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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1908)
lO THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 7, 1908. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF SOME TYPICAL PORTLAND RESIDENCE STREETS, SHOWING TYPES OF HOMES : u t "vvSSy , - - . k . ; II "Zlh"" "xv- cvv 'it: 'P f HxhW-'C- f$k;"'X A4r,,.rf - , 1 1111111 .V : ; :.- ,,wi,;,,,,V,,. - ....v,;-!! " V 1,- ;f , , -.. r - .w ; ,,, J lr ' &XwV?m , w 5 SJZQSJTJT 0(?jJM5jW2TJf-rjQQM FESTIVAL HELPS REALTY DEALERS Strangers in City Gain Good Impression of Portland's Advantages. LOOK FOR FUTURE TRADE Present Hotel Accommodations Arei Taxed to Limit In Caring for the Crowds or Visitors, Which Con founds the . Pessimists. Election work and the Rose Festival, as was to have been expected, took up so much attention the past week that real estate, as well as other lines of busi ness, suffered to more or less extent. Indirect benefit, however, will be found hereafter to come to realty dealers as a result of the Festival, for hundreds 'of Portland visitors had an opportunity to see the city under favorable circum stances and must have returned to their homes convinced that Oregon's metropo lis is a pretty good place to live In. Some weeks, and probably months, will pass before the trade may realize what the past week did in the way of attract ing Investors or the buyers of home sites; but that a good impression was made little doubt is entertained. Those who came to see the Festival features, the warships and attending amusements, who had not been here be fore, and those who had not been here for some years past, of neecssity must have been interested and doubtless sur prised at the growth of the city and the changed appearance. Portland has good reason to be proud of the advance made In the number and character of Its build ing operations in the last few years. Start Big Buildings. Starting with The Oregonlan build ing, the Portland Hotel, Weinhard, Mar quam, Dekum, Washington, Imperial, Oregon hotel, . Goodnough, Perkins, Chamber of Commerce, Worcester and some others, erection of big buildings came to a stop for one or two years. Then a new era dawned and broua'it the Lumber Exchange. Concord, lealv, Swetland, Buchanan, Wells-tfargo, Cor bett. Failing. Couch. Burkhard. Med ical. Board of Trade, Commercial Club, Gerlinger, Beck, Rothchild, Mason Khrman, Neuberger (Corbett estate), Dammeier, Wemme, Masonic Temple and numbers of others of little less size, to which are added a half dozen large hotel structures. Visitors observed that preparations are under way for several more big buildings to further swell the- list the T. M.-Y. W. C. A., Fenton. Oregon hotel annex, Rosenblatt hotel. Gay, Lombard, Meier-Frank, Olds, Wortman & King. Cadwell, Chinese Consul, numbers of warehouses on both sides of the river, and the Swift plant down the Peninsula. While buildings of this character are always the more noticeable to visitors, it is the number -of dwellings built and building that furnish the evidence of a city's expansion, and in this regard Port land today takes an advanced position among the cities of the country. From 200 to 300 permits Issued a month for now residences, say 1000 since the first of the year, located, as a rule, in districts reaching out from the former outskirts of the city, must impress visitors with the progressive spirit of the people and be an invitation to homescekers to locate in a place that has been found by others to be a most desirable location. The month of June, in the opinion of the best Informed realty men, will show some falling off in comparison with the earlier months of the year, both in totals of realty transfers and building permits issued. This opinion is based on records made for the month in previous years, but there Is always the unexpected element to take into consideration. It is extremely doubtful if the most sanguine man in the business five or six years ago figured on the development of Portland to the degree attained sinca that period: and this June may bring another surprise. Tone Keeps Strong. The present tone of the market is dis tinctly strong, which Is proved by recent sales. Values on inside lots are being well maintained, and the slightest lower ing of asking price on desirable pieces attracts a swarm of buyers. The In quiry for apartment-house sites shows no appreciable lessening, and several architects are working .out plans for iigh-i laSK buildings of this description. The crowding of hotels to overflow ing the past week would sqem to indi cate that Portland is not yet supplied with hotel accommodations sufficient to entertain many more than the nor mal number of transients. At one 6t the recently-opened -hotels, as an ex ample, all rooms were occupied by Wednesday, and that night cots were brought into use and placed in the parlors and even in the basement room, presently to he used as a grill. After these wire disposed of many were turned away who sought for sleeping accommodations. This crowding is all the more notice able when It is considered that no less than ten new hotels have been opened in the past year. These ' new hotels have from 50 to 125 rooms each, or, say, an average of 80. That means added accommodations for from 150 to 2000 people, not taking into account the large number o new rooming houses that have been opened in the period named. Issue Good-Sized Permits. So far in June one permit for a flat building on the Fast Side to cost $7500 and one on the West Side to cost $6000 have been taken out. A permit was is sued for an apartment-house, to cost $33,000, on the West Side, that of M Pal lay, at Columbia and Fourteenth streets. The architects. Doyle & Patterson, an nounce that soon after July 1 contracts will be let for starting work on the Meier & Frank Company ten-story buildtng.at Sixth and Alder streets. The architects are not yet ready to announce when con tracts will be let for the building above the foundations, but the presumption is that work will be moved right along as rapidly as material can be obtained. The announcement that several new warehouses are to be added to the ware house district, in the northwest end, has appreciably strengthened holdings in that locality of the city, and attention is still directed to the streets skirting the hills to the westward of the city for apartment-houses and flat buildings. - One of the heaviest owners of Port land real estate said yesterday that he had lived for over SO years in the city and up to about a year ago had kept close observation of the different kinds of improvements. He once knew what was being done in the way of street paving In every district, the extension of carllnes, new building operations of more than or dinary cost and growth of suburbs. Cannot Keep Pace. Now. said he, there is no one man who can keep Informed of these various im provements for the reason they spring up so rapidly that by the time a trip of observation is completed and another undertaken the one just left forges ahead and will be almost a new district by the time It is revisited. "Portland is no longer a town that can be soen In a day," he concluded. "It is a matter of many days to take In the entire city and note what is being done. We old residents are only beginning to realize what a big city we live in." BIG TURNOUT IS EXPECTED LEADING CITIZENS TO GREET It. H. THOMSON. Expert Authority on Street "Work to Lecture Thursday Night at Empire Theater. Xotices of the illustrated lecture to be delivered June 11 by R. H. Thomson. City Engineer of Seattle, have been printed for the Realty Board and are being sent out to property-owners and prominent business men. The notice is handsomely gotten up in the form of an invitation, the title page reading:- THE PORTLAND "REALTY BOARD Requests your company at an Illustrated Lecture on the subject, "GOOD STREETS." To be delivered by Mr. R. H. Thomson, City EnKlneer of Seattle. Thursday evening. June M, 3ftOSL At Empire Theater, Twelfth and Morrison, Eight o'clock. On the next page is a list of names of the committee having arangements in hand and the officers of the board. On the third page is the list of vice-presidents composing the honorary committee, as floows: Isadore Lang, chairman: J. C. Ainsworth, C. F. Adams. W. L. Boise, W. F. Burrell, H. C. Campbell, Leo Friede, R. D. Inman, B. S. Josselyn, I. Allen Lewis. W. M. Ladd. R. Livingstone. Gay Lombard, A. L. Mills, J. L. Meier, S. G. Reed, C. F. Swigert, G. N. Talbot, L. J. Wentworth. J. Frank Watson, A. Wolfe, T. B. Wilcox and W. D. Wheel wright. Mr. Lang is to preside at the meeting at the Empire Theater, and will make some remarks suggested by his observa tions made in a recent trip to Eastern cities. The Realty Board committee and offi cers of the board are assured of the at tendance of representative men of the city at the lecture, and desire announce ment made that all realty owners and (Others who have the welfare of the city at heart are invited to attend the lecture. Will Build Flats on Northrup. George Clark has purchased from C. Aerne a lot. 50 x 65. on the southeast corner of Twenty-fifth and Northrup streets; consideration, $3600. It is Mr. Clark's intention to erect a series of modern flats on this corner. The sale was made by E. J. Daly. NEW INSPECTOR TAKES OFFICE Guy E. Dobson Succeeds Wr. Irving Spencer as Head or Department. Guy E. Dobson cannot be called a new man in the Building Inspector's office, but on last Thursday he suc ceeded to the full title, W. Irving Spencer turning over the office to his former deputy. Mr. Spencer leaves the office to go into private business, and leaves It with the respect and cordial well wishes of everybody who has had oc casion to do business In his department since he took charge. Mr. Dobson has had experience In the department, and is popular with architects and builders. He was al ways found to be courteous and atten tive to his duties when deputy, and Is the sort of man who makes and keeps friends. The former employes of the office will remain with the new Inspector. REBATERS PAY THEIR FINE Packing Companies and Burlington Give Uncle Sam $61,000. KANSAS CITT, June 6. Three pack ing companies and one railway com pany convicted in 1906 of rebating and sentenced to pay fines aggregating $61,000 have handed to the clerk of the United States Court a check for the total amount of their fines, plus costs. Each of the fines was for $15,000. These paid: Armour Packing Company, Cud ahy Packing Company, Swift & Co. and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. I J JUNE IKES GOOD START OVER $100,000 IN PERMITS IS SUED FESTIVAL- WEEK. Serious Accidents at Glendale. G LEND ALE. Or., June 6. This morning Herman Snodgrass, 13 years of age, nephew of A. K. Snodgrass, of this city, while walking on the Glen dale Lumber- Company's flume, fell about 25 feet to the ground, breaking both his wrists and bruising his body quite badly. Ed Garrett, who resides up Cow Creek, was kicked by a horse Thurs day evening, and now lies In a very critical condition at his fiome. Several Large Buildings Starting This Month Will Swell Total Estimated Cost Materially. Segregated reports of the building permits issued by the Building Inspec tor during the month of May show the following: 100 repairs 56 sheds and barns 171 dwellings, East Side... 16 dwellings, West Side .. 6 Class A, B, C V. reinforced concrete 24 frame business $76,795 14.000 33.r..750 64.300 105,000 5,500 152,700 Total 374 buildings $754,945 It will be observed that the permits for the East Side are again upward of 80 per cent of the totals, counting In the portion of the other Items, apart from the dwellings listed properly be longing to that district of the city. Over $300,000 expended In one month for dwellings would be a good show ing for the entire city, but that this amount Is being expended on the East Side a trip In any direction on that Bide of the river will convince the skeptical that something over 200 ,f,vi i j -fit COXCRETE BUNGALOW OP WARBEX E. DANIELS, SEVEXTY-FIRST AND YAMHILL STREETS. buildings are going up that were started last month. Permits issued so far this month. 52 in number, rose to $117,975, not in cluding the Good Samaritan Hospital, estimated to cost $73,000. Permit for that structure probably will be taken out tomorrow. Other large under takings which will figure in this month's totals are the Y. M. C. A. building and the Rosenblatt Hotel. There is some doubt expressed how ever that the permits will reach the amounts of June last year which with the other months of the first six, trade a record showing. ' ice. He preferred the charges of in competency himself, upon which the Executive Board discharged the four men. It is understood that, while all of the former officers have good positions, they would be glad to get back to police duty again. SPURNS GOLD OF RICH Famous Specialist Restores Hearing of Two Poor Children. CHICAGO, 'june 6. Spurning the gold of millionaires. Dr. Albert Jansen, of Berlin, one of the greatest eye and ear surgeons- in the world, operated yes terday out of pure mercy and without price on two unfortunate waifs of the tenements, the skillful surgery, for whicli the wealthy men and women of Chicago in vain have begged and plead ed with financial offers amounting to fortunes, and which at last was given for nothing, resulting in two cures. The children who had been deaf were made to hear. I. The children upon whom Dr. Janyen operated and to whom he restored their hearing are Willie Simpson, S years old, and Marion Stuhler, 3 years old. The operation was performed at St. Luke's Hospital In the presence of 25 Chicago physicians and surgeons. The children have been deaf from babyhood. The Stuhler child was entirely deaf. It was Impossible for the fathers and mothers of these children of poverty to gain audience with the world of medicine. . But they wrote Dr. Jansen two letters in which they told him of the great affliction that had befallen their little ones and begged him to cure them. DECISION FAVOR'S SLEUTHS Civil Service Commission Supports Old Detective Force. The Civil Service Commission has found that the charges preferred against ex-City Detectives Snow, Carpenter, Re sing and Xay are not true, and have, ren dered such a decision. Their, findings will be presented to the Executive Board at its next meeting. While the decision virtually reinstates the old officers in their positions, they will not be put back to work. Mayor Lane and his adminis tration advisers will not assign any of the men mentioned to duty as long as there is any means of keeping them out of the department. Just what action the Executive Board will take regarding the matter will not be known until next Friday, when a meeting will be held. It is known, how ever, that Mayor Lane is determined that neither of the ex-detectives shall ever wear a police star as long as he is in the executive chair, if he can find a means of keeping them out of the serv- Milwaukie School Graduation. The graduating exercises of the Mil waukle school were hold last night in the band hall, with a large attendance of the friends of the school. An Interest ing programme was rendered. Ferol Jackson, president of the class, delivered the 'salutatory address. Adam Keck de livered the "Class History," which told something of each member of the class. "The Class Prophecy." by Clayton Cole man, told of the destiny of each of the graduates in a humorous manner. Eu genie Johnson delivered th valedictory address. The members of the class are: Adam Keck. Roy Sehroeder. Clifford Flaiz. Reginald Witte. Fred Streib. Clay ton Coleman. Kriwarri Winveniied. Waller Koenig. Bessie Holt. Ellen Roberts. Hazel Wyman, Edith Roberts, Jennie Mullan, Eugenie Johnson, Ellen Jackson, Myrtle Mullan, Ada Lakin. Gas Explosion Injures 11, INDIANAPOLIS, June 6. The plant of the Prest-O-Light Company on South street, which stores gas in tanks, blew up this morning. Eleven persons were Injured, one fatally. St. Vincent's Hospital and a fire-engine house adjoining were badly damaged. Of the injured, three are employes of the wrecked plant, two are city fire men, four are hospital employes, one a patient in the hospital, and one a sister of the hospital staff. Explosion Kills J 0. VIENNA.' June 6. Sixteen workmen were killed and 17 others more or less seriously injured by an explosion this morning In a celluloid factory at Otta wurinc a suburb nf Vienna. You Save Money When you purchase your fixtures from us and then you are also sure of having the best and most unique fixtures that are in Portland. See our many original ideas in lighting fixtures. THE M.J. WALSH CO. 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