3UE , MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, MAT - 10, 1910.
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THREAT TO ISOLATE.
MOFJTAUILLA MADE
Health Officer. Says Parents
Must Keep Scarlet Fever '
Quarantine.
CASES ARE MILD IN TYPE
Care Enjoined, Lest Malignant Form
Develop Dr. 1lieeler Says He
May Stop Streetcars and
Arrest Lawbreakers.
Because of the prevalence of mild cases
of scarlet fever in the Montavilla school
district and because of a disposition said
to have been manifested by parents to
disregard quarantine measures, Dr. C. H.
Wheeler. City Health Officer, threatens
to quarantine that entire section.
It was reported yesterday that,' there
were many mild cases so mild that
neither the children nor their parents
knew what they were until a school in
spector had caused 'a diagnosis to be
made by a representative of the Board
of Health. Unwillingness to observe
quarantine even aftpr attention had been
called to the facts, however. Is the chief
cause of the health officer's Ire.
"The situation in the Montavilla dis
trict is a repetition of difficulties ex
perienced with newly-annexed territory,"
said Dr. Wheeler, yesterday. "Residents
of the outlying districts become accus
tomed to do as they . please, and when
they become a part of the city, do not
want to obey regulations or be told what
to do. Children with mild cases of scar
let fever have been attending the Monta
villa school and mingling with each other
without regard to quarantine measures.
Tt would do no good to close the school,
for the children would mingle just the
same. When they are in school we can
watch them and when they are absent
we look them up to find out why they
are absent.
Stern Measures Threatened.
'The parents will not call a doctor,
and when we get the children they laugh
and say nothing is the matter. I have
talked to those people all I propose to,
and unless they pay strict attention to
quarantine regulations I shall get out
warrants of, arrest for those caught
breaking the law, and if necessary close
up their streetcar line and shut off that
whole section of the city and everybody
In it from the outside world.
"It is true that the cases have been of
Ihe mildest form, but there is no know
ing when a new case might develop into
a malignant type, and then the situation
would be serious. In all parts of the
city, and particularly on Twenty-third
street, where the four deaths occurred,
Ihe situation is well In hand.
"There has been more of a scare over
scarlet fever than an epidemic. About
SO cases have been reported during the
last three months. Had it not been for
the four deaths in a district where the
disease assumed a malignant form, from
lome unknown cause, I doubt if there
would have been any scare. I have tried
to find out the cause of the malignant
torm on Twenty-third street, but the only
reason that seems, apparent is that all
the streets in that territory are torn up.
tt is possible the stirring up of the
ground had something to do with it. At
ny rate, contractors should not be al
lowed to tear up miles of streets at a
time and leave them in an impassable
a.nd probably unsanitary condition for a
month or six weeks.
Parents Can Help.
I'l believe the situation is now well
In hand, and, with the assistance of
parents, we will be able soon to stamp
Dut the disease.
"The situation again brings out the
need for a municipal quarantine hospital
for contagious diseases. St. Vincent's
Hospital has a section set apart for con
tagious diseases, but it is not large
enough. Plans have been discussed for
a quarantine hospital to be built by the
county and city, and I hope -that it will
soon be done."
According to Dr. Robert C. Tenney, ex
State Health Officer, there are no par
ticular symptoms of scarlet fever that
will indicate to the patient presence of
the disease.
"The disease takes hold in various
ways," said Dr. Yenney. "It may be so
mild that persons do not know they have
It., and again it may start with vomiting,
high fever and convulsions. There is no
particular way of preventing the disease
that I know of, except to avoid exposure.
The best preventive is to stay in the
house, obey quarantine regulations and
lse plenty of disinfection."
Superintendent Rigler. of the city
tchools, and Dr. Wheeler held a confer
nce yesterdny. Upon advice of Dr.
Wheeler, Superintendent Rigler decided
not to close the schools now, but each
principal and teacher will keep a sharp
watch on all children, and when any be
come ill the case will be immediately re
ported to the heath officer.- It will be
Investigated and. if the case proves to
be scarlet fever the child will be sent
home and quarantined.
Although assurances are held out by
the Board of Health that there need be
no apprehension' of a scarlet fever epi
demic at this time, that the situation is
well in hand and that there probably will
be no spread of the disease. There has
been an exodus of parents and children
from Portland to the beach. Although
the disease has been mostly in private
schools, which are now closed, many
children' have been taken out of the
public schools and sent to the country.
In some cases physicians have advised
parents to take their children out of
school for a week or 10 days until the
scare blows over, but a great many more
have needed no professional suggestion to
leave the scene of possible danger.
QUAKAXTIXE IS AXTIQTTATED
Barracks Hospitals Are Solution, In
View of Dr. Baar.
That Portland's system of quarantine
and treatment of contagious diseases is
wholly Inadequate, has not kept pace
w,ith medical progress, is out of date
and nothing short of being a disgrace
to a civilized community, is the declara
tion of Dr. Gustav baar. The only
solution of the problem, according to
Dr. Baar, is a contagious disease hos
pital, built on the barracks plan, so
that each disease may be treated sep
arately. He advocates the construction
of a municipal institution where the
poor as well as the rich may receive
the best medical attention without en
dangering the lives of immediate mem
bers of their families.
"I am in favor of a municipal hos
pital for contagious diseases," said Dr.
Baar. "If you will consider that it is
illusionary only to think of quarantine
as it is practiced in our city, you will
see the necessity for it. Take, for in
stance, three or four grown-up children
who support their mother. One is taken
sick with measles or scarletina. You
have to quarantine the whole house,
preventing the children from earning
their living and perhaps putting them
back financially for many months. Sup
pose there is a family of children and
one of them is taken with the measles
or Boarletlna, and you have to quaran
tine the whole family, keeping all the
ohlldren out of school for maybe six
weeks and perhaps causing some of
them to lose a whole term.
"Tlfe present facilities for Isolating
contagious diseases are, to say the
least, inadequate, if not positively
harmful. While the St. Vincent's San
itorlum does everything in its power
to accommodate those with contagious
cases many times sick children are re
fused because there is no room. Realize
that in a house crowded into two floors
there are 40 beds, taking care promis
ciously of oases of scarletina, measles,
diphtheria and meningitis, and you will
realize the situation. There ought to
be four or five different houses on four
or five acres of ground, each house
taking care of one disease. This is the
barracks system practiced in every civ
ilized country nowadays. The cost of
such barracks would not exceed $35,000
and the rich as well as the poor would
get excellent service and not endanger
the measles child with conditions of
diphtheria, and so forth. It happened
here two years ago that a child who
was sick with measles died from
diphtheria which it contracted while in
the sanitorium.
"The methods of preventing the dis
semination of infectious diseases are
simple ones, but they cannot and will
not be enforced so long as we have a
quarantine system beneath which there
is much antiquated stupidity."
MAN IS KILLED BY CAR
U. K. Tliurston, Mllwright, Is Run
Down by Oregon Electric.
Stepping out from behind a woodpile at
the corner of Water and Montgomery
streets yesterday morning about 8 o'clock
to be run down and killed by an Oregon
Electric car, was the fate of U. R.
Thurston, a millwright, who lived at
186i Front street.
The car, which was in charge of Motor
man E. J. Haley and Conductor McCree,
was in-bound and running at a fair rate
of speed. It dragged Thurston's body
about 60 feet before it could be brought
to a stop. He was almost decapitated.
Haley, who was much affected by the
accident, said he didn't see the man un
til his car was almost on top of him
and it then was impossible to prevent the
fatality.
Deputy Coroner Dunning took charge of
the body and had it removed to the
morgue, where an inquest will be held
this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The dead
man had no relatives in Portland as far
as is known. Lately he had been em
ployed by L. C. Fones, operator of a
woodsaw. living at 1252 Bun-age street.
He came to Portland from the mining
camps of California and was about 60
years old.
MORK
IS TELLS OF
NOTE PAYMENTS
Banker Says He Carried Slip
of Paper in Brown Envelope
as Cash Item.
FUNDS LOW, HE DECLARES
Proseeutor Clark Js in Midst or
Cross - Examination of Witness
When Court Adjourns Case
Is Not Taken from Jnry.
W. Cooper Morris was on the wit
ness stand in his own behalf in Judge
Gantenbeln's department of the Circuit
Court yesterday afternoon, and made an
effort to unravel the tangled skein of the
Oregon Trust & Savings -Bank's affairs.
His examination by M. J. Gordon, for the
defense, occupied only a half hour, and
Special Prosecutor A. E. Clark was In
the midst of the cross-examination when
time for adjournment came last niglit.
Morris" explanation of the manner in'
which he arbitrarily increased the bank's
cash on paper by the use of the mysteri
ous brown envelopes makes it appear
that the bank was very hard pressed
for money, and perhaps insolvent, long
before it closed its doors.
Cash Low, Says Morris.
Morris testified that the . bank's cash
was very low on August 24, and that in
order to Increase it, he made an arbi
trary credit to loans and discounts of
$25,000, and placing a slip marked "Credit
loans and discounts, $25,000," in a brown
envelope, marked the envelope "Cash
item," and carried it until December 15,
as cash. He did the same thing again on
August 27, he said. When he withdrew the
envelopes, December 15, he simply re
moved the slips, he said, there being no
cash in the envelopes.
He explained the payment yt the $75,000
worth of Moore and Morris notes with
Puget Sound Home Telephone Company
stock, alleged by the state to have been
the property of the bank, by saying that
on October 5, 1308, the bank purchased
$200,000 worth of Puget Sound Telephone
bonds at par, receiving a bonus of stock
to the same amount.
Another Block Bought.
Another block of stock and bonds of
the same amount was purchased on De
cember 11, 1906. he said, after which Louis
J. Wilde, W. H. Moore and Morris en
tered into a secret agreement by which
half the proceeds from the sale of the
stock was to be divided, half to Moore
and Morris, and half to Wilde. This
would give Moore and Morris each an
eighth, and Wilde a quarter of the total
net proceeds. It was this stock, accord
ing to Morris, which he and Moore used
to write off their notes. The notes had
been given in payment 4t the capital
stock of the bank.
Three motions to take the case from
the Jury were denied by Judge Ganten
bein yesterday morning. One was based
on the grand jury's statement in the in
dictment that a full description of the
notes could not be given, because un
known to the grand Jury. Another was
on the ground that the state had not
said on which charge of embezzlement
the indictment stands, whether of money
or of notes, on the assumption there -are
two charges.
One Charge, Says Clark.
Attorney Clark, for the state, main
tains that there is but one charge. There
was also a motion for a directed ver
dict. The order dismissing the 10 indictments
against W. H. Moore, which District At
torney Cameron recommended when
Moore pleaded guilty to the 11th
charge and was fined $1000, have not yet
been entered, although Judge Morrow
made the order in court. Whether he
has yet signed it Is known only to the
judge.
If is said the fact that he has not yet
signed the order, and that it has not
been entered, does not alter the situation,
and that the Moore Indictments remain
dismissed.
COURTROOMS AT PREMIUM
Circuit Judges Seek Bench Far
From Riveters' Racket.
The County Court expects to find two
rooms today in which can be held the
sessions of two departments of the
Circuit Court. It was thought yester
day morning that quarters had been
secured in the City Hall, but Commis
sioner Barnes found the room occupied
by 62 persons taking civil service ex
aminations. There was some talk yes-
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$5.50
Fighting
the
Trust
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SIMON
244 FRONT STREET
MAIN 2002, A 2002
terday afternoon of securing the Coun
cil chamber, but nothing had been done
last night toward securing it. Suitable
rooms may be secured at the Y. M. C
A. or at the Hotel Lenox. New rooms
are necessary because of : the noise
made by the steel riveters on the east
wing of the new Courthouse.
The first case to be tried in one of
the new courtrooms is that of Kinney
& Stampher against P. G. Carlson and
others. A jury was impaneled at the
Courthouse yesterday, but no evidence
was taken. The plaintiffs demand
$15,000 commission from Carlson and
J. A. Kallstrom for the alleged sale of
Columbia County timber land for $150,
000. The defendants allege that C. A.
Mann and Lewis Montgomery, to whom
the timber is alleged by the plaintiffs
to have been sold, merely took an op
tion on it, and afterward failed to pay
the cash and secure a deed.
CONTRACTORS WANT PROFITS
They Say McCabe Ordered Them to
Stop Railroad Work.
Charging the McCabe Construction
Company with breaking a contract for
railroad grading in the Deschutes Val
ley, Crook County, KasoVitch & Co.
brought suit in the Circuit Court yes
terday demanding $7589.90 damages.
Kasovitch & Co. allege their contract
called for the excavating of a tunnel at
$39 a linear foot and planking and
bracing at $10 a foot board measure.
September 30 last year they were in the
midst- of the work, they allege, when
they were notified that another firm
had been employed and that they must
cease., work.
They say the previous grading work
they had done had been accepted by
the engineer in charge, and that as they
would have made a profit of $7440 on
the Job they should be reimbursed.
Train and stage fare expended for the
workmen brings the total amount of
damages to $7589.90.
SANDKKSON GETS HIS ANSWER
Banfield Says He Offered to Re
fund Money Paid for Stock.
M. C. Banfield, of the Banfleld-Veysey
Fuel Company, filed in the Circuit Court
yesterday morning his answer to the
suit of W. U. Sanderson. Sanderson
demands that a farm in Canyon County,
Idaho, .which he traded for 150 shares
of stock in the company, be restored
to him, as well as cash he paid in ad
dition. Banfield denies having misrep
resented the value of the stock and t..e
condition of the company.
After Sanderson bought the stock he
was made manager of the corporation
at $300 a month. ie complains in his
suit that his salary was cut to $200 a
month, when he had been promised an
increase to $500 a month.
Banfield says in answer that Sander
son could not reasonably expect that
Banfield could tell him before Sander
son purchased any stock what the board
of directors would do regarding salary
several months later. Hanfield says
further that on December 23 last year,
when he discovered Sanderson was dis
satisfied with the bargain, he offered to
return his cash and the ranch in Idaho
for the stock, but that Sanderson de
clined the offer.
DICKEY WQUL.D QUASH CHARGE
Attorney Files Demurrer to Indict
ment In Hindu Riot Case.
A demurrer to the indictment against
Gordon Dickey, said to nave been the
leader of the Hindu riots in St. Johns,
was filed in the Circuit Court yester
day, in an effort to quash the charge.
The demurrer sets up that Dickey is
charged with riot, unlawful assemblage,
assault and battery, burglary, larceny,
highway robbery and sundry other
crimes, while the statute provides that
an - indictment may not charge more
than one crime. It is also maintained
by Dickey's attorney that the indict
ment does not designate a particular
crime under the statute.
Haylet Damage Claim Settled.
County Judge ' Cleeton appointed
George Haylett yesterday morning ad
ministrator of the estate of Clarence
A. Haylett. Clarence, who was only
11 years old, was struck and killed by
a Southern Pacific train, while riding
on a milk wagon, July 1, last year. His
estate consists of a claim against the
railway company for damages. The
claim was settled for $850 yesterday
afternoon.
Hill Keeps Plans Secret.
Whatever plans the Hill Interests
REPORT OF STATE EXAMINER SHOWS BANKS TN OREGON TO BE IN VERY PROSPEROUS CONDITION.
SALEM. Or., May 8. (Special.) The quarterly report of James Steel, bank examiner, for the period beginning January 31, 1910, and ending March 29, 1910, shows the banks of the state to
be in a very prosperous condition. There has been an increase of four in the number of state, savings, private and foreign banks, and an increase in the resources of this class of banks of
$3.457,799. S3. There are two new Kationai banks, and an increase in resources of $9,985,133.24. The report follows:
Number of banks..
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts
Overdrafts
Securities, bonds, etc
Banking house, furniture and fixtures
Other real estate owned
Tue from banks fnot reserve banks)
lue from approved reserve agents. .
t'hecks and other cash items ,
Exchanges for, clearing-house
Cash on hand
XJ. S. bonds to secure circulation....
I". S. bonds to secure deposits
U. S. bonds on hand...............
Premiums on I. S. bonds
Klve per cent redemption fund
Expenses
Other items than above
Totals
LIABILITIES. '
Capital stock paid in..
Surplus f u ml
Undivided pro fits. ............ ........
Dividends unpaid....
Due, to banks and bankers..........
Deposits due State Treasurer
Deposits subject to check
Demand certificates of deposit. ..... ..
Time certificates of deposit....
Savings deposits
United States Deposits
Deposits U. S. disbursing officers....
Notes and bills re-discounted
Bills payable
Cer. of dep. issued for money borrowed
National bank notes outstanding....
Reserved for taxes..................
Other liabilities
Totals
State. Savings, Private and Foreign Banks.
Mar. 29, 1910
144
$30,099,325.72
533,748.91
9,508.937.16
1,500,654.55
611,071.00
1.437,425.54
12.857.851.49
202.S03.2O
24S.1S3.24
5.914.733.69
40.S65.6S
1S3. 916.14
JS2.539.51S.32
6,956,000.00
1.716,679.83
814,281.87
1S.4S6.50
3,285,525.61
116.454.46
28.990,550.79
2. 011,435. SO
S. 124,783.56
9.967,S14.35
14.300.00
35.589.09'
153,000.00
6,509.84
32S.104.62
$62,539,516.32
Jan. 31, 1910 Increase
140. I 4
$31,774,469,351 $
512.650.07 21,098.84
-10.020,353.29
1,476.646.88 24.007.67
404.113.57 106,957.43
1.685.449.97
10.239.853.04
254.420.9
458.66S.29
5,737,734.8
30.127.11
207.071.96
2.117,998.45
' "i76,V9s",S7
10,738.57
Decrease
$1,675,143.63
"Bii.ViV.ia
248,024.43
"'61.617'. 7 2
210.485.05i
23,155.82
$62.S01.559.27:$2,457.799.8S:$2.719.842.78
I 7,077.250.00
1,679,819.27
862,250.93
2.065.00
3.539,437.50
153.209.50
28,201,933.70
1.861.581.16
8.156,124.29!.
10,340,606.26 .
9.000.00
33,589.09
161,433.33
36,860.56
"imYi.bo
18.07S.49
705.180.75
$62,801,559.27
7S8. 617.09
149,854.64
5.300.00
2,000.00
$ 121,250.00
"47.V6V.06
253.VlV.89
36,755.04
$ 999,053.79
31,340.73
372,791.91
8.433.33
11,568.65
377.076.13j
National Banks.
Mar. 29, 1910
74 -
Jan. 31. 1910.
72
Increase
2
$36,884,758,971
432,909.58
5,677.430.37i
1,365.190.501
16,o4.79
15,360,182.56
477.245.09
553.104.36i
8.715,392.49
3,974,270.00
1,458,000.00
1,061.745.00
42,692.32
196,578.50
422.36
139.118.54
$76,507,895.43
$ 5.986,000.00
3,204.462.21
1,153.966.89
33.512.58
10,474.721.40
503,301.31
40,602.809.34
4,055,840.33
3.408,046.49
1,114.935.36
603,329.391
744.733.21
2.500.00
9.000.00
441,560.00
3,832,105.00
10,146.53
326,985.39
61,549.93
$32,095,226,891 $4,789,532. 08
378,501.761 64,407.82
. 5,707,847.33
1,303,640.57
185,632.50
' Vo'.863,"l58".9i
251,547.49
8,678i4ol!97
3,822,870.00
1.507.000.00
1,042.745.00
36.907.60
189,643.50
135.71!
2,543.271
4.497,023.65
225,697.60
36,9Yo'.52
151,400.00
" " 'i9.ooo.66
5,784.72
6,935.00
286.65
136.575.27
$66,625,886.43!$9,985,133.24
f 5.686.000J
3,118.077.
1,100,291.
14,276.
8,305,745.
203,207.
35,718,031.
3.919.667.
2.711.411
404,782
651,793.
633,201
2,500.
10.000.
362.000.
I
52
44
06!
.94
.6S
28
34
00
00
00
300.000.00
86,384.36
53,675.03
19,236.34
.168,976.15
300.093.79
1.884.777.90:
136,173.2
696,634.55
710,152.68
3,634.117.50
58,294.30
92.488.17
111,531.87
79,500.00
197,987.50
334,497.22
Decrease
30,416.96
" 16.777". 7 i
6,929.57
$103,124.24
48,463.
i.'o'ob"
48,147.77
$1.261.096.7411 $76.507.S95.4J $66,625. 886.43$9.979.620.66 $ 97.611.66
Combined figures of all the Banks in the State.
March 29, 1910
218
66,984,084.69
966.658.49
15,186,367.531
2,865.845.05
679,925.79
29,155,459.59
680,048.29
801,287.60
14,630,126.18
3,974,270.00
1,458,000.00
1.061,745.00
42,692.32
196,578.60
41,288.04
323.034.68
$139,047,411.75
12,942,000.00
4,921,142.04
1,968.248.76
51,999.08
13,760,247.01
619,755.77
69.593.360.13
6,067.276.13
11.532,830.05
11,082,749.71
603,329.391
(44.733.Z1
16,800.00
44,589.09
594,500.00
3,832,105.00
16,656.37
655,090.01
Jan. 81, 1910.
212
S 63,869,696.24
891,151.83
15,728,200.62
2,780,287.46
589,746.07
22,788,461.92
505,968.41
1,018,702.22
14.416,186.79
3,822,870.00
1.507,000.00
1,042,745.00
36.907.60
189,643.50
30.262.82
. 209.615.23
$129,427,445.70
$ 12,763,260.00
4.797.897.12
1,962.642.79
16.341.24
11,845.182.75
356.417.02
63.919,965.14
5.781.248.22
10,867,536.23
10,745,388.94
I
651,793.28
633.201.34
11.500.00
43,589.09
523,433.33
3.634.117.50
76,372.79!
797,668.92
Increase
6
$ 3,114.388.45
y,tUb.bb
85,557.60
90,179.72
6,366,997.67
174,079.88
I
213,939.39
151.400.00
" "i9,'o"o"o'.66
5.784.72
6,935.00
11,025.22
113.419.45
$10,428,213.76:
178.750.00
123.244.92
5.705.97
37,657.84
1,915,064.26
263,338.75
B, 673.394.99
286.027.91
65.293.82
337,360.77
111.531.87
5,300.00
1,000.00
71,066.67
197,987.60
Decrease
641,833.09
217,414.62
49,000.66
$808,247.71
48.463.89
59.716.42
142,578.91
$139,047,411.75! f 129,427,445.70 $ 9.870,725.27 $250,769.22
have for the extension of the electric
llnesi of the United Railways and Ore
gon Electric, they are being closely
guarded. Further than the bare an
nouncement that these lines are to be
extended nothing Is known. Inquiry
at the general offices of the company
in the Henry building yesterday elicited:
nothing further than that they are be
ing considered.
It Is a misdemeanor to tamper witK
electric lisht wires in Colorado. . .
Mr.H
onesi
Working Mae
We are catering to you. "VVe care not about the great
amount of money you think you ought to have. . That isn't
the question. But if you are thinking of leaving the city;
thinking of becoming your own boss; thinking of living
where you and your wife can educate 3our children to bo
producers as well as consumers ; thinking of a simple, con
tented home, which will eventually make you'independent
in your later days, we are offering you an opportunity in
PRICES and TERMS that you may purchase irrigated
lands in the great fruit belt of the Lower Yakima and
Columbia. This opportunity, like other opportunities of
this great valley, will soon leave you, never to return.
Call at our office and get one of our illustrated booklets.
It costs you but the asking. You will receive courteous
treatment and need feel under no obligations to buy
from us.
Richland Lan
d Company
JOS. PATRICK, Local Mgr.,
65 SIXTH STREET, PORTLAND, OR.
FREE EXCURSIONS
TO MADRA
Call on us for full particulars.
"We are the only agents selling inside business
and residence lots in Madras. Like all good things,
there are' many additions.
Inside residence lot $150 to $300.
Central business lot $400 to $800.
There will be such a rush into Central Oregon it is
. becoming a problem how to care for the people.
That is why we want you to go there now. "We want
the Oregonians to have first opportunities ; it is their
right if they will act now.
The Deschutes Valley in Central Oregon will
f populate so quickly, and MADRAS, its principal
city, will grow so rapidly that many Oregonians will
wake up a year later and wonder why they passed
up the best investment and did not secure a business
lot in Madras while it was cheap.
Prices will go up again soon.
CUT OUT THIS COUPON" AND MAIL TO US.
M. E. Thompson Co., Cor. 4th and Oak Sta., Portland, Or.t Mail us
literature containing information on Madras, the fast-growing city
of Central Oregon.
M. E. THOMPSON CO.
Ground Floor Henry Building;
Fourth and Oak Streets.