LONG 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.
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HYDE PARK
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IZIDJZLjP Are vou croinfir to wait until
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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
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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.
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tuanc8t 1 48 Fifth St., Portland, Oregon
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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