TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 10, 1909.
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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
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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.
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article about Portland, written
by Rev. John Roach Strattpn,
D. D. Please mail me one of
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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.
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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.
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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.
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