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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 7, 1908.
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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.
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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
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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.
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