The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, June 13, 1909, SECTION FOUR, Image 38

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1909. EVIDENCE FOUND OF INTEREST TO HOMEBUIDLERS ON EVERY HAND Growth of Portland Matter of Demonstration to Even ' Casual Observer. y State ANOTHXR MODERN BUSINESS STRUCTURE. Ii - i ' fl ' ' OFFICE BUILDINGS RENT No Vacant Houses, Pespite Remark able Number Constantly Being Made for Occupancy All Over the City. BT JOHN 3. HARRISON. - - ' -A hammer Is a necessity in building a house, but it Is a decidedly poor imple ment in building a city. Fortunately, there are only a few- faammerwielders in Portland, but these few do much to keep back publlo improvements. "Knockers" may have a place In the world, but just what good they accomplish is past find ing out. On every side there are evidences of the city's growth, and while It may be aid by non-proicressives that too much is being cTalmed. the plain fact remains that hundreds of new houses are being erected and that dwellings are being oc cupied as rapidly as they can be finished. Another evidence that Portland has be come a great city lies in the fact that office buildings fill up so rapidly. One of the recently finished buildings, the Lumbermen's, at Fifth and Stark, is barely ready for occupancy, but is 75 per cent rented. The Henry at Fourth and Oak and the Lewis, diagonally across the street, have applicants enough to insure tenantry on a paying basis. How much good the past week's fes tivities did the realty market is rather difficult to determine. That many visi tors came here with Intention to see for themselves what we have to offer is un questioned, and that the town looked good In Its holiday attire is not to ba gainsaid. While no deals of moment have been reported, there is little doubt but that in the next few weeks there will be some closed as a result of the personal inspection given. Among the hundreds of visitors there must have been numbers who came to look over the Oregon situation. As to the verdict we may rest assured. Prob ably never before was there better weather nor such a turnout of every thing that exemplifies Oregon greatness. Acreage in the vicinity of Portland seems to be the most attractive realty Just now to Investors. Several farms in the neighborhood were taken over last week by concerns that wlU cut up the tracts Into five and ten-acre pieces. Along the line of the United Railways bet-ween the city and Llnnton and beyond these small sites are selling at a good rate. The last of the Fleischner tract of 600 acres has been platted by Hartman & Thompson, there remaining 65 acres northeast of Rose City Park. The orig inal farm was subdivided into what are on the market under the names Belle Crest, f.orth Belle Crest, Crest View illas, Hyde Park. Gregory Heights Rose City Park and the Country Club ' Transfers for five days of the week of mT "S. Vth recorded valuations of J332.1S9 Dealers are somewhat sur prised at the large volume of business in dicated by these figures, for during the last two weeks there was little surface evidence that so many transactions had !e",,nesottated- As a matter of fact. sXs3VranSfCrS not all of -actual re V,J " a Ci'rta,n PPion are of titles SOme fr correction of Good progress is being made on the new big buildings scattered here and there over the city. Stee! for the OWs WPu 1 & Kln: whito enamel and brickwork on the Y. M. C. A.; Arlington of -fho Lewls. brlck and trimmings on the New Imperial; are among som of the more Important. jt' C Caf8lav. the New York architect who has been commissioned to prepare n"w0rh SPal'li"S building af Thtrl lnLMl"nf!:' 13 in Portland and an nounced yesterday that the building is and Vr.mo,nt0r'e,a' ' St6el rrane? floors ana partitions of concrete. It has been found by tests that foundations will on gravel only six feet below the depth of the present building. A firm of St Paul contractors Is reported ajTthe ,f cessfu, bidders on tn, netrTcture. FOLDER EXPLOITS EAST SIDE Business Mens Club Distributes Booklet Among Visitors. The East Side Business Men's Club Issued a neatly printed fold" which Presented to the Chicago busi ness men Thursday on their arrival "y a committee of 15. The folder "ay.- lou are now entering the new and growing business district of the Fa" t Mde. a district that has made phe nomenal advancement In the past three ;r"kra,nheWhlCh.iVlH wUh,n " and reil h,?m ,he wholesale Vhli- . business section of the cltv. alreadv ,hiV'Vam'y of its growth. ,IS J , East Stde 1,as far outdis tanced the older portion of the city as a residence district, and in the ma" ter of population. The annual dumber ?ee,PUt ?ll'nnET 3a00.OUOO.OO0r ieet. 1.000.000 barrels of flour are ma""factured there: annual volume ot machinery and vehicle business done ronnn5"" ''de amou"t to nearly on the Fa.?" M1 SaKh and d0r Ba i Uin amor.t to 1650,000- JtV J-B Pack,inST Plant on 'ih. Pa. t 18 being erected o the East t-lde by the Swift Paoklna fnm Pany at a cost of J4.00O 0 0 The folder also contains building sta tistics showing the growth of SortI VM"al thousand copies were d.f0r-, Seneral d'stribution. It is ofor:e TC-H?lRClW- '"'''. Md weorge T. Atchley. secretary, of the East Side Business Men's Club. DIVIDES $2,000,000 ESTATE Spanish Lady Leaves Heirs in Cali fornia, Mexico and Spain. SAN FRANCISCO. June 13. The will of the late Miss Maria c. DeLaveaga. cescendant of a family prominent In California when the slate was subject to Spanish domination, was filed in the Superior t ourt for probate today Mi-s DeLaveaga. who died in Madrid Spain on lebruary 4. 1009. left an estate val-' ued at more than 12.000,000, which is divided among relatives In California, . Mexioo and. Spain, TO SELL SCHOOL SHE CITY'S PROPERTY Olf WILLIAMS AVENUE ON MARKET. Preliminary Steps for Broadway Bridge Already Planned To Start Fire Station. When the old Williams-Avenue school house is abandoned for the new building now being built on Knott street and Rodney avenue, the Williams-avenue block will be sold if the district receives an offer considered adequate. The block Is regarded as valuable for general busi ness purposes, especially the frontage on Williams avenue and Russell street. Its value has been estimated at about $60,000. and it is understood that the Board of Education has been offered that amount for It. The old building is probably of little value, as part was built 22 years ago. The intersection of Williams avenue and Russell street is an Important busi ness center, and all property near there has a good business value. Williams avenue has been paved be tween Alberta street and Killingsworth j avenue with hard-surface pavement, and i. ia iJiiuiiiea lq pave me sireet Detween Alberta and Stanton streets, making it a continuous hard-surface street from Hol laday to Killingsworth avenue. It is rap idly becoming a business street. Many business buildings have been erected on It. It is the determination of the North East Side Improvement Association, which fathered the Broadway bridge project, that there shall be no delay in getting in motion the preliminaries for the erection of the bridge. There Is con siderable preparatory work to be done before the real work is undertaken, and the club will at its next meeting take such steps as are considered necessary to see that the proceedings are kept mov ing. Full plans for the bridge must be drawn. It is thought the ferry at the foot of Alblna avenue will not be neces sary when the Broadway bridge is com pleted, and it may be dispensed with. Erection of the Broadway bridge, the widest and highest in the city, will make Broadway street the most important thoroughfare in the North East Side. A steel viaduct is to be erected across the ravine between Vancouver avenue and the street west. A fill is being made be tween Union avenue and East Second street. Architect Jacobbenger is preparing plans for the new East Side fire station, to be erected on Russell street, near Wil liams avenue, Albtna, to cost $30,000. It will be a modern Are station, and one of the most important In that portion of the city. The old engine-house on Russell street is an aged structure, wholly inade quate for that district. The Hill estate Is pushing construction on the three-story building started some time ago, facing Russell street. It will cost $35,000. The three-story building for Zeiler-Byrnes Company, on Williams ave nue. Is also being rushed. It will cost about $15,000. The company will use the loer portion as its undertaking parlors. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Theodora Eernhelm, trustee, and wife to Leonora Klosberman, lot 3, block 6, Council Crest Park 1 8B0 Charles M. Scott and wife to William T. Krebs. trustee, lots 2, S, 4, Irving-ton Acreage Tracts 10 G. AV Webb to William T. Krebs, trute-a. 16.65 acres commencing at a point 20.14 chains north of sec tion corner between sections 24, 25, township 1 north, range 1 east and sections 19. 30, township 1 north, range 2 east loo Moore Investment Company to M. O. Coiwell. lot 1-'. block W. Vernon. . BOO Investment Company to William P. Hardest-, lot 3. block 23. Piedmont 1.O&0 James Sargent to Carrie" C Dunton, lts 30, 35, block 6, Greenoa 1-s.MKhta 40 Irvington Investment Company to r. G. Scobey, lot IS. block 7. Irvlng n 1.850 Moore Investment Company to Ola Erecksen, lot 4, block 76. Vernon.. 400 Hattle Salomon and husband to John Lakson. lots 14. 15. 16. block x. Iremont Park T50 William Bolton to Jennie McKenile. Jili 7 rods in section 1, township 1 north, range 3 oast g ,.S' -lor-e to Amelia A. Stone, lot 13. block 2. subdivision of lota 1. . 2-, 7-s- 10- N"rth. St- Johns 1 A. 3. Store to Amelia A. Stone, lota 1. 2. block 9. subdivision of St. Johns Heights j A- s-. Stone to Amelia A. Stone, lot 6. block 15. South. st JnHn, - -c ALaon xo--William X, BLAKE, M'FAtl, BTJILDIIVG TO BE ERECTED AT FOURTH AJfD AlfKEST. liJ Krebs. trustee, land beginning at 14 section corner between sections 19, 20, township 1 north, range 1 eat 7,000 B. B. Wright and wife to William T. Krebs. trustee, lot 1, Irvlngton Acreage Tracts 10 S. S. Keeley and wife to Ellen M. Woodward, lot 8, block 12, Haw thorne's First Addition 1000 Frank L. Baker and wife to K E Young, lot 6, block 16. Xorth Irv ington 1,200 Catherine Kadderly and husband to A. H. Hickman, lot 9, block 1. Midway 1 Henry E. Jones to Mary H. Jones, undivided 14 of lot 7. block 183. Couch Addition 10 John G. Ray et al to Overlook Land Company, block "B." Overlook; lot 1, block "C," Overlook 1 Thora K. Roberts and husband to Overlook Land Company, block "B;" lot 1. block "C," Overlook 1 J. N. Atterbury and wife to W. E. Atterbury et al. lots 7. 8, 9, 10, block 7. Saratoga Park 1 500 Miles C. Mooro to R. L. Durham, lots 1. 2, 8. 4. 6. 6. 7, 8, block 6. Rover- daI 10 L. J. Loder and wife to H. A.' Speer. lots 11. 12. block 1. Elsmere 2.150 Thomas Roberts et al to Edith F. Schwackhammer. a strip of land 33 feet wide extending easterly and westerly trough Tract 4, Bryn Mawr Park 1 Thomas Roberts et al to Edith' "f. Swackhammer, tract 4. Bryn Mawr Park, excepting SS-foot strip for right of way of Bull Run water Pipes 10 T. M. Huriburt and wife to Francis E. Huriburt. 50x117 feet commenc ing at point 130 feet north and 90 feet west of intrsectlon of center line of Tabor avenue with center line of Francis avenue 1 Wellesley Land Company to Percy E. Hill, lot 26. block 8. Argyle 150 W. T. Branch and wife to Mrs E C Murphy, lot 9, block 299. Couch Addition jo Ida M. Welty to G. M. Welty,"west 83 1-3 feet of lots IS. 16. block 18 Multnomah Addition 1 Charles Sandstone et al to Charles G. Sandstone, east 60 feet of lot 1 and east 60 feet of north 14 of lot 2. block 146, Caruthers" Addition.. 10 Columbia Trust Company to F A. Morley. lot 4, block 6, Wlberg Heights g50 Melissa I. Horn and husband to Jen nie T. Stennick. west 4 of lots 7 8. block 8, Nicholson's Addition.. 10 Adolph Wilman et al to August Olson, lot 14, block 4. Stewart Park -. gQQ W. R. Kuykendall to Joseph" H." Nash, lot 4 and south 14 of lot 3 block 3. Alblna Heights Addition... 9) Wellesley Land Company to Perry E. Hill, lot 25, block S, Argyle 160 Title Guarantee & Trust Company to Rose Walllngford. lot 28, block 29. - Gerikeley H. B. Wolff and wife to "Andrew Holm, lots 23, 24. block 16. Ta borsldie 20 J. E. Scott and wife to Andrew' Hoirn". lots 13. 14. 15, 16. 17, 18. 19 20 21. 22. block IS, Taborslde 1 Merchants Loan & Trust Company to Mae Shaver, lot 9, block 2, Townslte of Willamette jq Total - $20,815 LAWYERS' ABSTRACT A TRUST CO. Room 8. Board of Trade bids. Abstracts a specialty. Have your abstracts made by the Title Trust Co., 7 Chamber of Commerce. DATES FOR FAIR ARE SET Uncoln County Prepares for Three Day Event In September. TOLEDO, Or., June 12. (Special.) Dates for the Lincoln County Fair have been set for September 8, 9 and 10. The exe cutive committee of the Fair Association has distributed membership in the com mittees to all parts of the county, and is planning to arrange a special excursion from neighboring counties. September 8 has been designated as Lincoln County School day, and Super intendent Goin and three school teachers have been selected to have change of the features for that day. September 9 will be Pioneer day, and September 10 Benton County day. The executive committee of the Fair Asso ciation consists of Wallis Nash, presi dent: Carl Davis, A. D. Perkins, B. F. Grant, A. L. McDonald, R. A. Bensell and J. H. Gllrves. C. B. Crosno 1st acting secretary. S0NE IS COREANS' RULER Japanese Viscount Will Replace Ito in Protectorate. TOKIO, June 12. The appointment of Viscount Arasuke Sone to be resident general of Corea for Japan will be an nounced Monday. Simultaneously Prince Ito will be named president of the privy council and honored by an imperial re script of appreciation of his great serv ice to Corea as director of the affairs of that country since the beginning of the protectorate. Prince Ito will retain his tutorship of the Corean crown prince. Field Marshal Yamagata, who is to be succeeded by Ito in the privy council, hereafter wld r ontv in hia military capacity. . . Mac Nan rhton. Tt a-n-movi A . To a - u I I pB V" a,-1 "tT PACKERS WILL B I ULD I - - -isSli"" " 1 1 OTra m CTJDAHY COMPANY BUYS SITE ON EAST SIDE. Many Small Tracts Are Transferred in Various Sections of Busi ness District, Lots 1 and 2, block 2, Frushesr Addition, on the northeast corner of East Second and East Oak streets, were purchased this week by the Cudahy Packing Com pany, of Chicago. On this corner the packing company will erect a three-story building, with full basement, to.be used as Its Portland headquarters. Plans are being prepared for this structure, which will cost about $25,000, the matter now being in the hands of an architect and will be designed with special reference for the business. Lot 1 was bought from W. E. Splcer and lot 2 from the Oregon & California Railroad Company, the price paid being $15,000. The sale and prospec tive improvement are of great importance to the wholesale district of the Bast Side. J. N. Robinson, an attorney, purchased a lot 100x50, on Vancouver avenue and Russell street for $3500. The lot is occu pied by a six-room residence. Mrs. W. S. Ott was the former owner. J. C. Robin son, of the Multnomah Mining Company, has sold lot 9, Arleta Vista, for $1550. on which the new owner will erect a home. R. L. Edmonston will erect two modern residences on two lots which he recently purchased in Sunnyside Addition. Fred Watrln, who sold the property to Mr. Edmonston, doubled his money on the original inveetment. H- Kaser has purchased the west half of lots 7 and 8, block 295, Hawthorne Park Addition, with a modern residence of six rooms, from A. B. Brown for $5000. Mr. Kaser will occupy the house. Architect Otto Kleeman has awarded the general contract to Goodhart & Coombs for the erection of a six-room frame bun galow for W. B. Porter on East Thirty fourth and Gladstone streeta, Kenilworth. for $3000. Mrs. JX Balche Is building three five room cottages on block 34. In Kenton, the Swift townsite on the Peninsula. Plan9 have been prepared for a modern residence on East Yamhill and East Sixty eighth streets. Mount Tabor, to cost $6000 for D. B..McBride. It wlU be S7x42 feet. The site will be on a lot adjoining the Mount Tabor Park tract. G. W. Priest has started on the erection of seven houses on East Clinton and East Thirty -eighth streets to cost about $20 000. The location is In the Waverly Richmond district- Claussen St Claussen will erect a two flat building 32x40 feet on East Thirteenth street near Hawthorne avenue, which will cost $5000. It will be of frame con struction and be modern. Architect W. C. Knighton has prepared plans for a home for Professor D. A. Grout to be built at Mount Tabor and to cost $11,000. Ira M. Palmer Is preparing plans for a two-story nine-room home. 32x36, which will be built In Irvington to cost $5000. It will be colonial In design. Mr. Palmer also Is preparing plans for a residence for E. A. Clark in the Westmoreland Ad dition, on Milwaukie road. W. B. Russell is having a bungalow erected on East Fortieth and East Yam hill streets, which will contain six rooms on the first floor. A large billiard room will be placed on the upper floor, and the entire cost will be $3500. j . . , , F. P. Lohman. recently from Chicago, has purchased lots 1 and 2. block 3. Strube's Addition, East Thirty-eighth and Lincoln streets, with the house, for $2500, being a cash sale. In the new Murraymead Addition, on East Twenty-third and Division streets, a number of lots have been sold and homes will be built on them. J. W. Brost bought a. 12-acra tract near Lents for $4200, and C C Crowstone i i i fcsw- uit:?t bus vJ imwff -w i t iawjci' .v KELSO SERVICE IMPROVED Telephone System Extended Over County and to Skamokawa, KELSO. Wash.. : June 15 The Granger Telephone Company, a local corporation; using the Home Telephone eystem, has completed placing 75 new phones in the viclnitv of irin mechanism for the central office la also in place. A complete power plant con sisting of an electric motor and machine for charging the batteries with electricity from the local Electric Company's wires has been set up under the supervision of Paul Graf, of the Stromberg Carlsen Electric Company, Rochester, N. Y. The central switch-board, pronounced to be the most up-to-date between Portland and Tacoma, is ready, and in a short time an automatic 40-volt dial will be placed on the switchboard to enable Kelso parties to call Portland parties without having to call the Portland central office. Lines are now completed and ready for operation from Kelso to Stella, to Oak Point, copper cables with lead sheath being used. A new line from Oak Point to Skamokawa is under construction to be completed within a few weeks. The company has a lead of poles through Kelso, this place being the center of operation. Local capital is principally in terested, the principal stockholders residing at Kelso, Stella and Oak Point. Harvester Firm Is Trust. TOPEKA, Kan., June 12. State Senator H. B. Gaus, who was apponited by me supreme court as special commis sioner to hear evidence in the case of the state to oust the International Har vester Company from the state. In his report filed today, calls the harvester company a trust, the effect of which has been to regulate and control prices In Kansas. lOO in To the Pupils of Any School, Public or Private, in the State of Oregon, Herman Metzger Makes this Splendid Offer: TO THE PUPIL submitting the largest list of names (either common or botanical) of the FOR EST TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS and WILD FLOWERS growing in METZGER'S NATURAL PARK at METZGER STATION on the Oregon Electric Railway (Salem Line) will be given $50.00 in cash. To the pupil submitting the second largest list, $25.00 in cash; to the pupil submitting the third largest list, $15.00 in cash; to the pupil submitting the fourth largest list, $10.00 in cash. Prizes to be awarded September 1 by Judges of recognised authority on this subject. 1 Pupils, brush up on your botany and come out to this wonderful Park. Those wishing to enter this contest must register their names and school at the Metzger Acre Tracts office at Metzger Station, at which time a coupon will be delivered to them. This coupon to be mailed with their list of classification to HERMAN METZGER, 226-228 Front street, Portland, Or. This Park is part of the beautiful property known as etzsei A.cre Only a 29-minnte ride from the Jefferson-Street Station. Price, $250 and up per acre. Easy terms. Take the Oregon Electric car at Jefferson-street Station and get off at Metzger Station. Agents on the ground all day. Call at our city office for plats and farther information. Herman Metzger, Owner PHONES Main 474. A 1874. SPECIAL EXCURSION EVERY WEDNESDAY S'Sl;"- the oiftiT PAnrr manufactured ON THE PACIFIC COAST COMPLYISO WITH THE EASTERN PURE PAINT STATE LAWS. FORMULA ON EVERY PACKAGE. Honeyman Hardware Co. HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERYTHING IN PAINT PACIFIC IRON WORKS 0. E. Heintz, Manager. Portland, Or. CASTINGS and STRUCTURAL WORK Carry complete stock of Steel Beams, Angles and Channels. I -taWlgil ' wSM.ajiigUBi PABNT SOLD ON MERIT You take no chances, for you get satisfaction. Full measure every gallon covers 350-400 sq. ft. two coats. 1 tfrri 1 I I ..WCHSTANOARD J I I Ii Nuid-PAIHT JJ II RASMT7SSE7T A CO. ifilil I IV. E. Cor. M and II 111 II I Taylor Staw, Portland I Cash Prizes $100 226-228 FRONT STREET. i IllliMmlM I.I 111 . Ml.f .Wl i&S&ft" RULING ORNAMENTAL WWE.IRON.BRASS ft (IK MOKZEslOftKa, GRUiwrartiniBTon Bo.tcb-i ELMATOR CA3S.STAI RWrBAlCQNjU RAILINGS. Flftt ESCAPES ETC. - pRTIAKD,0rcori DAVIS & DRENNEN GAS AND ELECTRIC FIXTURES 406 AND 408 EAST BURNSIDE We carry a complete line of gas, electric and combination fixtures in stock; also make special designs and estimates. Call at our sales room or phone B 2151, or East 116, and we 'will call on you. Store open evenings by appointment. B. K. DAVIS. H. I. DRENTJEX PHOENIX IRON WORKS Engineers, Founders, Machinists and Boilermakers, ' Building: and Structural Work. WE MAKE , Fire Hydrants, Log Banls, Cast Gears, Hydraulic Gtants, Water Gates, Lumber Tracks, eta. HAWTHORNE AVE. AND EAST THIRD PORTLAND, OR. Tracts Station Phone, Main 6409