THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 25, 1909.
ONE MORE ACTIVE
WEEKISREGDRDED
OF INTEREST TO HOMEBUIDLERS
TOWNS NEAR PORTLAND BOAST OF NEW PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Site Sales of $5000 and Up
ward Dot Real Estate
Transfers.
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THE ONLV PAIST MANUFACTURED
OS THE PACIFIC COAST COMPLYING
WITH THE EASTERN PURE PAINT
STATE LAWS.
FORMULA ON EVERY PACKAGE.
CITY EYES ON HEIGHTS
Portland May Pnrchase Council
Crest for Park System Retail
Grocers Plan Home Here.
Improvements Ordered.
Every day of last wpok bringing forth
,ales exceeding the JS000 mark, realty
dealers point with pride to the record and
r declare the seven days to have been the
most encouraging period of July. That
I the gait will be maintained Is intimated
y several large deals known to be on
Sthe tapis. In these the City of Portland
I may be foremost, as it is known the
'Park Board is talcing eteps to secure
f Council Crest to embody the heights prop-
rty In its park system.
It was announced a few months ago by
Imstead Brothers, landscape engineers
end artists, that Council Crest le easily
worth l.flO.O0O to Portland and that pur
chase of the site by the city would serve
to boom and beautify the district itself
'and the territory leading to and surround
ing It far beyond the expectations of the
most enthusiastic realty dealers. Now it
cftaiu the Park Board is considering a
plan to obtain Council Crest at' all haa
erds. At least it Is known members of
the Park Board have conferred with Mrs.
Smith, the owner, and have asked her to
name a price she would demand of the
city for the elevated site. A year or- so
go Mrs. Smith stated she would enter
tain an offer by the city for Council
Crest, in fact, ehe waited for an offer to
be made before she leased the property
to an amusement Arm for 20 years. The
Biext steps in this prospective deal are
anxiously awaited by every realty dealer,
and it is the main topic of conversation
among the West Side site sellers.
The Retail Grocers' Association of
Portland is looking about seeking a site
Cor the erection of a pretentious building
as its home. Several locations have been
scanned, but as yet no definite decision
has been made by the building committee.
It Is understood a West Side site will be
chosen and that the location of the struc
ture will be such as to induce business
men to rent its office rooms. It is under
stood the Indefinite plans of the groce
contemplate the building of a-large struc
ture, one floor of which will be devoted
to them exclusively and the upper floor
of which will be an assembly hall.
Before two months elapse the Amerl
ran Dniscist Syndicate will boast & foun
Itory brick home in Portland. Plans for
Ihe structure have been completed by
Architect J. A. McConnell, of Dallas. Or.,
and ground for the building will be broken
next week. Lots 428 and 430 on Flanders
street comprise the site on which the new
building will rise. '
In a fortnight the report of the viewers
appointed to investigate the feasibility of
rxtending Morrison street through the Ex
position building and Multnomah Held
will be filed with the Auditor. It Is un
derstood the viewers thus far have not
encountered one property owner opposed
to the Improvement and that even those
whose land will suffer by the extension
are in favor of the plan.
At the last meeting of the City Council
the City Engineer was ordered to draft
plans for the following improvements:
R. M. Wilbur to improve Campbell
Btreet from Portland boulevard to Dekura
avenue: B- M. Wilbur to Improve KlUIn
street from Portland boulevard to Drkum
avenue; G. Zanello to Improve Sheridan
rtreet from First to Front streets; 8.
Blumauer et al for sewer in Holladay
avenue: Ldd Estate Company, sewer in
Pacific street: Ladd Kstate Company,
ewer in East Irving street: Ladd Estate
Company, sewer in Oregon street.
The City Council also passed resolu
tion directing the City Engineer to plan
or the improvement of the following
.streets: Ellsworth street, from west line,
Mock in, Simon's Addition, to East Twen-tv-sixth
street: East Thirty-ninth street,
Lowell Valley road to Holgate street;
Commercial street, from Killlngsworth
avenue to Portland boulevard: East Main
street, from Grand avenue to East Water
street: Whltaker street, from First street
to Second street; Going street, from Mich
igan avenue to Patton avenue: Harney
street, from O. W. P. Company's track
to East (Ninth street: East Fortieth
rtreet. from Francis avenue to Powell
Valley road: East Sixteenth street, from
Powell street to Holgate street: East
Twenty-seventh street, from Halsey to
Hancock street: Park street, from Salmon
to Clifton street; Park street, from Burn
side to Glissn street; Tillamook street,
from East Fourteenth to East Twenty
fourth street; Jarrott street, from Union
avenue to Williams avenue: Tenth
street, from Burnside to Glisan street;
Madison street from Fifth to Tenth
street: Improvement of 15 streets In West
moreland. The contract for the erection of the new
Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church
on the Base Line road and Church street,
at M.iunt Tabor, has been let to Smith &
Hanson for $UVft" Harry Nelson Black,
an Eastern architect. Is drawing the
plans. Work has been started on the
foundation. The edifice will be of frame
and concrete construction.
Visits to the seashore are resulting in
many sales of beach property, according
to dealers. The construction of two rail
roads Into the Tillamook Bay district has
turned many eyes toward that region.
J. O. Hoyt. manaper of the Warren
Construction Company, purchased four
lots In the northern part of Bayocean
last week, making a total of eight lots
secured by him on the ocean side of the
Peninsula.
M. C. Mace, of Mace's market, selected
a lot In the southern portion last week,
not far from the property of B. D. Town
send, special assistant attorney to the
Attorney-General of the Cnlled States,
who has Just added two more lots to the
four already purchased. S. H. Tate
bought his srxth lot in Bayocean. while
among the other purchasers of the week
were A. S Rowley, of Portland; W. J.
Collins, of JerTfrson. Or.: George F. Hod
der, Jr.. and F. A. Watts, of Portland.
PARRS Will. BE IMPROVED
Mayor Will Act Promptly in Better
ing Public Property.
Immediate Improvement of the parks
already acquired by the city is the in
tention of Mayor Simon, announced
yesterday after he returned to the City
Hail from an inspection trip about
the Eaat Side, during which he com
pleted his tour of the properly now
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owned by the municipality. He will
urge the acquisition of more ground
on Mount Tabor, if it can be gotten at
a reasonable rate, to round out the con
templated park. The former adminis
tration took over considerable land
there, but it is disconnected. Probably
every public park on the East Side will
soon be made comfortable for the peo
ple by the installation of seats, swings
and appurtances necessary to the hap
piness of the children especially.
Councilman Devlin, chairman of the
committee on ways and means, accom
panied Mayor Simon, and Park Super
intendent Mische was also present. Mr.
Pevlin agrees with the Mayor that the
city does not need any more ground
for parks, and that what Is most re
quired at this time is Improvement of
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the ground already acquired. He will,
therefore, assist the Mayor in stopping
the proposed sale of $500,000 bond3 for
the purchase of parks, bids for which
are to be opened tomorrow afternoon.
That these will not be sold, seems cer
tain, as the Mayor's policy is positive
ly against the sale of bonds unless it
is absolutely necessary to secure an
improvement.
Having previously visited the Sell
wood and Mount Tabor tracts, the
Mayor yesterday morning; went to Hol
laday, Peninsula and Lincoln parks and
also inspected Lombard and Fremont
streets, both of which are main arteries
in their respective districts, and will
soon be paved with a hard surface. It
was decided to recommend that large
sized water mains be laid In both
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Ernest Kroner, Architect.
thoroughfares as speedily as possible,
to Insure this service being Installed
ahead of the improvement.
Mayor Simon expressed himself in
favor of Improving the parks that have
been purchased, and he will so recom
mend to the new Park Board when he
appoints it. The former board, with the
exception of Ion Lewis, whose resigna
tion was not accepted, left the city
service immediately following the an
nouncement by the Mayor that he would
stop the wholesale purchase of prop
erty for parks. A large petition for the
improving of Peninsula Park, one of
the new purchases, was filed yester
day with the City Auditor, and the
Mayor is favorable to granting the re
quest. Mayor Simon yesterday repeated the
statement made at Seattle last Wed
nesday that he will build the Terwilli
ger boulevard, on the West Side, and a
boulevard on the East Side, connecting
the parks on that side of the river.
This and the other improvement work
he thinks, can be done without the sale
of bonds, as there remains unused the
sum of $160,000 from the first half of
the $1,000,000 issue. As soon as a new
Park Board is appointed, this work will
be put under way and will be pushed
rapidly to completion.
ROOSEVELT AT . NAIROBI
Will Leave on Expedition to Kenya
Province Xext.
NAIROBI, British East Africa, July
24. Colonel Roosevelt and his son Ker
mit arrived here this morning from
Nalvasha, thereby bringing to a close
a successful ten-days hunting tour on
the south shore of Lake Nalvasha, from
Captain Attenborough's ranch. B, J.
Cunninghame. the British field natu
ralist, is expected to reach here to
night. Major Mearns and Professor
Lorlng still remain at Nalvasha.
The expedition will leave here August
6 for the Kenya Province,
NEW SCHOOLS RISE
Five Towns Near Portland
Complete Buildings.
ST. JOHN TO THE FRONT
Apostle City Has $18,000 Structure
and Plans $35,000 High Oak
Grove, Cornelius, Houlton and
Rockwood Also Build.
Schools, regarded the world over as
a safe index of growth, prosperity and
prospects, point more than anything
else to ..ie progress of the immediate
vicinity of Portland and are evidence
of the benefit reaped by small towns
through their connection with a
metropolis by rail. In the last half
year many public schools have been
erected in thriving suburbs, the build
ings in all cases replacing structures
that had become too small to accommo
date growing communities. Principal
among the new schools built or planned
recently include buildings for St. John,
Oak Grove, Cornelius, Houlton and
Rockwood, all of which are in easy
reach of Portland.
At East St. John an $18,000 school
will soon be erected to accommodate 350
children, and bids have been asked on
a $36,000 high school for the same sub
urb. The $18,000 building is now under
way and half of it will be ready for
occupancy at the close of this vaca
tion season. It will contain eight class
rooms and be fitted with modern plumb
ing and heating apparatus throughout.
That it will be the-best of the small
schools in the county is the boast of St.
John, and the perspective indicates the
elation of the suburbanites is well
founded.
Throughout the stairways of the new
St. John school will be of hardwood,
and the ventilating system will be most
modern.
A new school was completed at Cor
nelius recently to accommodate the
growing demands of that suburb. The
building was erected at a cost of $7500,
and contains four classrooms and a
library. A high-pressure water system
Is installed and the sanitary arrange
ments are as modern as those possessed
by any city institution of Its kind. Cor
nelius, situated on the Southern Pa
cific line and the Hillsboro branch of
the Oregon Electric Railway, has shown
marked growth since the completion of
its' rail connection with Portland.
Rockwood now possesses a $6500
school of four rooms and, although the
building was erected with an eye to
the future, it is already taxed to its
utmost. The structure, however, was
so planned that an annex could be
erected readily, and it is believed an
addition will be required by the end
of the year. The Rockwood school
also possesses a modern heating and
ventilating system.
At Oak Grove it was necessary to en
large the old building, and the school,
as it now stands, represents an expense
of $5000, the new addition providing
two classrooms, a playroom and a lunch
room. .A heating and ventilating sys
tem was also Installed.
Houlton, . the inland suburb of St,
Helens, has just completed a school
costing $7500. It contains four rooms,
a library and a large room suitable as
a kindergarten or a playroom. The
plumbing in the structure is modern,
and a gravity heating and ventilating
system is installed.
Every school constructed In towns
close to Portland within the last year
was so built that annexes may be
added on short notice and with little
difficulty. This has been demanded of
architects by the various County School
Superintendents, not only as a saver of
expense, but to assure substantial and
sanitary buildings from the outset.
STUDY SEATTLE STREETS
Henry Ladd Corbett and City Engi
neer Morris Go Xorth.
Henry Ladd Corbett, member of the
City Executive Board, and City Engi
Tirrlc will TrinlrA a trin to Seattle
tomorrow for the purpose of making a
careful study ol streets ana paving, as
well as other matters pertaining to the
general Improvement of the city. They
will be piloted about by City Engineer
Thomson, of Seattle, wno put nimseu ai
the disposal of Mayor, Simon and party
on Portland day last Tuesday.
Messrs. Corbett and Morris will make
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that they have the opportunity of view
ing the pavements in Seattle, and of dis
cussing various municipal improve
ments and methods with Mr. Thomson.
They will make a careful Inspection
of the pavements, both asphalt and
vitrified brick, and will investigate the
manner of laying these improvements.
It is the wish of the Mayor that the
brick be tried here. Local conditions
were such when the Seattle brick peo
ple wished to enter the field here, they
were driven out. and have since refused
to sell any of their product, even for
gutters, In Portland.
Mayor Simon is determined to see
that Portland has good. well-paved
streets and lots of them, and he con
siders that it will be a very valuable
thing for Messrs. Corbett and Morris
to inspect the work that has been ac
complished in Seattle, so that they may
apply to the local improvements any
good ideas they may find there.
City Engineer Morris is placing his
office on a systematic basis, and yes
terday announced some changes in the
organization oi his staff. J. S. iun
burt will serve as chief assistant engi
neer; Merwin Pugh will be chief of the
clerical force; J. R, Hanson will have
charge of the office force of engineers
and all engineering work in the office;
S. A. Cobb will have charge of the
bridge and sewer work and all sewer
inspectors; there will be six Assistant
City Engineers, in charge of field par
ties and inspectors, and Mr. Morris in
tends to hold these engineers respon
sible for the work done under their
supervision.
BLACK HANDS CONVICTED
Canada Gives Three Prison Sen
tences Branches in Iron Range.
"WINNIPEG, July 24. After a sensa
tional trial at Fort Francis three
Italians, Tono, Bissant and Disinti,
were sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for Black Hand work.
The evidence showed that branches
were flourishing in Duluth, Hibbing
and Ironwood as well as in Canada. A
blood-curdling oath was taken over a
two-foot long knife by members.
The demand for cigarettes In China today
is exceeded only by that for kerosene. The
introduction of this habit dates back only a
few years and now not only the men, out the
women smoke. Four cigarettes can be bought
fnr a cent.
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