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THE SUNDAY OltEGOMAX, PORTLAND, DECE31BEZ 30, 1903. z I
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ON EAST SIDE
IGood Steady Demand for Su
burban Residences and
Business Sites.
OLD ADDITIONS FILL UP
Trade IVWIovs Closely In AVake ol
strect-l'aYlns Operations That
Arc Nov Iirlng Vndertaken
on Gigantic Scale.
East Side suburbs the past week 6hared
largely In the total of realty transfers.
There Is constant demand for building
sites, and the record shows that the
l-Iast Side leads, u Is natural, in this
general Inquiry for dwelling sites. New
comers are looking first lor nomesnws,
and then for investment: and they go to
the suburbs for best- bargains. In the
older residence district, also, many sales
have been made.
In Holladay Addition, which Is one of
the oldest residence sections of the East
Fide, a number of sales for residences
ere made the past week. C. B. Wood
worth sold lots 7 and 8. block 2W, Holla
day Addition, to Decella U Meagley or
JI"C0. Eliza E. Hartness bought of the
Oregon Real Estate Company lota 3 and
4. block liS, for WO. In the matter of
new buildings, Holladay Addition and the
territory adjacent are still In advance
of other sections in the size and expen
clve character of dwellinwi erected, al
though Walnut Park and Overlook, -where
there are building restrictions, are not
far In the rear. In numbers the district
east of VniOn avenue to East Thirtieth
street and north of Highland has seen
erected aajiiany houses as any other sec
tion of the East Side, but at moderate
cost.
In Hawthorne Park. Rebecca J. Stew
ard bought a quarter in block Ii3 for JtoX.
I H. McDanleU bought lot 1, block 20.
I.ydia Burkman'n Addition, for $".. In
Central Alblna, George W. Clarke bought
tile property of E. E. Lang for J&X").
The First M. B. Church, of Albina. sold
to the Danish Aid Society, the church
property on the corner of Russell and
Kerby streets for STOOl The society
bought the property for Its home, but
recently decided to sell It again.
In Alblna, J. G. Mann has purchased
a fraction of blocks S. 9 and 10 In Ter
minus Addition for.JTO"'), which 1h busi
ness property. In Vernon, George B.
Pratt bought lots 17 and 18, block for
two. Numerous sales are reported along
Che Mount Scott railway.
Acreage Tract Is Sold.
In acreage Aylsworth-Bpton Company
report the sale of 74 acres to R. M.
Turner for tJOO an acre, a total of J1S00
for the tract, which Is located on the
Base Line Road, half a mile west of
Rockwrood. The land is In the rough.
Improved land In the same neighborhood
brings 4300 and upward. North of the
Rase Line Road, and on and near the
Barr Road, where much of the land baa
changed bands, a dozen attractive coun
try homes hai-e been erected by the
purchasers. These range In cost between
JX00 and JSOou. Eastward toward Fair
view much clearing is under way. In the
Hampton Kelly tract, in the southeast.
John .McConnell bought four acres of
George Rowcliffe for JtoOO.
W. C. Aylsworth. of Aylsworth-Epton
Company, reports constant demand for
acreage, but says that owners on the
Rase Line Road are slow to sell. Some
of the farmers owning large tracts will
not consider any offer, however attrac
tive. F. B. Holbrook, who secured a
large tract on the proposed route of the
Mount Hood Railway, expecting to sell
It out In gardens, aays that professional
and business men are buying In the tract.
The city Is slowly but steadily pushing
Its suburbs eastward, and the farms are
being broken up Into acreage for Sum
mer homes.
Mount Tabor District Advances.
In the Mount Tabor district. Including
aoum ana North Mount Tabor, realty
conditions are considered satisfactory.
. a. iaiaiow. a well-known resident
expresses the opinion that this section
win go forward faster than ever before.
contract ror the paving of Belmont
street to West avenue." he says, "has
greatly encouraged owners of property
A water main is being put down on
Belmont street. Gas and sewer pipes
iimoy aown, ana service pipes will
ce put aown before tiJe pavement Is
jam. so me improvement will not have
to be disturbed. Owing to the fact that
there are fills and cuts on this street
the Improvement can hardly be completed
Inside of two years, although most of
the work can be done next year. Where
yiers ib a, nu tne earth must settle be-
ioi-u nmra pavement can be laid. The
OUtlOOk for Ihtk Vntittt Tl ji...'
a whole Is most encouraging. Some
attractive homes have been built and
others are projected. While Mount Tabor
has not gone forward as some other sec
tions. Its progress has been steady, and
the dwellings that have been erected are
modern. With the advent of street lm-
v Tt . M and flre Protection.
. ..nwj euro to
front."
coma to the
At South Mount Tabor, near the school
house, a doien attractive homes have,
been erected. At North Mount Tabor
there have, been a number of sales fol
lowed by erection of houses. In the
Jonesmore tract In Montavilla about 60
houses have been built. In Terrace Ad
dition. In the newly annexed territory a
, group of new homes has been outlined
the houses to cost from roo upward
lias had plans drawn for a chaDel to
cost I3M. and the Methodic Church Is
completing a M00 gymnasium, street
Improvements In Montavilla that will
cost above Jioo.ooo .re talked of for The
fnT un w,?H Th!8 bl d,--trict- n" '
ing up with homes, desires fire protec-
reZlu",? 8een trm the
J-ropriatlon f.,r the pc? "t
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South Mount Tabor and Mon avl. il'.0n-
Islled to lael?to In th." pVopo'Uf.Jo'
at!on any .,um whatever for the abVJe r Jll
poe: theretore b It oue pur-
Resolved That It la the sense of the t.-r
Payers and r-IM.n. ., . 1 ,ne tax-
prtatlon ehonld be made for the DurnoST 2.
R?" Purpo,r Kg
"ew Business Street Kxtends.
Union avenue, north from Russell
street as far as Highland. Is becoming
a buflness street. ..Several business
building, have been erected along
koth sides of the street, and half a
dosen more are being built. A con
crete building is being- erected on the
corner of Going street and Union ave
nue, which will cost $20,000. At High
land a two-itorT frame building hi
Juct been completed and Is occupied.
All buildings along. the street are oo
cupled. Union avonue. which Is the main
thoroughfare for a large district, is to
be Improved with hard-surface pave
ment, the estimated cost being 160,
000. and the contract has been let to
the Pacific Bridge Company. The
double tracks on the street between
Holladay avenue and Alberta street
will be rclaid with heavier iron, uwin
to the. magnitude of this contract, it
will not be completed before the end
of next year, but the paving of Union
avenue with a hard-surface improve
ment will mean that it will become
more important thoroughfare than
ever. The Improvement will end
Alberta street for the present, but it
is considered certain that the sam
kind of improvement will be extended
on to Woodlawn before long.
Peninsula District Improves.
In East St. John, on the Peninsula,
where the North Bank road has es
tablished a station, and where the O.
R. & N. will establish another when
Its Trontdale extension Is built, there
has been rapid growth. Railroad fa
clllties tend to make the neighbor
hood a manufacturing; district, with
the result that a number of concerns
are going there.
The cross-arm factory, which will
furnish telephone and telegraph com
panics with its output, has been fin
Ished and will soon be in operation
Bonton & Perkins Lumber Company
have finished their new factory an
planlng-mill. that will be in operation
shortly. Two woodworking -concerns
which will erect plants, have purchased
sites and will soon start construction.
Other concerns are negotiating for
sites In the same district, according to
the report of R. G. Brand, president of
the local Push Club. Water mains hav
been extended to this district
other Improvements are being mad
there.
In Kenton, the suburb of the Swift
Packing Plant. George F. Heusner'
bungalow, costing $4000, Is being com
pleted. The two store buildings o
Flnnigan & Balow are being finished,
The two-story home of Superintended
Young, of the Swift plant, costing
$4500. Is approaching completion. For
the Hoyal Bakery the foundation of a
building 105x52 feet Is about laid.
In VTIiolesale District.
P. C. Pclton has secured an add!
tional lot. which, added to his holdings
makes a full half block on East Firs
and East Scark streets, for the build
lng 100x200 which he contemplates
erecting for the National Cold Stors.
Company. The lot was secured from
Edward Mendenhall, but the price paid
Is not announced. The building will
probably be erected next Spring.
Gustav Freiwald. who purchased
block 41 on East First and East Oak
streets. Is expected to 'erect a large
building in the Spring for the brewery
company which he represents. Work
on the foundation of the two-story
brick building for Clarence B. Sewell,
on East Morrison and Seventh streets.
is progressing. Hurley-Mason Com
pany has the contract. Concrete piles
are to be TTrlven. A. I Stephens, who
secured the lot alongside Mr. Sewell's
ground for $18,000, will also put up a
building. D. C. Lewis, architect, has
prepared plans for the Foster & Klel-
ser shops to be erected on East Third
and East Tamhill streets, covert nf
half block. It will be built on con
crete piles.
In the Northeast District.
L. C. Apperson. who manages the
Country Club during the Winter months.
Is completing his new $3000 bungalow In
Belle Crest. J. "W. Ramsby will start
on a $2200 home In a short time. William
Pretty man is building an attractive
bungalow at a cost of $1S00. Edward
Heints Is starting the erection of a new
$1500 house, and T. S. Edwards Is moving
into his new home. Over 100 bouses have
gone up in this district the past year. In
Rose City Park plans "have been drawn
for 48 new residences, to be erected at
once.
Starts on Six-Hat Structure.
Stokes & Zeller have started work on
the foundation of a six-flat building to
be erected in Central East Portland. It
will stand on East Couch street, between
Grand avenue and East Sixth street. It
will contain a full basement. Up to the
second story it will be of brick construc
tion, and the second story will be "rough
cast." The cost Is estimated at between
$15,090 and $17,000. In design and con
structlon this building will be In advance
of any similar structure yet put up in
Central East Portland.
BriM CP JENXIXGS LODGE
Evangelical Church to Improve
Camp-Meeting Ground.
At Jennings Lodge, on the Oregon City
railway, a new Evangelical Church has
Just been completed at a cost of $1300,
and it will be occupied by the first of the
year. Rev. Theodore Shauer, Rev. N.
Shupp. A. F. Russell and G. D. Board
man are the building committee, who
have looked after the erection of the
structure. A number of other buildings
have been erected at this point.
Mrs. H. IT. Emmons is having a bunga
low erected on her property near the Wil
lamette River, and Walter Beckner has
the frame of his new home completed
John Jennings Is clearing a considerable
new tract. The Evangelical Association,
which owns the five-acre campground at
Jennings Lodge, will erect a hotel and
tabernacle in the Spring, for the use of
the conventions which will meet there
next year. A number of Summer homes
will be put up on this campground next
year. In this territory much Improve
ment is in prospect.
BIBLE SCHOOL TO BE ERECTED
Building: to Occupy East Side Block
Starts Soon.
The Northwest conference of the Church
of the Brethren, embracing Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, will establish a
Bible school and missionary station cover
ing an entire block of ground. Rev.
George C. Carl, pastor of the First
Church, of the Brethren, located on Kil-
llngsworth avenue, where a Bible in
stitute has been in session for several
weeks, announces that a block will be
secured as soon as one suitable for the
establishment of the school can be
secured. Mr. Carl Is chairman of the
committee appointed at the meeting of
conference last Summer to select a site,
and he expects to perform that duty
within a short time.
The Portland Bible College win be mod
eled after the Bethany Bible College of
Chicago, only It will be on a much larger
scale and will have more room for the
requisite buildings for that purpose. He
also savs it Is expected to secure this
block on the Peninsula as near ICllHngs
worth avenue as possible.
Mr. Carl Is a progressive and public
spirited citizen himself, and urged the
members of, the recent conference to
consider Portland as the proper place for
the establishment of this Bible College,
pointing out Its extraordinary growth
and future prospects. Some time In the
early part of the coming year the pre
liminary work will be undertaken. The
intention Is to get the main building com
pleted for holding the general convention
of the church in 1910 in Portland.
IT. R. Reynolds has sold his Interest In
the Realty Associates of Portland. He
was the founder of Uu tivmjiry and bad J
Just a
Word About
Prospect
Park
A.t no season of the year
does a man or woman so
ardently long for a home
as at Yuletide. While
this is at the height of the
gift-buying season, pos
sibly you may have time
to give your future home
a little consideration.
Even if you do no more
than, take a car ride out
to PROSPECT PAEK,
you will have spent less
than an hour and had the
satisfaction of seeing the
best improved section of
Portland. Our Mr -Mum-ford
is at the tract office
every day, all day. Either
an "A" or "Woodlawn"
ear to Knott street. One
block east to office. See
the property, if nothing
else.
ROUNTREE
h DIAMOND
Offices at
241 Stark Street,
East Seventh and Knott Sts.
been Its manager since Its organization,
in 1906. The Associates owns several
pieces of good Income-bearing properties
in the city. Mr. Reynolds is to make a
trip to Southern California and on his re
turn will announce his future plans.
Work has started on a four-story apart
ment house oh Lovejoy street, between
Twenty-first and Twenty-second, to cost
about $28,000. . H. L. Camp Is the archi
tect and also the owner.
D Parker Bryon announces that he has
sold for Bertha H. Kuhner to Jerry Bro-
naugh lot seven, block 207, 50x100, on the
east side of Park street, 60 feet south
of Main, and adjoining the Congrega
tional Church. The purchase price was
$10,000. The property Is located opposite
the Park and has a six-foot light-well on
the church side. Mr. Bronaugh left last
night for Los Angeles, Khere he will get
some new Ideas in apartment-house build
ing, as he Intends to Improve the prop
erty with a building of that description.
Mr. Bryon is a reai estate man recently
here from Los Angeles. He says Mr.
Bronaugh could have sold the property
for $1000 advance soon after he pur
chased It, but preferred to keep ii and
build.
LIBERTY ILL MAY CCf.lt
rHTLADEIiPHIAXS SEEM WILL-
TNG FOR TROPHY TO TRAVEL.
No Objections of Serious Xature Are
Made, Says Governor Cham
berlain In Report.
Governor Chamberlain filed an official
report with President Ralph W. Hoyt. of
the Portland Rose Festival, yesterday,
covering his efforts to obtain the Liberty
Bell as one of the star features of the
grand dvio celebration during the week
of next June when the festival Is to be
held.
That a certain amount of red tape will
have to be unwound, and that the Mayor
of Philadelphia, together with the Com
mon and Select Council, will have to be
shown that Portland and Seattle are to
hold demonstrations that are of National
import, was clearly Implied in what Gov
ernor Chamberlain told the festival peo
ple.
The officials and citizens or tne City or
Brotherly Love" are not In the least
averse to having the bell come out to
the Pacific Northwest, but ever since
they were placed In charge of the bell
they have assumed that but few events
in the calendar of American affairs were
great enough to attract this trophy.
Congressman 3. Hampton Moore, of
the Philadelphia district, told Governor
Chamberlain that there would be no
question as to the chances of having the
Liberty Bell brought out to Portland and
Seattle next Summer, for the simple
reason that the people of Philadelphia,
who are the real custodians of the pat
riotic trophy, think it would be a splendid
achievement to have this token sent to
the Pacific Slope. Very few. Indeed, are
the people of Oregon and Washington
who have ever seen this tocsin of liberty
and the only thing that the guardians of
this relic seem to take Into consideration
the Bupport which has already been
promised the idea by United States Sen
ators Penrose and Knox.
The officials of the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-
clfio Exposition have not, up to the pres
ent time, shown very much activity, but
with the data furnished by Governor
Chamberlain and the indorsement which
Is expected from the entire congressional
elegation from Washington, it seems
that there is little chance of having any
opposing influence brought to bear against
the efforts of the Rose Festival.
Joint effort between the Seattle Fair
people and the management of the Port
land Rose Festival has been assured.
Such steps as may be deemed necessary to!
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bring both organizations Into a working
policy harmonious and unified for the
one purpose of securing the Liberty Bell
will be entered Into by the cltusens of
Portland who are backing the feast of
flowers here, and ' Director-General L A.
Nadeau. of the AJaska-Tukon-Paclflo Ex
position, has Stated that his show will
help all that It can.
UP TO HARVESTER TRUST
Can Only Defend by Attacking Own
Officials'-Statements.
JEFFERSON C1TT, Mo., Dee; 19.
Attorney-General--Hadley, of Missouri,
announced today that he had notified
the attorneys of the International Har
vester Company of America that che
state will hear no further testimony In
the ouster suit against the concern on
the ground that it exists In violation
of the anti-trust -laws of Missouri.
The case for the state will thus rest
upon the evidence of officials of the
defendant company solely. If the de
fendant 'wishes to offer testimony it
will be placed In the position of at
tacking the statements of its own of
ficials. It Is considered likely, therefore
that the case will be decided by argu
ments on the legal proposition whether
"CALIFORNIA; BUNGALOWS"
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Price 50 cents. . .
W. E. ALLEN
711 Delta Bldq." t-os Angeles
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Office Open All
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On a
swiiiton
Mdhday,..-Dec
At .7 P.
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Thursday we announced to the public that we
would discontinue the giving of 10 discpunt on
Swinton Lots; that they would be sold at regular
prices beginning Tuesday until Christmas, and
would be advanced 10 December 26th.
The response to this advertisement was in
stantaneous and magnificent. This response showed
plainly that the public knows that lots in Swintorf
are a most desirable investment.
Are you one of those who bought on Thurs
day or Friday or Saturday? If not, remember that
you've only two days to get in on the ground floor.
Remember also that it is almost absolutely
certain that every lot will be sold, by tonight.
Procrastination is a thief of time and also
of opportunities "Putting things off" may result
in many regrets for you may result in your seeing
someone else who was forehanded and farsighted
make several hundred per cent on Swinton prop
erty you might just as well have bought at less
than regular price. '
The price you pay for these wonderful Swin
ton lots includes grading of streets to city grade,
laying of water mains in front of each lot and the
clearing off of all brush are ready to build on.
Never before in the history of this city has such a
splendid investment been offered to the public as
Swinton lots.
It's a pity that we can't show what these lots
really are in cold print, but we are more than will
ing to show you the lots themselves. An inspec
tion of them will convince you very quickly and
speedily that they are a good purchase.
Automobiles start from our office, 109 Fourth
St., Couch Building, every thirty minutes. Again
we say: "Come and inspect.''
Columbia Trust Company
Seventh Floor, Couch Building 109 Fourth St Near Washington
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the defendant company, which is an
agent for . the International Harvester
Company of New Jersey, can be held
responsible aa a principal for any pos
sible violation of the Missouri statute.
Denies Canal Failure.
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Tha Cost of the Pavement Never Exceeds
$2.25 in the Teaming Limits.
WARREN
Day Today Sunday
Ceases
Kuehnle. general wrecking- foreman on
the Panama Canal, who Is horrie to
spend the vacation with his family in
this city, says that the Panama Canal
will be completed In six years, and
that stories of underground lakes, fatal
slides and other disasters are untrue
..nrt work great Injustice to the men
THE
2 1 st
Abutting Property Owner
Noiseless, Durable, Clean, Sanitary
the Horse
Resilient and Non
CONSTRUCTION
responsible for the progress on the
canaL
"The undertaking is going forward
with great dispatch." said Mr. Kuehnle.
"and the officers in charge will get
credit for wonderful work when the
task la finished. The stories circulated
In this country that the canal will not
be finished are false and un.lust.
MEM
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The Cost of Excavation and Cement Work is
the Prevailing Price at Time of Letting.
COMPANY