestment, As far as I am personally con
cerned. T am more deeply interested in
this feature of park work than in the ac
quisition of large tracts. I want to im
prove' what parks we already have, and
to build some bouleyards, but I am very
anxious -to prepare for next Brimmer a
number of children's playgrounds." .
T11 the Mayor's opinion the most urgent
need is for playgrounds, as they can be
put to good use immediately, and are com
paratively Inexpensive. The Mayor Is.also
in favor of large parks and a system of
boulevards, but he believes this feature
must be dei-eloped gradually, as it is
very expensive. He will urge that the
proposed Terwilliger - boulevard be im
proved next Spring, this being a strip one
mile long and 200 feet wide, donated by
the Terwilliger heirs, through J. P. Mof
fett. Tt runs along the hills on the West
Side, and will be a part of the boulevard
system planned to connect all of the parks
on tooth sides of the Willamette River..
The city has purchased a large area of
park property, comprised of tracts in va
rious sections, one of the largest being on
Mount Tabor. When Mayor Simon took
office, he at once stopped the further
acquisition of large parks, declaring that
the city has - enough ground, and
that the proper thing to do is to improve
sites already owned by the city.
Now Portland has only one small par
tial playground, located in one of the
North Park Way -blocks. It is the pur
pose of the Mayor and members of the
Park Board to add to the equipment of
this place, and also to install apparatus
in a small tract at Milwaukie and Powell
streets, and in LJncoln Park, in Lower
Albina. Bids are being asked for on the
apparatus, which will cost approximate
ly $5000.
Park Superintendent Misohe has instruc
tions from the Board to report at the
next meeting as to what tracts and what
localities are the proper ones for play
gsounds. He is engaged in compiling a
report along those lines.
SELLWOOD PAVING ZONE
Suburb Plans to Become Hard-
Surface District Meeting Called.
A movement is on foot to make Sell
wood a hard-surface district. A special
meeting of the Sellwood Board of Trade
has been called by President Donauch
for next Monday night at the Sellwood
Library to appoint the necessary work
ing committees.
As proceedings have been started to im
prove Umatilla avenue, Tacoma avenue.
Maiden, East Ninth and East Nineteenth
streets with gravel, these improvements
will be stopped, if possible," that all of
Sellwood may become a district in which
no cheap improvement can be made.
The district is bounded tentatively by
the boulevard on the north. Linn avenue
on the south. Grand avenue on the west
and East Twenty-third street on the east.
Sellwood has wanted better pavement for
some time, but not until Mayor Simon
announced his attitude on street improve
ment did the movement assume definite
form. Mr. Donaugh says the Board of
Trade will urge that gas, water and sewer
pipes be laid at once preparatory to hard
surface improvements being laid.
Brazil's foreign trade in the flrt four
months of tnl year totaled a value of SMS. -776.000,
an increase of S18.300.000 over that of
tne nrsc tour rr.ontns of JHOS. Imports were
JS5.O00.OOO, a decrease of $9,000,000. and ex
ports 93,00O,O0C. an increase of $27,000,000.
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