The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, May 10, 1908, SECTION THREE, Image 33

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 10, 1909. 9 EAST SIDE CLUB COMPARES NOTES Finds Gain of Building Over Last Year to Be 42 Per Cent. COUNTRY CLUB GETS READY Streets Leading to Site to Be Made First-Class Before Fall Cattle Show Good Record Made In Business District.. In speaking of the improvements which have been niacin -In Central East Port land the past few years at the banquet of the East Side Business Men's Club Thursday night. H. H. Newhall referred to the big nils under way and the hard surface pavements being made. He said there had been a complete transforma tion In that portion of the city due to the club organizations pulling hard in that one direction. Grand avenue is be ing paved with hard-surface material as one result of the constant pushing of the past year and a half. Union ave nue, which two years ago was practically deserted, has again become a business street because of the class of improve ments made. Mr. Newhall further ob served that such a banquet could be held in a high-class fire-proof reinforced con crete building on the East Side was of itself a demonstration of the growth of that portion of Portland. A few years ago such a function could not have been held on this side. Particular attention was called to the new business buildings that had been built in East Portland, in cluding the Healy, the Morgan, the New hall. Citizens Bank. Mitchell. Staver & Iewls. the Paquet, the Masonic Temple on East Eighth street and others, show ing substantial evidence of real progress. The general movement at present, led by the Business Men's Club, is to get Central Bast Portland ready for its part in the Rose Festival, Thursday night. June 4, when all Portland and visitors wijl be Invited to see this section ot the city. There has been much to do. There is much more to do. but no effort w.111 be spared to get that portion of the city ready for the event. Increase of 43 Per Cent. Plans have been completed for a three story warehouse for the Oliver Chilled Plow Cempany on East First and Taylor streets. The foundation will be of con crete, and the cost will be about $25,000. MacNaughton, Raymond & Lawrence are the architects. It is expected that work will be started on this building within m days. It is the fourth important build ing to be projected for Central East Portland this season, the others being the two-story warehouse for W. H. Wal lace and Thomas H. Devlin, costing $45, 000; -the three-story Selling .brick on Grand avenue and Belmont street, cost ing $36,000, and Oddfellows' temnle, cost ing $25,000. Another notable structure is the four-tenement building, for which plans are being; drawn by Architect Otto Kleemann.j to be built for Peter Zim merman on East Twelfth and Zimmerman to cost about $7000. A four-flat building will be built on Grand avenue and Ore gon street for T. J. McNamee. Joseph Jacobberger Is preparing plans for this structure. It will cost abouHTOOO. Judge Otto J. Kraemer is having plans pre pared for a fourflat, two-story frame building to be built on Grand avenue and Oregon street. Numbers of flats are be ing built on the East Side and more are projected. Thls-class of houses rent very readily. C. N. Rankin, who is putting up a $5000 flat on East Twelfth and East Burnside streets could have leased that building several times, although it is just under cover. According to the report of the Build ing Inspector for the first four months of 1907 and for 190S the showing is as fol lows: For 1907, total number of build ings was 594, and their total value 3M; for 1908. total number of dwellings 9(14, value $1,748,025. These figures do not take into consideration the large num ber of houses put up in the suburbs out side the city limits the past four months, which will Increase the total by at least 150, if not more. This comparison puts at rest the question of increased growth of the present year over that of 1907. Without doubt the same ratio will hold out for the remainder of the year. The ratio of increase in buildings on the East Side for 1908 over 1907 to May 1 Is 43 per cent.- Country Club Improvements. G. A. Westgate, secretary of the Country Club and Livestock Associa tion, said in his talk before the Rose City Park Improvement League Mon day night, that satisfactory progress is being made on the grounds, grading1 for the race track and buildings being near ly completed. Mr. Westlake went into de tails as to the advantages Portland will derive from the livestock exhibition, lie said that men from the East who had been taken out to the grounds pro nounced them Ideal for the purpose. Of the $100,300 subscribed at the start hy the stockholders about $80,000 had been expended In permanent improve ments. Work on some of the buildings has been started. He said that the live stock show would be National in im portance; that it would attract horse men from all, portions of the United States, and would make Portland a great market for horses. The livestock show will be held in. the Fall, and Mr. WeBtlake urged that nothing should be neglected to Improve the roads and streets leading to the grounds. Access to the grounds by good streets, he declared, was neces sary to the success cf thfs great enter prise. In speaking of the probable at tendance. Mr. Westlake estimated it at from 50,000 to 60.000 daily, and this brought up the question of transporta tion. He said that he doubted whether the streetcar facilities would be suffi cient to handle such tremendous crowds. The speaker said that the livestock show would be permanent. Thc.ro would be clean sport for horse men and a feature will be made of har ness racing. There would be no pool selling or gambling on the grounds. At the close of his talk Mr. Westlake said that the work on the grounds would continue right along and the erection of the necessary buildings the buildings have been adopted. It still remains to open and Improve both roads and streets to these grounds. The City Council has started proceed ings to open Tillamook street, and the County Court has granted the petition to open the Barr road two miles east ward from the Reams road. Also the Reams road is to be graded between the Section and Sandy roads, an im provement greatly needed. These Im provements will give better access to the grounds of the Country Club and open up that section as well. Holladay Addition Sale. One of the largest sales of residence property during the week was that of H. S. Rowe on Holladay avenue. Hol iday's addition, for $16,00J. Lots 1 and 2, In block 91, was the property disposed of. Mr. Rowe bought the south 40 feet of lot 2 and lot 3, In block 1. subdivision of Proebstel's addi tion to Alblna, for $5500. In John Irving'a addition. John S. Patton sold lot 7, in block 10, to Rebec ca M. Talbot for $6000. In the Para dise Springs tract, at Mount Tabor, Charles H. Thompson bought four lota In block 4 for $4250. In Rossmere, Jacob J. Blum purchased a triangular piece bounded by Broadway. Thaxter and the Sandy road for $2800. Arthur A. Hale purchased the prop erty of Clarence E. Hale in Klnzel Park, a house and lot. for $3500. W. T. Joplin and Charles Meek purchased a quarter block in the Hancock-street Addition for $1450. In Sunnyside Harry L. Kelly bought lot 4. block 37, for $3000. Mary L. Arnsplger bought lots 17 and 30, in block 2, Anabel, for $2500. The sale includes a house. In the Rose City Park a number cf acreage tracts have been sold. Among the recent purchasers Is Fred Broker, of North Yakima, who comes to as sume the superlntendency of the Coun try Club. 'He purchased a building site on Coleman and Alameda avenues, and will shortly erect a home. .U. S. Ackles has purchased a lot In that ad dition and intends building a tasteful bungalow this Summer. George B. Crane and N. S. Turin have bought three-acre tracts and Paul Wlssenger purchased a five-acre tract. A large number of attractive homes are being put up all through this district. In cluding Rose City Park, Rossmere and Hancock-street Addition. It is esti mated that more than 60 dwellings will be started in that district in the next 30 day. In Alblna Homestead the Centennial Investment Company sold to Herman Vetter lot 16 for $9000. 'It Is occupied with a building. In the Terminus Ad dition to Albina M. L. Holbrook bought lots 11 and 12, block 6, for $2000. Frank C. Wimbiles bought of W. E. Purdy lot 8, block 13, Central Albina Addition, also some other property, for $6000. There has been considerable move ment In acreage property east of the city. W. A. Shroeder, of Portland, pur chased 30 acres from the Osburn Brothers, located one-quarter of a mile west of Fairvlew on the Sandy and Columbia View roads, for $6000. Mr. Shroeder expects to make a Summer resort of the tract. Its fine location and excellent water make this plan feasible. J. M. Martlndale, of Fairvlew, has purchased a 300-acre farm near Wash ougal, for which he paid $8000. He expects to move on the farm and Im prove It. C. A. Rhea sold to F. A. Day part of the John Rankin donation land claim for $C000. M. M. Bridges boufrht 10 acres of Franz Nibler for $3500. W. H. Nunn has sold to Bruce Wol verton 10 acres for $1200. Adeline Pearson sold to David P. Ewan 2V4 acres ior sjuuu. AS NELL AS PLAY JVXIOR . AVIJEK EXD . MUCH GOOD. TO DO Sidewalks and Bleachers to Be Built AVIIh Big Cement "O" Before Track Meet, and Dance Begins. ) UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, May ' 9. (Special.)- President Camp bell of the University has sanctioned the enlargement of the annual Univer sity Pay and the Junior week end is now an assured fact. The days set for this event Rre- Friday and Saturday, May 22 and 23. . Friday forenoon will be set aside for improvement of the college grounds. All thd men of the University will be listed and will be assigned to different working parties. One division will lay about 40 feet of cement walk in front of Deady Hall, the expense of which will be provided by the University. Another party will construct bleachers on the south side of Kincaid Field, the materials for which will be provided by the associ ated students. A third party will lay a large cement "O" on the side of Skinner's Butte, to let people passing through on, trains know that the State University is situated in Eugene. This scheme originated with the Eu gene Commercial club, and this body will provide for all expenses of the undertaking. Kennedy, a student In the University who has done - much practical work In cement, will have charge of the work. It is calculated by the committee in charge that all three of the contemplated projects can be completed by working from 7 A. M. until noon. The co-eds. will serve a dinner to the hungry workers at noon and In the afternoon will come the big O. A. C Oregon track meet. In the evening the Juniors will do their annual stunts in an oratorical exhiwtion. a nose w..o will speak are, Earl Kilpatrick, Her bert Clarke, Charlie Snow, Thomas R. Townsend and Merle R. Chessman. Saturday forenoon come the tennis finals, to pick a double team to repre sent the. University In the tournament at Seattle at the triangular meet. , In the afternoon the varsity ball-tdasers will try conclusions with the O. A. C team in a -double-header. The celebra tion will be finished in a big blaze -ot glory by .ue much-heralded "Junior Prom.," one of the four big dances of the year. The committe of Juniors in charge of the work consists of Merle R. Chessman, Robin Nelson and Ormond Bean. HELP SPAWNING" GROUNDS Secretary Rosenberg's Plan to Con serve Columbia River Salmon. ASTORIA, Or., May 9. (To the Edi torsIn last Sunday's Oregonian, John T. Nassa. a Washington fish-trap owner, attacks initiative bill 332. which pro vides that in the Columbia River all commercial fishing for salmon, with every kind of gear, shall stop above the line where the Sandy River enters the Co lumbia. Thls bill stops fishing where the river becomes in places so narrow that fishing appliances seines, glllnets and flshwheels manage to catch nearly every salmon reaching this territory. The result has been that Washington and Oregpn, with in the last three years, have closed the seven hatcheries operated in. the Upper Columbia. There were no fhh to hatch in the Upper Columbia, though four years ago, that Is before fishwheel owners im proved their methods, these hatcheries received over 20.000 salmon. Thus, two thirds of the natural spawning grounds of the Columbia are empty of spawn. We are in the position of the farmer who neglects, year after year, to cultivate two-thirds of his farm because he Is too Improvident to get the necessary seed. That the fishing Jn the narrows of the Upper Columbia is responsible for this bad state of affairs is absolutely proven by absolute facts. It is a fact that Washington closed Its up-river hatcheries because, of late years, no flsh reached these hatcheries. Fact No. 2 is that Oregon closed its-up-river hatcheries for the same reasons. Fact No. 3 is that Washington, Oregon and United States hatcheries located below the Sandy River are receiving a good supply of salmon and are thus enabled to properly seed one-third of our salmon farm. Fact No. 4 is that Master Fish Warden Van Dusen, from sworn, state- On lay 25, We will advance the price on all unsold lots in ' if n Wa VI V SI. SSO.OO Buy now. Make Money Remember Waverleigh has Graded Streets, Cement Walks, Bull Run Water and Two Gar Lines 12 minutes' ride from heart of city Take W.-R. cars and get off at E. 35th JohnP.SharKeyCompany 12212 SIXTH STREET A 2537 PHONE Main S50 If you were up in a balloon, had your eyes closed, floated over Portland and opened them suddenly, what do you supose would first attract your attention? We believe the answer is ELLEC REST ments made by the fishwheel owners themselves, showed that the flshwheels at Celilo the strategical point for this kind of gear had, within the last three years, trebled their catches, though the general catch In the river is steadily de creasing, in spite of the ever-increasing number of all ' kinds of appliances to catch salmon. Fact No. 6 is that the millionaire fishwheel owners had ' Mr. Van Dusen "fired" after seven years' service for telling the truth about the decrease 1 of our salmon and about the barrenness of two-thirds, of our salmon farm. A commercial traveler, who, as re ported, came two years ago to this state from Texas, where they have no salmon, was made Master Fish Warden. He, of course, does not know facts that might Injure .the millionaire fishwheel owners who destroy our salmon by preventing them to get to their spawning grounds. Fish Commissioner Riseland, of Wash ington, more discreet and more discern ing as to political conditions, didn't' tell the people of Washington why he closed his up-river hatcheries. He simply closed them. And the fishwheel owners vote him a "good fellow" and a man of sense, for he knows when not to run up against tho "Interests." However, personally I do not blame Mr. Riseland. Had he done what Van Dusen did, some drum mer, without the least knowledge- about salmon, might now be injuring on the Washington side what little there is left of our fisheries. Not until . our Fish Commissioner are - directly elected by the people and directly responsible to the people, instead of, as at present, to some body higher up who can obscure respon sibility, will our Fish Commissioners dare to tell the truth or remain in office' If they tell the truth. As to Mr. Nassa's statement that gill nets at the mouth of ?the river prevent the fish from entering, it only need be said that he knows, as well as all who have - observed gillnet fishing, that gill nets, from Astoria down, fish only about six out of 24 hours. He also knows that the talk of glllnets barring the mouth of the river has been raised by the trap men on the Washington shore who want the first chance at the salmon. He also knows that, after these trapmen. by driv ing their traps - on old gillnet fishing grounds, have forced . the gillnetters, the poor men, the actual fishermen, to try to make a living for themselves and their families by risking their lives on the bar. To stop fishing in the narrows of the Upper Columbia means to apply Social ism and confiscation, and is, to put it mildly, "tommyrot." No one accuses President Roosevelt or Secretary of Com merce and Labor Straus of being Social ists, hut December last the writer of this communication and two'other fishermen, after a two days' hearing before Secre tary Straus and an interview with Presi dent Roosevelt, secured an order abso lutely closing all commercial fishing for There are several reasons why. In the first place, the elevation of BELLE CREST is so much above the other residence sections of the city that it would be nearer to you, hence, easier to see. Second, you would be attracted largely by the scenery. The scenic environment of BELLE CREST is so much superior to that of almost any other part of Portland that it would compel your attention. Third, the ce ment walks glistening in the sunshine, would claim your gaze, demonstrating the advance in improve ments that has been made in this beautiful residence district. Then, again, the fact that BELLE CREST is the backbone of the East Side peninsula would interest you. You would naturally trace this land formation from its point at the mouth of the Willam ette, wondering where it would come to a crest. You would locate it at BELLE CREST. But, the best reason of all would be that you had read this adver tisement and remembered it. Your first impulse would be to find out if the facts were true. You would find them so. There is still a better way to demon strate the truth of these statements, however, and that is to take a ride today, on the East Ankeny line to BELLE CREST. Here, you will find the facts so apparent that you will not have to take a trip in a balloon. You can own a lot in BELLE CREST, pay a little down, a little every month and have a beau tiful place for your own home before you know it. It will net you a handsome profit before it is half paid tor. Uthers have done it. Detachand mail this coupon! or fur ther information and prize story. THE JACOBS-STINE CO., 148 Fifth Street, Portland Oregon. I would like to t-ead that fine article about Portland, written by Rev. John Roach Strattpn, D. D. Please mail me one of them without cost. Name Address Rev. Stratton received the cap ital prize of $1000 offered by the Portland Commercial Club. He is a Baltimore, Maryland, pas cor. It's a fine story, too. THE LARG ifs T SUBDIVISION OPERATORS ON PACIFIC COAST 148 Fifth Street Portland, Or. r salmon In the Wood River and Upper Nushagak River, Bristol Bay, Behrmg Bea. Alaska. It was admitted that 20o. 000 worth of fishing privileges, including trap and gillnet fishing, was abolished by this order. But it was shown in ' that case that such fishing prevented the necessary seed-fish from reaching tne spawning grounds and thus threatened extinction of a great industry. The prin ciple involved in that case Is identical in every way with the principle laid down in initiative bill 332. It Is my confident belief that the peo ple of Oregon next June, by overwhelm ingly adopting bill 332, will follow in the footsteps of President Roosevelt and Secretary Straus and thereby save our Columbia River salmon. ED ROSENBERG. Sec. United Fishermen of Pacific. GROUND THAT PROVIDES A DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE AND A REV ENUE BESIDES. Only 25 minutes' ride from Portland, on Salem. Electric Line. All trains stop at Metzger Station. Take cars at Jefferson and Front. Acre Op These acres are. the greatest bargains that have ever been offered in Portland. They are really worth twice the price we ask, and if you want one or more take advantage of this offer before prices advance. Where can you get a better in vestment for your money? No better land anywhere for cultivation of fruit, berries, vegetables, walnuts, etc. When you secure one of these acres you have something that will increase in value every year. It isn't speculation, but the best possible investment, that will pay handsome dividends. It will ay you to ride out and see this tract. Insist on agent showing you map 6f tract. PRICE-r-?200 and up per acre, according to location. TERMS 10 per cent cash and 3 per cent of the purchase price per month. INTEREST 6 per cent per annum on deferred payments. ON CASH PAYMENTS a discount will be allowed. For particulars and beautifully descriptive plat call at our Portland office, 226-228 Front street, or at Metzger Station. All cars and trains stop at Metzger 's. - HERMAN METZGER, OWNER Office "Phones, Main 474 A 1374 Phone at Station, Pacific, 2019 Miner Vote om Ware Scale. SPRINGFIELD. 111., May 9. President Walker, of the United Mineworkers of Illinois, stated today that the canvass of the referendum vote of the local unions showed a majority of the miners voting in favor of continuing the agreement of 1906 and paying the shot-flrers. V "THE TWIN FALLS COUNTRY" 80,000 ACRES CAREY ACI LANDS OPEI FOR ENTRY UNDER THE TWIN FALLS SALMON RIVER PROJECT AT TWIN FALLS, IDAHO JUNE 1ST, 1908 Registration Books Open May 25, 1908 Registration Books Close May 31, 1908 Drawing Takes Place June First, 1908 For booklet giving full information write R. M. McCOLLUM, Secretary Twin Falls Investment Co., Ltd. TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, Sole agents for sale of land and water riglits. Carey Act Lands can be located by power of attor ney. Blanks Furnished on Application.