The Sunday Oregonian., July 25, 1909, SECTION FOUR, Page 9, Image 41

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THE STTNDAT OREGONIA', PORTLAND, ; JULY. 25. 1909.
HDSPITALISTODPEN
GRADING IS DONE
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of men at work building; an extension of
about a mile and a half of logging rail
road, leading into a tract of timber which
the company purchased a short time ago.
GO OUT AND SUBDUE LAND
New County Institution Will Be
Ready Soon.
100 CAN BE ACCOMMODATED
Transformation of Palatial Resi
dence Nearly Completed Two
Story Annex Finished Sta
ble Is Cnder Way.
Before the expiration of another month
the new Multnomah County Hospital will
be ready for occupancy and the patients
row cared for at the Poorf arm will be
transferred to the In-town modern In
stitution, which has been transformed
from a palatial residence, to provide com
fort for the county's ailing. Whilethe
new hospital occupies an in-town site,
the quarters are not cramped, as is usual
In such Institutions, for more than three
Don't Whine About Hard City Life;
Try Central Oregon.
NEWBERG, Or.. July 23. (To the
Editor.) If "Land Hungry" will make
his way out into Crook, Harney or
Lake Counties In this state, he will
find many thousand of acres of unap
propriated public lands and as level as
a floor with the best of soil, -and water
to be had anywhere by digging from 10
to 40 feet.
I, too, was "land hungry." I often
looked at The Oregonian building, the
Chamber of Commerce building, or the
Lada farm, but somebody waa always
ahead of me. So I put an extra pair
of socks in my overcoat pocket and a
bundle of apple trees under my arm
and in the month of March headed for
Fort Rock in the northern part of
Lake County. I wore the socks and
gave the apple trees to a settier. I
found a country far beyond my expec
tations, and to me, best of all, I home
steaded a quarter section within one
half mile of where Mr. Harriman will
build his new railroad. Fort Rock Is a
community less than two years old and
now has a church organization, a school,
store and postoffice, and there is soon
to be a rural mall route.
There are no great waving fields of
Excavation for Structure at
Sellwood Complete.
WORK IS BEING PUSHED
Building Will Contain Clubrooms to
Be Rendezvous for Motormcn
and Conductors of Lines
When JTot on Duty.
The Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company has completed excavation of
a site occupying a block for the new car
barns to be erected at the Golf Links,
south of Sellwood. Provisions have been
made for a large number of car tracks In
the building. Brick and other material
have been assembled on the ground, and
the intention Is to rsh construction.
More than t76,O0O will be spent on the
NEW HOME FOR COUNTY'S AILING IS NEAR COMPLETION.
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MULTNOMAH HOSTITAI, ON HOOKER STREET.
acres of sward, garden and orchard sur
round the building on Hooker street, be
tween Third and Fourth streets.
Sufficiently commodious to accommo
date y patients, the new hospital par
takes of the modernity of a private in
stitution and it is doubtful if any county
hospital in the Union possesses the con
venienccs the local Institution affords.
For many years the residence of Lair
Hill, as a home. It waa remarkably con
venient and comfortable and In its transi
tion none of the comforts has been ex
.punced. Adding to its original conven
iences a two-story frame annex has been
constructed In the rear of the building
and a stable to house the ambulance.
, horses and drivers Is under way.
A dozen rooms on the lower floor of
the former residence have been made
light and airy for hospital purposes and
in several of the smaller rooms bathtubs
have been installed. The old and new
structure combined provide about 40
rooms throughout the three stories of the
home as bouKht by the county and the
stories of the annex Just completed. In
all, seven bathrooms are provided.
Four rooms on the lower floor retain
their original expensive and artistic
frescoing and the apartment that once
served as a dining-room will be one of
the main wards of the institution. The
floor of this room Is inlaid with hard
wood of various tints and the entire
wainscoting Is In oak.
When tt is said the new institution will
accommodate l'X patients the hall space
Is not Included. The main corridors of
the older building are wide and airy and,
provided with cots, they would easily
accommodate 40 patients, in reality mak
ing l.V the capacity of the building.
Fronting the second story of the old
residence is a large porch, which will be
maie a solarium and the roof of the an
nex will be fitted to serve as an open-air
sanitarium for consumptive patients. A
canvas roof will be attached and the
placinc of potted plants and vines will
make this portion of the new structure a
veritable roof garden.
One of the main conveniences of the
new hospital Is an elevator, the entrance
to which Is located on the driveway. .By
this means patients may reach the upper
floors or the roof of the annex without
effort and be removed from the ambu
lance and transported to wards without
danger.
Two nre escapes are being installed on
a.-h side of the older building and In
easy access of the annex. In the base
ment will be located a heating and re
frigerator plant. The heating plant will
be made large, so that if a new hospital
Is built on the site adjoining the present
ground, the old plant will suffice for
both structures.
At present the hospital is surrounded
by a frame fence on Hooker, Second and
Fourth streets. It is the Intention of the
t'ounty Commissioners to bulid a brick
wall three and a half feet high to replace
this enclosure. The property la surround
ed by Sx-ono Hooker, Wall and Fourth
streets and comprises three and a half
acres, dotted by trees and foliage of great
variety. Twenty-eight fruit trees. In
cluding cherries, quinces, plums and
Tcars are on the Hooker-street side of
the hospital.
Pr. K. 1. Geary has charge of the
transformation from residence to hospi
tal and is supervising the completion of
the operating rooms, of which there will
be or.e on each floor.
Before the end of the month a confer
ence between the count' and city author
ises will be neld to discuss the feasibility
of usir.g the new hospital as a Joint city
and county Institution. The County Com
missioners favor this plan and it is b
Ueve.1 tlie merger win be effected.
The hospital will be known as Mult
nomah Hospital, not as the County Ho
rital and tl-.e Poorfarm will also change
its name to Multnomah Farm, the County
Commissioners declaring the old-time
name. County Hospital and Foorfarm.
are humiliating to the patlenta and ln
Knates of both institutions.
Logging Road Extended.
A3TORIA. Or., July S4. SpeciaI.
While the Brlx Logging Company's camp
n the Nasel River will not resume op
erations until about the middle of August.
In .accordance with the agreement made
at ewe recent meeting of the Columbia
River loggers, the company has a force
grain, white farmhouses or red barns
as yet, but wait a few years and no
richer part of the country can be found
than the interior of Oregon. A long
distance from a railroad? Tes. Most
new countries have been. I lived in
Spokane when Spokane waa as for
from a railroad as Silver Lake now is.
but we lived and the railroad came. So
It will come to the lake country.
Wheat, oats, barley, rye and all kinds
of bardy fruits win do well in the in
terior of Oregon.
All that "land hungry" and others
like him need to do. is to get out into
that part of the state and obliging set
tlers will give all help and information
necessary In finding a home, -and throw
in the meals and lodging. It is a fact
the farther you go the better the
"grub."
Bend, Crook County, a coming city, is
surrounded by a very large tract of
land, all to be under irrigation, and
this year the crops are superior to
crops in any other part of the state.
Fort Rock, Silver Lake. Lakeview,
Paisley and Burns these towns are all
in the midst of vast, unoccupied public
lands.
The commercial organizations of
Portland could do no greater work for
the state than to gather, and furnish
free to new-comers, all possible infor
mation about the great Interior of Ore
gon. There is room In a land with fer
tile soil, good climate, fine water and
plenty of fuel for thousands of fam
ilies. F. L. YOUNG.
Salmon Supply Decreasing.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 24. Dr. Iavid
Starr Jordan, the fish commissioner, who
is at Bellingham studying the eockeye
salmon run, said last night that the num
bers of salmon were slowly but 'steadily
being depleted by the operations of the
canners. The remedy was hatching more
spawn, but the traps caught so many
salmon that not enough reached the
hatcheries to supply eggs for hatching.
structure, which will Include a clubhouse
for carmen. This will be headquarters
for more than W carmen, of the Oregon
City, Sellwood, Mount Scott and Esta
cada lines.
The W'averly Golf Links Association
has completed grading of all its grounds
between the Willamette River and the
Oregon City railway. The land extends
nearly to Mllwaukle. and It Is understood
it will be used as polo grounds. Exten
sion of the grounds provides double the
space of the old site.
Provisions have been made for the
building of six residences in the West
moreland tract, which Is part of the Ladd
farm on the Mllwaukle road. Founda
tions of several of the new buildings are
under way. Many lota have been sold,
and scores of people visit the addition
every day.
With a view of rebuilding the present
church, the Sellwood Presbyterian con
gregation, at a meeting Thursday night,
decided to file supplementary articles of
incorporation. A modern edifice Is
planned.
Many dwellings are being erected In
Gregory Heights by the Gregory Invest
ment Company and others. The buildings
have uniformity of style of the bungalow
type, finished outside with shakes and
wide-lap siding. About $50,000 has been
spent in homes in this new addition in
the last few months.
Among the building operations are:
Viola Belden, cottage, 24 by 24 feet, to
cost $1500; Charles Mark, residence, $2200;
Fred Sharp, 24 by 32 feet, $1700; R. H.
Woodward, cottage, $2000; L. H. Woodard,
cottage, $1500; 1 L. Jenner, cottage,
fM00; George S. Lyons, cottage, $2500; T.
E. La Fave, cottage, $2000.
Erection of a clubhouse has been decid
ed upon by the Sellwood Commercial
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FiFTY-SEVEN MILES FROM PORTLAND
ONLY TWO HOURS AND A HALF RIDE
Improvement "vrork will begin August 1. Until that time, the
present terms, $5.00 down and $5 per, month,, will prevail. Other
beaches in the same vicinity are being advertised. Many lots are
being sold daily. Prices, once very low, are being raised con-
i- il T 4-c in V,ia nci tVi VxvnVi nrr nrf ncarltr en rlpaiTVi KIa ns
IlisM ' jMANHATTAN BEACH, are offered for as much as $1500 each.
.As an investment, tneretore, it wouia oe aiiricmt to una a more
' ready money maker than a buy at MANHATTAN BEACH, the
first to be improved and the best part of the entire seven-mile
stretch of Garibaldi Beach. ' Investigate this property at once
and be convinced of the opportunity that it offers you for a quick
nd profitable turn.
ONLY ONE MORE WEEK OF LOW PRICES
COUPON
MANHATTAN KEALTY CO.,
264 Stark St., Portland.
Please mail folder and full
illustrated description of MAN
HATTAN BEACH at once.
Name
A.ddress
Magnificently Located Lots
for sale now at only
Corners and Front Lots $35
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MANHATTAN REALTY CO.
264 STARK STREET, PORTLAND, OREGON
PHONE MAIN 392
Club, a new organization. Plans are be
ing considered by the building commit
tee, and next Friday night these will be
submitted to a general meeting of the
club members. The clubhouse will be
erected on a lot on Umatilla avenue be
tween East Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets. An effort to have It erected
further north failed.
IS LIKE A NEW STREET
GRAND AVENUE PAVED FROM
GULCH TO HOIjLADAY.
Grading of Hawthorne ATenue Pro
gresses Mount Tabor Owners
Form Improvement District.
Improvement of Grarnt avenue from
Sullivan's Gulch north to Holladay ave
nue was completed last week. This makes
Grand avenue a hard-surface street be
tween Belmont and Broadway streets,
and soon the Improvement will be com
pleted between Belmont and East Clay
streets south. Orand avenue will then
be paved through Central East Portland.
This Improvement Is all hard surface, the
Hassam, bltullthlc and asphalt companies
being awarded contracts.
On Hawthorne avenue considerable
grading has been done between Grand
avenue and East Tenth street, by the
Barber Asphalt Company. The Portland
Railway. Lipht & Power Company has a
big force of men at work east from
Twelfth street, replacing the north track
with heavy steel rails. The improvement
of Hawthorne avenue Is one of the largest
contracts under way In the city, and will
represent an expenditure of J300.000 when
completed to Forty-first street. There will
be an additional Improvement out to East
Fiftieth street, which w"I cost another
$100,000. By Fall the first Improvement to
East Forty-first street may be finished,
and the rest of the pavement will prob
ably not be completed before 1910.
With the new Steel bridge across the
Willamette to be finished within a year,
the expensive Improvement of Hawthorne
avenue will be Justified, as It will be one
of the most Important streets on the East
Side.
Hard-surface pavement, while expensive,
compensates the propertyowners by the
Increased value of sites. Belmont street
through Sunnyside was improved with
hard-surface, and thereafter became a
business street. Later several large apart
ment-houses were erected In Sunnyside
and all have been rented. Belmont Btreet
built, up raidly as far as East Thirty
ninth street, although It Is not yet paved
for that distance.
Mount Tabor propertyowners. realizing
the advantage of hard-surface improve
ments, have formed a' district between the
Base Line road, Hawthorne avenue, West
avenue and East Forty-ninth street, in
which only this type of improvement will
be laid.
LITTLE TOTS ENTERTAIN
Seaside Audiences Delighted With
Young Songsters.
SEASIDE. Or., July 24. (Special.) A
novel feature in theatrical entertainments
was presented at one of the local theaters
Tuesday evening last, when Baby Brooks
and Master Corbin Peters, aged respec
tively 8 and 7 years, delighted four of the
biggest audiences ever seen in a theater
In Seaside. Each time the talented little
warblers sang, triey were enthusiastically
encored and gracefully responded. "Tittle
Tattle Tale" was one of the selections,
and for the encore "Smarty" was ren
dered. The parents of the children are
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, of Oregon City, and
Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Peters, of Portland.
Vancouver's Population 10,000.
VANCOUVER, Wash., July 24. (Spe
cial.) Polk's Vancouver directory for 1909,
the second directory Issued In this city,
gives the population of the city as almo4
10,000. The directory Is almost twice th
size of the one of last year.
Why not secure office reservations !.
Portland Railway, Light & Power Com
pany's beautiful new "Electric Building."
ready for occupancy by December 1, 1991
See Geo. J. Kelly, land agent, at First
and Alder.
NECARNEI CITY, SEABRIGHT AND
NEHALEM BAY PARR
DOUBLY INTERESTING
For the Following Reasons:
First The P. R. & N. Company's First Stop on Bay and Ocean, after leaving Portland, is at Necar
ney City, Seabright and Nehalem Bay Park. No matter what you hear to the contrary.
Second These resorts are on the Longest, Nicest Bay, and have the Finest Ocean Beach of any like
proposition along the Coast. ' f
Third The lots are all full size (50x100). lay the nicest, and, taking into consideration the location,
Prices the Lowest, Terms the Easiest, and the advance in value is bound to be the greatest.
The above is founded upon strictly business common sense.
Fourth The Necarney City Hydrocarbon "Oil Co. believe there is an immense Oil Deposit Under
these properties, the quality being Hydrocarbon Oil, worth many times the price of other oils. The
company has bought the drilling machinery and as quickly as it can be assembled upon the ground
will at once proceed to demonstrate the facts concerning the oil proposition. Colonel Kit Carson,
the company 's Oil Expert and manager, says defeat is possible, but from the oil indications, not at
all probable. Should there be oil there in paying quantities, this property will bring many times the
price of ordinary beach resort property, but if there is no oil there, these lots will bring five times
their present price, for Summer Resort Homes. Therefore we say we have a doubly interesting prop
osition. Many of the best lots are on sale in each of these properties on easy terms. One year ago
the 30th day of this month we placed Necarney City on sale and since that time we have sold in
these tracts 665 lots. J. J. Walter, the vice-president of the Nehalem Bay Land Co., is on the ground
now looking after further improvements, including the establishing of the "Water System. Call or
write us for information about these properties, also relative to the oil proposition.
NEHALEM BAY LAND COMPANY
274 Oak St., Board of Trade Bldg.
Liberal Commission to Agents. Both Phones, Main 5465,. A 3229
Mother, They Told Us
Some Day We'll Be Old
Why didn't we listen!
- Why didn't we look it up when
iwe had our strength?
Why didn't we get a little fruit
land when our boys were here to
help usf
Why didn't we, MOTHER?
Some day, yes, surely some day,
wouldn't it be nice to have a little
five or ten-acre tract of land with
a little cottage set in among the
trees the trees full of happy
singing birds and surrounding all
this, a pretty little garden and a
fine orchard, the trees of which .
are heavy with luscious fruit?
Some day don 't you want a homa
like this in the country where there
are no extremes of heat or cold, no
destructive storms, where your
neighbors are the good, honest, sub
stantial folks you and I like to
have for friends, where within 12
miles is the State University in
one of the finest cities in Oregon,
and your own land situated in or near the fine hustling little town of Creswell, where are good churches,
good schools, good business houses, good people and no saloons ? Creswell, Lane County, in the Famous V ll
lamette Valley of Oregon, is the place.
FIVE ACRES will give yon a fine living; TEN AC EES will make you independent for life.
The excursion parties from East.say we do" not say enough about the country. Every one bought. The
selling commenced June 1st and fine sales are being made, and the buyers are writing their friends. Will
you, too, investigate ? Use the coupon and ask for our free, beautifully illustrated booklet and other informa
tion. Get in early.
NO IRRIGATION NEEDED HERE. . . Natnre's Own Snnsfiine and Moisture Brinj tRe Frnit.
The A. C. Bohrnstedt Co.
252 Alder Street, Portland, Oregon
The A. C. BOHRSTSTEDT CO., 252 Alder St., Portland, Or.
Gentlemen : Please send me full information and illustrated booklet of your Willamette Valley, Ore
gon, lands. Fare refunded to those who buy. v
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