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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1909)
L THE STJXPAT OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 27, 190. 1 .7 7,Tvrn:mmjitnir'MtiNfMnfitmtmMniitniiMffiimiiM PS MHMTOSJd) WICOTM(D)EIOLA: Sj mniiiiiiwiiifiunii)iHiuwmiii.i!iniiiii'"iM'ii'mi'' sl , ' ' 1 .' I BRIDGE TG COST 437,230 Contracts Are Let by txecutive Board. ME0&MO I;3 rHOM -TU-r- I '4 'Mmiiiiiii Hi mm It took $437,236 to place Westmoreland within 15 min utes' ride of tlie business heart of Portland but it will be worth every penny of that to Westmorelandites alone. When the new bridge goes into use, you won't have time to read your paper between business and home you'll get there too quickly, and youH be too busy admir ing that beautiful stretch of river scenery on the way. Westmoreland will be easier to reach over the new bridge than any other addition placed on the market in the past two years bar none. 5TouH have better cars than you have been used to big, roomy fellows,' with seats with real backs to1 them. They make speed, too, and, glory be! They're heated in Winter. That's a comfort that nine-tenths of Portland are strangers to, nd another point that means something to future Westmoreland residents; there's only a seven blocks' walk from the carline to the most distant lot in the tract, and most likely you wiH be located much nearer than that. Westmoreland is by far the best home site in Portland today it has so many advantages that are usually lacking. Those buying now will get the ten per cent discount, but it won't last more than two weeks longer. Lots $500 and up. Ten per cent down, 2 per cent per month. We have just received from our publisher our beautiful three-color Westmoreland folder. It goes into detail con cerning the property. It contains a panorama overlooking Westmoreland in a northwesterly direction; it shows Coun cil Crest and Portland Heights in the distant blue of the mountains. In the middle distances may be seen South Portland, The Oaks and a glimpse of the Willamette and Ross Island. Better send for one1 today. Use the attached coupon. COLUMBIA TRUST COMPANY, 84 Fourth St., Board of Trade Bldg., Portland, Oregon, Please send me your Westmoreland folder. Name Address mmnrni!iiiMiiyi!iTmTWiii!iiMM!!!;i! "uiimiHiiiiyniiniiiHniiiiiiiin'TMimiimiMHnmuiinMiinir imm IWHIMIIIIUIIM'linHifnMHi m i( : I.- Hi'iMMMiruiHiinitni -m.u....uiiumiiliiii1miil,11,UM,11,ni.,)Ma,IJ-m orambiia Trast Co Board of Trade Building umpaey lHih1iifmnn!iirHiininrnnmnm!nnimnnnnfnnniMnminmniinniiinTniiiiiiinrii.H.n... .- . " ummmmtunuuMamu, , i,j jj liijiiiiijl jj j j ...MITOWMIMMIIIIIIIIMIM i i THRIFT HIS ASSET M. H. Tower Tells How He Won an Income, BUILT HOUSES HIMSELF Family oC Pl-v Stored Into Incom pleted Cottage Husband Built Another Sold It and Adopted ! Contracting as Business "HOW WS WO OTJK HOME." " The Cvesonlaa will be Klad to print hnllar articles tolling of experiences at meldenta of Portland and vicinity tn winning- a home. Mail articles The Oresonlan, aigntnr full names am adoressosL Karnes will be printed tmleas request, are made to the con-trary. BY M. H. TOWER. A moderate salary and an immode rate rent bill caused us, a family of five, to declare our Independence of the landlord, and while favoring the plan myself, I want to emphasize the fact that whatever success we have had was due to the hearty co-operation and assistance of my wife. We boufrht three suburban lots for J450. one a fraction, paying; J45 down and $16 monthly. We got lumber on the Installment plan sufficient for a five-room cottage, costing in all $1000. I built It working: overtime. When the frame was up, the roof on. one side and the floor half laid, my wife insist ed that we move in and save a month's rent. When the cottage was complet ed I started another house on the frac tional lot and built It during- spare mo ments, completing it within a year. Having no rent to pay, we used the surplus cash each month to buy mate rial. It was a comfortable six-room house, and sold as soon as finished at a price that netted about J500 for the year's extra labor. We declared our Independence a second time when I gave up a steady job with Uncle Sam. I had no thought of changing my oc cupation at the start, but there were certainly attractive prospects in this new field of labor. We bought lots on the installment plan and built houses on them. With one exception these houses have been sold on monthly payments to thrifty families who count . n owning their own homes. Within four years we have completed six houses and found ready sale for them at fair prices, be sides building three others on contract. I' have done practically all the work Including designing and drafting, ex cepting plumbing and plastering. A short course In architecture with a correspondence school aided me mate rially in the work. The home place is now paid for and we receive an income from Installments paid on the houses built since. We raise nearly all the fruit and vegetables for the family, and a small poultry yard returns a profit that almost canceled the grocery bill while eggs were 60 cents. American Women Brave. - NEW YORK. June 26. Members of 1 the crew of the Cunarder Slavonia which was wrecked June 10 on the I rock bound coast off Flores Azores, re- I turned to this port yesterday on the steamship Pannonlan, telling Interest ing stories of the remarkable bravery aiiieiiuHn women passengers fol lowing the wreck. "I never saw men so cool and brave as were those -American women pas sengers,", said one of the British crew. . "They . sang popular songs to us while we rowed them through the breakers in toe lifeboats. When the Slavonia ran on the rock at 2: JO o'clock In the morning most of the women came on deck In their nightclothes, but accepted me assurances of the officers that there was no danger, and returned tO their StjltiirAnirin And rtmmaail T ... they went about the decks spreading ma nopeiuiness everywhere. I did not see a hysterical woman on board. Not one of them bothered the officers or crew with questions. "When we landed them on the cliffs at Flores they fell among friends. A rfllnnv nf Pnrtn.naaa . i had made comfortable little fortunes in America and who had returned to Flores to live in comparative luxury and peace, made them very welcome and extended every courtesy to them." CHURCHES TO ENLARGE PLANS COMPLETE FOR IMPROV ING TWO EDIFICES. Iltoliillilllliliilliiiilliillllillliito , "u.mmuumumimumiUiUluaaWtiUllUiMmfflluMU NEW THEATER SURE Three Prominent Men Assume Charge of Big Enterprise. PROMOTERS ARE SANGUINE First Presbyterian and Taylor-Street Houses of Worship to Build Additions. After consideration enduring for more than a year and a half, the bulld lng committee of the First Presbyterian W. B. Ayer, Henry I,add Corbett and J. C. Ainswortli Consent to Act as Supervisors of Plan -Inducement Offered Subscribers. Three prominent men assuming charge of the plans to complete the New Hellig Theater by the end of the year, the four incorporators of the Heilig Amuse- - umpany are assured the showshop will materialize as ranlrtlv no Cal-vin Keillg and E. C. Mears announced yesterday that W. B. Ayer, president o' the Kastern & Western Lumber Com pany; J. C. Ainsworth, president of the United States National Bank, and Henry Ladd Corbett have been elected by the subscribers to bonds for the new theater to act as a general committee and have general control of the steps taken to rush the showshop to completion. All ' ' ' ' ; r. gs"' ; - : - & ' V f 1 : . V-' - J. "I" - - -r4i -r j: 4if.vav a fajtM. J it j I j jl I: 1 1 i --i4aJv xL , M o- - rr-ni t : wis ' -s f COTTAGE OF M. H. TOWER, 7 S3 GIRARD STREET, UNIVERSITY PARK. sooiatlon and the Heillsr Amumnnni Company, represented by Calvin Heilig, John M. Gearin, E. C. Mears and F. O. Downing, have secured a 99-year lease on the site at Seventh and Taylor streets, and this is deemed by a security com pany as a sufficient asset to guarantee the new theater bonds now on sale. As an Inducement, coupled with the intrinsic value of the bonds, every subscriber will be entitled to reserve tickets for any attraction afl bnnn. 1 ...-.... ' - " " bu.oui VI LIIU opening of the general ticket sale. Persons desiring to subscribe for bonds In the new theater may leave their names and addresses at the boxoffice of the Bungalow Theater and Mr. Mears will call on them to explain the project, or if inquiry 1b made of Mr. Mears at his office in the Board of Trade building all questions concerning the new theater enterprise will be answered. NEWPORT ADDS STREETS Many Improvements Being Made at Popular Seaside Resort. NEWPORT, Or., June 26 (Special.) Newport is making rapid strides in open ing up new sections by building and im proving streets. A new street is being laid out to the ocean, half-way between the Lifesavlng Station and Nye Creek. Beach street, running to the ocean from the Nye Creek Hotel, was graded and widened, injuring the property belonging to A. N. Moores. Claud (latch nnrf tw Minthorn, as the perpendicular bank in front of their cottages has no bulkhead and is falling down. A new road, running from the mrpnii n i fT hAtwan v... and Jump-Oft-Joe, back to Nye Creek's buuii-o, uu openea a section of beautiful building sites, which overlook the Pacific and are sheltered from the heavy winds by a thick forest lying directly north. The $3500 road to Olssonvllle along the bay and built on piling will soon be fin ished, and places which were reached by winding trails are now securing good roads as fast as they can be built. Many of these improvements are doubt less made not only on account of the heavy building, but on account of the water system to be put in as soon as the bonds are placed on the market. The water Is to be brought in wooden pipes from the headwaters of Big Creek, and a modern city system will be Installed. There Is also considerable talk of build ing a ball park in the city's park, which could be done by draining the lily pond leaving a natural amphitheater. The lo cation of the present ground is a mile from town, but nevertheless the Sunday games are well attended by the visitors and residents alike. Church has decided to erect a stone ad dition to the edifice. Plans for the en largement have been completed and it is expected the improvement will be begun before the end of the week. When the enlargement is constructed the edifice will extend to Thirteenth street and afford ample space for the church for years to come. The project to raxe the Taylor-Street Church and replace it by a modern structure has been abandoned. Instead an addition will be built to afford room for Sunday school classes and a hall for social entertainment. This Improve ment, it is anticipated, will be under way before the expiration of another month. See Tui & Glbbs' pre-lnventory sale announcement on Page 11, Section i. three men agreed to serve In a supervis ory capacity, and from now on tlJey will guide the preliminary work for the new theater at Seventh and Taylor streets. The subscription list for theater bonds was opened last Monday morning with eclat, and after the first day's canvass Calvin Heilig and E. C. Mears announced themselves as pleased with the prospect. Few, If any, spurned the opportunity to aid Portland In obtaining a first-class theater, and before nightfall the $70,000 needed for the enterprise was consider ably lessened. The canvass was contin ued every day throughout the week and the promoters are sanguine of continued success, in event of which ground for the new theater may be broken before the end of :iext month. The Heilig Northwestern Theatrical As- PUBLIC MARKET GROWS IT LEASES ADJOIXIXG STRUC TURE FOR TEX YEARS. Old Stewart Building to ' Provide Stalls for Tradesmen Ren tal $1000 Monthly. In existence only six months the City Public Market at -First and Washington streets Is taxed for space, and to meet fhe demands of the smaller merchants It has leased the old Stewart building ad joining for $1000 a month. This provides a full half block for the market, which when the proposed improvement is com pleted will extend through from First to Front on Washington and possess frontages of 100 feet each on First and Front streets, as well as 200 feet on Washington street. 'When the recently attained addition is fitted for its new service the market will contain 275 stalls, or almost treble its present capacity. The lease was perfected yesterday morning and will run through a term of 10 years, the Ukase Investment Company, represented by W. K. Smith, being the lessor, and H. Nelson, Henry Menzel and 3 J. Kelly, the lessees, all three of whom are Incorporators of the City Public Mar ket Company. The structure is one of the pioneer buildings of Portland and at present its three stories are occupied by the Newmarket lodging-house, Ben Levy & Co., Bell & Co. and G. W. Simpson, commission merchants, the Package De livery Company, a barber shop and a printing establishment, all of which will be forced to seek new quarters probably the end of next month, to make way for the market Improvements. Elks to Install on Thursday. MARSHFIELD, Or., June 26. (Spe cial.) Final arrangements are being made for the installation of the new Elk lodge, which will take place next x urounj. uisirict uepuiy ievens of Bauer -ity, will Install the Later, new members will be lnitiatet at a big celebration to which lodges of neighboring cities will be invited. The Eagles lodge of Coos Bay has taken in another class of new members. Ar effort Is being made to increase th membership to 500 by the time the new lodge building, which has been started is completed. Steel Bridge Contracts Iiet. CHEHALIS, Wash., June 26. Spe cial.) At its session this week th Board of Commissioners of Lewis County let a contract for three new steel bridges to a Chicago firm. The bridges will be located at Pe Ell, a 160 foot span: one at Dryad of the same length, and the third at Boistfort, a 120-foot span. The Board has decided after fully investigating the subject of cost, lasting qualities, etc., that the steel bridges are much to be preferred to the old type of wooden bridges, and as evidence of their faith have this year let contracts for seven of the steel structures already. Rao Tn 11 Jtr nlhhe' fn.. . - lodge, announcement on Page 11. Section 1. CENSUS BILL IS PASSED Senate Rushes Measure Through In Five Minutes' Time. WASHINGTON. June 26. Within five minutes the census appropriation bill was passed by the Senate today in the form in which it was on Thursday passed by the House. It appropriates $10,000,000 for taking the 13th census. It authorizes the Director of the Census to designate three commissioners to represent the United States in the international commission for the revision of the classification of dis eases and causes of death, called by the government of France to meet in Paris In July. Right to Bond City Voted. JACKSONVILLE. Or., June 26. Spe cial.) The people of Jacksonville, by a vote of 102 to 2, elected to extend the powers of the city under the charter to enable the city to incur an Indebtedness of $25,000 for a water system. When the time arrives to vote on the Issuance of the bonds, it is believed the vote favor able to the bond issue will be equally decisive. See Tull & Gibbs' pre-inventory sale announcement on Page 11, Section 1. THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY n A mm w m UNDER IRRIGATION U AMD LANDS . SjSlOO per acre, on very easy terms. WATER Perpetual water right, grav- ity canal from Molalla Riven FREE Government bulleton on irri gation in the Willamette Val ley and beautifully illus trated booklet, "The Call of the Soil" (copyright) sent postpaid free on request. DIRECTIONS Come out any day. Our autos are at your disposal. From Portland take Southern Pa cific train 8:15 A. M., 4:15 P. M. Special rates Satur day, Sunday. Round trip, $1.10. FEW PEOPLE realize the importance of this great movement, not only to this district and the City of Portland, but also to the GREAT STATE OP OREGON. We are applying the water to the Boil; .we want you to come out and see CANBY GARDENS under irrigation; pronounced by the most critical experts on irrigation "A GRAND SUCCESS." Fine level land, fertile as the valley of the Nile, where . orchards and all kinds of fruits, nuts and vegetables flourish in pro fusion. No blizzards, floods or sand storms; outside of the "big freeze." Only twenty miles south of Portland on the main line of the Southern Pacific. Perpetual gravity water right (not of the tem porary tank, tower or pump variety, but a permanent GRAVITY CAN AIi from the Molalla River, which will furnish water in abund ance so long as water runs down bill). What has been accomplished in other irrigated districts will be more than repeated here. We have the sop, climate, water and drainage. We have the location, trans, portation facilities, water power and electricity, in fact everything necessary for the most modern homes, including good graded schools, churches and telephones. The time to buy is in advance of some' great n.ovemtnt when the opportunity offers. We offer you this op portunity at CANBY GARDENS, in the heart of the world-famous Willamette Valley. Why not "get back to the soil" as nature in tended you should. Consider the conditions; consult the map. A word to the wise is sufficient. These prices and terms to first buyers and for a :hort tirne only. IT'S UP TO YOU COME AND SEE. Irrigation is King in the Willamette Valley. Tis the Keynote of Pros perity and Your Opportunity. CANBY CANAL CO. orYgoI
