THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. MARCH 21, 1909.
EVERYBODY WILL
ARCHITECT'S DRAWING OF SKYSCRAPER TO BE ERECTED
AT SIXTH AND BURNSIDE STREETS.
TRY FOR
Club to Be Organized Tuesday
Night at Banquet at Com
mercial Club.
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SPEECHES ON ALL PHASES
Mfn Prominent In Civic Affairs "Will
Present Various Sides of Growth,
of City Into Greater Portland.
Many Letters Received.
Indorsements from all sides are being
received by the commltfee having in
charge the details of the dinner to be
given at the Portland Commercial Club
Tuesday night, when the 500.000 Club"
will be organized. At the dinner the per
sonnel of the committees will be an
nounced that are to canvass the city the
following day and raise an annual fund
of 100.000 for publicity purposes during
the next two years. Julius Meier, C.
Hlhberd and C. C. Chapman are the mem
bers of the committee that is arranging
for the dinner, while the details of or
ganizing the "500,000 Club" are in the
hands of W. J. Hofmann, George F.
Johnson and F. B. Holbrook.
At the dinner a number of short talks
pertinent to a "greater Portland" and
treating with some phase of the commer
cial life of this city with a population of
600,000 will be given by representatives of
the leading business interests of Portland.
Dr. J. R. Wetherbee, president of the
Commercial Club, will preside as toast-
master, and the' committee has arranged
the following programme of addresses:
"Portland and a Half Million Financial
Center," A. L. Mills, president of First
National Bank.
"Results From Advertising Oregon.
Prospects for Half a Million Portland,"'
Theodore B. Wilcox, president Portland
Flouring- Mills Company.
"Transportation. Service for a Half
Million City," B. S. Josselyn, president
Portland Railway, Light & Power Com
pany. "What a Half a Million Will Mean to
Portland." W. M. Ladd, president Ladd
& Tllton Bank.
"The Transcontinental Migration by
Railroad Portland Half a Million," W.
W. Cotton, general counsel Harriman
lines In Oregon.
"Foundations for Half a Million City,"
Ellis G. Hughes. "
"Where Will Be the Suburbs When
There's Half a Million Here?" E. L.
Thompson, of Hartman & Thompson.
"A Half a Million Congregation," Rev.
Benjamin Young, pastor Taylor-street M.
E. Church.
"Half a Million and Property Values,"
Joseph Simon.
"Bridges for a Half a Million City," C.
F. Swlgert. of Pacific Bridge Company.
"Groceries for Half a Million City," I.
Lang, president of I. Lang & Company.
"The Half a Million Spirit," F. B. Hol
brook. president F. B. Holbrook & Co.
"Oregon With a Half Million Metropo
lis," Edward Ehrman, president Mason,
Ehrman & Co.
Appended are samples of the letters
ur. wetnerbee, as president of the Com
mercial Club, is receiving In commenda
tion or the plan to organize a "500,000
i.iud and to provide funds further to
advertise Portland and the state:
PORTLAND. Or., March 20. Dr. J. R
Wetherbee, President Commercial Club,
Dear Sir: At the regular weeklv
meeting of the board of trustees of
the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club
held on the 17th Inst., the movement on
the part of the Commercial Club to
increase the population of Portland to
fiOO.000 in 1912 was fully discussed, and
it gives us great pleasure to inform
you that the club is heartily in favor
wnn mis movement, and we will be
only too- glad to do anything within
our power to bring- about this increase.
Any suggestions or plans that you may
have to offer us will be put before
our membership, and we feel -reason
ably assured that when 1912 roll;
around Portland's population will be
rouna to be over the 500,000 mark.
lours very truly. A. H. ALLEN,
Secretary M. A. A. C.
PORTLAND. Or.. March 19. Dr. J. R.
Wetherbee. President Portland Com
mercial . Club Dear Mr. Wetherbee:
Referring to our conversation of yes
terday regarding the Commercial Club
publicity fund. I beg to say that Sher
man, Clay & Co. will gladly co-operate
by the contribution of $25 per month,
and by time and service in the solici
tation of other subscriptions. Com
mand us when we can assist you in any
-a jr.
We are convinced that the citizens
of Portland will gladly come forward
with sufficient money to enable your
publicity department to extend the
splendid work already begun. The
progress and growth of our city dur
ing the past four years makes it very
plain that the work which has been
done has been productive of large re
turns, and. as stated above, we gladly
Join in this advance movement for a
greater Portland and a greater Ore
gon. If, in the judgment of your commit
tee, $25 per month is not our full share
of the entire $100,000 annual fund, we
will increase the amount. Sincerely
5"ou". Q. F. JOHNSON,
General Manager. '
BODY WILLED TO DOCTOR
Chester C. Holloway Thinks Ho Will
Not lilve Out Term.
Chester C. Holloway. the Los Angeles
man who followed his truant wife to
Tortland. shot her four times and was
convicted after her recovery of at
tempting to kill and sentenced to a
, term of 10 years In the Oregon peni
tentiary, avers that he will never live
out his term. He has written a letter
to a Portland physician bequeathing
Mm his body for dissecting purposes.
The authorities are doubtful as to
whether Holloway is to be taken seri
ously. A reply to his kindly proffer
was made, declining the body and as
suring him that he was entitled to a
Christian burial "when the proper
time comes." Holloway was taken to
the penitentiary Friday to start his
long term.
COUNT TO BE SENT HOME
Gfug von Gasscndorff, Charged
With Swindling, leported.
Importation from the United States
is the penalty that will be meted out
to Count Wenrlch Gfug von Gassen
Uorff, of Germany, who was arrested
some time ago on a charge of attempt
ing to swindle an automobile firm. The
Count will be started for the Atlantic
Coast to? deportation. He will go in
charge of an immigration official.
There was no strong basis for the
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ELBVATIOV OF A RATA BUILDING.
criminal charges against him, as he
fell far short of being a criminal, mak
ing no effort to conceal his identity
following his erratic condu . It was
learned lately that he was in an insane
asylum in Germany, and that conse
quently he is Illegally in the United
States. Injury to his head caused by
the falling of his horse is said to be
responsible for .his present condition.
During his stay at the County Jail his
conduct has been exemplary. He has
consented to deportation.
April 1. It contains 60 rooms, all out
side ones, each having hot and cold
running water. Telephones will be In
stalled in all the rooms. It will- be
electric-lighted and steam-beated. L.
I. Wakefield, proprietor of the Wake
field Hotel at Raymond and of the
Lima Hotel, will conduct the new hos
telry.
"New Elnia Hotel Heady April 1.
ELMA, Wash., March 20. (Special.)
The new $30,000 hotel being built by
the Knights of Pythias will be finished
F.ast Side Lot Brings $12,000.
Wakefield, Fries & Co. yesterday sold
the lot at the southeast corner of Will
iarns avenue and Knott street to T. W,
B. London for $12,000. The sale in
cludes a two-story business buildln
The property -was owned by the realty
firm.
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