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! REALTY DEALERS
!: WELL SATISFIED
j Market Conditions Continue
j Favorable and Many Sales
1 Are Consummated.
j APRIL BUILDING SURPRISE
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j Over $700,000 in Permits Already
j Issued This Month, Covering tho'
! Krevtlon of tiver 400 htruc
i ' turcs. Mostly Dwellings.
Interest In th realty market the past
vrk was directed t totals rather than
to individual I' ems. Ttiese totals, parti
'ruliirly In Imildil-ir operations. preentan
oUjort lv5nn rusy of rr.niprehennltn. With
four dai a more of the month to be In
cluded. th r-howinK will not fall so much
below the record of April. as was ei-
lei td. Last ar several big items ap
peared in the month's insue. and a week
HKO Indication were that the present
month would not imu-h exeeed Vit.0O in
valuations, itsrninst over Jl, In llu".
fr'inli. liowiver. la not to be the ease. The
extraordinary amount of building that
lias been (lone since the beginning of the
year has shown no falling off. but on the
contrary increases ad good building wea
ther continues. Last week 14-' permits
were issued carrying a total of $i-4. &.",
which hrouaht the month's totals up to 4i-l
ltenin and value.s of $711, 3C.
In transfers the average of approxima
t"ly f.'i.o"0 a day was kept up throughout
the week, which would man conserva
tively that with values Riven at their cor
rect tlKures. over JUxt'Mn'O worth of realty
clir.nKe.l hands. By far the greater num
ber of transfers was for lots of moderate
cost and of tiir.se a larse proportion was
Vouclit with the intention of erecting
dwellings. Building ix-rmits show the
same trend. Not over a dozen permits
vere Issued for buildings to cost over
Jlu.oon. upward of 3" being Issued for
dwellings to cost from VJL'O to Con
tractors express the opinion that this con
dition gives every evidence of continuing
through the Summer and architects agree
with this forecast. There may be a time,
they say when building operations will
cat'-h up with the demand for dwellings,
but basing their opinions on the oxr.rl
ence of the past few months, and com
missions in pro.--pe.-t. builders predict a
continuation of the record-breaking period
tndeiluit-ly.
l'rosress! Made In Buildings.
dnod progress is being made In com
pleting the more Important structures
fc-gun last Fall and during the Winter
months, and enough new ones are starting
1. keep builders busy. The first story of
the Y. V. C. A. Is up and walls are rising
for the second story. Concrete walls of
the Oregon Uotei annex are b?ing pushed
forward as rapidly as that class of con
struction can be handled, It being neces
sary to have the work "set" on me story
-before the next one can be started. Forms
aro in place for the fifth story, which
Will bo tilled this week.
. Work is to be continued on the Rrtcn-
Matt Hotel and there is a probability
of at least one business building .in the
neighborhood of the Poard of Trade build-
' tng starting In a short time. Stark street
. Is to take another start this Summer, two
or'three important structures being about
closed for. Considerable change is be
ing made In the appearance of the ware
liouse district, near the terminal yards.
-Several warehouses are to be completed
the coming Simmer. Alterations in the
l'crkins Hotel are progressing favorably.
A storeroom lias been cut out from the
office and Robinson & IV. has taken the
. room formerly used for the barroom.
' All the recently opened office buildings
; are fairly well tilled up and some of those
r w hioh will not he ready for some weeks
are renting quarters ahead of their open
leg. The older office buildings are being
brought up to date, and several are un
dergoing extensive alterations in their
Inlerlor arrangements. A few old-time
fr:inies. located here and there, on de
sirable sites, are being painted and made
ns presentable as possible with new
fronts for stores, to tide over until ar
rangements can be concluded for erect
ing modern buildings. One of these is
"lli McGinn quarter block, at Washing
ton and Seventh, and another, repaired
last Winter, the Marquam corner at Al
der and Sixth.
Hepon Favorable Market.
Dealers and brokers In real estate, with
few exceptions, give favorable reports of
ine local niarsei. t ne nest evidence or
the stability of values is found in the re
' cords of sales. There is not a single
transaction reported in the last six
months of downtown realty going at a
, decline from last year's ligures. The few
1 who complain of a certain amount of
; dullness in tile market are the dealers
'who confine their operations to big propo-
aitlnns, but those who handle small tracts
and platttM lots are quite jubilant over
the manner In which the demand keeps
up.
' "Railroad records show that ' hun
' 'dreds of colonists are arriving in Ore
Ron every week and these records Indi
cate that few buy return tickets. These
People remain In Oregon and are hers
to make their future homes. They are
In the market to buy houses or to rent
i them and many are also in the market
s to purchase land. This causes a con
; stant demand for realty, which the
,' firms handling it are supplying, and
; which results In the activity notice
, able.
l.leetrlc IJne Helps Valley.
t Tile building" pf the proposed exten
' sion of the Oregon Electric road will
; bring an outlying district Into closer
communication with Portland and the
effect will be almost instantaneous in
bringing nn advance in farming lands
tip the Valley. Portland dealers will
; fr--t more or less business in the dis
! position of these lands, for quite a
I number of local dealers handle this
$ -class of property.
Tuesday night will probably bring
! the mutter of forming a real estate e,
: change to a settlement one way or
another. The sentiment as expressed at
t ie lu.jt meeting of the Realty Board
v a.s strongly in ravor or the establish.
''""I f an exchange feature in the
board and to adopt the name "ex
change" for the combined organization.
The preliminary work has been done
and all that remains for the member
ship to accomplish is to secure a room
and start operations. Those who have
made a study of the plan are sure the
icvchange will prosper from the start
and that seats will command a prem
ium before many months elapse.
Excursions by the board and Its
guests will be resumed next Saturday.
Tliis feature is popular and wt:i lie
continued through tile Summer at
least. The officers of the board are
perfecting arrangements for the ex
cursion no Hood River, which is to
take place on May 9.
Olympla MaJt Extract, good for rran4
rra -or- bnhy: Only 15-10n of 1 per cent
AlcohoL PL ones: Main 671. A 467.
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MOCXT SCOTT DISTRICT TO
VOTE IX JfXE.
By Coming Inside Islmlts, 15.000
Population Would Re Added
to the City.
"Whatever may be tho result of the
annexation contest during the next few
weeks preceding the June election in the
southeastern district, called Mount Scott,
that suburb will still remain an example
of remarkable suburban growth a. sec
tion in which over 95 per cent of the
residents are home-owners. Scarcely five
years ago the four sections Included in
the annexation movement, as well as
outside sections, were covered with a
dense undergrowth. Hardly a house, was
to be seen between the Section Line road
and Lents and for three miles south, but
now 15,000 people live here. Two school
houses, one of four and another of ten
rooms, have been built and are filled to
the limits The Baptists, Methodists and
Presbyterians have built churches. Con
gregational, Christian and Vnlted Breth
ren denominations are preparing to build.
Hero also are several fraternal organ
izations. Many , business houses have
been put up along the Foster road, which
traverses the settlement. A newspaper
Is published at Arleta.
The homes in this district are neat
and well-kept. Nearly all have flower
and vegetable gardens. Streets have
been graded and sidewalks laid with
out any compulsion on the part of the
owners of the property. Many real estate
dealers handle the property of this sec
tion exclusively, and all are prosperous.
This setUement started at Flrland, where
in the wilderness half a dozen houses
were built for sale five years ago. The
lots were sold on such easy terms that
anybody who could pay rent could pur
chase one or more lots and build a shel
ter. The value of these lots has, of
course, increased several times, and the
shacks have given place to neat cottages
and In many Instances pretentious dwel
lings. It is a residence suburb exclu
sively. Unlike the Peninsula, which Is destined
to be the manufacturing and Industrial
portion of Portland, the Mount Scott
suburb has no manufacturing establish
ments. Portland people are more fa
miliar with the growth down the Pe
ninsula and toward the Columbia jyver,
and hardly realize that such a suburb
exists in the southeast. It would be a
revelation for them to take a Mount
Scott car and ride to the junction, half
a mile east of Lents.
The eastern boundary of the territory
included in the annexation movement is
at the old MHwaukie county road, half
a mile west from Lents, and leaves out
a considerable territory almost as well
settled.
Over the question of annexation there
will be a hot fight between now and the
election. The largely-signed remonstrance
presented to the Council shows that the
movement has some opposition, but ho
strong remains to be developed. The
Mount Scott Annexation Club, with O.
X. Ford as president, and the Wood
stock Push Clubs. L. J. Kelly president.
will lead the fight for annexation. T,
I. Kreuger, who has been foremost In
the ranks of the opposition, will likely
lead, the fight against annexation. Ques
tions of water supply, police and fire
protection, sewer and street improve
ments will be the issues that will enter
into the contest. It is expected that pub
lic meetings will be held frequently at
all the central places, which win be ad
dressed by speakers on both sides of
the question. It is safe to say that every
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vote of the four sections will be cast at
the June election. Plans for the cam
paign by the annexationists will be an
nounced during the coming week.
DASENT GOES TO ALBANY
Will Manage Publicity Bureau in
Valley City. r
Bury I, Dassent, publicity agent for
the Portland Railway. Light & Power
Company, has accepted the position of
manager of the newly organized public
ity bureau established to boost the city
of Albany. Mr. Dasent will leave Port-
and within the next few days to enter
on his new work.
Mr. Dasent has a wide acquaintance
in Portland, where he is prominent in
advertising circles, being secretary-
treasurer of the Pacific Coast Advertis-
ng Men's Association. lie is also sec
retary of the Portland Rose Festival
Association, which position he will re
sign upon leaving the city.
Mr. Dasent was for many years en
gaged in the newspaper business in
the East, being for eight years con-
nected with the editorial department of
the New York Herald as dramatic
editor of that paper. He was city
editor of the Philadelphia Press for
several years. He was assistant city
editor of the Philadelphia Times and
was later news editor of the Baltimore
Evening News.
For several years Mr. Daaent was
business manager of Wallacks Theater.
New York, and it was while in this
position that he learned his first les
sons in publicity work. After coming
West from New York Mr. Dasent wu
connected with the editorial depart
ment of the Chicago papers. He came
to Portland three years and a half ago
and took charge of the publicity work
for the Portland General Electric Com
pany, which he has continued since the
merging of the local electrical com
panies into the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company.
Mr. Dasent looks forward with pleas
ure to his new work and feels sure
that he will like it. He speaks highly
of the enterprise of the Valley city and
the alert and high-class business men
in Albany. He predicts a groat future
for that section of the state.
Perfect fitting glasses II at Merger.
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CROWN OP THORNS ADORNS
ANARCHIST'S BIER.
Friends of Grlgorl CJuerchouni, Rus
sian' Revolutionist, Give Him.Kx- .
traordinnrv .Funeral in Paris.
PARIS. April 25. (Special 1. An ex
traordinary funeral tok place here
recently when the body of a famous
Russian revolutionist, Grigori Ouer
chouni, who was concerned in. the as
sassination of M.- de Plehve, was laid
in Its last resting-place at Mountpar
na&se Cemetery. First came a funeral
car draped in red clotii, upon which
were laid hundreds of wreaths sur
round with preen palms. ' These
wreaths " bore inscriptions in every
European language. Next followed
the hearse. The coffin was hidden un
der a mass of green moss, in which
had been inserted hundreds of red
carnations, mingled with red roses,
while borne after the hearse was a
red Russian revolutionary Hag.
Behind the mourners walked scores of
delegations from all the revolutionary
cities in Europe, carrying floral tro
phies. One of these trophies attracted
particular attention, "To Guerchouni.
From his old convict "companions."
Twenty thousand people marched in the
procesion.
SOMETHING IN A NAME
Mr. McKenna Insists on a Real
Change From "Bull Run."
PORTLAND, April 25. (To the Editor.)
H. W. Dudley, who recently entered
Into the controversy on the change of
name of Bull Run River, does not seem
to know that the name of the source of
our water supply is Bull Run River and
not Bull Run. It would, according to
The Oregonian, be contradictory in sense
to assume that "run" in this connection
could mean the stream, the channel in
which the water runs. It requires no
fine sense of discernment to see that the
word "river" indicates the class or size
of the stream; therefore, to say "run
river" weuld be as contradictory as to
say a "white black bull." I must, there
fore, assume that "Run" in this connec
tion is the other noun defined at consid
erable length in Webster and the Stand
ard, as a range, a field, where animals
are kept. Bull run. bull range, bull field
and bull pen are synonymous terms in
that connection.
Now. if Mr. Dudley would enjoy a drink
of water from Bull Pen River as much
as he would from Cascadla River or from
Mount Hood Lake, certainly he a entitled
to his choice, the same as the old woman
who kissed the cow. Bull River is much
less objectionable than Bull Run River.
Bull River. does not convey to the mind
anything necessarily offensive, but the
thought of bull range, bull pen, bull pas
ture, as a source for our water supply,
is offensive to any person with even a
slight cultivation, on the subject of sani
tary or hygienic living.
I have challenged The Oregonian, the
Historical Society and all the readers of
The Oregonian to show wherein the name
"Bull Run River""had any historical sig
nification. Although almost a year has
passed since the challenge was Issued,
no one has offered the slightest proof.
What is there In a good name? Will
any man dare to answer, "Nothing"?
There are hundreds of lodge men, read
ers of The Oregonian, who have seen
strong men turn deathly sick after seeing
the clean, white vessel out of which
they had eaten while blindfolded clean,
pure gingerbread and tea. The food was
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as pure as Miint Hood water, the vessel
was as clean as Cascadia River and the
association of thought was no more
filthy than the association of thoughts
with a bull run. a bull pen or a bull
range and yet the thought made people
sick. Why any clean, cultivated person
attempts to defend the name Bull Run
River can only be explained on the theory
that such persons know nothing of the
foul habits of cattle about streams of
water where they drink.
Mr. Dudley does not seem to under
stand the significance of the name "Ox
ford" as applied to the great institution
of learning in England. Oxford technic
ally means where the ox crosses a
stream. The ox is a plodding beast of
burden of the most patient kind. A stu
dent at college can be likened to an ox
crossing a stream. The student must
be patient and work hard like the ox to
cross the ford from ignorance to enlight
enment. The student must stand-the-ford
(Stanford), to get from ignorance
to cultivation. Mr. Dudley can find no
such parallel , between Bull Run River
and pure drinking water.
If a stream coursing its way through
a bull run where bullg or cows or calves
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are kept, be an inviting place from which
to drink, my education as a " farmer's
boy has been badly neglected. I would
like to have Mr. Dudley or any other
reader of The Oregonian point out what
Injury would follow if the name should
be changed. There is no doubt there is
a large number of sensitive, cultured
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people In Portland who desire to have
the name Bull Run River changed. Tf
it will please the sensitive and not harm
the coarser kind, why not allow the
change to take place? Is it because the
coarse, rough bull enjoys too well
fight to let it pass without a goring?
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