The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, August 01, 1909, SECTION FOUR, Image 38

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Newspaper Page Text6 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 1, 1909. SALES WEAK -BUT PLANS PROMISING Big Structures in View Bid Fair to Establish Business Center. HIGH BUILDINGS TO RISE Two Corners of Fifth and Alder Streets to Lose Ancient Shacks. Smaller Merchants Are En couraged at Prospects. If Judged by the sale of home Bites, last week In the realty field was one of the dullest In the Summer season, but measured by plans announced for the fu ture and the transfer of 112 East Side lots to down-to-date investors, the final seven days of July were more encouraging than . any other week of the usually dull period. The week was bepun by a semi-announcement that OShea Bros, and the Corbett estate would build a ten-story department store for Upman. Wolfe & Co. on the west side of Fifth street from Alder to Washlna-ton. It was brought to a close by a positive declaration by J. B. Teon. the capitalist, that a 10 or 12-story struc ture would be built by him on the north east corner of Fifth and Alder streets before the expiration of many months. With the new Meier-Frank bulldlntr looming; up with Its ten white stories of steel at Sixth and Alder streets, the erection of two other store buildings a block below would undoubtedly, say busi ness men. establish the commercial cen ter of Portland within the confines of the district bounded by Washington. Morri son. Fifth and Sixth streets. Complete the huge improvements planned, they de clare, and the movement to extend the business district west on Washington will be checked for all time. By the -same reasoning it Is averred that Fifth street from Washington to Morrison streets will be a Broadway toward which continual streams of traffic will trend. The sale makes the holdings of the rail way near the AJblna shops amount to about (254.000, other sites In the district having been bought by the railway re cently. It is believed an intention to en large the carshops is behind the ex tensive transfers, but the railway of ficials are secretive as to their plans. E. J. Daly report's the sale of a lot 80x100 feet on the-north side of Wash ington street, between Trinity place and Twentieth, for J27.SO0. The property was owned by Mrs. Sophia Klosterman and Mrs. Mary Mayer. The purchaser was a Utith capitalist, who will proceed at once to erect a fine modern three or four-story brick building, with four stores on the ground floor and rooms above. The build ing is to cost about (90,000. Mr. Daly has sold this property six times since 190t, when he sold it first for JK00. Plans for the erection of a building at Sixth and Bumside streets by Arats, Bros, have been abandoned temporarily, it being their intention to- defer building until next Spring. At present the site Is occupied by ancient shacks, which will be raxed for the construction of a 10 story business structure. The property is 55x100 feet. THEATER FCXD XEEDS $03,000 East Side Citizens Prepare Plans for a Showshop. Success of the theater project for Cen tral East Portland depends upon raising a fund of K5.0CO by citizens interested as a STEEL UP IN WEEK Olds, Wortman & King Build ing to Be Ready by February. HENRY EDIFICE COMPLETE Meier & Frank Structure to Be Oc supied in SO Days Y. M. C A.'s Home Beinc Rushed. Dealers Plan Outing. Within another seven days the ateel structure of the new Olds, Wortman & King building, occupying the full block bounded by West Park, Alder, Tenth d Morrison streets, will be in place. and the department store is scheduled to be ready for occupancy by the first day of next February. To date, the Trustee Company of Portland, which is erecting the building, has not been a bo j an ' ani Board and their families, and the site sellers having arranged to camp on a hilly site near the City Park. The outing will not interfere with the pros ecution of business by the realty deal ers, as they intend to serve their pa rons as usual, the camp retreat to be sought by them after office hours. A cook and assistants .will be engaged to make the outing as enjoyable as possi ble by expunging all camp drudgery. One of the important ealeB - of last week transferred the home of J. N. Dryer, in Irvington, to Mrs. Ada B. Newell,' who paid (6000 for the prep erty, on which stands a seven-room house. The: sale was made by Holmes & Menefee. Paul C. Bates, of Portland, last we'ek purchased Kim Rock Springs, a few miles west of Lamonta, from Colonel Smith. The price paid is said to have been (20,000. NEW CI E RUSHED Arlington Club May Be Fin ished by End of Year. HOOD . RIVER TRACT BOUGHT Ben Riesland and H. J. Miller Pnr- , chase 500 Acres. Ben Riesland and Harlan J. Miller have closed a deal whereby they have acquired possession of the finest unim proved tract of apple land in the Hood River Valley. The property was owned by the Oregon Lumber Company and consists of a logged-off slope of 500 acres. It is located between the east and west forks of the Hood River. It IMPOSING BUILDING IS RISING RAPIDLY. ROOF TO BE SQJJASH COURT Three Upper Stories Are Reserved for 5 7Bedrooms Billiard Par lors on First Floor Colon ial Style Followed. That the two big buildings planned will harness the city's busines center within the present business district is believed religiously by the smaller merchants whose shops border the sites of the pro posed Improvements. A month ao some of these were inclined to look for loca tions further up town. .ow they are negotiating for longer leases on the es tablishments they would have abandoned. In the sale of the Buckman property comprising 112 lots, the East Side rushe to the fore last week, with laurels for th biggest sale recorded in the month. Whil the names of the purchasers of this big holding are withheld. It is announced by Mall & Van Borstel that they are activ Investors and will make extensive im provements before many weeks pass. The sale of this property disposes of the last vacant tract in Central East Portland. hue sale. were comparatively few throughout the week, the city in a way compensated realty dealers by ordering many street Improvements and passing resolutions ordering the installation sewers in many districts. Among the street Improvements authorized by the I Eastern City Council were the following: East Tenth street, from Emerson tn Site Durham avenue: Xartllla street, from Jefferson to Salmon streets; East Thirtv sixth street, from Broadway to Tillamook street: Broadway, fro-. Fast Twenty- fourth to East Thirty-seventh streets pettygrove street, from Fifteenth to Twenty-fifth streets: Irving street, from Eighteenth to Twenty-fourth streets: East Bumside street, from west to east lines of East Thirtieth street: Victoria avenue. from its Junction with Thurman street to easterly line of Alexander avenue extend ed south across Victoria avenue: Brown avenue, from Union to East Ninth street; East Seventh, from Broadway to Tilla mook; Alberta street, from East Twenty ninth to Eust Thirty-third streets; Twen tieth street, from Washington to ftalelgh street. Plans were ordered prepared for sewers as follows: Karl street, from 10 feet east of Mil waukle street to sewer East Sixteenth street: Rhone street, from 1X feet eas of east line of Mllwaukie street to sewer in East Sixteenth street: Tacart street. from East Twenty-sixth street to sewer in East Twentieth street; Rhine street, from Milwaukie street to sewer in Six teenth street; Bismarck street, from Mil waukie street to sewer in East Sixteenth street. Coupled with these improvements plans were ordered prepared for the Installs? tion of 3S water mains, which will be laid principally on the East Side. S EW ARIIXCTO.V CLI B UNDER COU RSK OF CONSTRUCTION AT SALMON, WEST PARK AND PARK STREETS. E. J. Daly reports the sale of a lot 0xS4 feet on the south side of Lovejoy street on the corner of Barker avenue, for CwlO. This property was sold by the Barker estate to a Minnesota party, who will erect a handsome residence. The same firm sold a lot 50x10 on the north side of Lovejoy street, near Cornell road, for (4250. This property was formerly owned by C. E. Wlghtman. A fine resi dence will be built on the site by the new owner. Thst the original plans of the Helllg Theater Company to occupy its new showshop by the first of next year will materalize Is intimated by the razing of the frame buildings on the theater site at Seventh and Taylor streets. Friday the tenants, in response to orders to vacate the premises, sought new quar ters, and yesterday the work of demoli tion was begun. The promoters of the theater project predict that the play house will be ready for attractions be fore the close of this year, and they are sanguine the new theater will be thrown open to Its first audience next Christmas night. That Northern pacific Railroad offi cials are seeking a site in Portland for the erection of a mammoth hotel was hinted yesterday by A. D. Charlton, as sistant general passenger agent. Mr. Charlton Is authority for the statement that the Northern Pacific is considering a plan to construct a chain of hotels In Portland. Seattle and Tacoma. as con ducted by railroads In California. While no definite steps have been taken. It 1 understood a site on Portland Heights Is looked upon by the railroad magnates with favor as the most desir able place to erect the hostelry. It Is said Eastern capitalists will join with the Northern Pacific In the big enter prise, the object of which Is to offer Inducements to keep tourists here for weeks, while under present conditions they simply stop in passing. Not only showing a gain of (T3.4'X on a mall Investment In five years, but deep ening the mystery of Harriman's move ments in Alblna. the Muckle block, in the vicinity of the carshops. was purchased by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company for (H last week. James and Charles Muckle bought the site at a Sheriff's sale for (SO0 five years ago. guaranty that the rent will be paid on the building planned for .some time to come. Tentative plans have been prepared for a showshop building to be erected on East Oak street and Grand avenue, adjoining the Morgan building. Probably at the next meeting of the East Side Business Men's Club the proposition will be con sidered. C. A. BIgelow. the president, contends that a good theater will do much toward upbuilding a business cen ter, and that it will pay to make a strong effort to erect a playhouse. NEW DISTRICT TO OPEN HAWTHORXE - AVEXTE TRACT WILL BE SUBDIVIDED. Investors Seek East Side for Big Building Owner Considers. s A new district, bounded by Hawthorne avenue. East Harrison street, the Ladd tract and East Thirtieth street, will be platted soon. Owners of the property are the Hawthorne estate, Mrs. 1. 3. Bickerton, Robert Krohn, Miss Maude Kenworthy, Dr. G. M. Wells, the Statton estate and several others. The streets will be opened and two thoroughfares will be opened through the Walter Bur- rell property to Hawthorne avenue. While a new district, it Is considered one of the finest unplatted territories on the East Side. For several days Eastern investors have been negotiating wish Mrs. Jacob Deckenbeck. owner of the quarter block on the southwest corner of East Morri son street and Grand avenue, to pur chase or secure a long lease on the prop erty, with a view of erecting a business building there. It is understood that Mrs. Deckenbeck will not sell the property. but may lease it. It is said If a 30-year lease Is given, the investors plan to erect seven or eight-story building. The quarter block is considered one of the most valuable sites on the East Side, and he buildings which occupy it bring in a rental of (1000 a month. A new seal rookery has been discovered on heretofore uncharted Island to the north ward of the Ruaeian port of Sakaiien. The finder secured a fortune In skins before he told his eecret. day behind In construction, and Olds, Wortman & King have arranged their inventory date early in February, that their stock may be removed to the new store after being counted in the old establishment. By August 8 the steel part of the building will be complete, and work on the interior and exterior construction will be begun. Another few days' work on the Henry building, at Fourth and Oak, will place it in readiness for tenant. The exterior of the building is now in the hands of a large force of cleaners, and save for a few pieces of scaffold ing, the structure presents a finished ai pearance The Lewis building, at the northeast corner of Fourth and Oak streets, is being completed rapidly, forms for the roof supports now being put in place. This structure will be ready for occu pancy In the Fall. In 30 days the new Meier & Frank building will be complete to the finest detail, and the fourth story of the stiucture is already being stocked from, the older building. The six elevator cages are in working order, and open ings have been made in the walls of the adjoining department store to give access to the new building:. Presenting a complete appearance, the new T. M. C. A. building, at Sixth and Taylor streets, is finished suffi ciently to permit occupancy of m por tion of the structure this week. Steps have already been taken to vacate the eld Y. M. C. A. headquarers by degrees, and in less than three months it is be lieved the new home of the associa tion will be. m use from basement to roof. Other t-uildir.gs being completed rap- icily are 'he Homeopathic Hospital, at East Third and Multnomah streets: the new Imperial Hotel annex, at Seventh and Stark streets; the Blake-McFall building, at Fourth and Ankeny streets; the Jefferson High School, In North Alblna; the Williams-avenue school, on Knott street and Rodney avenue; the nine-story building known as the Electric building, being erected by the Portland Railway, Light Power Company, at Seventh and Alder streets, and the new St. Vincent's Hos pital annex, which has reached the fifth story. All of August will be recreation time for members of the Portland Realty Is protected from all cold Winter winds by a high cliff on the north and west and also by a high mountain on the east. The elevation is 1000 feet above sea level. The Mount Hood Railroad runs through the tract, and the station of Dee is about three quarters of a mile from its north boundary. It is the in tention of the present owners to pro mote a company for the purpose of taking over the tract and improving the same with high-class apples, and then placing it on the market In ten acre tracts. Planned on colonial lines, the new Ar lington Club, one of the most imposing of Portland's recent . edifices, is being rushed to completion, and if scarcity of brick does not forestall the contractors the building will be ready for occupancy by the end of the year. Facing on Sal mon street, the Duilding will occupy the entire site bounded by Salmon. West Park and Park streets, which is consid ered an ideal spot for a club home, the din of traffic being flight and the eleva tion assuring a magnificent view. Standing out as a feature of the new Arlington Club, the roof topping Its four stories will be a squash-racquet court. where the club members may engage In the outdoor game termed "a cross be tween handball and tennis." In provid ing this roof convenience the Arlington Club follows the example set by the most exclusive clubs of the United States. The basement of the structure is laid out to provide boiler space as well as rooms for the storage of trunks and ser vants' quarters. Its floor is of cement, and despite its position is almost as airy and light as the upper structure. On the ground floor magnificently finished billiard-room, card-room, a pri vate cafe and a dining-room, as well as a most modern lavatory system, will be located. . The first floor will contain the main dining-room, a. breakfast-room, the club Sunday R E Arlington Club with cut lounging-room, writing-room and library On this floor the main kitchen will also be located. The second, third and fourth stories of the structure are reserved for bedrooms, of which there will be 57, or an allotment of 19 apartments for every floor. Each room Is provided with a private bath, ana me arrangements of the upper stories are planned to equal the most modern hotel conveniences afforded by any club west of New York. Throughout the building will be pro vided with a most modern heating and ventilating system of the vacuum type, for which a contract will be let in the near future. En y State rant THE OJiLV PAINT MANUFACTURED ON THE .PACIFIC COAST COMPLYING 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. E SITES SELL FORESTS HARBOR OUTLAWS Cariboo District Believed to Be In fested by Fugitives. VICTORIA, B. C, July 31. Special.) The report is received from St. Joseph Mission that a Chilcotln Indian was re cently held up near there by two roughly clad men who relieved the redskin of his rifle and ammunition and commanded him to "beat it, and beat it quick." The theory is advanced that the robbers were two of the party so industriously searched for by the police for complicity in the hold-up of the Canadian Pacific train in the vicinity of Ducks. An endeavor is being made to trace the perpetrators of this latest outrage, but the prospect Of success in this is far from roseate. The recent capture of Benton, the notorious half-breed mur derer, who had been at large for nearly a year in the Chilcotln country, shows that the Cariboo district offers many opportunities for the safe concealment of fugitives from justice who keep to its remoter sections. PLAXS FOR CLUB ACCEPTED MARRIAGES ON DECREASE New Washington Law Sends Many Couples to Otber States to Wed. SPOKANE, July JL Only 78 mar riage licenses were issued in Spokane County this month. In July, 1908, there were 136 and 172 in July, 1907. The new state law requiring appli cants to furnish-medical certificates i held to be the sole cause of the de crease. Dozens of Spokane brides and grooms crossed the state boundary this month and were married at Coeur d'AIene, Idaho. Sellwood Commercial Body Will Go Ahead With Building. At the meeting- of the Sellwood Com mercial Club. Friday night, after ex tended discussion, the general plans of the proposed clubhouse, submitted by Walter Adams, Peter Hume and Dr. H. C. Fixott, committee, were accepted; and the committee Instructed to have specifications prepared. The clubhouse will be in the style of a bungalow, 40x 50 feet, with full basement. On the main floor there will be an office and cloakroom 11x19 feet, billiard hall 19x 86; reading-room, 19x35; smoking and cardroom, 12x14. There was some dis cussion about the basement, but it was decided that it would be necessary to have a full basement for a banquet hall and gymnasium, fuel and furnace-room. The total cost of the clubhouse is esti mated at $3000, and with the lot and furniture the cost will be $5000. The lot nas been secured on Umatilla ave nue, near East Thirteenth street. Enthusiastic talks were made at the meeting by D. M. Donaugh, R. S. Stearns, Peter Hume, W. H. Morehouse, J. K. Kertchem, Walter Adams and oth ers. It was decided to push the mat ter of subscriptions to the stock of the club. Of the amount required, $2000 had been subscribed by Friday night. In order to cover the. suburb; the following committee was appointed to call on every citizen: E. W. Edwards, D. M. Donaugh, J. F. Kertchem. H. C. Fixott, John W. Campbell, Al French, Walter Adams, M. D. Jameson, W. H. Morehouse, T. B. Turley, and Presiden R. S. Stearns. W. C. Crozier prepared the tentative plans for the clubhouse. It is desired to provide a gymnasum in the basement of the building for th benefit of the young men of Sellwood FIFTEEN ATTRACTIVE HOMES ADORN DISTRICT. - C. T. Hubbard and five children: S. J. Hubbard, of Portland: C. S. Hubbard. Bandon, Or.; Mrs. Hattle Ryerson, of Seattle; George Hubbard, of Canada; and Mrs. Jessie Williams, Portland. Basement of Hotel at Kenton Near Completion Church Foun dation Is Finished. Daly Reports Two Sales. E. J. Daly reports the following sales A lot 50x100 feet on the north side of Lovejoy street, near Cornell road, for $4250, which was owned by C. E. Wight man; also 90x86 feet on the south side of Lovejoy street, corner Barker avenue, for S9500. owned by the Barker estate. me the smrt Englih womn le hrdluypjnua DEPARTMENT STOEE STEEL TO BE IN PLACE IN A WEEK. - - iMr- . kTf 43i33?3Wn . :v.V-. . - r" &n 31 j. ... - Tt -WlT tiaft tilTllllilM ' ' - A' ; ; - - -- ..-rf)y...-.v.:.v. t. ,. ..... , vk ?, , --WStfSv:'. 4 OLDS, WORTMAN KI.VG BUILDING UNDER WAY AT WEST PARK, ALDER, MORRISON AND TENTH STREETS. Many ' sales have been made recently in the Jonesmore tract in Montavilla. I. A. Carr purchased lot 12, block 28, and lot 1 In block 29, for $1300. He will erect buildings on both slte6. J. Anderson sold his six-room bungalow in this addition to J. Lupoid for $2000. The seven-room home of C. C. Adams has been sold to F. W. Hunt for $2000. Mr. Hunt also bought a lot adjoining for $600. In this tract 15 attractive homes have been built at an average cost of $1500 each. Smith & Hogland bought alx lots In Irvington Park Addition as an invest ment. They paid $125 a lot for the property. The Dyer Manufacturing Company ia completing the basement of a hotel, 90x 100 feet, which will be erected at Kenton on he Peninsula, by the Kenwood Land company, it win oe tne most preten tioua building at Kenton. The same com pany Is roofing the cement block real dences of Dr. Killingsworth and Mr. Pat terson at Kenton. It is announced that a manufacturer of gasoline engines will erect a factory in Kenton. Another company is looking over the district with a view of erecting a plant there. The concrete foundation for the new First Universalist Church on Broadway and Eaet Twenty-fourth Btreet, is nearly nnlshed, and work on the superstructure will be started next month. The edifice will cost about $15,000. The Rlchert-Byrne Company has sold lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8, In block 2, Irving dale Addition, for $750 each to local in vestors, whe are having plans drawn for residences to be built on the sites. H. ti. Camp & Co. will erect a two- story residence for W, A. Dempsey on Hancock street, between East Twenty third and East Twenty-fourth streets, to cost $3500. The H. P. Palmer-Jones Company has sold 50x100 feet on East Nineteenth and Everett streets to A. P. Sprague for $3400. The lot is occupied by a seven-room cot tage. Goodrich, King & Goodrich are prepar ing plans for a two-story eight-room residence on Williams avenue for Dr. Chambers to cost $4000. Thie firm is also drawing plans for a home for Mr. Erwin on East Thirty-sixth and Brazee streets to cost $2500. Demand for acreage on the Base Line road continues. The sale of a single acre to Mrs. J. Bates, near Rockwood, for idoo. was made tne past week. Mrs. Marie Brockway purchased two and a nan acres near jxocKwood for $400 an acre. She will improve the property. Plans are teing prepared for a $3000 oungaiow to oe erected at Oak Grove for I. L. Ray, near the station of the Oregon City electric railway. M. W. Parelius, who purchased the fractional lot on East Pine street, be tween Union and Grand avenues, iast week for $6600. will erect a modern busi ness building on the site. A frame struc ture erected over 30 years ago now stands on the property. Biography of Mrs. Fannie Hubbard. Mrs. Fannie C. Hubbard, who rttert at Seaside. July 18. was born In Wayne county, j. i., July 16. 1843. In De cember, 1860, she was united in mar riage to C. T. Hubbard, the family mov ing to Michigan in 1864, residing there until 1889, when they came West, living in Seattle two years, then moving to r-oriiana. in 1636. they moved to Sea side, where they resided until the time of Mrs. Hubbard's death. Mrs. Hubbard was a Christian worker from girlhood. She organized the first Sunday school in beaside and held song services Sun day evenings, at which she read Tal- mage's sermons, until such time as a church organization was founded. Mrs. Hubbard Is survived by her husband. Crystal Mine Brings $300,000. SPOKANE, July 31. Alderman John Gray, who returned from Paris today announces that he has sold the Crystal mine, near the mouth of the Spokane River, to an English and French syndi cate for $300,000. The Crystal is a silver-lead property. Captain Gray will be superintendent. PHOENIX IRON WORKS Engineers, Fonnders, MacbiniHts anil Boilermakers, Building and Structural Work. WE MAKE Fire Hydrants, Log Hauls, Cast Gears, Hydraulic Giants, Water Gates, Lumber Trucks, etc. HAWTHORNE AVE. AiND EAST THIRD PORTLAND, OR. TO LIGHT THE HOME, HOTEL OR OFFICEBUILDING CORRECTLY t I 1 requires a degree of skill that can be atttained only by those having wide ex perience. Our advising lighting fixture designers are at your service for suggest ing schemes that will be ,both practical and artistic. . If you are building, or contemplating building, visit our salesrooms, you will find here many val uable suggestions in light ing fixtures, tile and hard wood mantels, tile bath rooms and electric wiring. M. J. WALSH CO. Salesrooms, 311 Stark St. between 5th and 6th. Both Phones. 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. E. DAVIS. H. T. DRENNEN.