The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, October 24, 1909, SECTION FOUR, Image 43

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Newspaper Page Text" ' n-, .- .-r.-ryn-K-x v txtjtt. A vn. nrTOTiER 24. 1909. i ' ill ij- nu.uAi v it r- iu.i , ? , ' ' . 1 PAVING IS PLANNED tance of three miles, through the Rose p,rir rfistrict. In the Laurelhurst HVEST0B5 SEEK INSIDE PROPERTY t HANDSOME BUILDING IS EAPIDLY NEAEING COMPLETION. Addition practically all the streets will be WHEN DOWN TOWN CALL AT paved in one general contract, mere win be no cheap improvements put down in this addition. At Mount Tabor a hard-surface district haa been established through the efforts T-tiHrti- Push tlnh. hptwepn i I jMany East ' Side Streets to Have Hard Surface. the Base Line road and Section Line road ' . . i H 1 , . t ..?eee-Tvj' :-r:. : W-':' -y'-'H i - 1 ' i i t ! I: : i , ! and East Forty-fourth ana tast aixuein TKia icirift i hns hppn manned and It has gone on record tliat only high- Active Trading Continues for Portland Realty in Down town District. ciass street improvements ehuh w In the district. These Improvements will be made next year under one or more contracts. In nhe Waverly-Richmond dis trict the property owners have decided to lay permanent pavements on completion BIG DISTRICT IMPROVED of the sewers. MANY DEALS ARE CLOSED Effect of Outsldo Money Is Now Ik-ins Felt Site at Fourth and ' Couch Is Purchased for $37,500. Tb. inriil rnltv market lost nothing ' taat wek !n the activity of trailing which Jia-. marled tl.e Fall aetifon. A number 1 of dt-als wore consummated and at least ' two of thesp rame a Uie direct result c ' th mom-y r'.h.c-A on the market a wee : ao by the purchaBe'of the property ad i i th. tnmi'r.Al irrntmrin. Both E. ! alv and Bono A Hallia who sold the I . Ttr hinrk At the iwutheast corner of ffii.xth aril J.l;nson for JlSl.C"). purchased otier pr"?-rt:p!. iTany oik.wbis r.ow p.'ml'ni;. Several trarsfora in thi ! n.-'.vi-.or!: d ct tho tlflO.iOO mark hav ; b'cn practically completed and are await i lnr paper which have bc-n sent away ' f - .lr-iirn fftP flnnl C I Oii P SC. Some Ol ' theso deal Involve considerable bulldln .,fr!nA in tf-A future wh'.lo others are made on the utrensrth of a rising market as Investment. nf no little interest in realty circles vim the purchase last week of 33 acres of land at Mount Scott from H. ' "W. Srott at $250 an acre. The -an nouncement that part of the tract would he converted Into a cemetery ; and the remainder Into a recreation nark hits caused conslderAble specula tion ax to the effect this would have upon Mount Srcrlt land values. The nrmprtv at the summit of Mount scon 45 acres of which will be set aside for inari ourDosea. should maKo an loeai spot for this purpose. The remaining I goo acres are well suited for cemetery purposes. The property has been tnken ' over by a corporation of which II. R. ' Reynolds is th,e manager. Thre haa been a tendency among the hnrupr real estate firms to secure lands tn the immediate vicinity of Portland for Uilartlnir purpose, and In a short time 'new outlying additions, once thought too for out for" suburban districts, but now brought near to t-omarra o- on cm. car service will be placed on the mar- fket. Many options ha'e been taken on euch properties, and the buyers are quiet 'ly securing the entire tracts before mat ilng known their plans and purchases. One close-in property was transferred last week at a remarkably low figure. This Is tho property located at Fourth and Couch street, tho site of tho old fCitv Laundry. 96x50 feet In size. This I was purchased by C. F. Reed, of 202H Stark street, from O. J. Sherman ror 1137.500. The deal was made through the j agency of J. J. Flynn. The property. which is Improved with an old two-atory brick building, is described as the west !86 feet of lot 7. block 29. Couch's Addi ction. Mr. Sherman haa owned tha prop erty but four months. One deal which came as & direct result I of the sale at Sixth and Johnson streets la. week tieo waa made when Beno.& Bal lis purchased from George W. Batea the j property at the northwest corner of rTwentv-second and Irving streets ior sji, l00. Thle deal waa made through the I agency of Wakefield. Fries & Co. It la i Improved on the corner with the former Iresidence ot Mr. Bates, ana is now occu pied by Rev. W. H. Foulkes, of the (First Presbyterian Church. There la also :a small residence for renting purposes on (the Inside lot. This property was pur ichased aj an Investment -and brings In a kalr Income. t Another purchase waa made last week Ihy ona of the sellers of the- Sixth and 'Johnson property, when E. J. Daly ought a third Interest of R. B. Hlnnott n the property at toe southwest corner tot Sixteenth and Washington on a basis k)f JS5.O0O valuation. This 1s but another raxampie of the steadily Increasing value son upper Washington street, the property ihavine sold three years ago for J4O.000. IMr. Paly nov owns a two-thirds Inter . feet In the property, the other third being (owned by Dan J. Malarkey. Mr. Daly, Pwho haa expressed at all ttmea unbound ed fatth In upper Washington street, says feie Intend holding this property to lm tprove it. j Mrs. Carrie. Hahn haa purchased a. lot ton tho south side of Harrison street, be tween Tenth and Eleventh streets, from the Sofie Investment Company for J)O0. SThls property le Improved with an eight Iroom two-story residence. Mrs. Hahn is Shaving the house remodeled Into a build-. Bng for two-room housekeeping apart ments. The property was sold through jthe agency of D. Parker Byron A Oo. ut was transferred four months ago, tho recent sale netting a profit of 100 per teent. Mrs. Hahn will hoki the property au ap Investment. 1 Robert J. O'Neill haa bought 100x100 8et located at the southeast comer of East Second and Broadway from Wil liam Reidt for t.v.00. The property-la un Smproved and was bought as an Investment- Mr. Reidt has also sold a ha!f ilock on the south side of Hancock rtreet. betweon Fast Seventh and East JT.ffhth streets, to W. H. McMonlea for This Is also vacant property and was bought asi an Investment. The long-expected excursion of the JPortlsnd Realty Board to Orenco will take plac9 on .Saturday. October 30. The partv will leave at 11:30 A. M. and will 3eturn at 5 P. M. A special car will be provided. The members of the board Trill have dinner at Orenco and will ln- vnect the Oregon Nursery Company plant it that plae. The work that has been Jone there Is of Interest to Portland real rtate dealers. Several lectures will be sriven by experienced nurserymen, and the fiartv will he driven several miles around 4he farm of 1100 acres. A- Backus reports the sale of 100x100 Seet on the corner of East Twenty-cond and Knott streets In Ip-lngton from Ja cob Crotxer to E. U. George for J3300. This Is one of the corners in the best 5art of the Irvlngton residence district. Mr. George Is a heavy purchaser of Irv lngton property, and has bought It as an Investment. The same agency haa also old 5"xino reet on East Eighteenth street to George L Brown for JltC-0. Mr. IRrown is now building a $So00 home on the lot. As an Index of the movement westward ?n Portland business and as an Illustra tion of the value of locations Is the fact that the deposits of the Lumbermen" Na tional Bank have Increased JS34.fa6.10 In the four months since moving Into the new offices In the Lumbermen's build ing at Fifth and Stark streets. Ji M. Wallace Is building a two-story atUo flat building, 48x54H feet In M 4 4 t -.m x v. . . -: , r. i ( RHIvc ' t - ir . $KK-RV t."fi-l'?; " V' 1 . ij " f 1- ': v-i ,": t -i ir V' ! ? ? t fin iya r .f X ')i ' ' . -7 Tt ' : X 1 : , ,:v.-- , - -yfiw -w iVV ".k --a A 1 ELECTRIC BlILDIXG AT SEVENTH AND ALDER STREETS, TO COST $300,000. si to, at East Thirty-seventh and East Yamh 11 streets, at a coei oi w. will be four flats of each of five rooms iTa .k fiat u-fit pnntAin n flreolace in ad rtitlon'tn the hot-air heating system. The building will be . of frame construction. Lv M. Dale ifcthe architect. Floyd 8. Brower haa completed a mod ern flat building on East First, between Holladay and Hussalo streets, at a cost of liiOCrt. The building is 36x56 feet In sise and haa four five-room flats. It Is well equipped and all the flats were en gaged before the building was completed. D. B. Flickinger Is the architect. Claussen & Claussen. architects, have prepared plans for two modern bunga lows for H. H. Haynes and B. F. Pond, to be erected oil Catlln street, near Haw thorne avenue. Both will be on the same, general design and will cost about $3500. BATES HOME BRINGS $21,000 Property at Twentysecond and Irv ing .Streets Changes Hands. . William Ballls and S. R. Beno have purchased three lots located at the north west corner of Twenty-second and IrVlng streets from George W. Bate, the con sideration being $21,000. The property haa a frontage of 150 feet on Irving street and 100 feet on Twenty-raecond street. The sale was made through the agency of Wakefield, Fries & Co. , The ororwtv was the former home of Mr. Batea and Is Improved on the cor ner with a handsome modern house, now occupied by Rev. Hiram Foulkes, ofthe First Presbyterian Church. On the In side lot Is a smaller dwelling. The pur chasers do not contemplate any further building orr the proparty, but will hold it as a home. An avers of 11 neraons have been In jured daily, and one peraon killed every other nay ror the last inree months by the Chicago streetcars. STRUCTURE TAKES SHAPE rxKCTRic. BCixnrxo -yilx be BLAZE OF LIGHT. Jan nary Will Find New Edifice Completed and Ready for Occupancy. All records In building construction will bo broken In Portland in the erection of the new Electric building, at the north east corner of Seventh and Alder streets C. L. Undo, superintendent of construc tion for the Portland Railway, Light & Powt-r Company, says the building will h. entlrelv finished by January 1. with every office In the building ready for occupancy. Tho structure waa started March 13. and since that time the builders have lost but one day of work sine operations started. The nln-e-6tory building will be a blase of electric light when completed. Over S0O8 l-candlepower electric lights will be placed on the outside and will make tne structure tho most highly Illuminated on in the city. One of the features of construction Is the sinking of great pillars In the base merrt, entirely separate from the rooms containing the generating station, which support the building and thus prevent en tirely the vibration from the machinery being felt In the offices above. The build ing Is now well under way and with the machinery running full blast below the vibration even on tho second; floor is im perceptible. The nolee from the great machines will also be done away with above the first floor. This Is accomplished by means of PORTLAND KEEPS UP RECORD OF ERECTING FINE APART MENT BUILDINGS. ' J i ----- ssf? : ft; xf ' - a " 1 1 J fit T t a-.. - tm'- -i : 1 .- Emil Schacht & Son, Architects. GEORGE KEELER STRl'CTTRE DESIGNED FOR FOIRTEEMH AND , CLAY STREETS. . the Kahn system of reinforced concrete1 construction, wnicn inciunes zioiiow mes and reinforced concrete with wing and cup bar sections. The first Ave floors of the building will be occuoled bv the Portland Railway lieht & Power Company. Two-thirds of the first loor and the second floor will be taken up by the operating room of Substation A. The other part. or tnese floors will be taken up as store rooms and display rooms. On tho third, fourth and fifth floors will .be the offices- of the company, the operating department offi ces on the third floor, the accounting de partment on the fourth floor and the ex ecutive . offices on the fifth floor. The sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth floors will bo gien to offices for renting pur poses. . All the contractors on the building are working hard to break the building rec ords and have the structure finished on contract time or by January L With this end In view It is thought probable in a short time construction crews will operate In two shifts, day and night. The brick work is now being put In snd the outline of the building is beginning to tako shape. The structure will be terra cotta the first two stories and brick on the uooer seven floors. An Idea of the extensive lighting plan may be gleaned from the Brockets which aro Demg piacea in the brickwork.' ' The building Is being finished through out In Siberian oak, although there IB out little woodwork In tho structure. The lobbies, halls and corridors are all finished with tiled floors. These lobbies are found on every floor of the structure while on the first five floors public waiting rooms are Installed. , The elevator service will consist of two electrlo high speed Otis elevators at tha Alder-street entrance, and an auto matic high-speed electric - elevator for employes on the Seventh-street entrance. O. B. "coldwelL of the Portland Railway, .LJaht & Power Company, has taken direct charge of the erection of the build ing and it is mainly through his enorts that the fast building record Is being established. FLATS TO ADORN CITY KEELER APARTMENTS EMBODY MANY MODERN FEATURES. Handsome Structure for Fourteenth and Clay Streets Is- Now ' Being Built. , ' Work haa started and Is now well un der way on the handsome apartments for George Keeler -which are to De erecieu ar the aouthwest corner of Fourteenth and Clnv streets. This pretentious struoture. designed by Emil Senacht & Son, archi tects, will contain conveniences 'a few years ago unthought of in apartment- house construction, ana even now rare in buildings of any kind. The cost of the apartment-house will be aoout $60,000. The building will be a rectangular structure, five stories high, 60x100 feet In size, and of slow-burning mill construc tion. It will contain 27 apartments ot three and four rooms each. The general style of architecture Is Tudor. The rront of the structure will be prwed brick, with sandstone trimmings. The main feature of the apartments will be up-to-date equipment. Automat ic high-speed electric elevators will be Installed, as well as electric service ele vators connecting each apartment with the basement. There will be disappear ing beds and, furniture In each room, buf fet kitchens' with built-in tireless cook ers, built-in Ironing boards, built-in re frigerators, a vacuum heating plant. tiled baths In every apartment,, hardwood floors throughout, and a special system of ventilation. The contract for the work has been let to the Dunnlvant Company, and work will be finished by March 1. A telDberflire svetem caDSble ef handling three-ton loads le in use on the wharf of a teamRhlp line at Richmond. Vs., for trans ferring freight from the vessels to th ware- Houses ana ears. IlUle Gravel or Macadam Will Be Employed In Futere Develop ment Work Push Clubs Fa vor Cement Sidewalks. William "M. Klllingsworth, who has Just returned for a trip to Seattle and other Sound cities, came back Impressed with the thought that only hard-surface pavements should be laid on the streets of Portland hereafter. In his talk before the North Alblna Push Club Tuesday night. Mr. Klllingsworth com mented on the appearance of v these streets." I am more impressed than ever," declared Mr. Klllingsworth. "after vis iting these cities, that Portland should cease using gravel or macadam on our streets and use hard-surface pavements only. The county may use crushed rock on the roads, but the city must take an advanced step if it hopes to keep up with the progress made by these cities." The United East Side Push clubs, at tho .last meeting, took a stand In favor of cement sidewalks hereafter in that portion of the city, and adopted the fol lowing resolution: "Whereas the Mayor and Council have sounded the tocsin for a greater Portland, by refusing to allow the pav ing of Btreets with gravel or macadam, and as this club believes that hard-surface streets are the moet economical for the property owner and the tax payer In the end, now, therefore, be It "Resolved. That the tJnited East Side Push Clubs hereby lnaorses tne action of the Mayor and Council, and further recommends that all pavements of 'the future be hard pavements." Considerable progress has been made in the direction of hard-surface pave ments on. the East Side. More are be ing laid now that ever before. Union avenue is being completed to Highland at a cost of $170,000. On Hawthorne avenue more than two miles of hard surface are being completed, and ten blocks more are protected on the same avenue, which will extend the hard-surface to East Fifty-fifth street. On Di vision street more than two miles of pavements are projected arnd will be laid next year. " South of Division street several miles of hard-surface street improvements are projected In Kenilworth and on Mil waukie street. Altogether In this -district such pavements costing over $250, 000 are projected. As yet there are no hard-surface pavements in this portion of the city, but now that the big sewer has been completed and Innumerable laterals are to be laid. It Is expected that little gravel or macadam will be used on the Improvements. An ex tensive hard-surface pavement is being" laid, on Belmont to East Sixty-second street, which is being completed. In Central East Portland, East Burn side street has the first permanent pave ment of any street leading east. It ends at East Thirtieth street. Other Improve ments are projected In this district The Sandy Road, which is to be made a street, will be pavpd to the city limits, a dis There Is an extensive district north of aiiitiunrt'ai fiiilr-h nnd east of Union ave nue, where many miles of first-class pavements - have been laia, ana several contracts for other streets have been let. iiroadway street has Just been paved be tween Union avenue and East Twenty fourth street, and the street will bepaved also to East Thlrty'second street. In Ir vington all the streets north of Thompson have been paved and the work Is still going on. In Piedmont good progress in laying high-class pavements has been made. The plan to open and pave a wide street down the Pen'.nsula is being worked out. This long streetisjs Lombard, and will ex tend from St. John to Peninsula, and probably to Albina avenue, and make con nection with Killlngsv.orth avenue. It Is proposed, as soon as the proceedings for making an 60-foot street through the Pen insula are completed, to take up the ques tion of Improving with a pavement of some sort yet to be decided on. It will connect with Klllingsworth avenue either by way of Patton or Albina avenue. The effort of Mayor S4mon to secure reasonable prices for hard surface has been received with much pleasure by Blast Side property-owners, as It will make It possible to lay that class of pave ments in future. Between macadam and hard-surface the difference in cost is not very great, and it Is believed that with the start that has been made only high-class pavements will be laid on the East Side. Such Improvements have al ways advanced the value of the property, although the initial cost has been at times considered heavy! Holladay Addition and Irvlngton, which are hard-surface dis tricts, are the most valuable and exclu sive residence sections on the East Side and the property there Is held at the highest figures. The push clubs will sup port the position of the Major that only hard surface Improvements be made m the city, at least within the settled portions. PRICES JUMP OX WASHINGTON Quick Profit Made on Sale of Build lng Site. E. J. Daly reports the sale made through his office of 73 feet square, located at. the northeast corner of Washington and Lucretla streets. The property was sold by S. Morton Cohn for $25,000. The purchaser 1s an East ern Oregon wheatgrower. Mr. Cohn purchased this property five months ago for $21,000, showing another ad vance of the upper "Washington street price. Mr. Daly says his client will improve the property with a modern apartment building of first-class construction or with a brick-block built with stores on the first floor and rooms on tho upper floors. The exact details of Improve ment have not as yet been decided upon. . It haa been discovered by the Chinese Ministry of civil office that there are some 60.000 dismissed or dpjrrarted officials who are entitled to -reinstatement by special ' grare on the occasion f th new reign. $15 an.'Acfe $1.50 an Acre Cash Makes your first payment. Crops pay the balance BOW RIVER VALLEY WHEAT LANDS 50,000 ACRES OF CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LANDS Have been bought by Oregon farmers and investors during this year THERE'S A REASON The lands are wonderfully rich and productive, well watered, all cleared, ready, for the plow, close to railways, schools, churches, and sold at a price and on terms that enable any man to own a farm. NEXT EXCURSION, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30TH. LOW RATES Come in or write today for booklets IDE-McGARTHY LAND COMPANY General Land Agents Canadian Pacific Railway Company 425-426 LUMBERMEN'S BUILDING -snb; - H Interesting Lighting Effects Are often the result, of knowing where to ( select your Fixtures. May we be of service to you? J. C. ENGLISH COMPANY Tiffany's Agents, 128 Park Street. Walsh Go's LIGHTING FIXTURE STUDIO 8 : ! I ! i Loolc over the new lighting fixtures, the handsome electrical Showers, trimmed with Steuben, Tiffany and Neuhause!n glass ware, the most elaborate in ijlie West. DOMES FOR CHRISTMAS Make your selections now of a beautiful, hammered, leaded or art-glass dome, and we will hold until you desire it delivered. An appropriate gift for the home. 3 ijbAtS jtzEx-fj TILE MANTELS PACIFIC WORKS O. E. Heintz, Manager. Portland,, Or. CASTINGS and STRUCTURAL WORK Carry complete stock of Steel Beams, Angles and Channels. For the homo, get one of out exquisite tilo' mantels, in the mossy, velvety finish. We carry the highest grades in tiling and our mantels always assure satisfaction. WINDOW DISPLAYS FOR CHRISTMAS The merchant should realize that he should have well-lighted windows to properly show his gpods. We wire windows espe cially for the holidays, and sup ply all lamps, such as Tungsten, Tantalum, etc. It is time now. Let us submit designs. ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES We are wholesale and retail dealers in all kinds of electrical supplies and our prices are the lowest. M.J. WALSHCO 311 Stark. Near Sixth Street. Both Telephones.