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NO FALLING OFF
ON EAST SIDE
About Same Amount of Build
ing Going on as for
Months Past.
SEWER SYSTEM STARTED
In Suburban Districts Lar?e Pro
portion of Residences Is Owned
by Occupants, Which Also
Applies to Houses Building.
jales and building- permits on the East
Bide show a slight tailing off for the past
week In consequence of the rains and
possibly the approaching; Presidential elec
tion So far there haa been little abate
ment in the erection of dwellings, but this
may be due to the fact that numbers of
contracts already are let and houses start
ed. New building work Is shown In the
new foundations that may be seen In the
different portions of this side. It Is a
fact that if no more new buildings were
started now for two or three months It
would cut little figure In the total amount
of work on account of the number of
buildings started and under way.
In spots, solid masses of dwellings are
being erected. On Russell street, near
Commercial. Alblna. eight dwellings are
being put up close together that repre
sent an Investment of fully JCO.000. Along
Hawthorne avenue beyond iiast Twenty
slrth street to Mount Tabor a large num
ber of attractive homes are being erected.
At the end of Hawthorne avenue the
5.000 residence of Phillip Buehner is
rearing completion, while to the south on
the Powell Valley Road the brick resi
dence of the Jesuit priests, which la to
be headquarters of that religious order
In the Northwest, costing I15.0U0, is being
completed.
The residence of Mr. Buehner is one of
the handsomest built on the East Side for
several years. C. B. Moores. formerly of
Salem, is completing a J16.O0O residence in
Holladay Addition, which Is the most ex
pensive structure of the sort erected there
this vear. Woodlawn. which was held
up tot years on account of unsightly
Travel pits, is making good progress. The
gravel pits are being filled up. , . .
Important street Improvements projected
are those on Union avenue between Holla
day avenue and Highland; Belmont, be
tween Tenth and Nineteenth streets, and
on to Mount Tabor: Grand arenue, be
tween Sullivan's Gulch and Holladay ave
nue, all bard-surface pavement. The low
est bid for Union avenue la M5S.308.
Improvement In Brooklyn South.
South of Division street Improvements
that will cost above $2,000,000 are either un
der way or are projected. The most Im
portant of these improvements is the
Brooklyn sewer system, which will cost
the property-owners S2.000 to start with,
and then more than J5CO.O00 for laterals.
Practically all the other Improvements for
a considerable portion of this district are
. . V. MntnltlnH Of this
sewer system. Desirable In every way for
homes, that portion oi mo r-aoi
cf Division street has been hampered and
. , . i..ir Af ipspDuri and
dels .
anih now coming. bast
Ninth street across Stephens slough Is be
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jng mica, wuilii .....
Clinton street is being Improved between
East Twelfth and Forty-first, one of
the longest streets in that portion of the
city. Ellsworth street is being Improved
between East Twenty-sixth and Forty
first. Several of the cross streets are be
ing Improved. .Through Initiative of the
IWaverly-RlchmoTHl Improvement Associa
tion more than $100,000 in street and other
Improvements have oeen sianru.
lng a fine schoolhouse recently completed
and occupied. . .
In the Waverley tract $100,000 is being
i a in ..r.af finnrovements. and as
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much more has been spent in attractive
hfmes. In Kenllwortn it i estimates -
$150 WO has been spent in improving
streets and building homes. Gladstone
avenue, a wide street, has been Improved
a distance or over a mile. The Kenllwortn
flub Is pushing improvements. In the
Brooklyn district, where the main por
tion of the Brooklyn sewer is being con
structed, marked progress haa been made.
A number of Important streets have been
improved between Milwaukie and East
Twenty-first north and south and east
m . t.i. rr,af section is being
changed into an attractive home-building
district. .
The big sewer, which will probably be
completed by the first of the year, will
drain this section, and add 60 per cent and
more to the value of all the property.
Construction of laterals will be started on
all the main streets as soon as connec
tions can be. made to the conduits. The
Urooklyn Improvement Club has Initiated
most of the Important Improvements In
this district.
Home-Otmers In Majority.
The proportion of home-owners on
the East Side compared with renters
Is largely In favor of the home-owners.
Of course this applies to suburbs
more directly than closer'in. but In the
latter the home-owners are the more
numerous. There are entire districts
In which there U hardly a renter, and
In these suburbs houses for rent are
scarce. Montavtlla people generally
own their own homes. Thera are prob
ably 4000 people In this district. In
the Mount Scott district, where there
are more than 15.000 people, more than
0 per cent of the people are home
owners. This is a very large district,
extending two miles east of Lents and
south nearly to the Johnson Creek Val
ley, embracing all the settlements
along the Mount Scott Railway. Tre
mont, Ivanhoe. and Woodstock.
In City View Park. Rose City Park.
Rossmere. Center Addition. Vernon.
North Alblna. the same general pro
portion of home-owners holds good.
The growth in all the suburbs is re
markable.. even to those who undertake
to keep in touch wtih such affairs, and
this growth Is not all In the direction
of the Columbia Rrver or down the
Peninsula. On the Mount Scott line
the cars are nearly always overcrowded
and the people are asking for more
cars. At Lents the schoolhouse is
packed with 500 pupils, while at Ar
leta the attendance is nearly this num
ber and another schoolhouse must be
provided for the southeastern district
before another year.
At South Mount Tabor 0 handsome
dwellings have been erected near the
schoolhouse. Evening Star Grange,
with 22i members, must enlarge its
building. Mount Tabor hides the view
to the eastward, but beyond Is a thriv
ing suburb along the Base Line and
election Lino roads. Just how many
people are outside the city limits Is not
yet known, but 25.000 would be about a
correct estimate. These figures give
some Idea of the districts that must
be provided wttb both Bull Run water
and fire protection in the near future.
Carbarns lAorm Center.
At the Golf Links, on East Thirteenth
street, the Portland Railway. Light
fewer Company la preparing to erect
a large carbarn and quarters for the
carmen. East Twelfth street naa oeen
vacated by the city where It passes
through the grounds of the company,
which paid $1000 for the vacated street.
The buildings will stand on the con
nected grounds and extend over the va
cated street. Erection of these build
ings will mean another center, similar
to the one in North Alblna, for the
south side of the suburb of Sell-wood.
It will be the center of a large num
ber of carmen who live in tiellwood,
and the carbarns will house the cars on
the Sellwood and Oregon City lines.
It Is announced that this new center
will not detract much if anything from
the repair shops at Milwaukie, which
will be retained for repair purposes and
will employ about the same number of
men as now work there. On the whole,
the suburb of Sellwood is making good
progress. Next year part of the sub
urb will build a sewer system, which
will cost $100,000.
Recent Realty Sales.
Alice F. Smith bought a quarter
block in block 13, John living's Addi
tion, for $7500, with a modern house
In Central Alblna M. M. Deal bought lot
2 In block $ for $4500. Also in River
side Addition to Alblna Sarah McVey
bought the north 36 feet of lots and
7 In Mock 3. for S2250.
In Kenton, on the Peninsula. J. RA
Taylor bought lot 1. In block 1; lots is
and 17. block 4. for $4500.
In Sullivan's Addition. Sandy road, F.
C. S. Malpas bought half of blocks 45
and 4S for $3000.
William Reldt purchased the frac
tion of lot 1 and all of lot 2 In block
267. Holladay's Addition, for $5XI0.
Charles Smith bought a quarter block
In Piedmont from J. E. Minard for
$2200. In Cloverdale Stella Hammer
bought lot 7 In block 12, with house,
for $1900.
Ellen J. Cratty bought lot 17 In block
17. Mount Tabor Villa, for $1450. J. A.
Arment bought lots 15 and 17 In block
39. Irvington Park, for $2600.
Charles Ott Bold to Frances Alex
ander lot 16. block 6. Railroad Addi
tion, for $1800.
The First Baptist Church bought of
Waldo F. Steward lot 13 in block 4, St.
John Park Addition, for $900. Lucre
tia M. Palmer bought three lots in Gen
eral Compson's Addition to St. John for
$1450.
In Alblna Homestead Hattie E.
Bogue bought of John Ross lot 2, block
26, with house, for $6500. J. C. Alns
worth bought lot 1. block 1. at High
land, for $3000. Lot 16 In block 17,
First Addition to Holladaya Addition,
was sold to Joseph Basler. no price
being announced.
Rose Hamilton sold to August Grone the
north 49 feet of lot 1, block 86, Stephens'
Addition, for $6000. Henry Albers sold
to F. E. Manchesters lot 8, block 837,
Holladay Addition, with house, for $4350.
In Central Alblna P. A. Duffleld bought
lot 9, block ai. Central Alblna. for $3700.
In Holladay Addition Mrs. M. A. Mc
Green purchased lot 6. and the north half
of lot 7. In block 15, with house for $6300.
In the Jonesmore tract, at Montavllla,
a large number of lots have been sold,
and at present 11 attractive homes are
under construction, averaging In cost up
to $2000 each.
PROGRESSION" OX EAST SIDE
Multnomah. Addition and Rose City
Park Feel Impetus.
G. W. Priest, who erected many build
ings in Multnomah Addition, will put up
six $2000 residences on Clinton street, be
tween East Thirty-seventh and East
Thirty-eighth streets. All will be two
atory and the total cost $12,000. Fred
Koschmltzky will erect two 1SOO houses
on Killingsworth avenue near East Eighth
street. H. Mills will erect a $2500 dwell
ing on Alnsworth avenue. O. Bracher has
started work on a $4100 residence on East
Forty-sixth street. Rose City Park. J.
I. Mount has started a new house on
East Sixty-second street to cost $3000.
Butterworth-Stephenson Company have a
long list of new dwellings under way.
They have started a bungalow for Fred
Marx. Rose City Park to cost $3500; a
nine-room house for Mrs. J. Z. Collins,
East Forty-second and Tillamook streets,
to cost $4000. They are preparing plana
for several houses In Vernon. Irvington
and other places ranging In cost up to
$2000.
MINING CONGRESS CALLED
Eleventh Annual Convention to
Meet In Pittsburg-.
DENVER. Oct. 24. The executive
committee of the American Mining Con
gress yesterday Issued the official call
for the 11th annual convention to be
held In Pittsburg. December 2. 3, 4
and 5, 1908. A special effort Is con
templated looking to the final enact
ment of the bill for the creation of a
bureau of mines, now on the calendar
of the United States Senate for third
reading.
Particular attention Is called to the
work of Congress in making Investiga
tions relating to the protection of the
lives of miners; proposals for the elimi
nation of fraudulent mining stock oper
ations: the relations between customs
smelters and the ore producer: Federal
aid for mining schools and experiment
stations; the exploitation of the rare
mineral resources of the country; the
conservation of mineral resources: the
timber and water supply, and the unifi
cation of tne mining laws of the sev
eral states, are the particular subjects
which will be under discussion. It Is
announced the convention will be an
open forum for the discussion of all
mining subjects.
The call invites the President of the
United States, the Governor and heads
of commercial bodies to appoint dele
gates. A special feature of the body
will be a coal mine gas-testing plant,
now In course of construction In Pitts
burg, under an appropriation made dur
ing the last session of Congress, which
will then be completed.
DISSECTERS HAD BODY
Woman Claims Cadaver From Stu
dents In Chicago College.
CHICAGO. Oct. 24. Considerable ex
citement was caused In the medical lab
oratories of the University of Chicago
yesterday by the sudden discovery that
one of the cadavers upon which four
students had been dissecting since Oc
tober 1 was claimed by a woman in Cali
fornia as the body of her long-lost hus
band. The woman Is said to be on her
way to take possession of the corpse.
Five months ago the man, who was
about 50 years old, died a pauper at the
County Hospital, leaving neither clew
to his own identity nor to his relatives.
After the body had been held for 20
days a customary time It passed Into
the possession of the University of Chi
cago, as do many others from the Coun
ty Hospital unclaimed by kin.
After keeping the body In storage $0
days, as the law requires, it was placed
upon the dissecting table.
"We were notified by the Demonstrat
ors' Associationywhlch furnished us the
specimen, that the body had been
claimed by a relative." said Professor
R. R. Bensley. head of the anatomical
department, "so we took it out of the
dissecting-room and placed it in storage
to await the claimants.
"I know nothing of the history of the
Incident except that the woman Urea In
California and that she held some In
surance en the man."
"What's his name, Mr. Sculptor?"
1 call him OPPORTUNITY."
"But why is his face hidden?3
'Because men so seldom recognize
him when he appears.
"And why has he wings on his feet?1
'Because he is soon gone, and once
gone cannot be overtaken.
if, "i 'm ' i v, in i .- - imr in -vs.
r a .i t v-v-rtviiT-iiv ic the mnsf nathetic regret of a man's life."
Snr-rfiffj nnce said to tne wise men oi-viucus. a-iua. v--'Jr"'v- - - , - - ....
Sddom does the knock of opportunity sound upon man's financial door. So seldom that, unrecognized, his
SDeedv wings carry him on to be taken in by the man of quick and keen perception.
P The figure above illustrates Swinton, the new town rite on the Peninsula adjoining Swift s town site.
Opportunity is knocking at .your Jra & lira hiA. ten ner cent discount on
all htoW Many puoffbuy real estate catch
to make them buy now But we did as we advertised and the 56 business lots still unsold were sold since at our
list price.
Your Last Opportunity
At 11 P. M. Wednesday, October 28, we will discontinue the ten per cent discount on our restricted residence
district Don't let your teaVs of lost opportunity mingle with those of the Chicago, Omaha KQj&
Joseph and Fort Worth citizens who failed to take unto themselves the prphfic partnership offered by opportunity
whlS swift came toTheir home town. Not only did Swift come but also Armour, Gudahy, Nelson, Morris and
others. They will all be on the Peninsula in five years. .... .. , . , u r
Swinton is a certainty. Residence lots in Swinton will double and treble in value m a short time. Men
have bought them who will build both residence and business houses.
Only once in a man's lifetime does so great an opportunity as Swinton present itselt.
Fortunes will be made, Mr. Thinking Investor. We will show you.
Come to our office today and we will take you out in our automobiles. Auto leaves every half hour,
bCSeo.b two miles of Swift's Packing Plant in Fort Worth jumped from $350 to $5000.
This is Your Opportunity. Now Take It
Terms: IP Per Cent Down. 2 Per Cent Per Month
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