The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, August 08, 1909, SECTION FOUR, Image 39

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 8, 1909. MUCH - UFL-SHOWH Belle Crest and Rose City . Booming Along. PROPERTY IS FILLING UP 'Conversion of Sandy Road Into a Street Is "Sow Completed and Improvement Adds to General -Activity. The Northwestern Home Building Com pany Is building five houses In Belle Crest, each of which will cost J2000. G. B Hadley Is erecting two residences In Rose City Park. Scott Munsell has purchased a lot In Merlow Addition, on the Hose City earltne. and will build later. C. B. Merrick, secretary of the Grocers' Pro tective Association, has moved into his new HOon home In Rose City Park. Archi tect Tetter has moved Into his new 50rt residence on Wauna avenue. The home of Ir. W. R. Kaufman, on West avenue and the Sandy road, has been completed at a cost of JSWa. Everett F. Alshaw, of the Hartnwn & Thompson Bank, is bav in a residence erected on Bokeby avenue coating 3.Vtt. C. W. Tyson is completing a concrete S350) bungalow on Stanton street Earl Roberts Is building a JJO00 . residence on Enst Sixtieth street. Sandy road has been made a street from East Sixteenth street to the city limits. ; and will be Improved at once between East Sixteenth to East Twenty-eighth -tnreets. Between Twenty-eighth street and the city limits an effort will be made to Improve with hard surface next year. A. H. Metcalf. who has considerable property on the new street, favors hard surface Improvement owing to the great amount of travel on that thoroughfare. Three years ago development had just started in the Rose, City Park district, and the acres were practically un broken. Now there are graded streets and several hundred high-class homes, all tributary to the Sandy boulevard. L. E. Carter states that since the Mer low tract, on the Rose City carllne. was placed on the market last Spring. 75 lota have been sold on an average of J00 a lot, bringing a total of 4o.om, and the purchasers were mainly homebuilders. P. G. Anderson, recently from Los Angeles. Cal., purchased several lots in this tract and is erecting a seven-room home. It will be a typical Southern California structure and will cost J4500. B. E. Boise Is building a home on Bast Fifty-third street, near Hill Crest. The Indications are that 50 houses win be erected in this tract within the next three months. VT. V. Stephenson, of California, has ptirchased three lots In block 10. Irvlngton Addition. The Butterworth-Stephenson Company to preparing plans for three handsome strictly modern bungalows to be erected on the property. a W. Richie, of Cincinnati. Ohio, has purchased lots 19 and 30 In block 35. Ir vlngton Addition for JS500. of Abe Tlchner. Both lots are occupied with a residence and are situated In the choicest part of Irvlngton. Dr. Louis Morrotte. of Baker City, has purchased a site, inoxim, on the corner of Plvtaion and East Twenty-third street Dr. Morrotte will probably erect a resi dence on the site. The Brong-Steele Company sold 40 lots In the last month at an average price of J700 each. In the El Tovar addition. The sales were divided between investors and homebuilders. Le-wla Love, who bought 34 lots in this addition, has completed a JHOrt) residence. Miss M&el Miller, who purchased two lots In block 24. will put up a home. Mrs. Connett, who secured even lots on Vancouver avenue, will build two residences there. W. J. Legg will also pit up a $2200 residence In the addition. MANY" HUNTERS START OUT Opening of ' Ieer Session Lures Sportsmen to Southern Oregon. GRANTS PASS. Or., Aug. 7. (Spe - clal.) The annual season for hunting ' deer opened the first of the week. There ' Jias been a general exodus of campers ' and hunters within the last few days for the southern end of the county. Hunting has always been good in this ' part of the state, and every year the woods are full of hunting and fishing parties. But one accident has happened so far among the campers, and that was to Frank Kills, who was accidentally killed by the discharge of a pistol while exploring Josephine County Caves last Sunday. LAst year Josephine County was credited with an accident. In which "Win Littlefield shot his companion, Charles Christie, mistaking him for a deer, on September 21. near Wonder, from which he died 11 days later. For thla act the grand Jury at the next ses sion returned a not true bill against Littlefield. CITY IMPROVING STREETS Grants Pass Bays Hock Crusher and Will Lay Hard Surface. GRANTS PASS. X)r.. Aug. 7. (Spe cial.) This city is preparing for ex tensive street improvements. A few weeks ago the council purchased a 10 ton rock crusher and roller and took the machinery out to a quarry just north of town to make a test of the material for macadamising streets. The rock proved to be what was needed, so the council, now has a force of men getting out the raw material to sup ply the crusher. A contract has been let to macada mize A street fox a distance of several blocks, which, when finished, will reach to the city limits on the east. This is one of the most beautiful driveways In the city, and is patronized heavily by autoists. When finished it will be covered with macadam, which the con tractors say will make a lasting road bed for years to come. It Is expected that contracts will be let for lower Sixth street within a short time. This street leads to Rogue River bridge, and carries the heaviest travel of any road leading to the city. POLES FORM BRANCH HERE National Order Will Have Strong Branch in Portland. The Polish Pioneers of Oregon, Branch 10i5 of the Polish National Al liance of the United States, at a recent meeting took steps to urge all Polish citizens and Polish descendents to Join the order, the objects of which are to protect by life Insurance, and aid In case of sickness or accident all Polish citizens of Portland and of Oregon. This Is the only branch of the Polish National Alliance in this state for which a charter has been granted by the supreme body In Chicago. It was organized March 21j 1909, by prominent Polish citizens and merchants of the city. The branch is now in a flourish ing condition, and In a short time a membership of 500 is expected. The Polish National Alliance is or ganized in almost aJl states of the Union, and has a membership of nearly 100,000. a capital of over 1600.000, and a reserve fund of about the same amount. Besides insurance, the Polish Pioneers of Oregon aim to look after the general welfare of members, and take part In all matters pertaining to the common good, both fraternally and politically. It also encourages to this state the immigration of its brother members in the East, who are looking for better conditions. Regular meet ings are held on the first Sunday of each month la the Alisky building. Third and Morrison streets, at 2:30 P- M. , The officers of the order are as fol lows: President, John Meyers; vice- ... i. iZlll 1 JJlL KEW WILLIAM S-AVEM'E SCHOOL AT RODNEY AVENUE president W. Kowalewskl; financial secretary, I. T. Yezerski; recording secretary. Q. A. Werner; treasurer F. Kokowskl. IS HI! WESTMORELAND LOTS SELL FAST TO HOMEBCILDERS. Grading for Carbarns Near Sellwood Is Completed Ten-Acre Tract Platted. Several houses are being erected in the new Westmoreland Addition on Mllwau kie street. A large number of sales in the new addition are reported, the total amount of transfers being estimated at 1100,000. The tract has been platted be tween Midway and Sellwood and the Southern Pacific Railroad and the streets have been opened and will be improved. Between Mllwaukle street and the river improvements are most noticeable. The brush Is faat disappearing in this district and is giving place to attractive homes. Plans have been prepared and grading has been completed for the proposed new carbarns . for the' Portland Railway. Light St Power Company, to bo erected on East Thirteenth street at the Golf Links, south of Sellwood. The building will occupy 13Sx4SO feet, will be of brick construction, and the west end of the structure will connect with the Oregon City main line. Several hundred cars can be housed in the carbarns and the tracks will be run from the west end of the building. Pits will be constructed under the tracks that workmen can get at the cars from beneath. J. O. El rod has platted a ten-acre tract between Lexington street and Miller ave nue. In Sellwood. three blocks from the carline. It has been christened Moseley Addition, and contains 56 lots. OBSERVATION CAR Portland and Cottage Grove. The Southern Pacific is now running an observation parlor car between Portland and Cotta.sre Grove. Leaving Portland, southbound, train 19, at 8:15 A. M.. returning on train 18, leaving Cottage Grove, northbound, at 4:50 P. M. HOME OF THOMAS f . ,. Ar"--- - . Kv A TEH ACRES ADDED National Wood "Pipe Co. Gets Option on Kenton Tract. ADJOINING LAND 'SOUGHT Plant to Have Access to Five Kail roads by Switches Ground to Be Broken in Month. Machinery Ready. '' That the National Wood Pipe Company and the Pacific Tank Company, which merged last week in the purchase of 20 WORK ON STETJO TUBE IS KTJSHED. , ; -lr- J J I it acres at Kenton for a mammoth plant, intend to make Portland the center of their vast enterprise is intimated by an option the combined concerns secured yes terday on ten more acres of land adjoin ing the first site. Further showing the extent of the proposed industry, complete arrangements have been made with the Oregon, Railroad & Navigation Company whereby the plant will have access to five raUroads through a system of switches now being installed at the factory site. It was ascertained yesterday that $42,500 was paid the Kenwood Land Company for the plant site, exclusive of the option given on the additional ten acres. Surveyors are already at work on the ground, and the first vice-president of the wood pipe company, Ralph B. Lloyd, an nounced yesterday that work on the first section of the huge plant would begin within 80 days. This portion of the fac tory will contain ten buildings, and will be constructed oft the O. R. & N. tracks, leaving ample space in the rear for the erection of a giant sawmill, which the manufacturers had in view in securing the ten-acre space adjoining their first purchase. To avert a repetition of the destruction of the big plant at Olympia a year ago, the ten buildings of the, first section of the factory will be laid out with wide spaces between the structures. Plans for these buildings are now in the hands of architects. ' Machinery for the big plant has already been purchased, and contract have been let for special appliances required by the modern pipe and tank factory. Upon the completion of the first section of the plant, 150 men will be employed at the factory, and later, when the sawmill is In operation, this force will be doubled. Among the recent contracts filled by the National Wood Pipe Company were, the following: Furnishing of tanks for the Western Pacific Railroad extension to San Francisco; tanks for the Milwaukee road from Dakota to Seattle: 250 carloads of 16 Inch pipe for the new water system of the City of Medford; pipe for water system at Enterprise: contract with the Guggen hetms in the Yukon territory, and the In stallation of the Mazatlan water system. While the National Wood Pipe Com pany and the Pacific Tank Company are separate institutions, they are financed by the ame men, and In a measure are superintended by the same officers. The president and manager of both concerns is W. H Hampton, a resident of Los An geles, who is also president of the Pacific Coast Planing Mill Company, the Mercan tile Box Company of San Francisco, and a director of the Bank of Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Trust Company, of the same city, and of the Olympia National Bank. Mr. Hampton is at present in Paris, after a nine months' tour of Europe. Other officers of the National Wood H AND SOME RESIDENCE FINISHED. MOFFETT AT TWETY-5IXTH AXD Pipe Company are: Ralph B. Lloyd, first vice-president; F. M. Kirsch, second vice, president, located in Los" Angeles; Walter Carnes, secretary and treasurer, and H. F. Dierker, assistant secretary and treas urer. Of these. Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Carnes are located In Portland, the other officers residing in Los Angeles. Officers of the Pacific Tank Company are: H. P. Sack ett, of San Francisco, assistant manager and vlcvpresident; H. F. Dierker, holding the same office In Los Angeles, and F. M. Klnsch. secretary and treasurer, also of Los Angeles. To the Kenwood Land Company, of which L. F. Swift is president, ifi given the credit of Inducing both big concerns to locate at Kenton, in lieu of rebuilding the Olvmpia plant. Associated with President Swift in this firm are: Charles H. Carey, vice-president: George F. Heusner, gen eral manager; C. C. Colt,- secretary, and J. C. Good, treasurer. WOODLAWX HVMMIXG ALONG Gravel Pit Tract Grading Is Near- ing Completion. At Woodlawn many improvements have been made within the last few months. W, C. North, L. H. Maxwell and others who purchased the gravel pit tract sev- .Vsw. AND KMOTT STREET, eral months ago have filled up the gap almost entirely. This tract is between Union avenue and East Seventh street, all of which has been graded and is now available for building. There is a little more filling to be done, however, before the big pit will disappear completely. Woodlawn residents have asked the Board of Education to erect a school house large enough to do away entirely with the old structure The school erected at Woodlawn several years ago was soon filled, and the old building put into service again is not considered safe. At Piedmont a number of important streets have been improved with hard surface pavement. There was consid erable opposition to such pavement in Piedmont, but It was not strong enough to atop the Improvements. The newly fixed streets are parked and rank among the beautiful thoroughfares of the sub urb. Several more streets are to be paved' in the same way in the near future. East of Union avenue many attrac tive homes are being built. Settlement extends to East Thirtieth street, and a tremendous building movement is on all through this district. Lots sold three years ago for J200 and $300 now bring $500 and $1000. and Alberta street has be come a business street almost out to East Thirtieth street. A number of busi ness houses have been erected on this thoroughfare costing $5000 and $10,000 and the Baptists are completing a handsome $7000 church there. , , ' The two-story reinforced concrete $35, 000 building erected by William Reidt, on Union and Killingsworth avenues, is re garded as the best improvement in the neighborhood. Most of the" lower rooms of the structure are occupied. Work is progressing on the new double tracks of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. on Union avenue to Highland preparatory to street improvement. One track Is completed to the end of the im proved Alberta street and a large force of men is engaged on the second track. Work has not gone beyond Failin street so far, but the contractors will be rushed when the street railway company com pletes its track. The space between Hol laday avenue and Schuyler street as yet Is untouched by either the street rail way company or the contractors. It will probably be late In the Fall before the improvement on "Union avenue in that district Ts completed. '" Cameron Buys New Mill. GOLDENDALE, Wash., Aug. 7. (Spe cial.) The large sawmill outfit belonging to Fisher & Beal. of this place, has been moved to the timber tract north of Gold endale held by J. D. Cameron, .of Port- NORTHRIP STREETS. : .101 , USTElF cepted, for MANiATTAN 264 Stark Street I , , .... T I , -I . .... - ' ' - - , - land. Work will begin at once sawing the logs and hauling the lumber to town. This action confirms the opinion held here that Mr. Cameron is the purchaser of the large box factory near the depot, which has been known as the Gilbert mill, but Is a part of the property of the White Pine Lumber Company. ' Ex-Mayor Threatened Again, : LOS ANGELES. Cal., Aug. 7. Former Mayor William H. Workman yesterday received another letter" threatening his life, evidently from the same source as the letters previously received, by him, which have set the police to searching Where Gah You Get Acreage Near Portland That Compares With Either in Price, Location or Quality of the Soil? , t ' Only 30 minutes' ride from the Oregon Electric Railway's Jefferson-st. Station (Salem line) on Front st. Get off at METZGER STATION. Agents on the grounds every day. "We are selling these acres at a very low price for a short time only from $250 and UP PEE ACRE. We can convince you that this is THE BEST SOIL IN OREGON for all kinds of fruit, berries and walnuts. Excels in strawberries and cherries, any spot on the Pacific Coast. For further particulars and plats pall at our city office, 226 and 228 Front st., Portland, or at our branch office at Metzger Station. City Phones, Main 474 and A 1374. Branch office phone at Metzger, Main 6409. HERMAN METZGER, Owner N. B. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO VISIT METZGER NATURAL PARK, LOCATED ON METZGER ACRE TRACTS NEAR STATION. THIS IS THE . MOST BEAUTIFUL PICNIC AND OUTING SPOT IN THE NORTHWEST. Lots in MANHATTAN BEACH were put tipon the market at $30 each. v They were worth it. They were worth more. The idea was to popularize the property. This has been accomplished. Hundreds of lots have been sold at first prices. Hundreds more will be sold right away. This is'positively the last opportunity' to secure these magnificent beach lots at these unusually fbw prices. Remember, you may have your choice of 'any lot in all of MANHATTAN BEACH, corners ex only HIRTY DOLLARS Right on the P. R. & N. Company's Tillamook line. Two hours and a half from Portland. . The finest beach in Oregon. No rocks, no holes, no undertow, no danger holes. Improvements already started: Adjoins Pres ident Lytle's townsite. Depot less than a quarter of a mile. Magnificent scenery. Ideal surf bathing. Part of the celebrated Garibaldi Beach, now Portland's clos est beach playground. No transfer of cars; no transfer to boats. New railroad runs straight through MAN HATTAN BEACH. These low prices and terms will be discontinued this week. Present prices prevail only Till MONDAY NIGHT AT EIGHT MANHATTAN REALTYCo. Phone Main 392 r for a man who may be either a harm less lunatic or a dangerous criminal. The efforts of the pollco to learn the Identity of the man who has threatened the lives of three prominent residents of Boyle Heights and the destruction of their property by dynamite have thus far proved futile. The bomea of the men are being closely guarded by the police. Town In Receiver's Hands. . NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 7.x-Gover-nor Patterson has appointed Daniel J. Reeder, of Shelby County, as receiver for the town of Lenox, a suburb of Memphis. The appointment was au- SR ACRE TRACK thorized by the last Legislature. The duties of the receiver are to wind up the affairs of the municipality of Lenox, because this act forever with draws the powers that once were ex ercised by the town. The repeal of the charter was for the purpose of adding this community to Memphis. After Au gust 31 the town will be extinct and the receiver will take charge. The researches of Profewor Flinders Petrle at Memphis have resulted In tna un earthlnu of the palace of King -PfJ: the Pharaoh Hophra of the Scriptures and a contemporary of Jeremiah. Armor and bronze figures of gods were found in the ruins. .