The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 27, 1908, SECTION THREE, Image 31

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Newspaper Page TextLONG STREET IS BEING MODERNIZED Hawthorne Avenue for Two Miles Receives Attention by Car Company. EAST SIDE REALTY ACTIVE Lota for Residences Bought by In tending Builders, and Bueines. Site Likewise Being Secured. Suburb. Extend Limits. The first work toward the great paving contract on Hawthorne avenue, which at present will extend from East Third to East Forty-fourth street, was started during the past week by the Portland Railway, Light ft Power Company, which began to relay Its double tracks with heavy steel rails. For the electrlo railroad company, as well as the propertyownera, thla Improvement la the most extensive yet undertaken under one contract. It will cost the railway company $160,0U0 to relay Its double track, and It will cost abutting property over J150.000 to lay hard surface pavement on Hawthorne avenue. The distance la a little over two miles, and the atreet passes through a growing residence, as well as business, district. A large number of fine residences have been erected on Hawthorne avenue, In cluding the home of Walter Burrell. on Bast Twenty-seventh street, costing $30, 000, and also the new home of Phil Buehner, at Bast Flfty-flfth street. This last residence is under construction at the turn In the street, and wiU cost up wards of 125.000. There are numerous oth er residences on both sides of Hawthorne avenue, costing from KSOOO to J5WM, and several business buildings near East Thirty-fifth street. At the end of Hawthorne avenue proper there Is a building movement on. both Ides. When Improved with hard-surface pavement, Hawthorne avenue will be one of the great thoroughfares of the city. It connecta with county roads, and also with the Madison bridce, which la to be built on the present site. If it had been decided to change location of the bridge. It to probable that this great Improve ment, costing the electric railway com pany and the propertyownera fully $300,000, would have been dropped, but will now be pushed forward. Owing to the magnitude of the Improvement It will take at least one year to complete the work. East Side Realty Active. The East Side real estate market shows remarkably healthy conditions. Some large deals were made the past week. The largest ind most Important trans fer was that' of lots 6 and in block 1. In East Portland, for $40,000 by John P. Sharkey to R. F. Cooke. The prop erty Is the quarter block on the north west corner of Grand avenue and East Stark street, and Is occupied by a one story brick. This sale really was made last March, as the date of the deed shows, and transfer has now been finally closed. Under date of September 18. the Haw thorne estate sold to Rudolph Palitzsch, lots 1 and 2. block 67. Alblna, for $14. 000. Thla property is a quarter block on the corner of Harding and Railroad streets. In Lower Alblna, and la occu pied by frame structures. In Stephens Addition, lots 6 and 6, In block 76. were sold to Hi. A. Eaton, by Louis Luchessl. for $10,000. Isaiah Buch nian bought 100xlX of A. E. Barette on East Ankeny and East Twenty-eighth street for $M00. John Eckhind sold lot IS in block 20. John Irving'a Harbor View, to Helen A. Young, for $7500. In the John Irving First Addition Nora L. Edwards pur chased lot , In block 11. for $6000. In Tabor Villa C. T. Evans sold to Emerson Gould lots 1, 2 and 3. in block . for $3000. At Creston, on the Mount Scott railway. Elmer M. Andrus sold to A. TV". Greenman lot 8, block 8, with house, for $2000. J. W. Mclrvin par chased eight lots in College Place for $3500. John Tuohy bought of H. B. Taylor two lots In block 20. at Highland, for H:50. W. B. Taylor sold the property. At Arleta fnd other points along the Mount Scott railway lots are sold dally to home builders at price ranging from $150 to $600. New houses are being erected at all the settlements on the Mount Scott railroad. G. E. Walling announces the sale of two lots, with two residences, in City View Park, and the sale of eight lots on the Waverly-Rlchmond car line. E. P. North sold to Agnes Nlbley lot 14. In block 36, with residence, for ffiSOO. J. B. Orchard sold a quarter In block 359. Holladay's Addition, for $3500. Eugenta Gerstle bought lot 1, In block 4, Vensteeg's Addition, for $4300. New Buildings Projected. Near the east end of Burnslde bridge Ave new buildings are projected: Mil ton Miller, of Seattle, Union avenue, three stories, of brick or stone, or re inforced concrete, costing $75,000; an other plan provides for six stories; J. C. Alnsworth. East Ankeny and Grand avenue, $60,000; Zcller & Stoker, apartment-house. East Sixth and Couch, $15,000. There are two other buildings projected costing about $15,000 each, all of which will be started within three months. Architect H. C Hefty has awarded contract on a new building for Emos Bettencourt. on Hawthorne avenue and Enst Thirty-seventh atreet, as follows: Carpentry and masonry, J. J. Ple'ndl; plumbing. F. Burfit: electrical. Elec trical Appliance Company; painting, E. H. Clayton. Cost of building will be $8000. It will have two stories, with four storerooms on first floor. On the second floor there will be four office apartments and a hall floored with pol ished hard maple, with a stage, ante rooms, reception and other rooms. The structure will be 60x60. W. V. Loomls Is erecting a $2050 dwelling for Fred Scrlbner in Monta villa. Plans are helne; prepared for an $8000 building for W. H. Holmes, for business and rooming purposes, on Williams avenue, between Russell and Stanton streets. Otto Kleemann has prepared plans for a residence for Mrs. Mary Slckenger at northwest corner of Haw thorne avenue and East Thirty-fifth street, to cost about $3500. Charles Downer Is having a $5000 dwelling erected on Tapgart and East Thirty-ninth streets. B. H. Bowman has started work on a $7000 flat on Belmont, near East Twetfth street. B. F. Doty has taken out permits for three $1300 dwellings to be erected on East Grant and Thirty-fourth streets. He has also- under way three other dwellings in the same neighborhood, each costing $1409. Professor C L. Strong, principal of the Burj-.yslde school. Is having a home erected on East Thirtieth, be tween East Grant and Harrison streets. 8. Simmons is contractor. Architect Kleemann has let contracts for the building for Anton Aectem. East Twenty-first and Powell streets: carpentry, H- Rose; -brick and masonry, M. Riebohff; plumbing, Gantenbeln Bros.; painting, R. G. Buss. Progressive Section. In North Alblna six new real estate offlcea are being erected, four on Kil llngsworth avenue and two In the new addition of Swinton. which Is north of the carbarns. There were several al ready established before these new ones came In, and this Indicates a larger movement In property In that section. Work on the paving of Kll llngsworth avenue has reached Will iams 'avenue from the west end at Patton avenue, and the Improvement Is being pushed forward as faat as the rails of the streetcar company are re placed with heavy steel rails and the grading completed. There is a general movement for better streets . In North Alblna. The movement for widening Alblna avenue to 70 feet Is still pend ing, and will- be brought about if the plans of the progressive people are carried out. It will be widened from Lower Albtna to Swinton, the new tract In North Alblna making a wide atreet to the East Side approach of the pro posed Alblna bridge across the Wil lamette River. The improvements under way and those projected -will easily aggregate 12.000,000 In cost when completed. In this section of the city Is Walnut Park, In which a large number of the finest homes on the East Side have been erected. A number of new homes are under construction in this tract, and northward from Killlngsworth avenue toward Woodlawn through Piedmont. Building Peninsula Town. Clearing ground and grading of streets Is going on all over the new townslte of Kenton, the packing-house town on the Penlnsuta. The Kenton Building & Con tracting Company has received and is in stalling a planer, and has contracted for ft JO, 000 feet of lumber, to be delivered at once, which will be used In construction of new dwellings. The elevated roadway which will connect Kenton with the Swift plant, and which will be about a mile long. Is being built and about $00 feet of it has been completed. Piles at the rate of 100 a day are being driven. The Pacific Telephone A Telegraph Company and the Portland Railway, Light or Power Company are setting poles for telephones and electrlo lights. An eight-inch water main Is being laid to Kerby street to connect with the water system. Dr. Tracy C. Btrobecker, who owns a quarter block. Is having a cement dwell ing erected, at a cost of $5000, It being among the first of this character to be built. Dyer Bros, have started work on two cement block dwellings, each to cost $4500. The regulations require fire-proof construction In the residence dlstrlots, constructors-being required to use brick, concrete or atone. Great Educational Institution. The 24 acres purchased by the Society of Jesuits on the Powell Valley Road and East Forty-first street a year ago will be the site of a great educational institu tion. Archbishop Christie predicted In his address at the dedication last Sunday that It would rank with the great Institutions of the sort in the Northwest. The two buildings already nearly completed, the chapel and school, and the brick home of the resident priests, costing $30,000, are only the beginning of a group of other structures to be built on the tract. . As the . point Is central, the residence will be occupied by Very Rev. George de la Motte, S. J., superior of the California and Rocky Mountain Missions of the Jesuit Order, which will add to the im portance of. this settlement. Ultimately a large college will be erected in the center of the group of smaller build ings, but it will take .time . to work out the plans. For the 24 acres $30,000 was nald a year ago, but land in that neigh borhood has advanced materially since the purchase was made. There is a gen eral improvement all through the soutn east section, and all the suburbs are hnlldins- uo. Establishment of this edu catlonal center Is expected to materially advance conditions there. Farm Land Valuable. The price of acreage in the vicinity of Portland Is Increasing, as Is Indicated by the recent sales of Dartly improved farm lands near Gresham. N. L Smith sold a 9-acre tract in the suburbs of that place for $3200, which is over $300 an acre. It Is partly Improved, and partly covered with a grove of large trees. The city bought the land for a public park. George Sleret also sold a 20-acre tract in a sub urb of Gresham for $300 an acre, it la nearly all under cultivation. A few more acre tracts, partly Improved, brought nearly $300 an acre. Of coJrse. these tracts are near Gresham. which is a growing business center. Mr. Smith, who sold the nine acrea to the city, said that the price of improved and unimproved land is steadily advancing. "I have traveled all over Oregon." said Mr. Smith, "and I failed to see any sec tion that is superior tt Powell valley for all purposes, nor did I see a more prosperous country." At Boring, which is on the O. W. P. line, land is being cleared and put under cultivation. New schoolhouses are being put up, and there is a general forward movement among the farmers. Land has become very valuable In tins section. New Church Building. Plans have been completed for a new eaiiico ,i' i ura - gregatlonal Church, to cost $SO0O. to be erected on me corner ui ou Missouri avenue. Separate bids are being received for cement blocks and concrete walls. . t The cornerstone of the new central Christian Church, now being erected on the corner of East Twentieth and Salmon streets, will be laid some time In Novem ber. Work Is now going forward on the foundation walls, the lower portion of which Is concrete and the upper Tenlno stone. This church will cost $50,000 when completed. . Carpenters are completing the Interior of the stone edifice of the South Method ist Church, on Union avenue and Mult nomah street The interior is filled with timbers supporting the rame for the room. All the stone work of this church has been finished. The cost of the build ing will be at least $60.000. MEET DEATH' TOGETHER Mother and Brother Commit Suicide in Their Grief. ' NEW YORK. Sept. 26. The bodies of Ella and Edwin Soden and their mother, Mary Soden, were found In their apartment In Brooklyn today, the mother and son evidently having com mitted suicide together in their grief over the death from apparently natural causes of Miss Ella Soden. The body of the latter was dressed In white and apparently laid out for burial, but it lay in a pool of blood, while the bodies of her brother and mother were found in bed. An examination showed that the young" woman had bled profusely through the mouth, apparently from hemorrhage of the lungs. By the bed upon which lay the bodies of mother and son there were three bottles, which evidently had contained a mixture of chloroform and whiskey. A letter left by Edwin left no doubc as to a double suicide plot between him and his mother. It follows: My sister Ella, the beet and sweet est and most unselfish, affectionate and lovable of sisters, is dead. This FROM INFANCY, straight through to decay, at every turn in life's pathway, there is ever and always that same strong, passionate longing for home one's own home. Have you a home of your own? Next to the affection for one's mother, the strongest love that possesses man is his devotion to his home. From babyhood, when a child has practically no human knowledge, the love for its own cradle its home mani fests itself. The same intense feeling exists through life, for that which a man calls home. There is nothing more deplorable than for a raan to go through life, reach middle age and beyond and not possess that to which he can turn and call his own home. ' The best invest ment a m a n can make in his youth is -the beginning of a home for later years. lis i IMP f i jpsAl.lrV luuiiiiiiiliiiiilyiiiuii" 01ZJl2E P V SS SEND US THIS COUPON The Jacobs Stine Co. :148 Fifth St, Portland, Oregon. Please send me booklet, HYDE PARK Name Address IZIDJZLjP Are vou croinfir to wait until - j j - you're an old man before you own a home? Are you trifling with Destiny by putting off from day to day, from year to year, the de termination to own your own home? Are you going through life without making some provision for a home in your old age? There never was a time in the history of the world when a man could make the start toward a home as easily as now. HYDE PARK NO. 2 offers the home-builder a site for a home that is high class in every particular that will always be an exclusive residence district and at a price and on term3 that bring it within easy reach of every one. Right Now More Than One-Half of the Lots in 1 r x 1 1! if xf n k n ttilJU''Jlsf-::J--XaJiii NO Have Been Sold. There Will Not Be a lot Left in One Week HYDE PARK NO. 2 sells on sight. The elevation, location, the improvements in process of construction cement walks and curbs, graded streets and wide parkings the advantages of electric lights, ' telephones and excellent streetcar service now at hand, appeal to the man who wants. a home of nis own. BEGIN TODAY. Go to HYDE PARK NO. 2 and select a lot before they are all sold Lots in HYDE PARK NO. 2 now offered at $225 up. All improvements included. Pay ments of $10 down and weekly installments of $1 and up per week. Take East Ankeny car at Third and Yam hill streets and SEE HYDE PARK NO. 2 TODAY. 23AB77TOOD THE J ACOBS-STINE CO. tuanc8t 1 48 Fifth St., Portland, Oregon xwAMm mil H: I Is -j; .WW fx M world without her seems unendurable. I will follow her, and so will my moth er She would be too exhausted to live alone. My mother's brothers, Christo pher, John and Philip Wentzel, of Parma, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, will bury ue. Please notify them." Soden was believed to have been a newspaper artist. MRS. CLEVELAND DENIES Bryan tetter Is Said Not to Be Genuine. NEW YORK. Sept. 26. The Times to day prints a letter received from 8. g. Hastings, executor of the estate of the late Grover Cleveland, In which the writer questions the authenticity of a political article purporting to be signed by the former President, and which was published by the Times after his death. The article In question, which the Times explains it had purchased of a magasine writer, made Mr. Cleveland compare Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan as Presidential can didates to the disadvantage of the latter. The publication of the article over Mr. Cleveland's signature caused wide com ment, and not a little discussion as to its authenticity. Mrs. Cleveland at the time was quoted as saying, "I do not believe It Is genuine." The Times also publishes letters from the man from whom the article was pur chased, in which the publishers were as sured of the genuineness of the matter attributed to Mr. Cleveland. In bis letter to the Times Mr. Hastings savs In part: -Since our Interview of September 22, there has come to my knowledge 'evi dence' which leaves In my mind no doubt of the fact that the said article was not written nor signed by Grover Cleve land, and therefore, in my opinion, la no longer entitled to credit as his pro duction. Mrs. Cleveland, in my Judg ment, was right regarding It, when she positively declared to us since Its publi cation, "I do not believe It Is genuine." " The Times has called upon Mr. Hast ings for the evidence he mentions in his letter, but will say that Mr. Hastings refused to throw further light on the matter when seen, saying: "Ton must see John Carlisle. I have promised not to say anything. Mr. Car lisle has told me not to refer to him." LONDON HAS ARMY OF POOR Number of Unemployed Increases to 11S, 000 in July. LONDON, 8ept. J6. (Special.) The pauper population had risen to 24.4 per latest official returns bear out the statements that the coming; Winter is likely to bring with it in London an abnormal amount of distress through lack, of employment. A month ago the 1000, which represents an army of over 116.000. In July last year th. percent age was only 23.8. The August figures are believed to be worse, and as th. labor conditions show no sign of Im provement, the situation a few months hence may well cause anxiety, for to a greater extent than in some other centers, pauperism in London reflects the state of the labor market. It is understood that representations will have to be made to the Treasury rery soon for an increase of the grant for the unemployed. Those who pro fess to know the needs of the distress committees throughout the country say that matters already look so bad that the amount. Toted In the closing days of Parliament will be Inadequate " to meet the barest necessities. The local SEABRIGHT and NECARNEY CITY Situated on the Pacific Ocean and Nehalem Bay. P. R. & N. Eailway now building into that country as fast as possible. Lots in these two beach resorts now selling for from $50 to $100 easy terms; will bring many times these prices when the railroad is through. Get in on the ground-floor prices now. NEHALEM BAY LAND COMPANY Room 3, Chamber of Commerce, and 1000 Williams Avenue. . government board has sanctioned a loan by one of the metropolitan au thorities for the erection of a large In firmary, which is being pushed for-, ward with the special object of creat ing work In the building trade. In the last fortnight other loans have been sanctioned for Important schemes in the provinces. ' , Olympla Mait Extract, good for grand ma or baby. Only 15-100 of 1 per cent alcohol. Phones: Main 671, A 2467. ROSE CITY PARK Are you looking for a hornet There is no better section of the city than T EOSE CITY PARK. Building re strictions and street improvement assure fine homes. Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a sub urb. Rose City Park is within the city limits. Thousands of dollars are being spent in improving and beautifying this tract. Go and see it. HARTMAN & THOMPSON Chamber of Commerce