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CONDITIONS
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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
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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.
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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.
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.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