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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1908)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND. FEBRUARY S3, . 100. NEW HOTELS SOON - X XXH. TO BE COMPLETED i..., . iii;- nx - Portland Will Be Better Able to Entertain Large Tran sient Population. 5 V. -T.: ;".. mil"' "XVX' i. - a. .i REALTY OUTLOOK BRIGHT r M I l 5 ? .'X I C t I IK '- . . -f . a mr . .nnrrnri 'fT r Jui'0 - I II i H E iTrit s m Permits Issued for Construction of Flats and Dwellings Indicate Heavy Building Movement Throughout the City. At the present rate In the building of new hotels and the modernizing: of others, Portland, before a (Treat while, will have accommodations for resident and transient guests much nearer ap proaching its requirements. In addition to about half a dozen hostelries cater ing to transient travelers that led In offering first-class accommodations. Quite a number of really good build ings have entered the list of the city's best hotels. Such hotels as the Lenox, Alexandra Court, Nortonla, Calumet arid Proud foot are among those that have been opened for business. The Cornelius, for instance, represents others that now await the closing of contracts with practical hotel men for early opening. The Oregon and Perkins, of the established hotels, are undergoing extensive alterations and repairs, and among the new projects are the Rosen blatt building, at Tenth and Alder streets, and the building at Fourth and Alder which is to be erected by the Hotel Investment Company. Dozens of smaller buildings that are to be devoted to the rooming of resi dents and transients, are nearing com pletion or have been recently opened nd still the cry Is for more. That leads up to the opinion expressed in real Es tate circles that one or two more "big" hotels are badly needed in Portland. There is little doubt. that at least one more would be under course of con struction at the present time if tho tightening of the Eastern money mar ket had not lnterferred with the plans of projectors. The financing of these undertakings wae postponed when It was found that investors declined to sell their holdings In stocks and bonds to go into enterprises of any nature. Wait for Eastern Money. This tightunlng of the Kastern money market affected other building opera tions cs well as those intended for hotel purposes. The president of one of the largest corporations in Portland said yesterday that his company would make ho announcement at the present time as to when It would undertake the extensive building plans it had hoped to have under way this Spring. Tho company desired to start work as soon as possible, he Bald, but he realized that bonds of the company would com mand bettor figures by delaying a short time. On the other hand, there is not one realty man in Portland who does not say that conditions are Improving every day and that values show no signs of receding. Two or three deals, involv ing largo amounts, are hanging fire because purthasers seemed to think a break would come. The fact that hold ers will not budge in the position they have taken, and that is, however, that investment sales and leases are favor able to higher rather than lower valu ations for Inside property. Among the best informed real estate experts it is fully realized that there will be no break. They say that Portland has reached a point when retrogression is not only improbable but is impossible. The city, they say, has taken on such an Impetus that only a great calamity could stop its growth. Records Trove City's Growth. For proof of their assertion, they point to the records. Transfers of realty dur ing the week just closed show no falling off either In amounts Involved or In num ber of Items. For the five days of the week. Saturday being a legal holiday, 42 permits for new buildings costing $1500 and over were issued, carrying a total of $131, 200. or an averaga of $2W0. Of those estimated to cost $5000 and over were an apartment-house on Salmon street, between Thirteenth and Four teenth, to J. M. Buell, $20,000; flats on Larrahee, between Dupont and Dixon, to C. V. Lankin, $8500; flats on Jackson, be tween Fifth and Sixth, to Joseph Jacob berger, $7500. and dwelling at East Four teenth and Hancock, to C. E. Bade, $5000. Real estate transfers for the same days of the week amounted to $3S4,06o. These operations establish the fact that no abatement in building is In evidence, and also that a greater number of dwell ings are going up than at any period in the history of Portland. Permits issued also demonstrate that owners of out-of-date buildings realize that these must either come down, to be replaced with up-to-date houses, or bo modernized. Iu this way, when all sorts or conveniences electric lighting, hot and cold water, fast elevator service, good ventilation, etc. are provided for in modern con struction, owners of old buildings are compelled to bestir themselves if they would hold their tenants. Evidences of this reconstruction are seen on every hand in instances where the old buildings arc of such a character that they may be altered at less expense than It would cost to raze and replace them with new structures. Expect Early Activity. From reports heard in the offices of real estate men, It would not be surpris ing if this week will develop considerable movement In business pronerty in tho downtown district. Several prominent dealers are figuring on propositions which have been "nibbled" at for some months. All report that financial conditions are Improving so rapidly that almost any day the market is likely to take a fresh start on the scale prevailing last Fall before money tightened. Portland.-as Is well known, was the first city to recover from the flurrv, and in both financial circles and in trade ave nues there- Is a strong feeling of confi dence that is gradually making itself felt in real estate. Buyers are convinced now as never before, that valuations are far from being Inflated, and everybody con nected with the real estate marKet pre dicts one of the biggest years ever known In both sales and construction. CONSIDERING HOTEL. VL.ANS Contruclion of Rosenblatt Building Marls April 1. Lease of the dwellings on the Gus Rosenblatt quarter block at Tenth and Aider streets , will expire April 1, when the buildings will be removed to Colum bia str?r t and excavations started for the eight-story hotel ZIx. Rosenblatt is X '11 11 HI 5VV H "vs to erect on the site, and the building will be started and worl pushed on the struc ture as rapidly as possible. V. C. Knighton, the architect of the building, has submitted preliminary plans of floor schemes which the owner how has under consideration and which, he said yesterday, doubtless would be adopted, as the plans provide for the utilization of all the floor space, and at the same time give wide halls, closets, baths, light and ventilation. There Is to be a cut-in court on the south side of the building and a well court in the middle. HOTEL SCOTT TO BE IMPROVED Extensive Attractions Being Consid ered by C. A. Malarkey. When the lease on Hotel Scott expires, July 1. the building is to be completely renovated, altered to meet modern re quirements' and repainted. The hotel Is located at Seventh and Ankeny, running through to Burnside street, and is owned by Charles A. Malarkey. The house con tains 84 rooms. It is the owner's intention to spend be tween $12,000 and $15,000 in improvements, which will consist of a number of private baths and three public baths on. each floor, steam heating plant and elevator. Hot and cold water will be introduced in all the living rooms. PLUMBERS AS INSPECTORS Will Carry on Work of Stamping Out 4lu Plague. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb.' 22. The Master Plumbers Association of thiscity at a meeting today decided to instruct em ployes to inform the health officials in each Instance where unsanitary con ditions were found or the law requiring the construction of rat-proof buildings is being ignored. Warned of the certainty of a quaran tine, unless the rats were exterminated at once and the plague stamped out, the plumbers took action toward co-operation. Every Journeyman plumber will receive positive instructions to investigate thor oughly the sanitary conditions of every place to which he may be sent and to report his findings to his employers. They, in turn, will notify the authorities. By this system each plumber will, in ef fect, become a health Inspector. COMPETE WITH STANDARD Union Oil Company to Inaugurate California Trade War. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22. The Union Oil Company, which has sold crude oil in. Southern California on an independ ent basis for two years. Is now re ported to.heve entered this market for the refined trade and to cut the prices established by the Standard OiljCom pany on coal oil and gasoline, A brisk trade war is expected to follow the ac tion. IT'S WORTH WHILE for you to call at Le ljlias Royal and see the new Spring tltlts. We al ways save you money. SiS Washing ton street. " jail vw CA'r -,tt t.. t 'r4L v iMbia ""srF f 11 sT' fef f III S i ' " ;f ..'rSX!. ! J; ' H . ! ' , J J v-, ' it&h If H - - -I I X;?T- X-XXXV , H T - 'XcV V.;xX;t , X , OUC? yTmnn "l "'" 'l' I'll Zjmm1iiii11iii'i' mZZmmIIImIIILIIILJm "XjQC3 L " p" g " n - 1 ' ' - - ifff r7?ffflririfni n i i J will lit s him h um x uy- HHL ULU UL U Ml I IX " EAST SIDE Big Fill Regarded as Most Im portant Work in History of That Section. MANY SITES CHANGE HANDS Owing to Scarcity of Single Dwell ings, T'lats Are Being Erected in Older Districts to Meet the Urgent Demands. i Joseph Buchtel. a close observer of. reii estate matters, sal yesterday: "I am looking for a good year. Of course, we must fully recover from the recent finan cial flurry, and the same as a sick man must have time. of convalescence, but I can see a steady Improvement in the air. There is no decrease in property values on the East Side, nor do I think there will be. These have never been too high. We are having constant inquiry, although large sales are not being made as a rule. I am looking for a movement in the dis trict between Union avenue and the Wil lamette River as soon as the Pacific Bridge Company starts on its contract to fill up the 21 blocks between Belmont street and Hawthorne avenue. In my judgment the letting of the contract for that fill Is the most important event In the history of the East Side. It will bring into the market and use a large amount of property whlcli is practically in the heart of the city. The cost to the owners of Oils property will be -more than compensated by the Increased value of the land. It Is my Judgment that the next Important matter la the rebuilding of the Madison Bridge. There should be no delay in taking that- matter up and pushing it forward. The bridge is so weak under the heavy pounding it is re ceiving from the heavy cars that even the County Court has taken alarm and Is putting piles under the center of the spans to support them." Want Locations for Flats. Inquiry for East Side property la on the increase, reported a real estate man dur ing tho week. The desire is for locations for fiats for rent. A large number of flats are being erected, and many others are projected all over the East Side. For the ordinary dwelling for renting pur poses, property between the Willamette River and East Twentieth street is now too valuable, and flats seem to provide the best means of income' in this section. Besides, there is a big demand for such apartments as may be found in flats. Desirable house for rent are hard to r . s X iTxTrr liffiiil . x?l .Still find, either close in or far out. A con siderable movement in improved resi dence property was the rule during the week. Three fractional blocks in Overlook were purchased by Frances H. Bates for $450S for residence purposes. William Morrow bought from John F. Bann a bouse and lot in Hawthorne Addition, near East Twenty-eighth street, for $3000. Irving Smith Bold an Imnroved quarter block !n Sellwood to William H. More house for $2750. In Center Addition, north Mount Tabor. Herman F. Rlechel purchased a quarter block from Frank Krouse for $1000. Sam uel D. Taylor sold a quarter-block - in Piedmont to Rock Hull for $2000. A house and lot In Alblna Homestead was sold to Albert Lubberman for $2500. One of the largest sales on the penin sula waa that of an improved quarter .block, with a modern house, on Portland boulevard and Greely street, purchased by Goddard Hopstrand from Edward J. Jea ger. for $7100. Marguerite Oppormann bought 60x100 feet, lot 16, block 1, Haw thorne's first addition, for $2800. P. U Kennedy sold to L- C. Russell, lots IS and 17, block 34. Alblna, for $3000. At Flrland. on the Mount Scott railway, Herman Smith sold to H. E. Noble lot 17, block 1 with house, for $1650. The Oregon Real Estate Company sold to Isabella Brown the east half of lots 7 and 8, block 177, Holladay's addition, for $1700. In North Irvlngton, A. G. Per kins bought of Elma Shaw, the west half of lot 1. block "T," for $2230. Good Prices Obtained. In Buckman's second addition. H. P. Palmer sold to Eva 3. Christie, fractions of several lots for $3500. J. H. Morse sold to C. H. Chapman lot 6. block 67, Sunnyside third addition, for 1S00. The southeast corner of East Ninth and Clay streets was sold by C. Keck to Otto Nelson during the week. Mr. Nelson will erect five cottages on the property. In Stephens addition Fritz Nikias sold to Cathrine Pancle aouth 14 feet of west ft ut-ILk i l-lx' r hhb ' x x , i K . .. .'.j. : V A'wWM.-.ii4K .. Jif ,. jij - anno -t I i 65 feef of lot 1, block 1, and west 63 feet of lot 1, blocn 124, for $3S50. At Piedmont Frank Miranda sold to O. K. Edwards north half of lot 2, block 7, for $4000. Sunnyside has come' to be one of the most propcrous districts on the East Side of the river, it has long since outgrown the original district between the Base Lino road and Hawthorne avenue, and now extends to the Section Line road on the south and to West avenue. H. H. Staub says: "I believe we have one of the finest districts In Portland and we are growing rapidly. Our homes are generally of a good class of buildings-Vacant iota here are being ibullt over with modern homes. Houses for rent in Sunnyside are very scarce and hard to And. We have a con stant sale of residence property, and prac tically every man who buys does so to build a home." Sunnyside Asks for Streets. - The new push club will undertake to have some more streets Improved at Sun nyside. Particularly will It 'undertake to expedite the paving of Belmont street, on which work was started last year and left In an unfinished condition. Hawthorne avenue also is" to be paved with hard sur face from Bast Third street to Forty second street. South of Hawthorne ave nue to Division street Is a new building area that Is rapidly filling up with new modern home3. . Sunnyside schoolhouse, which was recently made a 20-room build ing, is already overcrowded and an extra portable room on the outside is occupied. It Is thought that a 20-room schoolhouse will have to be built further east in the near future to accommodate that growing district. Homes are spreading slowly up toward West avenue at Mount Tabor This Is more apparent along Hawthorne avenue In the Brown tract, whloh was opened and platted last Spring. Also the Paradise Springs tract, directly on West avenue, 1b being occupied with modern homes. The- old Prettyman home, built more than fO years ago, still stands on Haw thorn avenue, very much aa it was built tew. r by Dr. Henry Prettyman, and Is being surrounded by hundreds of modern homes. Philip Buehner Is the present owner. It stands as a landmark of the long ago when deer and bear roamed near Paradise Springs. Mount Tabor, on the west slope, which has been somewhat slow to respond to the progressive Impulse, is now being covered with modern homes. E. Brubak er, a resident, says: "More butlding and general improvements are going on on the west slope of Mount Tabor than ever before. We needs streets and sewers, but we will get these things in time. Mount Tabor Is one of the most attractive su burban reslder.ee districts on either side of the Willamette River, and when we get some good streets out here It will grow rapidly." Advocate Public Park. Residents are keeping well in mind the project to make a public park on the sum mit of Mount Tabor and push that meas ure aa soon aa the time is opportune for action. Belmont street will be Improved to the summit this year. Also East Stark is to be opened 60 feet wide to Tabor Heights, and steps are being taken to get a fire station located at some central point on Mount Tabor to protect Center addition. The first steps toward the improve ment of Portsmouth avenue on the Peninsula have been taken In chang ing the grades of the street so the big cut can be made. The changes oi grade are being advertised. The pre liminary work has been done so com pletely that there will be no obstacles thrown in the way. It means an open street to the Willamette River for the Peninsula and the onlv one for that district.. . New Sewer Proposed. The Sellwood suburb has a new sew er proposition to think over until next Monday night; City Engineer Taylor has divided the suburb into two dis tricts, one belns west of East Fif teenth, and the other west. The dii- 1 "' x;o V -s J&MBLET. trict east he proposes to provide wite a septic, tank, and the west district will be sewered direct Into the Wil lamette River. The cost will run up to about $S0.000. The whole question will be settled next Monday mglit at the meeting of the Sellwood Board of Trade. The growth at Mount Tabor, Monta rvllla and Center Addition nas been such that there Is demand for tire pro tection. Jhe people are asking for fire stations. Montavllla wants a station erected on the Base Line road on the elevation, while the people of Mount Tabor and Center Addition are asking for a fire station at some elevated point that will give fire protection generally. Owing to lack of pressure a hose com pany would not be effective for Mon tavllle, but a chemical will probably be provided. ST. JOHN MILL SITE SOLD CITY HAS OPTION OX ADJOIN ING PKOPKUTV. Question of Free Ferry to Be Sub mitted to Vote of People at Next Election. The most important realty transaction In St. John during the week was the sale by M. H. Holbrook to F. R. Porter, of Porter Bros., contractors of the North Bank railroad, of 00 feet of water-front property. The property Is composed of lots 3, 4, 5 and 6 and fractional block 9, of James John addition. The price paid was $30,000. There are about three acres 1" the land secured. It-adjoins a 400-foot strip on Philadelphia street on which the city of St. John has an option for $23.5"0 for a public dock. It has not been an nounced to what purpose the strip will be put. but it is thought it will be used for manufacturing purposes. Water-front property in St. John is again In demand, but is selling at higher prices than ever before. The St. John Council has r committee out investigating the advisability of pur chasing and operating a rock crusher for that place. It is desired to secure paving material for the place: Pipe for the St. John Gas, Light & Heat Company has been shipped from New York city and is expected soon to arrive. Bids for laying pipe have been received, two having been submitted by St. John men. Contracts will be let some time dur ing the month. A Seattle concern ha the contract for supplying the machinery. While the voters of St. John will vote on the question of issuing bonds to pur chase or build a free ferry, it does not mean that the present ferry will be. bought. Those who are urging the estab lishment of a free ferry are not concerned in the fate of the present ferry company only so far as It stands in the way of a free ferry. Certain it is that the voters of St. John will not consent to the pur chase of the present ferry unless it be found first-class and that the price is satisfactory. Perhaps the franchise Is of more value than the present ferryboat, which the company secured practically free from the city. An effort to foist a badly-constructed ferryboat on the people of St. John it is said will not be con sidered. It is conceded that a free ferry Is needed at St. John, not alone for the benefit of St. John, but for Portland and the entire peninsula, it will be a link in the chain of driveways. The new building for the Merchants National Bank, soon to be opened in St. John, la completed. It faces Jersey street and is an attractive structure. The bank , will open for business some time during' the present month. The city Is improving the grounds In front of the City Hall. Provisions are eing made for erecting the beautiful fountain recently purchased by the people. It will be one of the attractive features of St. John. Take Oath of Good Citizenship. NEW YORK. Feb. 22. Two thousand "first voters" and a number of "Bowery" floaters last night took the "free man's oath," at a meeting of the People's In stitute, at Cooper Union. The oath was administered by Bishop Henry C. Potter, as follows: "I do solemnly bind myself that I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall Judge In mine own consciousness may best conduce to the public weal, so help me God." Christian College at Canton. NEW YORK, Feb. 22. A meeting In the Interests of the Christian College at Canton. China, was held yester day at the home of Miss Helen Miller Gould. The principal address was made by W. Henry Grant, who stated that last year the expenses of the college amounted to about $23,000, of which amount half waa paid by the students. Spectacle $1.00 at Mttiger's, TZATS.X i
