THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, 31 ARCH 8, 10S.
NEW STORES IN
Business District Stretching
Out Through Albina" and
Contiguous Townsites.
OTTO AWA1
STEADY DEMAND FOR LOTS
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Progressive Movement Down Penin
sula Causes Predictions of Great
Building Operations In a Few
Years, Connecting St. John.
Real estate men report that there is
increased inquiry for East Side prop
erty, both in the business and resi
dence districts. In Albina there has
been considerable activity -in inside
property, which, while not now being
classed as residence property, is being
included in the business section.. Union
avenue north to Highland makes an
excellent showing tei both residences
and in the number of new business
houses erected and projected. In Cen
tral East Portland to Kast Twentieth
street, between Division street and
Hancock street north, is a zone In
which a large number of apartment
houses are either now under construc
tion or are soon to be started. It is
noticed that in this zone cottages are
being replaced with modern dwellings
and flats, the property having become
too valuable to be occupied with houses
from which the income is small. About
20 flats are to be built in Central
Kast Portland to meet a call for that
class of dwellings. In this- zone vac-ant
houses are rarely seen, and where
tliey are found it can be plainly seen
they are not the modern homes people
are seeking for. Along Belmont street
between East Twentieth, south to Haw
thorne avenue, and out to East Thirty
ninth streets, may be seen some of the
finest homes on the Kast Side, all put
up within the past two years. Sunny
side, which is the pioneer suburb, is
experiencing a substantial growth.
This is especially true along Haw
thorne avenue out toward East Fif
tieth street. Several modern business
buildings have been put up on Haw
thorne avenue and East Thirty-fifth
Btreet. At the end of Hawthorne ave
nue Philip Buehner will erect a J30.000
residence, for which plans are now
being prepared. This dwelling will
take the place of the residence erected
by Lr. P. Pretty man BO years ago, and
which is occupied by Mr. Buehner. lor
some time the present owner could not
think of destroying the pioneer house,
which was surrounded with so much
historic interest, but it will have to
give way to the march of improve
ment. Important Sale Made.
Purchase of the residence erected by
Captain J. W. Kern, on Powell and
Kast Thirty-sixth streets, together
with 40 lots surrounding the building,
for 126.000, by Dr. W. T. Williamson,
was one of the Important sales in that
portion of the city. Dr. Williamson has
conducted a sanitarium for some years
in the building and now becomes its
owner. It means that he will mftke
extensive Improvements to the ground.
The residence cost $18,000 and is lo
cated' on an elevated tract overlooking
the surrounding districts.
Thomas Walter Mills recently pur
chased' two blocks in the Waverleigh
tract adjoining the property secured
hy Dr. Williamson, for 12,500. and is
having plans prepared for a building
that will cost in the neighborhood of
$100,000. Mr. Mills" purpose is to carry
out his ideas relative to affording fam
ilies of limited means homes with mod
ern conveniences and comforts. He
lias consented to talk to the Kenit
worth Improvement Association at
Its . next meeting, one week
from next Monday, and tell
the members .about his plans. There
Is a considerable progressive move
ment In this portion of the East !Md.
Streets are being opened and Improved.
It is announced that either the Wa-verly-Richmond
or Waverly-Wood-stock
carline is to be extended to the
Mount Scott district toward the end of
the present year. The people living in
Waverly-Richmond have asked the car
romprfny to extend that branch. buT
nntil the present there have been no
developments.
Along and on both sides of Killings
worth avenue, in North Albina. there
is a remarkable building movement.
High-grade homes are being erected In
this zone. It is estimated that more
than 100 dwellings, costing on an avr
age of $2000. are now being built and
completed with Ave blocks on either
side of Killlngsworth avenue. J. H.
Nolta. who has built several buildings
on Killlngsworth avenue, is having a
$10,000 flat completed near the car
barn. The district Is moving steadily
toward Columbia Slough, now that the
Ixive tract is to be thrown open to
homebuilders. KllliiiKsworth avenue is
to be paved with hard surface material
as soon as the weather Is settled srffl-c-lently
to allow tlM work to proceed
without interruption. More than $100,
000 is to be expended in street im
provements northward from Killings
worth avenue this year, if the plans
of the Arbor Lodge Improvement Asso
ciation are carried out. The advisabil
ity of Improving all streets between
this avenue and Pippin street north,
a distance of over one mile. Is being
considered. In this territory there are
no well improved streets, although new
houses are going up in all directions.
In addition to this wholesale improve
ment project the proposition to pave
one street down through the heart of
the Peninsula to the St. John boun
dary line is being considered.
Propose Xw Streets.
A committee has this matter in
hand, and in view of the extraordinary
progressiva movement on the Penin
sula this highway is considered a ne
cessity. It la considered certain that
In a few years a big population will
be located in that section of the city
and this street will be needed. Also
the Willamette Boulevard. which
winds around the edge of the bluff
above the river, is to be paved. Be
tween Woodlawn and St. John the
whole section is sure to be densely
populated, as the outcome of the many
Industries projected for Columbia
Slough. The civic organizations are
doing their part toward preparing for
this big population. Before another
Autumn most of the acreage on the
Peninsula now covered with brush will
be cleared for buildings, according to
predictions of those who make a study
of real estate conditions.
In the settlement between Powell
road and Mount Scott realty conditions
are healthy and active. John Brown,
a Wisconsin man. bought the past
week the home of J. Shares at Myrtle
Park for $3i00. which Is the. largest
sale made in that suburb for some
time. There have been constant sales
of building lots and new houses are
constantly going up.
At Creston, Just north of the Powell
Valley road, on tha Mount Scott Rall
. May, 1 houses are being erected at a
cost of $36,000. The Creston school-
PRIZES
- The person making the greatest number of words
will receive a deed to the southeast corner of 33d and
Brooklyn streets, 48x100, and valued at $750, absolutely
free.
The twenty-five next highest answers will entitle
each one to a credit certificate of $50 on any unsold lot
in the tract. . '
The fifty next highest answers will entitle the suc
cessful contestants each to a credit certificate of $25 on
any unsold lot in the tract.
The fifty next highest answers will entitle the suc
cessful contestants each to a credit certificate of $15 on
any unsold lot in the tract.
In the event of a tie happening between successful
contestants, the answer first received will be entitled to
the prize.
Not only will a certificate be accepted as so much
cash paid on a lot, but easy terms of only $25 down
and $10 monthly will be given if desired.
CONTEST CLOSES 6
P. M. APRIL 1st, 1908
house Is already overcrowded, although
completed only last year, and there is
demand for more room.
O. N". Ford, who is interested in an
nexation, said: "We shall get a vote
on annexation at the June election
unless the City Council turns down the
petition. There will soon be enough
(signatures on the petition -tor a vote,
if there are not now enough. There
are four sections in the territory,
which I should judge cantains 10,000
ipeople."
Acreage Changes Hands.
Considerable acreage property changrd
hands the past week in several directions.
The largest farm land sale was that of J.
A. Larrabee to T. Welch of 54 acres in the
Karnest and Elizabeth Giese donation
land claim.
X. I Smith, who lives at Gresham. says
that there has been quite a demand for
acreage tracts in that portion of the
county. This is especially true along and
near the line of the proposed Mount Hood
Railway. New houses are going up on the
Powell. Base and Section line roads
through to Gresham and the Sandy River.
These roads have been improved by the
county with crushed rock, so they are be
coming more popular every year and
Portland men are securing tracts for
country homes, which they can reach
either by cars or automobile.
On Columbia slough Augustus Walker
sold to Alfred Baker a parcel of land ly
ing north of the slough in the John Kan
kin donation land claim for $$300. Ernest
Giese sold to Earl Bort seven and a frac
tion acres, ani Walter P. Story sold to
Marie D. Curtis five acres near William
Taylor donation land claim for a price not
announced.
W. R- Slmms has sold to A. E. Gailing
house lots X and 7, block 2. Roberts' Addi
tion to Gresham. for S1050.
M. A. Zollinger sold to Sarah Reed lot
12. block 7, John Irving's First Addition,
for l00. This sale includes a modern
house. In Holladay Park Addition. John
Lk Starr aold to Margaret J. Bryant lota
19 and 30. block 10, for JMOO. In Glencoe
Park. B. R. Everett sold to John M.
Evans lota 1 and 3, block 14. Glencoe Park,
for two. In Sunnystde. John F. Murphy
A BEAUTIFUL
$3250 IN OTHER VALUABLE PRIZES
A $30,000 Public School House. (Clinton Kelly
School).
Connection with the largest sewer in Oregon,
costing $250,000.00.
One of the finest fire engine houses in Portland.
New and fully equipped. '
Bull Run water piped to every lot.
Two streetcar lines that run past the property,
both built and in operation the past 15 rears.
''BUILT TO STAY ROADS."
Graded streets and cement walks.
Electric lights that burn every night.
For further information call and see us at our main office,
122V2 Sixth Street, or at our branch office, East Twenty
Sixth and Franklyn Streets, Waverleigh.
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sold to Johanna Krauze lot 4, block 5, for
J3S60.
At University Park M". H. Tower sold to
Gus Smith lots 8. 9 and 10, block 116. for
J:00. George B. Dean sold to Hans
Peterson lot 3, block 4, West Piedmont,
for $1500.
At Creston Martin Mattson sold lot 10,
block 14. to E. J. Cowlishaw for $1850. in
cluding a house. In Center Addition Gott
lieb Fuchs sold to W. A. Hossack south
half of lot 2. block 1, for $2700.
A'alues Keep Advancing.
In Williams Avenue Addition Alfred J.
Collins sold to Eva Hamilton a portion
of two lots for $1900. At Piedmont James
McDonald sold to Dave Cole lots 15 and
18, block 32. for 420O. In Buckman's Sec
ond Addition H. P. Palmer sold to
William Brimmer lot 1 andi part of lot 2,
block 6. for $3500.
At Woodstock G. A. Johnson sold to
Alice J. Phillip Scott lots 1 and 2. block
69, for $1200.
Norman D. Root and wife sold to Con
rad Green the east half of lots 5 and 6,
block 53, Sunnyside, with modern- house,
for $5000. In Sellwood Charles G. sold to
Jerome Mallett lots 3 and 4, block 40, for
$1700.
In Holladay Park R. B. Rice sold to
E. A. Messerly lot 11, block 17. for $6250.
with modern house. Emiline Shaw sold
to Smith Lake the south 40 feet of lot 7,
block 237. East Portland, for ItfOO.
In Central Albina. John Johnson sold
lots 4 and 6. block 13. Central Albina, to
Mary M. Henricksen. for $3350. J. C.
Roberts sold to M. Sophia Schneider lot 3,
block 13. Hanson's Second Addition, for
$5600. John D. Neer bought a quarter
in block 17, Lincoln Park Annex, of Al
bert H. Mundorf. for $3000.
Bulgarians Kill Greek Official.
SALONIKA. European Turkey, March
7. M Askilis. the chief dragoman of the
Greek Consulate-General In Salonika, was
phot to death by an unknown man on the
streets of this city today. The crime is
attributed to the Bulgarian-Macedonian
committee.
Spectacles 51.00 at Metzger'a.
AND
TG0R the purpose of encouraging the investment in lots in
"Beautiful TVaverleigh Heights" at this time in order to
benefit in the great advance that is sure to be derived from
property surrounded by so many splendid advantages and
situated so close to the center Of the citj', and for the addi
tional purpose of encouraging the investment of savings in
desirable real estate where they are always safe and secure,
we have determined upon the following remarkable offer :
We are going1 to make this beautiful tract a household
word, and in order to do so we have inaugurated an EDUCA
TIONAL WORD CONTEST which will prove both interest
ing and valuable to you. The contest is to see how many
words you can make out of the thirteen different letters in the
words "Beautiful Waverleigh." , You can use a letter only
once in a word, and you must confine yourself to the letters
in "Beautiful Waverleigh" using no others.
WHAT BEAUTIFUL
WAVERLEIGH
HAS TO OFFER
PURCHASERS
SIXTH STREET, COR. WASHINGTON, (Upstairs)
A 2537 PHONES MAIN 550
HOLDS JAPAN TO BLAME
WANTS STRIFE IX CHINA, 1E
CIjARES POKTLAXDER.
T. P. Kecncy Asserts That Arms on
Tatsu Mara Were Undoubtedly
Intended for Rebels.
From his personal knowledge of
Oriental affairs, T. P. Keeney, of
Portland, declares that. In his opinion,
China is in the right in the present
controversy between that nation and
Japan. In his own mind. Mr. Keeney
has no doubt that the rifles and am
munition on the Tatsu Maru, the Jap
anese vessel which was seized by Chi
nese cruisers February 7, were in
tended for Chinese rebels. He gives
as the basis of his opinion facts that
came to his knowledge while he was
visiting Macao.
Mr. Keeney declares that govern
ment secretaries at Macao are the
means of forwarding arms to rebels
in Southern China, and it is his belief
that Japan is doing its best to cause
an outbreak of strife within the rival
nation. As an evidence of this, Mr.
Keeney says that while at Macao one
of the government secretaries pro
posed to him that they enter a part
nership to smuggle rifles into China.
The arms were to be brought to Macao
on the pretense that they were for the
Macao government.
Discussing the seizure of the Tatsu
Maru and its application to the Orien
tal situation, Mr. Keeney said:
The question if. were the Japanese
trying- to smuggle arms into China?
1 contend that they were, and have
been for the past two or three years.
I further contend that the Japanese
government has knowledge of this il
legal traffic What nations would it
please most to have China thrown into
rebellion? Japan and Russia are the
CORNER LOT
EI C01PAP
only nations that would profit by such
disturbance. Tt would give them an
excuse, possibly, to take a slice of Man
churia. Macao is the easiest and most plausi
ble entrance into Southern China, and
the rebels there are close to the coast,
and have no trouble in "fixing' the
Portuguese officials at Macao. The
fact is Macao is maintained by Illicit
taxation. It is known as the "Monte
Carlo" of China. It is here that thou
sands of European tourists go every
year to witness the great fantan
games and lottery drawings. It is here
that hundreds of Hongkong1 residents
go to spend their Sundays, "bucking
fantan and lottery. The money spent
on lottery tickets each month at Macao
amounts to many thousands of dollars.
As I said above, the government of
Macao is maintained by illicit taxation.
The right to run games is granted to
one or two rich Chinese and the lot
tery pays a handsome fee to the Macao
government. The secretaries of the
frovernment are engaged in all sorts of
llicit practices, such as issuing false
merchants' certificates to Chinese,
smuggling arms into China, etc. It Is
a well-known fact that the Macao gov
ernment will grant permits to land
arms and ammunition, with a perfect
knowledge and understanding that
these are for the Chinese rebels. China
knows, so does Japan, that the Macao
government has no use for any large
quantity of arms, for its entire forces
only number about 500 or 600 at Macao,
or did three years ago.
The Macao officials make no secret
of the fact that they will join in any
enterprise that has the necessary "coin"
back of it. The government pays them
practically no salaries, and expects
them to set their living by "grafting.
Three years ago I visited Macao for
n. vacation with my family, and, on
leaving Hongkong. I was presented
with a letter of introduction to one of
the government secretaries, whose duty
It was to guard the Chinese border and
collect tolls on goods coming Into the
Macao colony. He told me he Issued on
some days five or more Chinese mer
chant certificates to Chinese coming
from the interior (usually farmers
who wanted to go to America or the
Philippines. He told me this was one
of his principal sources of revenue. He
said he divided with the Colonial Sec
retary, who signed the certificates, for
which they charged $40 (Mexican)
each.
This same worthy secretary proposed
to me that I join him In smuggling
REMEMBER THESE
INSTRUCTIONS
See how many words you can make out of the thir
teen different letters in "Beautiful Waverleigh," not
using the same letter more than once in any word. There
fore, the letters you can use are B, T, F, XJ, W, A, V, R,
L, E, I, G, H.
A word cannot be used more than once, even though it
has different meanings.
You -cannot use plurals or the names of persons or
places.
Any word now in use in the English language (Webster
is our authority) will be counted, but not obsolete words.
Add your list when completed, and state number of
words. Sign your full name and give postoffice address.
The contest will close April 1, 1908, and all answers
should be marked on the outside "Word Contest" and
mailed or delivered to our address, John P. Sharkey Com
pany, 122y2 Sixth Street, by that date. Each list will be
carefully examined, and the successful contestants notified
as soon as possible, which will be about 10 days later.
Two of the finest and best country roads in Ore
gon Division Line Road on the North and the Pow
ell Valley Road on the South.
Two telephone systems, both in operation, not in
prospect.
The finest scenery, the best view, the most houses
of any addition in Portland. See for yourself and be
convinced. ,
The best soil for roses or gardening. Widest
streets and avenues in Portland 60 to 90 feet wide.
-. Building restriction No house to cost less than
$1250.
arms and ammunition into China. H
said the rebel agents were in Macao
at all times and he would introduco
one to me. The following evening he
brought this Chinaman up to the hotel
and I talked with them both. Tt was
arranged that the Macao government
ask the Hongkong government for a
permit to Import from Hongkong to
Macao so many thousand rifles, which
they were to represent as being for the
use of the Macao government. I told
him I didn't care to engage in the
business and broke off the negotia
tions. I mention this to show that Macao is
the gateway for contraband goods into
Southern China, and so long as Macao
remains under the Portuguese rule it
will be the seat of vice and corruption.
It is the result of a degenerate and
corrupt nation, which has recently
been stirring the people of their home
government to the extent of those
bloody assassinations in Portugal.
Japan is just the country that will
do all she can to corrupt China, for it
is her aim to overpower that country
and eventually control Manchuria.
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FUTURE REFERENCE
Japan doe nt want China modernized,
for sh-, would be too strong for her to
control, and there is a natural hatred
between these nations.
Jpan is bluffing China on this
seizure proposition, and the European
nations and the United States should
stand by China in this. It is to their vital
interests to maintain China and pre
vent rebellion if possible. Those rebels
are equipped with modern arms and
some nearby nation is supplying them.
Who is it? I believe it is Japan. Whv
should Japan sell those Russian guns
and allow them to be shipped to China7
She knows where they are destined,
and she is. in my estimation, using her
"good offices" to see that they get to
the rebels. Japan must be stopped,
and the sooner the better for all con
cerned. Tomorrow and Tuesday will positively b
the last days for discount on West Side
gas bills. PORTLAND GAS COMPANY.
Read Sharkey's add today.
OLD SORES