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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1908)
THE ScxTDAT OKEGOMAX, PORTLAND, MAY 31, 1903. AROUSE EAST SIDE CIVIC INTEREST Thirty Clubs in Conference Discuss Measures of Mutual Advantage. WANT NEW HIGH SCHOOL Number of Transfers Indicate Ac tivity in Realty Deals in Big Pistrict "Where Residences Are Mostly Built. W hile the social features of the ban quet by the United East Side Push Clubs at the Sargent last Tuesday-night were notable, the important matter of that affair 4fa.s In bringing before each section of the East Side measures that will be voted on at a special election, probably in November, if it be decided to hold It in connection with the Presi dential election. These questions are the second Bull Run pipe line, bonds for .providing funds for erecting new bridges across the Willamette River, and pavement of streets by district assessment. All these measures, and more, were em phasized by the talks made at this banquet. The delegates from the 30 civic organizations are taking back to their several organizations these ques tions, eo that when the voters are called on to express their opinion at the special election, they will be pre pared to do so intelligently. Some of the delegates had never beard Tom Richardson, and since they heard him, they say, they would not have missed the speech for several times the cost of the banquet. He told the delegates never to speak disparag ingly of Portland. He complimented them on the progress the East Side whs making. He never had a .more appreciative audience than he had chat night, nor did he ever make a speech that was more effective, the delegates say, nor one that will Impress the push clubs more seriously. The remarks of M. G. Griffin oh the proposed improving of streets hy dis tricts, met with approval. He said that at Sellwood, Kennllworth. Brooklyn, Waverly-Rlclimond. Multnomah, Pied mont and Montavilla. streets are to be Improved as a whole, but they cannot be grouped together as a whole under the present charter! and one big con tract let. The measure voted on at the last election came out like the rest of the proposals, and will be sub mitted ngnin, probably with the bridge and pipe-line measures.' Plnns- New High School. The Board of Education proposes that the mew East Side High School building, which will be built in north East Side, will be In keeping with the growth of Portland. Architects have been Invited to submit competitive plans, and already the following archi tects have signified their Intention to compete: Fred A. I-.egg, Derrick Hu bert, L. Williams, Whitehouse & Hnn eyman, -Clausscn & Claussen, Mac Naughton. Raymoivd & Lawrence. Ed gar M. Iazarus, Ernest Kroner. Kable & Kable, Northwest Bridge Works, Hennes, Hendricks &'Tobey, F. M. ; An derson, Goodrich & Goodrich. Joseph Jacobberger, A. H. Faber, Doyle & Pat terson, W. C. Knighton, YV. Frltsche, T. J. Jones. Travis & Wilson and Sut ton & Weeks. The architect whose plan is accepted will receive $500. The second and third best plans also will receive prizes. . The rooms required are: Basement furnace and fuel; room suitable for physical laboratory: rooms for manual training school, including carpentry, for 24 individual benches, with teach er's desk; room for wood turning large enough for 24 wood lathes with teach er's desk; forge-room for 24 individual forges; a machine-room to contain metal lathes: a lunch room and kit chen. First floor A principal's office, and 55 or more classrooms, 34x26. Sec ond floor Art-room; room for chemi ical laboratory; room for physiograph lcal library: room for student kitchen; society rooms; an assembly hall to seat from 1200 to J500: an Indoor gym nasium; toilets; system of heating and ventilation. 8oIid brick with pressed brick or stone veneering. It will re quire fully a year to complete the building. It Is announced that most of the pre liminaries will be out of the way in a month, and that about Julv 1 actual work will start on the new Swift plant on the Peninsula. At Kenton, the new town on the Peninsula, grubbing-and slashing are under way in Derby street along the right-of-way for the new electric line to connect the Penin sula town with Portland. Start Street "Work. t-.Tw9 ,Pork of Ia5rln harJ pavement cm Killlngsworth avenue, from Union ave nue, a mile westward, has been started, and will be pushed through to comple tion. First, the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company is completing its double tracks with heavy steel rails. The cost of this Improvement will be $73,000. which Is one of the largest street con tracts made In the city. It is a remark- awe improvement, but the nroDertv. owners decided that they wanted the best improvement that money could procure. Killlngsworth avenue, however. Is ran. idly becoming a business street. A num ber of attractive business buildings have been erected here, and others are pro jected. Completion of this hard-surface pavement will stimulate this improve ment. J. H.. Kolta, a large property-owner on Killlngsworth avenue, says that property on this avenue has Increased more than 60 per cent within the past year, and lots on Killlngsworth avenue that were sell Ing for $1000 then now bring nearly J1T00 in a district that three years ago was covered with brush and undergrowth. If the agitation for a through street from Killlngsworth avenue to St. John through the center of the Peninsula Is carried through, it will provide a much-needed driveway. At University Park a large number of homes are being built along tne nne or the electric line, and this hlRhway will be an Important Improve ment for that section. In connection with this proposed improvement, the Maegly Improvement Club, with R. G. Brand, president, has started a move ment to improve all the streets at the Junction, get water mains and electric lights. The outlook for the Peninsula is considered encouraging. The people there are making an effort to get a portion, St least, of the visitors in Portland dur ing the Rose Festival to take a trip down the Peninsula to see the opportunities offered for residences and manufactur ing. v W ill Adopt Larger Plans. For some time the Portland Rallwav. Light & Power Company has had under consideration extensive new carbarns to be erected at Sellwood. The plans for the buildings have been, revised. Larger bulldinss are being considered than those first contemplated. A building 70x4o or one of 140x200 will be -btrllt. - Another building, 70x200 may be added. It is also probable that brick structures will be erected. Manager F. I.- Fuller has said that the plans will be adopted soon and the work of construction started. This may be within the Sexi 60 days. It is proposed to spend between $35,000 and $50,000. Among the more important transfers on East Side the past week Wre the following: Joseph Simon sold to Fred Cooper, lots 1 and 2, block 18, John Irving's Addition, fbr $4500. In Tibbett's Addition, Minnie Claussen -sold to H. A. Hines property to the amount of $4650. Oscar Scott sold H. A. Hines a quarter block in Tibbett's Addition for $2000. In Alblna Homestead. John F. Buhman sold to Mary F. Neil two lots for $1900. The Hancock-Street Building Company bought lot 9, block 5, Baneock street, for $4500. In West Irvington, John A. Pat terson sold to Matilda C. John, lot 2, block 106. for $3000. Henry C. Campbell sold to R. A. Camp a quarter-block m John Irving's First Addition for $3000. Joseph T. Ennis sold to James M. Burkhead a quarter-block in Vernon' for $2400. including cottage. Robert Brady sold to Emil Eyssell the west half of lots and 2, block 202, East Portland, for $3000. In Klnzell Park, east of Mount Tabor. Henry C. Webster sold to G. N. Reed lots 8, 9 and 11. block 5, for $2800. In Hanson's Addition, J. C. Roberts has acquired from R. L. Stevens, Sher iff, lots and fractions of lots, at a cost Of $6266. At University Park. Sarah A. Hill has purchased lots 21 to 26. block 140, for $4000. Hubbard Taylor sold to Joseph T. Peters, property on Hawthorne avenue VISITS DOWN EAST Portland Real Estate Man Makes Comparisons. C. K. HENRY'S IMPRESSIONS Xew York's System of Street clean ing Best Found In Any City Vts - - - lted Advises Against More Bridges for Portland. Returned to Portland from a trip to Eastern cities, Charles K. Henry talks , encouragingly and hopefully of the fu ture of this city. For several years Mr. Henry has . been an advocate of good streets and .keeping them good, and on his trip he paid particular attention to that feature in municipal work as carried on. in the big" cities on the other side of the continent. Said he yesterday: There Is nothing so Impresses a visitor of the ranch will "be sent out through this gateway in. the coming: years, and with the completion of the Panama Canal, of which there new can bo no doubt, Portland is bound to be a port of the first importance in the world. An Idea struck me on my way home. Sup pose the Pilgrim Fathers had landed on the coast of Oregon instead of the bleak New England shore. Imagine what we would be today. The energy necessary to develop that part of the country If only partly expended here would have brought results that stagger one to think of. SALOON RULE IN POLITICS Predicts Success of Woman Suffrage and Prohibition Here.. PORTLAND, May 29. (To the Editor.) The editorial in last Monday's Oregonian relative to John Manning and the Manor Interests, is o importance and to the point. It was my opinion that the liquor man ufacturers, dealers and saloon-keepers would see the effect of their taking an active part in the selection of District Attorney. They have controlled this of fice lor many years, except for the short time since Mr. Manning . changed front. At the recent Republican primaries, their choice for the office was nominated. During that campaign it was said of George J. Cameron that he was a for eigner, with no love or regard for this country, except for what he can make out of it for himself, that he thinks the United States is a place for men like him to thrive, and to get and hold office. A Portland newspaper recently came out with an editorial reading: "So far CHARLES BIGHAM MAKES A FOUR-ACRE TRACT PRODUCTIVE ATTH.VCTIVB BOMB OF OAK GROVE RESIDENT. and East Thirty-fifth street at U0.000. At Glencoe Park, Mount Tabor, James M. Level sold to Minerva F. Mann prop erty to the amount of $3000. Joseph M. Wilson sold to E. L. Smith the north half of lots 1 and 2. block 13, of Riverview Addition to Albina, for J5000. In Proeb- stel's Addition to Albina, lots 9 and 10, in block 10, were sold to E. L. Smith. Lots S and 6, in block 66, East Portland, were.-sold . by Marion Smlthr to .W. H. Gafford for $16.o00. This quarter is on the corner of East Third and East Taylor ' streets. ' 1 WHITMAN PLANS ACCEPTED LAYOUT FOR NEW COIxLEGE BUIXOTXGS SUBMITTED. Work Expected to Start on Some ol the Buildings in the Com- , ing Fall. Preliminary plans for the new build ings of Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., have been submitted by Mac Naughton, Raymond & Lawrence, and have been accepted. The plans submitted by the architects covered a general layout of the grounds and buildings, landscape and engineering. The buildings embraced in the plans of the layout are art mu seum, library, memorial chapel, engi neering building, power Tlant and shops, dormatorlee, students hall, com bination kitchen and dining halls, for estry, mining, physics and chemistry departments, separate conservatory of music, which includes auditorium and two dormitory wings. In the middle of the landscape com position will be erected a fountain, probably to be surmounted with stat uary. Work will start on the power plant and engineering building in the Fall, according to present expectations. PliANS FOR COIjLEGE X. M. O. A. Modern Structure for Agricultural Institution to Be Erected. The building for the T. M. C. A. of the Oregon Agricultural College at Cor vallis is to be situated on the college campus, and is designed to harmonize with the present college buildings. The lowest story will be of the red brick used in the more recent buildings of the college, while the upper part is to be finished after the old English half timbered style. The combination Is a very happy one, and should produce a building that will be a decided ad dition to the campus. The building Is to cost completed In the neighborhood of $20,000, the plans and specifications having been 'prepared in the offices of MacNaughton, Raymond & Lawrence, of Portland. The building will contain on the first floor a large lounging room and recep tion room, finished with beamed ceil ing and quartered-fir wainscoting. A feature in this room is to be a great fireplace built In red paving bricks, rugged! strong and simple. This floor also contains accommodations for the college paper editorial rooms, the Ath letic Association and a meeting-room for the Young Women's Christian As sociation. The entire second floor is devoted to six large society rooms for use of the debating and literature clubs and fra ternities of the college, while in the basement provision has been made for the banqueting hall, with kitchen ac commodations. There Is also located In this part of the building a large swimming pool, with lockers and shower rooms adjacent. The building will be lighted and heated from the central power plant maintained by the college. The building, with its well-planned conveniences, is bound to serve as the rallying point of the students. The un dertaking has been largely financed by subscriptions raised among students and the alumni. to a city as the condition of its streets. If tbe streets are badly out of repair and are I dirty, as, for Instance, they are foundi to be j in Chicago, the Impression of the city Is most unfavorable. No number of big- build ing's, busy thoroughfares, fine etores and handsome, residences can overcome that Im pression. There, at your feet. U evidence of care leas municipal government, and it may be in some Instances of criminal handling of the city's resources How different 4a the impression when the streets ar found to ' be well made and are : kept oleaij. One of the best, object leason coming to my attention was found In New York. 'We used to jead of the Tammany ridden metropolis and were led to believe that no city work existed separated from graft and Incompetency. I have changed my mind about the way municipal work is done in New Tork, Miles and miles of Greets extend from one end of the Island to the other, and across town, that are of the. very beet modern construction, and bet ter, they are kept scrupulously clean. The street-cleaning department of New Tork- Is about the. most efficient civic de partment I know of anywhere. Thousands of men, dressed In white, are constantly at work with broom and dirtcan fairly swarm ing over the city keeping the streets free from dust and refuse. They are at work Sundays and holidays as well as on other days, the gangs being divided Into shifts so that each gets a day off. The department is conducted on civil service rules and the class of men employed is of much higher stand ard than usually found In other cities. Another set of city employes that attracted my attention and admiration te the police force. The "corner" men stationed elonsr the principal streets ar perfect giants, and are attentive to their duties and are courte ous. The mere raising of a hand or even a forefinger brings a driver to a halt, and a few intelligent orders soon straighten out a Jam on the street. The handling of the. enormous crowds both on top and under ground in the subways has been brought to a great degree of perfect!. We, here In Portland, are discussing some method to furnish better facilities for cross ing our river. . I was much interested at rtetrolt, where a tunnel la building to con nect that city with Windsor on the Can adian side. . An objection has been raised here against tunneling the. Willamette... It being urged that the depth of water pre cludes the construction of a tunnel. At De troit that difficulty is being solved by the construction of a "shoulder" or rldgre along the bottom of the river to form the roof of a tunnel. In other words, the tunnel does not pass under the river, but along the bottom. I have given the subject of putting an other bridge across the river a great dal of thought and have come to the conclu sion that we should not have another one. We now occupy the second place in the country as a wheat-shipping port and our harbor has become of first importance to our continued advancement as a distrib uting point. Let us look at the situation squarely, and If necessary to have addi tional connections between the two sides of the . river, put in a tunnel and establish more ferries. I do not advocate the aban donment of any of the existing bridg-es; let them be replaced when necessary; but we 'should not' further place testacies in our harbor, which will be none too commodious' In a few years to accommodate vessels en gaged In the carrying trade between Port land and other ports of the world. My visit in Boston and to Cambridge, the seat of Harvard University., convinces me that no good reason exists why our young men should be sent Bast for their educa tion. I am therefore heartlyl in favor of the proposed appropriation for the State University. There was a scandal at Bos ton in which one of, the professors at Har vard was involved. The newspapers gave much space to the matter and printed pic tures of the negro woman Implicated In the scandal. I couldn't help feeling that after all Oregon Is a pretty good state In which to raise boys and educate them, rather than send them back where their Instructors get mixed up in such affairs. I notice in one of the local papers that the sale I consummated., just before leaving on my trip, of the Dr. Jones block was all cut and dried as to the improvement that Is to be put In. I am not yet ready to announce what the purchaser Intends, but will say this: The Improvement will be undertaken about the close of this year and will be of a character that will be a credit to the city. For certain reasons X am not at liberty to say more just now. I found financial matters in the East gradually improving, though It Is true they have not yet fully recovered from the ef fects of the squeeze last Fall. There Is considerable available capital in the cities I visited, some of which will seek Invest ment here. I know of three big buildings that are to be built with Eastern money In the next year or two. One is an eight story structure on Stark street and the other two are now being; financed. On my way through Idaho and Wyoming I took occasion to examine Into what Is being done in irrigated districts. Lands ly ing under irrigating canals are rapidly set tling up with a- desirable class of immi grants and farmers from the Middle West of the country, and I realized as never be fore what this vast work of irrigation means to our country. With water, lands, thou sands and thousands of acres, are being mads productive which before were a bar ren waste. Grain, cattle and other products as Cameron Is concerned. It Is enough to say at this time that the records of the Municipal Court teem with instances when criminals have been allowed to go unwhlpt of justice. Cameron seeks to shift the blame on the shoulders of the prosecuting officers, but the excuse is insufficient. Certain saloon-keepers, ha bitual violators of the law, have been haled before him time after time, only to be dismissed without retrial. The po lice say that it is impossible to eret eon viction. In Cameron's Court, and the facts seem to bear out this charge." It was said that all ju lings and de cisions In Municipal Judge Cameron's Court were made with a view to holding and getting office. Cameron s experience taught that with his hold upon, the Scotch, the church and the whisky crowd he could keep himself In office. Some stated that at the primaries tne foreign ers, the .saloons, the "pimps," rogues, criminals, gamblers and "saloon bums" would support him. It was further said that the saloon element wanted to con trol this orfice, and that when Mr. Man ning changed ' front, they made" arrange ments to get Cameron to take the job because they could depend upon him. Some Jealous ones remarked that Came ron was a Republican only because xt held out more hopes for getting, office that if he could not get a nomination he ran on the Independent ticket, tried to defeat the Republican nominee and turned traitor, but not to his principles. Lastly, it was said that he had no respect-or con sideration for a citizen who wanted or ex pected the office he was after. They -cite that he has one office, holds on to it and gets a better If he can, and while he has held office eight or ten years, that he does not propose to give way to any American citizen who may aspire to of fice. I believe all of these statements "and Insinuations about Mr. Cameron, and still I will not vote against him. He is not to blame. He has been encour aged, assisted and nominated with full knowledge of his character. In my opin ion, George J. Cameron can and will se- HETME acre. tracts Sell quickly because they are genuine bargains. One of our tracts will provide you with an income-prodiacing home, only 30 minutes' ride from the heart of the city, on the Salem Electric Line. Get off at Metzger Station. If you don't need a home, give one to your child; it will rapidly increase in value. These tracts Are .Unequalled !For raising, to the fullest perfection, all kinds of vegetables, fruits, berries or walnuts. Running water, bubbling springs and natural parks. A paradise for the man of small or moderate means. Don't waste any more time; come out today and make the trip doubly profitable to you by buying one or more of these acres. There is more cordwood on some acres than we are asking for the ground Price $200 and Uowards - : PRICE $200 and up per acre, according to location. 1 TERMS 10 per cent cash and 3 per cent of the pur chase price per month. INTEREST 6 per cent per annum on deferred pay- ! v - - ments. . " 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. Agents and Phone at Station Pacific 2019. cure a little room In the Courthouse, and with two phones and an office boy, per tarm more official duties than others with deputies and hired help. The trick of gaining a few votes by sparing a few criminals or prosecuting a few inno cents is so common as to make no great difference. It Is like Oregon politics. The liquor interests will not stay out of politics so far as this office of District Attorney is concerned, and possibly oth ers, but It is working against them and the movement will result In the destruc tion of the saloon. Kansas and other states have practically confiscated mil lions of dollars' wortlv of property In breweries, distilleries, etc., to the satis faction of the majority of the people of those states. "While I am not a Prohibi tionist, this conduct of the liquor in terests, and their adherents will leave no middle ground for me and many others to stand upon. So I expect to see equal suffrage and prohibition prevail in Ore- gon. SINGLE TAXER SOPHIST J. B. Ziegler Replies to Communlca- ,tlon of Fred C. Denton. PLEASINGTON, Alberta, Canada, May 21. (To the Editor.) A tew days since I found a letter in an Oregonian from Fred r- Donton In rebuttal of objections I made May 3 to the single tax summary of state assessments. Mr. Denton's claim that the farmers of Oregon own less than $75,000,000 out of a total assess ment of J384.O0O.OOO Is both Incorrect and absurd, and the method by which he seeks to support the statement is that fa vorite of sophist mathematicians, of se lecting only Buch terms of the problem as will work out their assumed results. For instance, Mr. Denton figures In the as sessments on roadbeds and franchises of railwa j as land values, and dismisses with the happy facility of the sophist all tillable lands In Multnomah County. It is true that the right of way of railroads, not on streets should be considered as land, but I do not recollect that such item appeared In the state summary. He passes over the Item of $2,713,676 for tele graph and telephone lines and poles, and generously foregoes claiming that also as lands, forgetting that they occupy the same right of way which he has already figured at $35,000,000, which he says is too small. That is, the right of way of rail roads in Oregon Is worth half as much as all the land owned by farmers, which is sufficiently absurd to render disproof un necessary. ' :' ' Again, Mr. Denton's claim that th column of tillable lands only 1b owned by farmers Is incorrect. In fact and logic, part of the farm is non-tillable land. There is pasture and woodland. Neither does it follow that these are not legiti mate parts of the farm, as the sophists will doubtless claim, held for speculation. The single-taxers are Inviting the peo ple to overturn a system of taxation based on the principle of absolute equity. Beaverton-Reedville ACREAGE THE "PASADENA OF OREGON" From our thousands of Acres of the finest lands in Oregon you cannot make a mistake in buying a 5 or i O acre tract, highly improved or not, as you like. The Shaw-Fear Company 245 J Stark Street one which has met with such broad con sent that there had been no voice raised against the abolishment even of that most Judicious exemption of 5300 of per sonal property; and are seeking to substi tute for It one definitely In theory, vi ciously discriminative and, in my judg ment, so in policy. Mr. Denton concedes, notwithstanding the claims as to the beauties of single tax in New Zealand, Canada and else where, that the single tax is not in opera tion in any country in this world. I did not claim that it had, but said it hd been continuously experimented with for more than 100 years, but had never found a country foolhardy enough to establish it. As to this province of Alberta, I fai to find anything to support the single-tax contention. ' They have a flat tax of so much per acre both upon homesteads and patented lands ranging from $22 to $27 per quarter Bection, varying not at all as to "land values," hut according to the needs of the local districts, which is, I think, as high a tax as that even of Portland. None of those excellent discriminations against "land monopoly" are made, but the chief culprit, the Canadian Pacific Railroad, pays no tax whatever on Its immense grant. Edmonton may have ex empted everything but land, for the place aspires to be the metropolis of the North west, and is putting .forth special efforts to attract an outlay of capital in develop ment. Manitoba exempts $1500 worth of other property besides land. This is a very important dlffprence from the Ore gon single tax measure, the exemptions and penalties of which refer onlv to the class of property and not at all to the size of the holding, a sad oversight. It seems, in a measure leveled at monopoly. The truth is the single-tax amendment would hurt all land regardless of whether it is owned by a monopolist or a farmer, and the. exemptions specified would ben efit alike the exempted class whether owned In holdings of $100 or $1,000,000: Neither Is there anything in the measure to correct faulty assessments or mitigate the evil of tax-dodging. J. B. ZIEGLER. HANDLES BIG REALTY DEAL Spokane Man In Charge of $6,000, 000 Sale at Prince Rupert. VANCOUVER, B. C., May 30. C. D. Rand, formerly a business man of Spo kane, was yesterday appointed by the government of . British Columbia . to take charge of its share of a Bale of land to take place this Autumn at Prince Rupert, the Pacific Coast ter minus of the Grand Trunk Pacific. This new transcontinental railway and th government of British Columbia will sell $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 worth of land this year. Jointly they own SS, 00'" acres at Prince Rupert.- FROM TO PER CENT has been made on all pur chases of lots in 3ACTIFUL YEKLEIGH the past year The next year will see a larger increase than ever before. Do you want to make some of this ? Lots now $500 and up. Streets Graded, Cement Walks, Bull Run Water. TWO CARLINES JNO.P. SHARKEY 122 12 6th Street A 2S37 Phones Main SSO