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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1908)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, MAY 17, I90S. WANT PERMANENT PAVEMENT 1 East Side Clubs Favor City Maintenance of Hard Surface Roads. DISTRICT PLAN INDORSED Building Operations Keep Pa-e With Street Improvements and Exten sion of Water Service Ad vocated by Push Clubs. Hard-surface pavement and improv ing: Btreets by district were tiie im portant subjects before the United Kant Wide Push Clubs Tuesday night last. Ij. K. llice, representing tho W'averly-Kichmond Improvement Asso ciation, presented a resolution to-the effect that Hie city should maintain all hard-surface pavement, after they had once been made by the property-owners, without any further cost to them. M. (5. Munly snoke in favor of intro ducing more hard-surface pavements in the city and pointed out that Port land was not making Improvements of this kind in line with its growth in other directions. "While the initial cost might be more than an inferior grade of improvements, said Judge Munly, they were really less costly than an improvement that was not permanent. He held that the class of hard-surface pavement which had a concrete foun dation is the best because the surface can be renewed. He called attention to the fact that the Irvington tract, lying between Tillamook st reot, Knott a venue and Kast Fourteenth and l;int Twenty-fourth streets, will be paved with asphalt, and also that this hard surface district will be enlarged to take In Holladay Addition. Also the old race track area is now being pro vided with hard-surface pavements. Judge Munly said that the property owners In this territory are consider ing the advisability of organizing a hard-surface pavement club whose function shall be to promote and en courage the improving of streets with hard -surf ace pavements. It was the sentiment of the delegates present, in cluding I C. Kones, from the Penin sula, that no effort should be spared by all civic clubs to work for perma nent pavements. Judge Munly was in clined to favor brick pavements. Piedmont Paving Movement. In Piedmont there is a general move ment to Improve all the streets with high-grade pavements, and petitions are now being circulated. On Albina avenue, south from Killingsworth. an effort is being made to secure hard surface pavement. And so all over the Kast Side a general campaign for the best pavements that can be secured is under way, it having been found that cheap and inferior pavements are the most expensive that can be put down. It has been found also that property on streets improved with this kind of pavement appreciates in value faster than property on cheap improvements. The action of the Portland Realty Board in inviting K. H. Thomson- City Kngineer of Seattle, father of the dis trict plan to improve streets, which made Seattle streets the admiration of all who go there, to address Portland property-owners on that plan, meets with approval on the iiast Side, where it is believed some such methods would facilitate general improvement, and reduce the cost. Also the clubs will insist that In letting contracts for hard pavements there shall be compe tition. J udge Munly. in "his address, declared that the cost of the high class pavements was kept up for the reason there had been no competition, which, he said, ought to be remedied. He urged tiiat action be taken that would require competitive bids on such improvements and that it ought to be required by ordinance. It is estimated that projected hard-surface pavements on the Kast Side will cost nearly $500, 0(0. Large Movements Southward. Among the larger movements of the past week on the East Side is the pro jected platting of the Uadtl farm on the Milwaukie road. Its improvement will include .paved streets, water and sewer pipes, the building of a 24 -inch pipeline to supply Sell wood and sur roundings, a projected sewer system east of fifteenth street, to cover East Sell wood, and probably the Ladd farm and part of Wills burg. This pipeline would run from Division street and would be about three miles long. One of the most important developments of the past week is the well-authenticated ' announcement that a portion of the Ladd farm, on the Milwaukie Road, is to be platted. Improved and placed on the mar ket. This information came out at the last meeting of the St.-11 wood Board of Trade. It was brought out in connection with the agitation that has been started for another pipeline. 24-inch, for the Sell wood district. The. 10-inch main that was put down along the Milwaukie Road to supply thnt suburb several years ago, is not adequate and the water committee is asked to consider the building of a C4-lnch pipeline from Division street to Sell wood. If tho Ladd farm be platted and improved and placed on tho market, i his pipeline will be necessary, and the Ladd estate has been asked to assist in securing the water main. The Kenil worth and the district east ward are interested in this proposed pipe line, for that district Is very short of water and is building up rapidly. The sewer question east of East Ffteenth street is also connected with the opening of the Iadd farm. Sewerage will be neces sary, and the district will include the ladd farm and all that part of Sell wood east of Fifteenth street and part of Wills burg. This will necessitate a large con duit through the Richard Scott farm along Johnson Creek to the Willamette River at Milwaukie. It is understood that Mr. Scott will not raise objection to the conduit being laid through his farm to Milwaukie, as he will probably soon plat some portion of his farm. These proj ects demonstrate that Portland grows southward as well as toward the north. At Sellwood petitions for a sewer sys tem between East Fifteenth street and the Willamette River, which will cost over tltXUVO, has already gone to the City Council. New Manufacturing District. The sale of property on the Peninsula for the month of April was remarkable. In the Waverleigh tract over 1:5 lots, -epresenting a value of over StS.OOU, were sold the past six weeks, and this tract was only recently placed on the market. At University Park, S. G. Sihray an lounees that his tirm has sold from one to five lots every day for the past two months. . R. -G. Brand, of the Maegly Improve ment Club, says that a large number of manufacturing establishments are to be ?rected at that point during the present Summer or as soon as the H ill company announces what it will do In the way of providing freight and passenger depots. Several concerns are ready to start work of construction as soon as the depot ques tion is settled. The railroad company nas already promised ample depot facilities, but has not said when they will be built Durlng the week one firm secured an option on a lS-acre tract on which it will build a $7o,(00 plant, the character of which has not yet been announced. There are several smaller concerns ready to build, al Maegly Junction a consider able manufacturing district has oeen laid out, the streets having been dedicated with a provision that railroad spurs may be built on the streets direct to the es tablishments. This district has both rail and water facilities, as Columbia Slough is being dredged out so that building ma terial may be handled, both by rail and water. A movement has been started to grade out and improve the streets in this dis- : trict, preparatory to the coming of these ; concerns. Electric lights and Bull Run j water Will be provided for. The Water Committee will lay a 6-inch water main : at once from the pipe on Dawson street to Columbia boulevard. Recently R. D. Inman. ot Tnman-Poulsen Company, vis ited the Swift site with a view to erect ing a sawmill plant in that vicinity, but : with what results lias not been yet an nounced. May Erect Oddfellows' Temple. Trie Oddfellows Lodge at University Park is considering the proposition of erecting a building for tue use of the order on the peninsula. It Is under stood, that the lodge has secured op tions on two sites on Dawson and Hodge streets at University Park, 5Jx 10O. If the plans mature the lodge wiil put up a two and one-half-story, reinforced concrete building on which ever site Is finally secured for the pur pose. The first floor will be for busi ness purposes and the upper floor will contain an auditorium and lodge room. The plans for the Oddfellows' temple on East Alder and Sixth streets in a modi fied form may be selected for the new fraternal building at University Park. Architect Berndt is taking bids for the carpentry, reinforced concrete and ot her portions of the Oddfellows tem ple on East Alder and Sixth streets for Orient Lodge. The excavating for the basement has been finished, and work on tho reinforced, concrete walls, wilp be started at once. While the building will be two-story, should a suitable proposition be received it will be made three-stories. The offer has been made of $100 a month for the third floor to be used as a public ball, and the trustees are favorable to the proposition. If the proposer will take a long lease on the premises the trustees will have the building ex tended to include a third story, as the cost would probably not exceed $5000 or $6000. . To Start Work on Bridge. The Northwest Bridge Company is making arrangements to start work on the concrete bridge across Sullivan Gulch on East Twenty-eighth street. A thorough test has been made of the cement to be used by the contracting firm by the City Engineer. These tests have been completed and excavating for the foundation win be started within the next few days. This bridge will be of great value and convenience to a large section north of Sullivan Gulch, where handsome dwellings are under construction. . Architect Otto Kleemann has com pleted plans for a fiat building for Peter Zimmerman, to be built on East Twelfth, near East Burnside street, which will cost $6600. Henry Leibe has secured the contract. William Kuyath will erect a flat in Holladay Addition, costing $6600, for J. J. Horsky. Goodrich & Goodrich have prepared plans for two bungalows in Rose City Park, one to contain seven and the otner six rooms, and the cost to be $3000 each. Frank- S. Fields is having a two-story dwelling erected on East Nineteenth and Thompson streets to cost $4200. Plans have been pre pared for a two-story building, 44x70 feet, a four-flat structure, to be built on Benton and Dupont streets, for Mrs, Barnes, 20 rooms In all. The Portland Tool Works has taken out a permit to erect a shop at a cost of $2000. Recent Transfers Recorded. Each district is well represented in the realty transfers. William H. Har ris sold to A. W. Bagley and H. C. Epley a long list of lots in Masters Addition for $6712. In Rose City Park Barnat Sail bought lot 3, block 78, from Norman H. Bean for $2800. In Pied mont Evelyn A. McGraw bought lots 6 and 7. block 5, for $2000. Andrew C. Wald bought lots 7 and 8, McMillen'a Addition, from Jessie L. Tuttle for $6200. Including a house. In the Lincoln Park Annex, W. T. Shlrey bought lots 9 and 10, block 12, for $30ii0. Otto H. Kulper sold to Alex Sweek lots 1, 2 and 3, Arbor Lodge, for $3000. Flora Quilty sold 50 feet of lot 12, block 13, Hawthorne First Addi tion, for $2600. At Firland E. C. Alfredson bought lot 2"!. block 9, and house, from W. M. Heg ler, for $1100. In the Holladay Park Sec ond Addition Minnie A. McKeown bought lot 8 and west 15 feet of lot 7, block 14, for $22iK. Linnie McBeth Glass bought lot 3, block 30. Multnomah, for $2250. The Portland Railway, Light & Power Company asks for the vacation of East Twelfth street, between Unit and Ochoco avenues, in Sellwood. The company de sires this street vacated o it may start work on its new carbarns, shops and clubhouse on the site. In Montavilla a large number of dwel lings are under construction. In the Jonesmore tract, on the west side, there is a dozen of handsome cottages being built at an average cost of $2000 There Is a concerted effort to have a 12-inch water main laid on Villa avenue, from West avenue to the Meridian road. Pe titions are being signed asking for this main. The citizens of Montavilla are lso puliing hard for an engine house to e erected at some elevated point. This settlement is now without tire protec tion. An effort is being made to secure electric lights and a canvass is under way to ascertain the number of people who will take lights. Handsome Book of Portland Views. One of the handsomest publications is sued in Portland for exploiting the city and the coming Rose Festival is a book of views in color, published by the Port land Pgst Card Company. Twenty-four mats of dark brown paper are bound into a book with an illuminated cover, and in the middle of the collection is a half-tone double-page panoramic view of the busi ness district of the city, showing the re cent constructed skyscrapers and those erected in past years. The views of gardens, streets and water scenes are not only selected with care, but are repro duced in a style that places this work in the ranks of the artistic publications of the country. Roses are given a promi nent place in the collection of views, and the pictures give an accurate idea of the Mower Portland has made famous. Noth ing that has been produced lately will appeal more strongly to the people of Oregon than this beautiful work as a present to send to friends in the East, and certainly nothing could give a better representation of the city's appearance and marvelous wealth of bloom espec ially roses. En large Milwaukie Schoolhouse. Architect P. Chappell Browne has com pleted plans for the annex to the Mil waukie schoolhouse. It contains four rooms, besides two large halls, and will cost about $10,000. The assembly hall will be located in the basement. Mr. Browne also has plans in preparation for a $15,000 schoolhouse at Gladstone, on the Oregon City electric railway. It will contain eight rooms. Build Summer Resorts. Lee Holden, former Fire Battalion Chief on the East Side, is pushing work on the resort on his farm on the Mount Hood road at the toll gate. He expects to have GUT OUT THINGS TO THINK OVER Do you know that there are men In his state supporting families on a single acre? It Is to this phenomenal productiveness that the wealth of the country is oue. But this district is too valuable to be cultivated very long it's going to be a solid block of resi dences. Every acre is cleared and in cultivation,, no rock nor gravel, and will grow anything you want to plant. Fifteen minutes' ride on the Oregon EU-ctric (Salem Line) compare this with other distances. The fact that the line has just been opened is an important consideration. There is everything to win by the ones who get In now. Briefly, the proposition is an acre for the price of a lot. dODDDDDODOOl !. . oQODoriQDnaooDD clr could have in any district by minutes or miles than ground per acre. LVJadison These ti'acts have the same relation to the center of town today as hundreds of blocks that were sold at similar prices twenty years ago and winch have since become the equivalent to as many fortunes. I have watched all this development, and there must be a repetition unless Portland stops growing right where it is. Look around and just think of the millions in wealth this but recent wilderness has developed! into. Ninety per cent of the fortunes were started by the advancement in value of some piece of ground. . Madison Villa is the closest in acreage proposition in the city; so close is it that the vicinity is literally covered with platted residence tracts all of which are certain to return generous prof its. My first announcement appeared less than two weeks ago and already over half the tracts have been bought up. You are under no moral obligation to buy after going out to inspect; we just want you to see and you will un derstand the possibilities. Free tickets at this office for trip; if you cannot come, write for maps and fuller information. Agent at tract today. IMPORTANT to It ready for the Summer tourists and others who bo to the mountains. C. W. Kern is building an annex to his hotel, at Welch resort, at Salmon River, 62x24 feet. He will then be able to seat 75 or SO guests in this addition. CURRENT PUTS DOG ASLEEP Substitute for Chloroform as Anes thetic Csed Successfully. " NEW YORK, May 16. Before a gathering of homeopathic physicians In Flower Hospital, Dr. William S. King, dean of the Homeopathic College, sub jected a dog to an electric current to demonstrate that electricity can be used successfully in place of ether or chloroform as an anesthetic. Dr. Will iam Dieffenbach assisted Dr. King. Drs. King and- Dieffenbach got a black and tan terrier in good health, shaved the hair off the top of his head and back near the tall above the lumbar region. An electrode was ap plled on his head and another on the back and an intermittent current of a j nine more man six uns was turnea on. The current was from the regular street supply, modified in the specially constructed apparatus used- In 45 seconds the doe was uncon Just Whata Woman Wants Tint Your Rooms With Washable Kalsomine Costs less than the ordinary kalsomine, which fades and rubs off. No trouble to call and ex plain our process, and give esti mates on your work. Portland Branch, Pacific Wall Tinting Co. Telephone, Woodlawn 2138. S3 "-"Ov fp5 i : ..nnnor 1DQOQ i,l ' 1 1 i i 1 r ' " i 1 1 1 1 1 1 I . 1 1 I V I ' ' - I -innooo nnnnnr j oooooe - n f-i i-i n 1 2 o a o '- '', jOUO'-'v k i-1 1 i lj en (J viaoac Kt QODOiirjaaQ ooao'-', '-ioc- i a a a c-a u o o - innoQD OA'C'C'CiuiL: Joonno ro c- n o N nnnr,,nnn r"i ii feu jDDDOD Ul '"-'DO a cio c ' aaaoaQL noODDOr,, p odd or i boDDr, .1 If-. - - I and the real beauty of the proposition is that 15 minutes (fare 5 cents) on the Oregon Electric completes the trip. In this wa3r a man can continue his work in town and enjoy as quick means of transportation as he where lot-prices compare Sunnyside, Irvington, or ' 17 Villa A V illi SJ 444 SHERLOCK BLDG Take the car from Front and Jefferson, get off at Alder Springs. It will cost you 10 cents residents is the regulation 5 scious. He could be handled without the least danger of awakening him. No operation was performed. Of course the somnolence continues only so long as the electrodes are kept in place. When they were removed tho dog al most instantly regained consciousness, was as lively as before the current was turned on and close examination could not discover in the least any ill ef fect. Dieffenbach said: "It is the intermittency of the cur rent that produces the somnolence which makes 1 1 possible to perfom operations without the least pa-in to the patient or the least after effect. It Is the effect which makes many per Too Great For 1 in gas, electric and combination chandeliers. M. J. WALSH CO. . 34 Stark St Near Sixth. Builders would do well to call and see our new ideas, or phone and have our representative see you. . ' Till If you go to the store for every morsel for your tableland your hard-earned dollars to a landlord besides, how do .you -L iv n viv; jt VU. HUIL j vu 11 ll v inv, Liiu U IIUUULIOI VUUU1UU11 ' 1 IV 1 UU l (111 CI b lWCLib cease to worry about the future ? If your income is an ordiitai3r one and even if it might be called large, as salaries go, you must take mighty good care of it to be much ahead in ten years. Custom has established this "paj'-reht-and-buy-every-thing" system till people have become satisfied with it, but why be satisfied when vou can do better ? An 'Acre at M : Is 'tfie S And you wll own something which will not only increase tremendously in value, but produce all those little delicacies you are buying now. You can keep your ('hick ens; a cow if you want to, raise fruits large and small and vegetables of every kind, as the soil is amazingly fertile. The land is clear, having been under cultivation for years, so all tins work of stumping, stoning and chopping which is necessary in most places is done. The Saving to and Groceries Will of Dollars at all with Madison Villa ground per acre. Madison Villa acres are closer, measured the Rose City Park district, where the prices of lots equal, double and treble this cres are HP asy lermS'O. cents. sons hesitate or refuse to take ether or chloroform. There are no after ef fects in the use of the intermittent current. "A battery could be used in place of the street current if the latter were not available. The use of this currnt in surgical operations will mean a great advance in surgery. Many of the disagreeable features now attend ing it will be removed. We also be lieve, aside from the lack of evil after effects, operations will be more satis factory in that the patient would be in a better condition to be operated on. We are now looking for a man who will be willing to submit to this form Imitators An attempt to imitate the wares of M. J. "Walsh is a sure indication of the superiority of the quality and design of the wares that are being imitated. It is really pathetic to note the small dealers of this city trying to copy the innumerable original and up-to-date designs and ideas that are being constantly introduced bv the recognized"Ieading dealers adison ecret ou o aeacii ounare Annually ayment PHONE PACIFIC 1914 i of deadening the pain in an operation. , We are sure that it is a success.' Huntington Safe Broke Open. HUNTINGTON, Or., May 16. The Owl drugstore, owned by Mack Bros., vas broken into Thursday night and the safe robbed of its contents, amounting to about $50. Wire Basket Tears Off Scalp. . NEW YORK, May l.--Katu Gor ham, cashier In a Williamsburg de partment store, Is In a hospital In a criUcn! condition as the result of a DAVIS 8c DRENNEN GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHTING FIXTURES The reason we are selling more fixtures than any firm in Portland is because we can furnish superior workmanship and better goods at prices lower than any firm in the business'. The large contracts re cently awarded to us has proven this. 406-408 EAST BURNSIDE STREET B. E. DAVIS Phone B 2151, East 591. H. T. DRENNEN PACIFIC IRON WORKS 0. E. Heintz, ICanager. Phone East 57, Home B 1157. CASTINGS OF ALL KINDS, STEEL BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES IN STOCK 3 to 24-Inch Beams. 4 to 15-Inch Channels. 1V2X1V2 to 8x8-Inch Angles East End Bnrnside-Street Bridge, give a large percentage of expect to ever get ahead? Yill a m ient r F.i i as a transient, but the fare curious accident. While standing in her booth in the store a wire parcel basket attached to a swift-moving cable cauprht in her hair, which was stripped from her head. Practically her entire scalp was torn nwoy, and the special surgeons have little hope of saving: her life. SEE THE WARSHIPS. ' Take steamer L.urllne, foot Taylor street, 7 A. M. Tuesday, May 19; $3 round trip to both North and South Beaches. Tickets good returning Wednesday nif?ht by boat or train. Portland. Oregon.