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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1909)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAJf, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 5, 1909. 8 PROGRESS IS MADE New Mount Hood . Territory Forges- Ahead. PORTLANDERS BUY TRACTS With Same Amount of Care, Land Can Grow Apples Equaling Fa mous Fruit Produced at Hood River. Development of a treat district as a Summer resort and for the cultivation of fruits, between Portland and Mount Hood, mainly along the line of the Mount Hood wagon road, has progressed rap idly thia year. Portland men and Hood River fruitgrowers, including some East erner, have made large Investments, both for Summer homes and for fruit growing purposes in thia section: Port land cilixens have purchased tracts rang ing from half an acre to Ave acres for Summer homes in the Salmon Kiver. Sandy and Zlgrag valleys, while men interested in the cultivation of fruit have bought very largely around Fir wood, two miles southeast of Sandy. They be-u--- h airituHe climate and (oil are adapted particularly to the raising of high-grade apples. Government investigations of the oil. extend:ng as far as the old Mclntyre roadhouse. show all conditions favorable to raising apples equal to those produced In the Hood River Valley, with the ex penditure of the same care and scientific management. Tracts ranging up to 45 acres have been purchased ' at Firwood. This district is 28 miles from Portland and is reached in a few hours by railway and stage and by automobile In much less time. A more beautiful section cannot be found In Oregon than in the vicinity of 8andy and Firwood. Architect Otto Kleeman and other Portlanders, appre ciating the natural beauty of this dis trict, have erected1 Summer homes on the brink of the Sandy Valley, from which they have a splendid view, including Mount Hood In the distance. Attractive and prosperous farmhouses may be seen scattered in the Sandy Valley and about Sandy and Firwood. Investors In fruit i lands here are preparing tracts for cul tivation of aples and other fruits. E. Coalman, president of the Fruitgrowers' Association, and also of the Grange Fair Association of Saultnomah and Clackamas counties, is pushing development. Before the close of the year several hundred acres will be planted 'in high-grade ap ple and the movement to develop an other Hood River will be advanced. Within 11 and 15 miles of Mount Hood, near Rhododendron and Welch's moun tain resorts. Portlanders have been pur chasing many tracts for their Summer homes. Tockhlna Villa is the name of a 40-acre tract that has been divided Into acreage plots, and 12 8ummer homes have been contracted for by Portland men. Some are being erected. Dr. Will lam DeVeny has a five-acre site half a 'mile north of the Mount Hood road, on the Sandy Blvur. and is erecting a lodge at a cost of $1000. It Is well advanced toward completion. Every log is cedar. It stands In a dense forest of fir. spruce, maple and alder, on a clear, cold spring of water, and Dr. DeVeny calls the lodge The Scouts Rest. W. H. Terrell, of Portland, has purchased also two and a half acres in this tract. Mrs. Mary James haa let the contract for the erec tion of an $800 lodge house on her tract. Tt will be erected on the Sandy River. The timbers are now being gotten out for this building. A. Howard, an old resident, has had plans prepared for a Summer hotel to cost $4000. It will be built near the Sand?- River. John Mur phy has a Summer home, built of logs, near here. This tract Is on the Sandy River, two miles north of Welch's moun tain resort, and averaging half a mile from the Mount Hood wagon road. Near Welch's svnd the Maulding hotels, on Salmon River, a number of quarter blocks have been purchased, on which Summer cottages of logs will be erected. D. M. Donaugh. a Portland lawyer, who recently visited Mount Hood, bought a quarter block at the Maulding Hotel for 1150 and will erect a Summer home. Sev eral other Portland men will build in the same vicinity, forming a congenial col ony. The Rhododendron property, which comprises the 10 acres owned by "Dutch" Charley, was bought two years ago by ex-Mayor Rowe and ex-Battalion Chief Holden for J1"0. Its present value Is es timated as high as K.CO. It Is ten miles from the foot of Mount Hood, between Zigzag and Humpback Mountains, and all travel over the Mount Hood road passes In front of the hotel. This hotel, conforming to the wild native beauty of the surroundings, was built by Mr. Hol den of timber hewn from cedar logs. At Government Camp O. C. Yocum. the veteran retired Mount Hood guide, has contracts to furnish 12.O0O feet of lumber for cottages to be erected as soon as It Is sawed out. Mr. Yocum is pre paring to substitute electric power for his sawmill and also to erect a 50-room hotel to take the ptace of the present Mountain House, at a cost of about $10,000. He will build the new hotel in front of the present building. Dr. Rich mond Kelly was the first to erect a cot tage for his family. Government Camp will have at least a doien new cottages next year, besides Mr. Yocum' s 60-room. hotel. Streams of pure water run through the tract. More people camped at Government Camp this year than ever before. It is the end of the automobile " run from Portland and is bound to become more popular. The Mount Hood road haa been greatly im proved the pest two years, and except in the ratny season an automobile can run to Mount Hood or the resorts to this side in a few hours. It needs to be widened in places and to have Umber cut down to enable the road to dry out after a rain. Atf a few places the pres ent grsdes can be reduced. With the increased Interest In the land up to the foot of Mount Hood, as shown this year by the Investments made by Portland people. Improvement of this road Is sure to come. It must come either by the Joint action of the state and Multnomah and Clackamas counties or annexation of the terltory north of Clackamas River to Multnomah County, as suggested by President Wemme. of the automobile club. Mr. Wemme Is sure that a road with slight grades can be built to Government Camp for $20.0). Clackamas County has done fairly well with the road to the toll gate. From that point to Government Camp and beyond the road company collects roll, but spends practically nothing on the road, a condi tion that will not be permitted much longer. Unsuccessful Wrecker Caupht. HAMMOND. Ind.. Sept. 4. The lives of 200 persons on the New Tork Flyer of the Michigan Central, leaving Chi cago before noon yesterday, were Jeop . nrrhml by a negro, who gave his nam as Michael Durham, and said he lived in Terre Haute. ' The effort to wreck the flyer took place near East Gary, where the trains take up water by means of a scoop from a trough burled between the rails. Section men discovered that heavy timbers had been wedged Into the trough In such a way that when the scoop was projected to catch the water, the timbers would be picked up and thrown under" the wheels of the coaches. The negro was found near by and ad mitted his guilt. RUSE TO FOOL. CONSUMERS Ship Subsidy Graft In Robbing-Pe- ter-to-Pay-Paul Class. PORTLAND, Sep't. 2. (To the Editor.) The most embarrassing feature of the proposed ship subsidy scheme is that It really is In line with the principle of pro tection to American industries, but it is an extreme expression of that policy, and so nearly goes "the limit" of paternal ism that its advocates always succeed In strangling the support which they seek to create. There are many reasons why protection as an economic proposition, not carried to an extreme, should be maintained In the United States yet for many years, but a straight subsidy from the Federal treas ury to be paid to those who are able to EAST SIDE IS BUSY Many Realty Sales Recorded Across the River. SLOUGH TRACT IS SOLD $0,OO0, a Record Price, Paid for Block on Holladay Avenue, Be tween East First and East Second Streets.- The most- Important sale of suburban property on the East Side the past week was that of Egger Brothers, who sold 90 acres located east of Woodlawn to the F. B. Holbrook Company for $93,000. The tract transferred Includes the Hei delberg Addition, which was platted some East Third streets, covering the block, and rising six stories. This block was purchased for $120,000 from the Ladd estate. Erection of this building will be started this Fall. One of the largest single contracts for erection of residences for the season on the East Side has Just been let by John Lockhart for seven dwellings, each to cost $5500, or a total of $38,500, to be erected on East Twenty-fourth. East Twenty-fifth and East Twenty-sixth streets in the Irvington distriot. Dan Kellaher, who leased the northwest corner lot on East Morrison street and Grand avenue, has remodeled the old buildings, changing the disrupted appear ance of that comer. A modern business building will be erected in the future. Architects Kable & Kable have awarded the contract for erecting the new home of Judge Martin L. Pipes at East Ninth and Siskiyou, Prospect Park Addition, to Frank M. Moore. Connolly Wise se cured the plumbing, the J. C. Bayer Com pany the heating, and the Comet Hleotrio Company the wiring. The cost of the bulldlnga will be $3000. In the Westmoreland Addition, on Mil waukle road, the following have bought property during the past few days: Neil Sullivan. Alice Clark, T. M. Grooms, James Kelly, of McMlnnville; J. P. Mar nock, Jennie E. Hetser. C. W. Todd. M. P. Chapman; Oregon City; Ross Hum phrey, Grant Dlmlck, Oregon City; Wll- 1 4 ,. . I t fc. e i? nr - "w it . -I - " - r-T.i. - . s . - - ; REMI)EfK OF Dll. M. KirtK PATRICK, AT 858 MALINDA STREET, SHOWING A HEDGE OF CAROLINE -m.Tm imcc-ii e-i-i.i. pt rn-M i rHftVT nr.- THE HOUSE. I Ij. 1 ' l ..vr.T.j.. - m ........ - , own and operate hips, ostensibly that the "consumers" of the 6ountry may profit thereby. Is so manifestly a proposed graft that the wonder is not that It haa failed as yet to become, a law, but that there should be any supporters whatever of a suggestion "so plainly at variance with a "square deal." It is a monstrous proposition for the reason that it seeks to establish a differ ence between the Government of the United States and the "consumers" of the United States, seemingly oblivious to the fact that without the people there Is no government. Without the "consumers." the whole fabric of government Is a myth, a tottering nonentity. Without the "con sumers" of the country, the government never would have had and never did have a single dollar for any purpose whatever. As a distinct thing or substance, the gov ernment, any government. Is a colossal beggar, a mendicant. Its treasury always empty as apace except for the dollars which are put Into it by the people the "consumers." v The ship subsidy suggests that since, for instance, foreign ships carry coal from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific for $4 a ton and American shippers want $8 for the same service, that the difference of $4 be paid to the Ameri can shippers from the Federal treas ury. Of course. If this $4 was earned by the Government independently of its reliance upon the consumers, and it was disposed to pursue a purely philan thropic policy to a class of business men whom it dearly loved, then the subsidy would be a most welcome gift to the said shipowners and they would plainly be the beneficiaries of a aioble act of charity. But when that very $4 was put Into the treasury by the con sumers themselves, nobody yet having discovered any other way of getting money Into the treasury, the paying it out to the shipowners for the express purpose of enabling them to carry coal for $4 a ton the precise advantage this Is to the consumers who financed the deal by supplying the $4 Is not right easy of discovery. The degree of intelligence exhibited is little, if any, above that of the old time clown who. backed up against the center-pole of the circus tent, tickled his own nose with a straw and went into apparent convulsions over the amusement he thus afforded himself. The process involved, in the ship sub sidy idea is not merely robbing Peter to pay Paul It is more. It not only robs Peter, but it attempts to Impress upon him the belief that the more of his substance he gives over to Paul, the richer he becomes, though con fessedly getting nothing back. It Is a great idea. T. T. GEER. MISS HARWAS WILL SING Popular Soprano to Appear at Ma sonic Temple, September 15. It has been decided -for Miss Elisabeth Harwas by her many friends that she hall appear in concert before leaving Portland for the Winter, and so, on the night of September 15, at the Masonic Temple, the public will be given an op portunity to hear this chasmlng singer. Miss Harwas has sung very little since her return from Italy, having come home to rest. She did. however, appear as soloist with the Apollo Club and scored a great success, one local critic saying that she had come back, after only two years abroad, with a more finished and more professional air than do ma.iy after five or six years. " Another critic, speaking of the same concert, said: "Miss Elizabeth Harwas was a delightful sur prise. Her voice is a fine. full, open and natural soprano of beautiful, clear qual ity, and she sings with ease and utter absence of affectation. Her aria was a treat and she was called out again and again, until she repeated the end of It in encore." Miss Harwas wiH sing several arias and German. French and Enelish songs, and will be ready soon to announce her full programme. "Imperials" will be here soon. None like "Imperials." time ago and on which buildings have been erected. The land secured is be tween East Twentieth and East Twenty eighth streets, north of Ainsworth street. Egger Brothers, who are Swiss milkmen, purchased this property several years ago for a small price .and sold off a portion of the land. They will move their milk plant to another tract they own on Columbia Slough, which Is) valued at $1500 an acre. All the Dairy ranches on Columbia Slough district will be turned Into sites for homes when the O. R. & N. Company completes its branch to Troutdale. The Portland Railway. Light & Power Company is having plans perpared for new carbarns to be erected on East An keny and East Twenty-eighth streets. The building will be 216x125 feet with walls of reinforced concrete. Over a portion of the building a clubroom 36x 62 feet will be provided for the carmen. It will contain reading, smoking, pool and bathrooms and a social hall. The new structure will have a capaoity for housing 80 cars. Plans for this building will be ready within a few days, when the contract will be let. The old carbarn, the first to be erected on the East Side, stands on East Ankeny and East Twenty eighth streets, but is not large enough for the carllnes In that portion of the city. The cost of the new building will be about $30,000. Block 40, Wheeler's Addition, was sold the past week by Caroline H. Balnbrldge to C. W. Perry for $60,000. It Is located on Holladay avenue, between East Sec ond and East First streets, and contains no Improvements. The price is consid ered a record one for property In that section, especially In view of the probable erection of the new O. R. N. railroad bridge on Oregon street, removing the bridge from Holladay avenue. It Is announced that plans are being completed for the building for the John Deere Plow Company, to be erected on the block recently purchased on East Morrison. East Alder, East Second and helmina Sells, H. A. Andrews, M. H. Beers. Paul Erlckson. Frank Betiel. of Oregon City; and George D. Reynolds. Most of these purchasers bought to build homes. There is a rapid sale In this addition. Mrs. T. J. King, of 805 Cherry street, has entered into a contract with Contrac tor Hanan to erect a four-apartment flat on East "Second - and Hancock streets, to cost $12,000. The building will be a modern structure, . Work on it has been Btarted. The three-story- brick building ereoted by the United States Laundry at Grand avenue and East Yamhill street. Is al most completed, the Interior finishing being put on. Pressed brick was used on the outside, giving the structure a most attractive appearance. ' Cost of the building when finished will be something over $30, Ow. Horace G. Parsons and E. J. Stacks have eaoh bought a flve-aore tract In Multnomah Acres for $1000 each. They will erect suburban homes. Gllmcrre & Mlllatt have sold lot 28. block 6. Arleta, to L. Shanahan, for $750. Mr. Shanahan also bought lot S, block 3, Laurelwood. from George Haswell, for JS50. The National Realty Company is plat ting a 20-acre tract at Jennings Lodge on the Oregon City Electric Railway. Ground was broken Wednesday for the foundation of the clubhouse for the Sell wobd Commercial Club, on Umatilla ave nue, near East Thirteenth street. It will be 60x60 feet and will, cost $5000 'when finished and furnished throughout. Near ly $3000 of the stock of the club has been subscribed by citizens of Sellwood and more Is coming In. It is expected that the building will be completed by the latter part of October. It will then be dedicated by a mass meeting of citizens of that suburb, who are taking much Interest In the project. NEW CHURCH SOON TO BE DEDICATED. I - nwii"iinW'Ti FIRST I'MTED . EVANGELICAL EDIFIC E AT EAST SIXTEENTH AND POPLAR STREETS. . -r.H- . . 'v .. T - . , ; X 4 AG ACIEIBS We are selling ACRES at less than you pay for lots as far and farther out which it takes almost again as long to reach. Just think, an acre at $250 and up, on easy terms at Metzger Station, only 30-minute ride from the depot of the OREGON ELECTRIC RAILWAY (Salem line) FRONT AND JEFFERSON STREETS. The celebrated METZGER ACRE TRACTS unexcelled for soil for all purposes. You can have cleared or timbered land. Come out at any time to see them. Our agents will cheerfully show them, to you whether you purchase or not. THE: GRAND UNION PICNIC will be held at METZGER PARK on LABOR DAY. This will give you a fine opportunity to inspect this property on which the Park is located. For plats and all other information call at our Portland Office, 226 and 228 Front street, or at our Office at Metzger Station. City phones, Main 474 and A 1374. Phone at Metzger Station, Main 6409. HERMAN METZGER, OWNER W. A. 6HAW, President W. H. FEAE, "Vice-President. J. W. TABER, Secretary. -THE SHAW-FEAR CO. Paid-up Capital Surplus .$50,000 .$50,000 NOW OFFERING BEAVERTON -REEDVILLE ACREAGE 3600 acres, platted into tracts of y to 20 acres each ; a system of completed roads extending along one or more sides of each tract, platted; located ten miles southwest of the Courthouse,-on Fourth-street rail-way; five trains each way per day, 40 minutes.' ride; no rock, gravel, hillsides or cold white land, but very fertile soil, especially adapted to fruit, nuts and vegetables. Our acreage offers more and stronger inducements to the conservative investor than any other out lying property on the market today. No wildcat speculation in buying acres of beautiful-laying and highly fertile land on the edge of a great and rapidly-growing city. Why limit your investment to a town lot (we are selling acres at the same price), when the effect of the growth of the city on values of close-in lands has been so conclusively demonstrated? Five acres here, purchased on our very liberal terms) can be easily paid for from your savings and will show most satisfactory increase in value each year. We are now selling in such'sined tracts as you may choose at from $100 to $300 per acre, payable in easy installments. Call at our office, 245V2 STARK STREET and arrange to go with one of our representatives and examine this property. TO DEDICATE CHURCHES JBISHOP DUBS COMES SOOX TO CO.VSECKATE EDIFICES. First United Evangelical Clrarch Is Bal'lt of Concrete and Will Cost $20,000. Ir. C. C. Pollnsr, presiding elder for the United Evangelical Churches of the Ore gon Conferences, announces that Bishop Dubs will be In Portland during Novem ber. While here he will dedicate the new edifice of the First United Evangelical Church now being completed on East Six teenth and Poplar streets, in the Ladd Addition; the Ockley Green Church, erect ed on th.e Willamette boulevard and Derf ver avenue, and a church Just completed at Hillsboro. The church In the Ladd tract will cost, when fumlBhed 20,000. it is being built of concrete blockB. There is a full base ment, which is now being used by the congregation. On the second floor Is a Hne auditorium, which will seat over 600 people. Work was started on this build ing nearly a year ago, under the direc tion of Rev. A. A. Winter, then the pas tor. It is now In charge of Rev. H. A. Deck. A H. Faber prepared the plans for the building. It is an attractive building, and one of the finest to be erected in Oregon by the United Evangelical Church, as it was desired by the Oregon uonier ence to make Portland the central point. The new church Is In one of the finest residence districts of the city, more than $150,000 having been expended in new homes in the Ladd Addition the past year. The new church in North Alblna is a frame structure, costing $6000. It was erected under the general charge of the Rev. J. Bowerso:-. and wt. completed several months ago. Tne dedication was postponed, however, until Bishop Dubs should arrive. various religious creeds, have tried to read such doctrine and belief into various Old Testament passages. Jesus found a very plain Intimation of a future life In the words spoken to Moses at the burn ing bush: "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Is'aac and the Cod of Jacob." His comment is: "God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." What are we to make of Job xix:24-27? "But as for me, I know that my Re deemer liveth, and at last he will stand up upon the earth; and after my skin, even this body, Is destroyed, then with out my flesh shall I see God; whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger." In the 16th Psalm, verses 10, 11,- wa read:' "Thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol: neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life; in thy presence is fullness of Joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." In Psalm lxxili:24. we read: "Thou wilt t guide me with thy counsel, and after- I ward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there Is none upon the earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart fallethi but God is the strength of my heart and my por tion for ever." It does not seem to require any special ingenuity to find the idea of a future life in such passages as these. In Gene sis God is represented as saying: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Did God, when he created man, create a perishable Image of him self? J. A. P. McGAW. Uganda Will Grow Beeswax. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. Beeswax 1 designed to become one of the staple ex ports of Uganda. Consul Arthur Garrett, of Zanzibar, declares that the natives of Uganda are becoming enthusiastic lo the domestication of bees for the produc tion of wax. This is one of the few prod ucts that can be exported at any profit from the land of the Nile. Quarter Block Is Sold. Mall & Von Borstel have sold a quarter block for the Ladd estate to M. R. Set tlemeier. The property is on the south west corner of East Eleventh and East Flanders streets. It will be improved by the purchaser. The Mercantile Trust & Investment Company has sold a lot on the north side of Broadway street, be tween East Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets, to A. B. Cox for a home site. HOPE IN A FUTURE LIFE Various Biblical References Are Given on the Subject. PORTLAND. Sept. 2. (To the Editor.) The Jewish Tribune (Portland), reply ing to a critic, says, truly, that there is no hint in the Old Testament of belief in a future life. That is true, though many modern exegetes, in the Interest of .Rose City P facts arfc PRICES INCLUDE CEMENT SIDE WALKS, CURBS, BULL RUN WATER AND GRADED STREETS Thousands of dollars are being spent in im provements every month. Lots are selling at $500 and upward. Lots in other districts the same distance out and with like improvements are selling at $1500 and upward. Consult any reliable business man in the city of Portland familiar with real estate values and he will tell you Rose City Park prices are far be low the market. Now is the time to buy. If planning to build a home, consult with artman S Thompson Chamber of Commerce. V 0