The Sunday Oregonian., October 18, 1908, SECTION THREE, Page 8, Image 32

TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 18, 1903.
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Lots for Dwellings in East Side
Suburbs Active During
Week.
SOME INSIDE DEALS MADE
Building Operations Promise to
Continue Heavy for Months An
other Ten-Story Structure De
cided I'pon by lewis Estate.
Aversge of realty transfers for the
past week ran over normal for the time
of year, but eliminating two or three
deeds that are several months' old. the
week's record shows well up Into $60,
000 a day.
By far the larger number of transfers
were for lots In suburban tracts, an
Indication that sales of these lots keep
up even to a greater degree than agents
had any reason to expect. There are
several new tracts on the market at
the present time, in widely separated
districts, but most sales are of lots on
the eastern and northern borders of
the East Side.
Agents offering lots in the neigh
borhood of the Lower Peninsula say
investments in that part of the city are
being made by outside people as well
as local buyers, who intend to build
at once. Nearly every realty man in
Portland has commissions from these
outside buyers to take up property
without much regard to location, the
fact being recognized that values here
offer investors chances not found in
other cities ot the country.
Acreage in Good Demand.
Acreage along the lines of new roads
leading into Portland continues to at
tract the attention of real estate men,
this being especially true of nearby
tracts on the Salem electric line. Yes
terday a dral was closed for another
farm on this line, about ten mils out,
which is to be platted before Spring
and put on the market. Numbers of
five to fifteen-acre pieces are Inquired
for where people of limited means may
establish homes and have some ground
for cultivation.
Seeral schemes are being worked
out by companies to provide these
small tracts, among them the com
pany to be formed by the Portland
Realty Board. Almost enough stock
has been subscribed already in this
company to assure Its success, and
early In the yrar the plan is to be
taken up vigorously and worked In
connection with Oregon development
associations. Railroads are to assist
In bringing these small farm projects
to tho attention of Kastlrn buyers ani
the Board Is confident the plan will
work out to the advantage of the state
and this locality In particular. '
Decides on Ten-Story Building.
The lewla estate has concluded to
build an eight or ten-story office
building on Its lot at the northeast
corner of Fourth and Oak streets. The
frame dwelling that occupied the cor
ner haa been moved back northward,
leaving 60x100 feet vacant. Excava
tion has started and foundations will
be put In at once. The estate now
owns the Couch building, next the cor
ner of Fourth and Washington, and a
representative said yesterday that so
many applicants are coming along for
quarters In buildings of this character
that probabilities are the new building
will be of ten stories, though that fact
has not yet been definitely decided. D.
C Lewis is drawing plans for the new
building, which Is to be of reinforced
concrete.
Foundations for the Henry building
at the southwest corner of Fourth and
Oak are about completed. Mr. Henry
has decided to erect a six-story office
building on the site, though the foun
dations are heavy enough to carry ad
ditional stories. Work progresses fa
vorably on the building for the Pacific
Paper Company, corner of Fourth and
Ankeny, masons betng on the third
story. Deep red brick are used In the
exterior walls.
The Rosenblatt Hotel, at Tenth and
Alder. Is receiving its buff tile finish
on the second story. Work on the
building will be pushed along as rap
Idly as possible from now on, material
having arrived in sufficient quantities
to keep masons busy.
Activity on I'pper Washington.
Building operations at Twenty-third
and King streets are rapidly changing
the appearance of the new street re
cently opened from Washington north
ward. Brick apartment-houses, flats
and residences are springing up as if
by magic, and by Spring the extension
of King street will be built up on both
ides.
The American Contractor, of Chi
cago, points out in its issue of October
10 that, from Indications there will be
an increased amount of building in the
country over the previous year, and
that, following this condition, there
will be quite an advance in the price
of building material. The paper aays
that a saving of from 10 to 20 pr cent
can be made by prospective builders
by contracting for work at the present
time.
Record of Building Permits.
In the week ended Saturday there
were 75 building permits Issued, with
estimated cost of $150,345. On Satur
day a permit was Issued to A. P. Morse
for the erection of a two-story brick
barn at Ninth and Davis streets, to
cost J16.000. For the month to date
there have been 215 permits Issued,
carrying $473,075 In estimated cost. In
all probability the month's total will
fall short of September, though there
are several large buildings under way
for which only permits have been
taken out for excavation and in some
cases foundations. Arnong these are
the Meier Farnk Company. Henry,
Wilcox Hotel, Fuller and Crane. In
case these are ready to start walls be
fore the end of the month, the total
will come up to September. There is
no falling off In the number of dwell
ings being put up. so that October will
show about as many Items as usual
for the season.
FILL IX EAST SIDE STREETS
f Business Sites to Be Provided
by Eitensira Work.
The plan for Ailing up the streets and
blocks between Union avenue and Bast
ater street. Hawthorne avenue and
East Oak street. Is being worked out.
The Pacific Bridge Company has a con
tract to do this nilirg. It Is the inten
tion to till up most of the streets In this
section erst, and the company Is work-
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lng along this plan, filling Zat Taylor,
East Yamhill and East Third streets.
On the latter streets the fill will be
carried to East Oak street from Haw
thorne avenue. East Madison street also
will be filled between Water street and
Vnion avenue. Property-ownera prefer
this method of filling streets, as it will
permit them to take advantage of the
bonding act to pay for the improvements,
which could not be done If the district
were filled without regard to the streets.
Filling of the blocks up to the basement
level will then follow the street fills.
However, some of the property-owners
have entered Into contracts to have their
property filled at once. Among these are
the Western Electric Company and
Fisher. Thorsen & Co., who own half
blocks each.
With these lowlands and streets all
filled up there will come a change in
East Portland. These fills will advance
the value of every lot for a long dis
tance east from the Willamette River,
and will make a considerable portion of
the property available for business pur
poses. It is believed the erection of such build
ings as the one for Parlin & Orendoff and
that of Devlin & Wallace on East Water
and East First streets will be the be
ginning of building operations in this
district. These structures are being built
on filled streets. As the other streets to
Union avenue are filled the land will be
available for similar purposes.
North from Belmont, on the streets
that have been filled, owners have
already been more than compensated for
their heavy outlay in the Increased value
of the property. Every sale made in this
portion of the East Side shows an ad
vance ranging from SO to 100 per cent in
the value of the property. Nothing can
stop these fills now that they have been
started.
The time in which this big undertaking
will take to comfTtte Is estimated at
from five to ten yeans, probably the lat
ter period being more nearly correct.
Practically all the material used will be
scooped from the Willamette River, al
though a considerable amount of ma
terial is being used from the basements
of buildings and from etreeta graded.
arrxwArKXE bcildixg notes
New Sawmill Will Soon Bo In Opera
tion on Riverfront
Good progress is being made on the
Hawley Pulp Sawmill at Milwaukle. A
sidetrack from O. TV. P. main line has
been built to the site of the mill on the
Willamette River, and in the course of
a few months this plant will be in ope
ration. It will be used to cut up timber
for the Oregon City paper milL
The Mothers' and Teachers' Club has
undertaken to kalsomine the rooms in the
old portion of the Milwaukle school. As
the district incurred heavy expense in
erecting an addition, which cost $13,000,
the club has decided to assume the cost
of repairing the old rooms.
The home of J. W. Graely, on Milwau
kie Heights, has been completed. Mr.
Grasley has named it Thendara.
Plans have been prepared for the home
of Mrs. Walter Gelinsky, on Milwaukle
Heights, and work will be started on
the building In a snort time. Seven cot
tages were added to the sanatorium the
past year.
A push club has been organized in Mil
waukle. with the following officers: Pres
ident, W. H. Grasly: secretary, Oscar T.
Olsen, formerly of the Woodstock Push
Club. This club has been started to en
courage better sidewalks and general im
provements. Erecting Factory Plant.
For the home of the East Portland
Mill At Fixture Company recently burned
out on East Morrison and Seventh streets,
and for the Portland Pulley Company,
now located on East Water street, a large
plant Is being butlt on East Twenty
Sixth street in Sullivan's Gulch. The
main building will be four stories and
there will be several drykilns and lum
ber sheds. The new plant will represent
an expenditure of about $50,000.
BUILD KESIDEXCE FOR WOMEN
Cornerstone to Bo Laid lor Unique
Apartment-House.
On Fourteenth and Market streets, at
3 o'clock this' afternoon, will be laid
the corner-stone of tho first apartment
house to be erected in the United States
for business and professional women.
Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, Rev. J. D.
Corby and Dr. Benjamin Toung will as
sist at the ceremony and Miss Linna
G. Richardson, president of the State
Nurses' Association of Oregon, will lay
the corner-stone, the address to be de
livered this evening at the Taylor-street
Church by the pastor, Dr. Benjamin
Toung. The public Is Invited to both
the laying of the stone, at 3 o'clock,
and to the address, at 7:30.
Report Two Sales on East Side.
Mall ' & Von Borstel report the fol
lowing sales for the past week: Lot
on Broadway and East Twenty-ninth
streets, for the Mercantile Trust & In
vestment Company, to Evaline Pierce.
It was bought for an investment. Lot
In Harbor View Addition, on Benton
street, from Mrs. Mary Ryan to W. H.
Cole. Mr. Cole intends to improve the
property.
Will Erect Modern Church.
Rev. W. T. Buster, the new pastor of
the Sunnyside Methodist Church, who ar
rived the past week, comes to start a
movement for the erection of a modern
church building to replace the present
one, which was erected about 15 years
ago. The new edifice will probably cost
about $30.0CO. Three lots have already
been secured.
Prescriptions filled at Eyssell's Phar
macy, 2SD Morrison, bet. 4th and 6th.
SUNFLOWER STITE
GOES UP IN AIR
Best Political Aviators Can't
Say Where Kansas
Will Land.
CHANGES EVERY ELECTION
Many Points In Favor of Leading
Candidates, but Independence of
Farmers Makes Result Doubt
ful Cannon Is Unpopular.
TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 10. (Special.)
Kansas is up in the air politically and
there isn't a campaign aviator In the
state who knows to a certainty, or who
can say with any degree of assurance,
where it will land on election day. A
great many voters appear not to have
made up their mlndB definitely Just how
they will- vote, and as a result Kansas
hangs in the balance.
Senator Chester I. Long says that Mr.
Taft will carry the state by 25.000, but
Mr. Long also predicted a little over
two months ago that he would sweep
Kansas In the Senatorial primary con
test against Mr. Bristow. Mr. Bristow
did the sweeping, so pass Mr. Long: his
prophecies are not reliable. Mr. Bris
tow sees about 40,000 majority for Mr.
Taft. but there is reason to believe that
his vision is affected because he was suc
cessful in the Senatorial fight. Because
he won, he thinks there is nothing to it
but Republican victory now. Mr. Brls-.
tow sees double and then some, so that
he, too, will have to be passed.
The Democrats are Just as confidently
claiming the state for Mr. Bryan by
15,000 and upwards, which would mean
that" the Nebraskan would get a larger
vote in Kansas than he did in 1S96, when
he carried the state. The Democrats
are simply guessing, the same as the
Republicans, only they are guessing vic
tory for their own side.
Kan sans Are Chameleons.
"he uncertainty In Kinsas arose large
ly from the fact that the average Kan
sas farmer is a political chameleon. He
is likely to be a Populist one year, a Re
publican the next and a Democrat the
next. He thinks that his convictions
are firmly fixed, and so do the pofitlclans
sometimes, but as a matter of fact they
are very wobbly. He is swayed first to
one side and then to another, and a pop
ular issue Is very, likely to catch him.
The desire for a change in existing con
ditions is always strong with him; it
doesn't matter much what the existing
conditions are. Four years ago Theo
dore Roosevelt got almost three times
as many votes in Kansas as did A. B.
Parker, his majority being 126.000. Two
years later Governor Hoch, Republican,
a man of sterling integrity and upright
character, in fact the salt of the earth,
running against ex-Senator Harris, once
a Confederate soldier In a state where
there are thousands of ex-Union soldiers,
barely escaped defeat by 2000 majority.
This, too, when the total vote was al
most as large as it was in the Presiden
tial year, all of which shows that the
Kansas voter is changeable. Some call
this political Independence, while others
class It as political instability, but what
ever it is. it makes things uncertain in
Kansas and keeps the politicians guess
ing. Newspaper men who traveled on Mr.
Taft' s special train declare that greater
enthusiasm was shown for the candidate
In Kansas than anywhere else. His re
ception all through the state was in
marked contrast to the somewhat sullen
and unemotional manner in which he
was received in Wisconsin, Minnesota
and the Dakotas. It-was a right royal
welcome through Kansas. The people
were glad to see him and to listen to
what 'he had to say. This fact has given
the Republicans great encouragement.
Taft's Strong and Weak Points.
The victory of Mr. Bristow over Mr.
Long should help the National ticket
more than if Mr. Long had been suc
cessful. Mr. Long represented the con
servatives, Mr. Bristow the radicals.
The conservatives have got to support
the ticket, there is nothing else for
them to do; while, if the radicals had
lost, they would have felt freer to
knife the ticket and Mr. Taft would
have suffered thereby. This is Repub
lican argument. The Democrats say
that Mr. Brlstow's victory shows that
the radicalism prevails In Kansas and
that therefore the trend will be for Mr.
Bryan rather than for Mr. Taft. It" is
upon the farmers that the Republicans
must rely very largely. If they can
hold enough farmers in line, Mr. Taft
will carry the state. '
In the towns where there is any
considerable labor vote Mr. Taft will be
a loser. Union labor in Kansas Is un
questionably against the Republican
nominee, and largely It has been Re
publican heretofore. There is a large
negro vote in Kansas, too, and Mr.
Taft will lose a small percentage of
that, which has been almost solidly Re
publican. W. T. Vernon, the colored
register of the Treasury, a Kansas ne
gro of strength and accomplishments.
Is endeavoring to confine the loss to the
"WHEN I HAVE TO SAVE, I SAVE,
AND WHEN I DON'T HAVE TO,
I DON'T SAVE"
Said a customer who called last wek. Yes, that is
the point exactly. That is one of the reasons why
you should investigate our eas3r terms on Beaverton
Eeedville Acreage, Aldrich Acreage, Kinnesswood
Acreage, Alton Acreage, Andrews Acreage, Alta
dena Acreage and Jennings Lodge Acreage, all lying
within 10 miles of the center of Portland and ranging
in price from $75 per acre up to $250 per acre, sold
in tracts of from one acre up. You can drift along
and get along, or you can take our advice and "tie
up. to something," assume a responsibility which
will necessarily afford a training in the systematic
use of money, and which will develop a force of char
acter never attained through aimless living. Pur
chase and assume payment according to your income.
TVe predict, from long experience with investors,
that you will surpass your own expectations, and
will thank us for the suggestion. If you mean busi
ness, see us this week.
The Shaw-Fear Company
245 Stark Street.
smallest possible number, and without
him the slump might be material. It is
said that Mr. Taft will lose the votes
of some of the old soldiers because of
his Memorial day speech in New York,
In which It has been made to appear by
partisans that he referred to General
Grant as a drunkard. All of these
things -will cut into the Republican ma
jority. Bank Guarantee Helps Bryan.
While these represent Mr. Taft's
weakness in Kansas, Mr. Bryan's great
est strength lies in the guarantee plank
In the Denver platform. When Mr.
Bryan made his 1896 campaign the
Kansas farmers were not much con
cerned about their bank deposits. They
didn't have any money to worry about.
Their trouble was over the mortgage
on the farm. He offered them a pana
cea and they supported him. Today
they have money in the banks, and he
offers them a propositoln to insure its
safety. It is something new, sounds
good to them, and they have swallowed
It, hook, bait and sinker. So popular
is the bank guarantee in Kansas that
the Republicans were forced to adopt
it in their state platform, although in
a modified form from the Denver dec
laration. Democrats are playing on
that string for all they are worth, and
have It all their own way, for the Re
publlcans are powerless to attack it.
They are not making much headway
with their tariff reform plank, for the
Republicans work that, too, and honors
are about even so far as meeting the
demand for revision is concerned. As
they understand it in Kansas, the Re
publican promise of revision means a
reduction, and that is what Kansas
wants.
The Socialist vote Is likely to prove
a surprise in Kansas. It is certain to
show a tremendous Increase. Strange
as it may seem, there are quite a num
ber of farmers advocating the Debs
doctrine. It is another "ism." In the
state which was only a few years ago
so rampant with populism, the very
flower of the People's party. Thomas
E. Watson, the Populist candidate, will
make a most lamentable showing. Lib
eral estimates do not place his strength
above 5000. Mr. Bryan might carry the
state and yet Mr. Stubbs. the Repub
lican candidate for Governor, could win
by a safe majority. .
Democrats are claiming two or three
Congressional districts, but it is diffi
cult to see how they are going to do
so unless there Is a landslide. Several
of the Republican Congressmen, how
ever, have ben obliged to announce
themselves as opposed to the re-election
of Uncle Joe Canonn as Speaker
in order to make themselves safe with
their constituents. "Joecannonism." as
it is called, is not popular in Kansas.
When You Buy Electric
and Gas Fixtures
doesn't It seem reasonable that you
should go for them to an exclusive
electric and gas fixture store?
We deal in electric and gas fixtures
and accessories only and carry the
largest and most varied stock in the
Northwest.
M. J. WALSH CO.
Electric find Gas Work In Alt
It Branches Promptly Attend
ed to Rinjr on Either Phone.
311 STARK, BET. FIFTH AND SIXTH.
PACIFIC IRON WORKS
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CASTINGS OF ALL KINDS,
STEEL BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES
IN STOCK 3 to 24-Infch Beams. 4 to 15-Inch Channels.
IV2XIV2 to 8x8-Inch Angles
East End Buxnside-Street Bridge,
Portland, Oregon.
DAVIS & DRENNEN
406-408 East Buniside Street.
Gas and Electric Lighting Fixtures
Sold direct from manufacturer to the consumer the highest quality
at the lowest prices. Do not fail to get our prices.
Fixtures Built to Suit the Home
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Until next Spring to purchase a lot in Necarney City or Seabright, the coming and nearest ocean and
bay beach resorts Portland can ever have. The price then will be far above the price now. A force of
men are now busy putting in good shape the streets and grounds of Necarney City, and the early Spring
will see many buildings erected in both
NECARNEY CITY
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We repeat: Don't wait buy now. Necarney City lots $75 each, $10 down and $5 per month. Seabright,
$100, $75 and $50 per lot; 20 per cent down and 20 per cent per month. This is an investment feature
that will appeal to any one who will investigate.
NEHALEM BAY LAND CO.
Eoom 3, Chamber of Commerce, or 1000 Williams Avenue.