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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1908)
11 GOOD CONDITIONS REE RIDE MARK EAST SIDE ODAY Sales of Building Lots Con tinue to Be Satisfactory to Dealers. COUNCIL TO BETTER STREETS SLOGAN 'tw Houses, Springing Tp Like Mushrooms, Are Rented as Soon as Completed Church Edi fices Xearly Finished. tres of East Side residence property during the past week show no falling on, either Inside. or In the suburbs. It is the testimony of real estate dealers that there Is a slight advance in prices, with no decrease anywhere. One man predicts that in the Fall the realty mar ket will be better than ever seen in Port land. He argues that If during the na turally dull portion of the year there Is such a sound, healthy condition sales being made daily, prices keeping up and houses being built all over the East Side and great street Improvements projected with the return of people from the resorts there will be unprecedented activity. Some large contracts are soon to be let. The largest one is probably the St. Francis stone church on East Eleventh street, which will cost at the' start at least J75.O00. Also a contract for com pleting the Southern Methodist Church In Holladay Addition will soon be let. Work Is soon to start on the stone and brick edifice for the Central Christian Church, East Twentieth street, which will cost $35,000. Flans have been com pleted for this structure. Fred W. Clark, an Eastern man, pur chased lots 6 and 6, In block 7, Walnut Park, a short time ago and the past week broke ground for a 25,000 resi dence on the corner of Rodney avenue and Emerson street. It will be the finest residence, outside of the Burrell home, on Hawthorn avenue, on the East Side. On the corner of Cleveland avenue and Emerson street Lulu B. Conser has pur chased lots 6 and 7, in block 6, and has started the erection of a dwelling that will cost $5000. Architect A. H. Faber is preparing plans for a natural stone building to be erected in Piedmont, two stories, 48x58, the cost to be about $5000. The house will contain nine rooms and will stand on a 14-Inch concrete wall. It will be built to illustrate his Ideas of a natural stone house. .A. 8. Thompson Is having i residence built In Piedmont of hollow cement block, the cost of which will be $4000. Work started the past week on an an nex to the Hassalo Congregational Church, to cost $7000. It will be 71x30 feet and two stories. On the lower floor there will be a gymnasium for use of the young people of the church. Four Business Streets, Central East Portland will have four business streets In place of two East Third, Union, Grand avenue and East Sixth streets. East Third will extend from East BurnBide street to Hawthorne avenue, the main portion of which will be on a solid fill for which trestles have been built to carry the dump cars. Be tween East Oak and Burnslde streets East Third has been paved with hard-surface material. East Sixth street will be the fourth street, as soon as it Is filled, which will be some time this year. The Paclfle Bridge Company, which has the contract for these extensive fills. Is building trestles through the low lands to carry the gravel trains that will be operated from the dock at the foot of East Taylor street. Expensive as these fills have been they more than double the value . of all property affected by them. Blocks that were bringing $35,000 on East Morrison and Washington streets, where the first fills were made, cannot be had now for $100,000, and the same In crease In values la shown wherever these solid embankments have been completed, or even projected. After the streets have been filled up to grade it will be only a matter of a short time before the vacant blocks will also be filled up to the base ment level. ft Is understood that the streets in the territory between Union avenue and East Water street and Belmont and Haw thorne avenue will be filled first to grade, and the vacant blocks afterwards, as this plan will enable the property-owners to take advantage of the bonding law. It Is found that In most of the territory In this district brick buildings can be erected without even driving piles for foundations. It Is recognized that the disappearance of the low lands Is of great Importance to Central East Portland, and It Is felt that now the fills are under way they will -continue until all the low lands and sloughs hall have been done away with. East Osk street Is now completed to East Water, some expensive fills having been made. East Stark street will aoon be completed, which will provide a street extending to the Sandy River, a distance of 16 miles, and connects with every road In the county. East Alder also Is being filled between Union avenue and East Water street. There la a new move ment to Improve East Stark 'from East Twentieth street to Mount Tabor. Mount Tabor Improvements. At Mount Tabor the march of sub stantial improvement is seen In many new buildings. P. P. Dabney will start the erection of a two-story frame dwel ling on West avenue and East Taylor street to cost $7000. According to the report of the carriers in the Mount Tabor territory large numbers of dwel lings have' been erected recently and foundations of more may be seen in sny direction. The mall Is now han dled by three carriers, but these are overburdened with the work, and fre quently cannot cover their territory in one day, making another carrier ne cessary. Along Hawthorne nearly 200 bouses have been built In recent months and more are being built. Property owners on Belmont street are doing some rapid grading on their own account, and the intention Is to Improve that street to the top of Mount Tabor. At present preliminaries are being worked out for the pavement of Belmont to Hunter's station at East Forty-ninth street. The Mount Tabor Presbyterian church will erect a new edifice costing $10,000. The school dis trict will probably build 'a new school house at some place to replace the one on West avenue and the Base Line road, next year. Hawthorne avenue will be improved from East Third street to West avenue, providing a direct high way to the Madison bridge. The tract placed on the market by George Brown, east of Fiftieth street, last year has been nearly all sold off! and many of the owners have erected cottages. Along West avenue a num ber of attractive homes have- been built. With the oianlng of streets at Mount Tabor that suburb, one of the finest on the Eaet Side, will build1 up rapidly. The people are determined that the top of Mount Tabor shall, he The : Scenic Residence Section of All the World A a, JL X. ji The Scenic Residence . Section of All the World Graded Streets, Cement Walks, Bull Run Water, Building Restrictions, Unobstructed View of City, Towns, Vales and Moun tains. Let us sell you a lot and build you a home. Build your home where you can tell your friends or write your rela tives, "In all the world no view like this." LOTS $400 AND UP 10 PER CENT DOWN-$10 PER MONTH NO. P. COM PAN! A2537 122V2 SIXTH STREET TELEPHONES MAIN 550 reserved as a publio park, and are waiting for the proper time to take the matter up. Boulevard Committee at Work. The boulevard committee appointed by the United East Side Push Clubs has been organized for effective work. The district was divided Into three parts southern, middle and northern. None of the wide streets proposed In volves great difficulties. Among these streets Is a wide street connecting with Ladd avenue and extending to the Foster road, thence to Mount Scott: widening of Division street and the Section Line road about five miles eastward; widening of East Glisan street and Villa avenue: extension of Grand avenue northeast from Han cock street; merging Grand avenue into Union avenue at Hancock street, and making Union avenue uniformly SO feet wide; opening of a boulevard down the center of the Peninsula to St. John. The Sandy road also Is in cluded In the general scheme of boulevards. Subcommittees are now at work on all these projects. Trend Toward Better Pavements. A considerable portion of the street im provements on the East Side projected are for hard-surfaoe pavements, although many streets are being improved with gravel and crushed rock, but the trend is now toward the better class of pave ments. This trend would be more pro nounced If the Initial cost of the hard surface pavement were not so much more than gravel and crushed rock, but the fact Is being recognized that even In the residence district the best kind of im provement is the cheapest in the long run over the inferior. It lasts many times longer. However, it Is believed certain that the cost of the better grade pavement must and will come down, now that there is much more of that kind of work to do than ever before. Many of the residence streets will be parked and paved with some sort of hard-surface material. There are now projected hard-surface pavements on the East Side that probably will cost up wards of $2,000,000. The most pretentious of these improvements are those on Haw thorne and Union avenues. That on Hawthorne avenue will be carried to Forty-first street, a distance of nearly two miles from East Third street, at a cost of fully $100,000. or a little more. On Union avenue the street will be paved between Holladay avenue and Alberta street, a distance of about two miles, with a cost of $169,000. I The next big district to be paved Is the Holladay-Irvington district, where several miles are to be paved as a whole at a cost approximately of $500,000, the most Important movement projected in the city. The property owners are go ing at this matter systematically. Next Monday night, July 5, there will be a meeting of the Holladay-Irvington Improvement Association in the Irving ton Tennis Clubhouse, to which all pav ing companies are invited to send repre sentatives to submit propositions. Out of this conference some substantial good may come In the way of terms. Projec tion of this class of pavement will no doubt cause other hard-surface paving companies to enter the Portland field, with the result that competition for these Improvements will bring lower estimates. There are some other districts on the East Side which have adopted the hard surface roadway. Including Piedmont, which was first in the field. Councilman Kellaher declares that In spite of the report to the contrary there is vastly more street improvements un der way In Portland than in Seattle, and Is a little weary of the practice of point ing to Seattle as an example. 'Taking the Improvements as a whole." he said, "we are doing much better than Seattle, or any of the cities of the North west." Plans are being prepared for the pro posed new edifice for the Sunnyslde Con gregational Church, which will cost about $25,000. It is announced that work will be started on this structure as soon as It is known . how much money can be secured from the Church Extension So ciety. The member, themselves have subscribed something over $10,000, beside the church owns property on East Thlrty flfth street to the amount of $12,000, which may be used to aid in erecting .the new edifice. Good Progress Made. Within two weeks the grading contract of Engineers Newell, Gossett and Walsh on the grounds of the Country Club will be completed. The work includes the moving of 70,000 cubic yards of earth. The top dressing of the track now will be put on. This will require 6000 cubic yards of selected material. Eight of the racehorse stables have been completed, each 40x120. For show horses three stables have been finished and there will be two more. These are 43x229. Three cattle barns, 63x229, are being built. The grandstand, as planned by Architect Lazarus, will rest on concrete footings and against the hillside. The activity on the ground can be understood better by a personal visit to the ground, a visit that will be profitable to any citizen. Plans, have been completed for a $3000 manse for the University Park Metho dist Church, which will stand on the lot adjoining the church. Work will be started at or.ee. A new $10,000 frame build ing has Just been completed on Dawson and Flske Btreets, University Park, for F. M. Fifer. It had hardly been com pleted before it was rented and will be occupied at once. B. A. Lynds has started work on eight cottages on Clinton street,- between East Twenty-eighth and Kenilworth streets. This is in. the southeast district. In the Waverleigh tract 33 houses have been projected, and many have been com pleted. Ground has been broken for a machine shop for the Star Drill & Machine Com pany on the corner of East Twelfth and Clinton streets to cost $16,000. John Zwlck Is the contractor. It will be of frame construction and two-stories in height. - Architect Kroner is preparing plans for an addition to the schoolhouse in dis trict No. 23, near Jenne station, on the O. W. P. line in Eastern Multnomah County. -It will contain two rooms, one story high, and will cost $2500 The con tract will be let soon. Nearly every dis trict in the county has found it necessary to provide additions to schoolhouses. Gresham is adding four rooms, Rockwood Is having a four-room modern school house, end Milwaukie is having a four room addition built. The Other Side of a Hatter. PORTLAND, July 4- (To the ' Editor.) Referring to a newe Item from your Oregon City correspondent In a recent Inue of your paper. In regard to an assault upon me by the conductor on the O. W. P. car, wherein he states thet I claimed that the conductor had not given me a trip-check for my fare, and that I called the conductor "a liar." kindly allow me to state that this Is grossly Incorrect, the fact being that he had given me a check, which was then In my hat-band. but which he refused to recognize, and de manded additional fare. I did not at any time call the conductor a liar, but in discussing his demand for the payment of my fare a eecond time, I ex plained that I had been using these tickets for four months, under the guarantee of the company that they were good to Fern Ridge, and could not see why on this particular trip I should be required to pay more. I finally offered the money for the addi tional charge and demanded a receipt, say ing that 1 would take the matter up with the company, when, without any warning, and while I was etlll seated, he said, "I'll give you a receipt," and at the same time he attacked me violently and beat me upon the head, using his punch as a weapon. It Is true that my friends took me to Oregon City on the same car. In order to have my wounds dressed. CI LAS. A. WARREX, LIN WTLEAN. This story of the . cowpuncher ap pearing in the July Sunset, by Owen Wlster, author of "The Virginian," is notable among Western stories. - The cowman is a fast passing type as the great West becomes fenced and civil ized. The novel, which began in the April number of Sunset, appears in In stallments, each practically ocmplete In iteelf. . Olympta Malt Extract, good for grant ma or baby. Only 15-100 of 1 per cent alcohol. Phones: Main s7L A. 2467. Metzger & Co.. Jewelers and opticians, 342 Washington St. The wise man makes provision for a rainy day and purchases one or more of IETZGER AC RMTS On the Salem Electric Line, Only 30 Minutes' Ride from the Heart of the City, iWe have already provided several wise men with the best possible insurance against the rainy day, and hope to include you amongst the number. Sit down and figure for yourself what one of these fertile acres will produce in vegetables, fruit, berries or walnuts. It is not a chance or speculation; it is a reality some thing that will produce revenue whenever you call upon it. It is also well to remember that we are selling this land at about one-half of its real value. That is the method we employ to make quick sales on an otherwise slow market. This land is generously supplied with springs and running water. It is perfectly located from a scenic, health or value-increasing standpoint. Take car at Front and Jefferson streets, get off at Metzger Station, look at the ground from every standpoint, and then enroll yourself with numerous purchasers who know a good buy when they see it. PRICE $200 AND UPWARDS PRICE $200 and up per acre, according to location. 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 ments. - - ON CASH PAYMENTS a discount will be allowed. Figure it out it only takes a saving of 20c per day and up to purchase one of these acres. For particulars and beautiful 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. HYDE PAR K. K .Whether you buy or not, we want you to visit HYDE PARK and come back a booster. CALL AT OUR OFFICE SUN DAY FOR FREE TICKET If you see the property you cannot help being pleased with it or we have made a terrible mistake. GET OFF Al iYDE PAR There are many delightful things for you to see on the way out. Get off at the ornamental gates at BELLE CREST and walk north one block. Go over the addition and see if we are not telling the truth about it. OBSERVATORY You are invited to visit our ob servatory in HYDE PARK where you can see the most magniiicent scenery in the world. We have erected this for the use of the public. From the top you can see every inch of HYDE PARK VERY SPECIAL PROPOSITION If you will buy a lot or two in Hyde Park right now we can make you an exceptionally SPECIAL PROPOSITION. One that will attract you if noth ing else will. Price and terms talk, and it is right along this line that we are figuring. You can. get advantages from us now that you will never be able to get if you delay until the formal opening of HYDE PARK. If you cannot visit HYDE PARK today, mail the coupon, COUPON The Jacobs-Stine Company, 148 Fifth Street. Gentlemen P.lease mail me at once full details of the Spe cial Proposition you have to offer in HYDE PARK property. NAME .... ADDRESS The Jacobs-Stine Company ' 148 Fifth St., Portland
