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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1910)
V lO THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND. JANUARY 23, 1910. LIGHTS TO BLAZE New Electric Building to Set Pace for Portland. HAS EMERGENCY HOSPITAL Block' to Be Completed Febru ary 15 Features or Structure Make It One of tlie City's Most Vnlque RJocks. Another office structure nearing completion is the nine-story and base ment Electric building at the northeast corner of Seventh and Alder streets, which has cost $350,000 to the Port land Railway, Light & Power Company. This will be the Electric" building In more ways than one. In it is lo ; cated the general offices and store 1 rooms of the company as well as the main generating plant for the city. ; But the especial feature is the system ; which will make it a blaze of light through the greater part of the night. There are approximately 2000 incandes cent lamps on the exterior of the bulld ing. which, arranged around the cor ' nice and in perpendicular rows, will light Alder and Seventh streets in an admirable manner. The main part of the structure will be completed by February 1 so all the I offices of the Portland Railway, Light j & Power Company can be housed. The ' offices on the upper four floors will be I ready for occupancy after February 13. ' when the building will all be completed ' and the lights turned on. Despite the generating plant in the basement the vibrations of the great machines will not be felt nor heard in any part of the building. The heavy tiled floor and peculiar construction i will, it is said, render the building both sound proof and vibration proof. No vibration of any kind can be felt out side the main generating rooms. When the doors are put in it is said the struc ture will also be sound proof. One feature of the building will be the location of an emergency hospital for the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company cases on the ninth floor. Here Dr. A. E. Rockey, surgeon for the company, is having fitted up a complete surgery and all its appoint ments. The first occupants will be the stores purveying electric appliances and fix tures, now located on Seventh street. These will be moved Into the first and second floors by February 1. The ihree floors above these will be ready immediately after. This building is of reinforced con crete construction built under the Kahn system. The exterior is faced In a light buff-colored brick. Electric elevators will supply rapid transit to lie upper floors. The building occupies an entire quarter block, 100x100, and was erected under the supervision of C. L. Linde, superintendent of building construction for the company. The interior lights are being put in under the X-ray system, whereby the lamps are inverted, set in cups with re flectors throwing the light to the ceil ing, .where there is a dull reflector scattering the diffused light over the room. Under this arrangement the same quantity of light is thrown into the room, coming from "an unseen source that appears mysterious. KRROIt tilVKS MORE TIME Blank Date in Macleay Option Ex tends Closing Period. A new twist appeared in the big op tion of the 15 blocks in the northwestern part of Portland when Jerome B. CJos sage. who tied up the $2,000,000 worth of property by payments of $30 in all Nhowed that though his first option was taken on December 23 and was for a term nf 30 days, nothing has to be done before the end of January. But one 30-day op tion was taken by Mr. Gossage, this be ing on the Macleay estate property, which was held at a valuation of $130,000. Al though this option was given for 30 days and presumably expires on January 24, Sunday giving grace of a day, Mr. linasage showed yesterday that lie bad until the end of the month before clos ing the deal if he so desired. When questioned about taking up this option. Mr. Gossage reached Into his rocket, produced the document and showed that it was made out in due form, figned beforo a notary but dated as follows: "To and untir 30 days from the day of December, 1909." The date lioe is blank as to the day on which the op tion is given, and nowhere in the docu ment docs this date appear. Mr. Gossage holds that this would give him until January 31 to close the deal if he so de sired, but refuses to say whether or not lie will take advantage of the omission of the day of the month in the docu ment. He says that the Macleay repre sentatives are now on the way to Port land to close the deaf". One development of significance ap peared last week, which seems to point to the sure taking up of the options by - the mysterious operators. Carl Jackson, owner of the Oregon Planing Mills, whicli gave an option at $100,000 on the block occupied by the mill, has received def inite assurance that his property would be taken over, being told to go ahead with his purchase of another location, as the present location would have to lie abandoned as a millsite after seven ' months at the outside. So much faith has Mr. Jackson in the assurance given him that he hiis been seeking a new location,- although his option does not ex pire until February if. A rumor which has gained considerable credence is, that the new location is to be used as a union depot for the S. P. & S.. the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads. It Is stated that the Hill and Harriman inter ests will not agree to any joint use or the present depot, and that the impend ing break has been definitely 'decided. Mho Hill interests having decidedto go tto the new location and leave the Har riman Interests, in the present depot lo cation at Sixth street. It is said in con nection with tills rumor, which railroad officials refuse to confirm, that the de pot site in Northwestern Portland is to lc made a "back-In" depot, as is the case In Inuny of the larner cities where traf fic is the heaviest. STIIEET IS TO BE WIDKMvli Opening of Villa Avenue Is at Last Assured. The final opening of Villa avenue, 80 feet wide, from the west line of Laurel hurst to Fairvtew, is now considered Hssured, there only remaining a short tretch to complete. After exhaustive discussion witli petitioners last Wed nesday, the County Court gave an order for the establishment of the thorough fare between the Reams and. Barker roads, a distance of two miles.- Judge Seneca. Smith represented the farmers before the County Court, and answered all questions and objections brought up by the Commissioners and Judge. One of the objections urged by the ,court was that a farmer had erected concrete posts for his fence on the 0 foot line, and would not want to move them, but the man was present, and said that he wanted the road made 80 feejt wide, and would move his con crete fence without cost to the county. Judge Smith said that as there was no opposition among the farmers to mak ing the road 80 feet wide, he thought the court could not object. The opening this portion of Villa roads removes practically all the diffi culties in the way of the complete ex tension through to Fairvlew. Judge Smith will now prepare petitions to have the road opened 80 feet wide from the city limits to the Reams road, and as there is no opposition it is confident ly expected it will go through. After this, the road will be opened between the Barker road and Fairview. Judge Smith and C. N. Rankin have worked in and out of season for several months to get the road opened east of the city limits, and are gratified over the pro gress made. Mr. Rankin said: "In making this road 80 feet wide I feel we are providing one of the finest thoroughfares leading out of Portland. Inside the city the avenue will also be made 80 feet wide. It has been widened to 80 feet through Laurelhurst, and also between West avenue and the city limits at Montavilla. I understand that it only remains to finish the pro- EAST SIDE APARTMENT-HOUSE, ' ! A if fix ceedings for the Ti-i ,t onin Laurelhurst and West avenue when wo Ducwi uatc tin ou-ioot Douievard ex tending more than 10 miles. "I am informed that the owners of the land adjacent to the Villa road are to take steps to form a district along the road in which only first-class houses may be erected. I am sure that the owners who have given land for this wtrlo flvenna will kn 1 1 - i? uiuic Liia.il compensated in the advance in the raiuo ui mcir property. judge Smith deserves much credit for the work he has done to bring about this widen ing." BLOCK UP IN TEN WEEKS THOMPSON' ESTATE BlILDIXG . BREAKS ALL RECORDS. Corner of Third and Ash Streets Im proved by Erection of Fine Stores and Hotel. Records for fast building in Portland are broken in the erection of the three story brick structure at the southeast corner of Third and Ash streets, com pleted last week and now fulfy occu pied. This building, erected, for the R. R. Thompson estate, was started just 10 weeks ago. It was designed by Bennes, Hendricks & Thompson, archi tects, and built at a cost of $46,000. The building is 100 by 100 feet in ground area, and is of light buff-colored brick, with cement and galvanized iron trimmings. On the first floor there are seven stores as well as a lobby for the hotel, which occupies the second floor. The stores were all rented soon after ground was broken, and were occupied as soon as the carpenters cleared away the rubbish. In many cases the tenants are the same as those occupying the quarters before the new building was started three months ago. On the second and third floors is a hotel containing 66 rooms, so that by means of a court all have both light and ventilation. The upper part of the building has been leased for a period of five years. The increased rental from the property pays good interest on the $45,000 invested in the building. Prior to the putting up of the modern block, the site was occupied by a num ber of ugly looking one-story frame shacks. Sale in Buck man Tract. C. N. Rankin purchased last week a tract of land 113 feet on Sandy Drive and 82 feet on East Nineteenth street from the Buckman estate. The price is not yet announced. Mr. Rankin will probably put up a building on part of flie land and dispose of the remainder to others. NEW n. ft. THOMPSON' Wit l l f- T- M fJFt! C U In ,1 B- n ?: -ft- ZSZ -jrr'' WOMAN WINS BLOCK In 3 Years Mrs. C. A. Wells Owns Apartment House: DRAWS HER OWN ' PLANS : . t . Coming to Portland Short Time' Ago With Small Capital, Shrewd In vestor Now Owns $30, . 000 Structure. What one woman has done in Port land is shown by a fine three-story brick store and apartment building, lo- AND WOMAN WHO BUILT IT -user cated at the corner of East Twenty eighth and Gllsan streets, and recently completed at a cost of $30,000. The building was erected' by Mrs. C. A. Wells, who came to Portland in 1906 with but little capital, and by dint of wise investments, hard work and strict economy, managed to build" the "fine apartment house which now brings in a good interest.'' Mrs. Wells not only provided the money fer this building but she also prepared in a large measure the plans and then superintended the construc tion of the work. Mrs. Wells tirst came West In 1902 when attracted by the land rush to Oklahoma she went there from Indiana and located , on a homestead. This farm she managed to keep, despite crop failures, litigation to oust claim jumpers and other draw backs and today she still holds it at a valuation of between $4000 and $5000. In 1906 Mrs. Wells, attracted by the literature concerning Portland which had been scattered broadcast over the country, came to Oregon to try her fortunes and located in Woodburn and attempted to get a timber claim. Fail ing to get anything satisfactory she moved to Portland soon after arriving in Oregon and after going into street canvassing she raised sufficient capital to buy four lots in University Park In 1907, which she purchased on the In stalment plan, held for a year and dis posed of at a neat profit. She then bought a lot on East Twenty-second street, which she improved with two houses and secured a month ly rental of $50. In 1908 she purchased the site at East Twenty-eighth and East Glisan" streets and promptly set to work preparing plans for a building. After making the plans Mrs. Wells called in an architect to complete them and in order to push the wprk rapidly on the building personally superin tended the construction. The building is 50x100 feet, three stories. and. was built at a cost of BLOCK ERECTED IN RECORD B. n it KSTATiS BUILU(i OX THIRD AXB ::"MS I t K I a ill J 'iZJ " la i ijf . presence ieaaing and his return ai fear,ed." FRUIT MEN SUBDIVIDE ' BIG RECORD BUTTE" OP RIVER SETS THE Trtelid of the Times Care in Small Fruit Tracts To Be Adopted, . i . . -i-1 j - . i. - vhb vi lire uiusi uuuiyra trend . toward scientific .and care among orchardlsts is ment just now made that Butt Orchards, located' in River Vfillv. jnH l-erarvtert developed and most scientifically laid,' out orensra in tnai vauey. is to In email tracts and put on the This is the flrsf tlmn hA Orchard In Rogue River Valley has been put on uic mantei in small the announcement will makp m orchardlsts In the Northwest, move is w&tcned ty rar-seeing The Snowv Butte Orchards originally by Olwell Bros' hut recently owned and operated by Fred erick H. Hopkins, of Portland. They tlftVO nn-kilAM Vu..r.l, ... T V. - .11 ' - - " " u J UMWX XV. Alien, of New York, for the purpose of selling In small tracts. The prices. It range from i'2Bo to 12 nnn t. Inar tracts Hove nrinduco frnm 1 "i. H I -. .v.t o 60 per cent per acre profit xuo rvnra are irom iM years The ValleT Show OrehMni ThA rrbnrrl fa nrnhohltf tVm In the United StAtPs. Tvina - a J . UUCO on the direct line of the Southern Pacific, ii lias attraciea ror years the attention of the thousands of passengers who are carried bv that mint i-k. .1 .. ; - a ..v luwumiuua Ul trees In full fruitage, loaded with prize Winning . Yellow Newtons or Spltrenberg ?T ,i i, goiaen -""'v-. vr inter isenis been one of the sights of the i The entire orchard has wearing tracts nave produced thirty five cars, and experts predict that It will Dring over .100 car loads of per annum in less'than five years. In cluded in the orchard is a block- of ii i ji i.tri ieiiiH near h nh t. . .to A per year, on from ti.zt(J per acre), vear ofti It is from thla .h.. u . pear sales- have been mail. i: - uruugai irom is to 10 a box In the New York mo.ird i.t. ----- is tOD notch nrlc tnr a. It IS UndfTHtftM that oa . . twmpany, me present proprietors wlU ; an. care ror and cultivate the niiercvi oi -ine owners if so has water for. lrr!jratlo&. Orchafil hna nnt haan iK.t th peculiar advantages of wvmuS 2io necessity. in Climatic CODy altlons are superior to anything: in the UJthtiul feature et fWAnn wsua un oi. zneir oDJectionatSi wnM The vallv tntv.tA t - - - . - - -xt nv rail and -nn rvrw . . Rogrue Rrr. Valley Is conceded by ex- J Is conceded by ex-ij uerts lo oe uie cent Jn the world. ItvM $30,000. It brings in a rental of $4000. a year now from the three stores on the firsjt floor and the apartments on the two upper floors' OREGOX TOWX IS BOOMING Medford to Have Fine New $40,000 Building. Announcement is made of a new building to be erected at once in Med ford which will be one of the finest business blocks in Southern Oregon. This will be a modern- business block of pressed brick, steam heated and equipped with an electric elevator, and will be .90x100 feet and eventually five stories high, although but three stories will be built now, at a cost of $40,000. The building is being erected for G. F. Cuthbert & Co., which firm has taken a lease on the two lower floors for the establishment of a large furni ture store. Mr. Cuthbert wasin Port land last ''week and spoke in glowing terms of the development of the South ern Oregon town. He said: "The Southern Pacific depot will be moved two blocks further north from its present location, and the present site will include a parking strip, two blocks by half a block in size. The plan is to have this put in fine shape, so as to create a good impression on the newcomers to the city. The Com mercial Club is now waging a campaign for increased membership. It started the year with a membership of 450. and the campaign is aimed to bring the num ber to 500 by January 25. "The streetcar system in the town is to be increased and improved, so that 4 Medford will be well supplied in this regard. In addition to the many im provements under way and projected in the town itself, there is a great irriga tion project under way, which will rep resent the ultimate investment of 41. 600,000 and which will mean placing water on thousands of acres of lands which are at present undeveloped, and will also supply water to many farmers now struggling to operate their places with but a scant quantity of.vater." TIME. : - v S J I i -f.-w4' ri LiML .Jkg ?Mi :. . : .;-;:-:-:'-:-. -iWWWBPP-'--.v: a-. : : v -1 ASH STREETS. ORCHARD EARIN KOGUE PACE. Individual iiuuis u& iuv Individual the announce the Snowy the Rogue nm tYtd hui De spilt up market. Hia r I no- tracts, ana stir snrnnv where every Investors. were nnmo ha- hn is said, will n r-m -d-. oi . !1i Ltll, per annum. ola down. MCBl Kuuwn t j . Bartlett. pears, vallev. been planted choice fruit , -1 .a . 16 acres. iiic nunoui n . - - . ,.u.. VTftlUUI .... I WOSU -i A aa vi uiiaru tracts In tfaft desired. aithnntrh - the climate . iM.w uwu ,nu& PAVING PLAN HL Sandy Road to Be Parked Be tween Streetcar Tracks. EXPENSE IS MUCH LESS Rose City Park District Mill Have Grass Plats in Street Centers. Building in the Addition Reaches Big Proportions. 1 Property owners along the Sandy road are planning a unique - improvement to the long street, recently widened to an 80-foot boulevard and made one of the commanding east and west streets on the East Side. Petitions are being prepared for the hard-surfacing of the entire street to Rose City Park. The high cost of this work, hard-surfacing an 80-foot street, has caused the property owners to seek a posMble saving and this idea has been worked out in a manner which it is be lieved will not only add to the beauty of the boulevard but will lessen ex penses. Instead of paving the street from curb to curb, it is planned to omit paving be tween the double car tracks. This part of the street to be parked and a regula tion enforced prohibiting teaming on the parked area. This ha been done in other cities with marked success and the grass plots between the car tracks add much to the beauty of the residence sections. E. I Thompson, of the firm of Hartman & Thompson, believes that this one thing will do much toward enhancing the values of Rose City Park, the addition recently owned by his firm, and which has now been almost entirely sold. In speaking on this subject, Mr. Thompson said: 'I believe the sale of Rose City Park has been the greatest ever attempted in the country. Here we had a tract of 1134 acres of land, to which we later added jeo acres, making a total of 1294 acres, and this land was all platted and put on as an addition "inside the city limits. I thinK nothing like that has ever before been attempted. The largest previous record was a great addition placed on the mar ket In Kansas City, but this did not in clude one-half the acreage of Rose- City Park. "The addition has sold rapidly so that now our interest from a financial standpoint is small. "We own 130 acres at pres?nt. the remaining lift acres hav ing already been sold. - The addition has been on the market but two years, and it is already one of the building suburbs of Portland. 'But despite the fact . that Rose City Park has about gone out of the hands of this firm. I cannot but take a great inter est in its welfare. The widening and hard-surfacing of the Sandy road will have a great effect on the standing of this part of the city. The Sandy road is a natural artery running east and west through East Portland. "Plans are now under way with the streetcar company for direct service over the SBurnside-street bridge for the Rosa City Park cars and when this service is begun it will mean quicker transit. In fact a .large part of the work to be done in placing new tracks is now under way, and the entire cutoff from Rose City Park direct to Burnside street is included in this year's budget for the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company." Valter Seaborg, chairman of the prog ress committee for the Rose City League, reported that . tlie week ending January Rogue River Placfed on Sale in Small Tracts First time in the history of this wonderful valley- that a lare Bearing Orchard has been offered for sale in small tracts. . Has Yielded $1000 Per Acre The Snowy Butte Orchards, of world - wide fame, whose fruit has been sold for record-breaking prices, in New York and Lon don, will be subdivided into small tracts and sold at prices within reach of persons of reasonable means this in recognition that The Trend of the Times Is Toward Individual and Scien tific Care of Small Tracts. Price $250 to $2000 an Acre FOR FULL PARTICULARS CALL OR ADDRESS Medford Land & Orchard Co. PORTLAND OFFICE, 307-309 LEWIS BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON. "Medford The Wonder City" 15 was the banner week in the building line in Rose City. Park district. He an nounced that this district not alone started one-fifth of all new dwellings costing $3000 and over, but for that week the district built nearly one-half of the dwellings costing $J)00. Following were the buildings started In Rose City Park: E. S. George, home costing $2000 on East Sixty-first, between Alameda and Brazee streets; G. W. Priest, two-story dwelling costing $2000, on East Thirty-seventh, near Hancock street; G. "W. Priest. East Thirty-seventh, near Tillamook street, a two-etory dwelling costing $2000; Mr. Priest, two more $2000 buildings, one on East East Fifty-eights, between Tilla mook and Hancock streets, and the other on East Fifty-eighth, near Alameda street. NEW FIjATS ARK TjNIQCE Apartment House Is Designed on Highly Modern Plan. ' As a site for a large modern apartment-house, to cost $80,000, the Port land Trust Company has purchased the quarter block at the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets from Joseph Shemanski for $20,000. This cor ner, occupied by an old residence, was to have been improved with a modern aprtment-house by Mr. Shemanski, who had plans prepared, but later de cided to sell to the Portland Trust Company. Plans have already been prepared for this building by Emil Schacht & Son, architects, and the old house which was on the property is now being moved to another location. Excavation for the new building will begin on February 1, and the building will be finished by September 1. It will be a four-story brick structure, thoroughly modern and costing $80,000. There will be 49 apartments, of two, three and four rooms each, in the build ing. Eleven of these will , be located on each of the four upper floors, and five will be in the basement, which will be light and airy. The exterior of the structure will present an imposing ap pearance, being of. red pressed brick with blue Tenino stone trimmings. The interior of the building will be equipped in the finest possible fashion. There will be a large electric auto matic passenger elevator. Hardwood floors will be installed throughout, save in the halls and corridors, which will be tiled. The halls and lobby will also have marble wainscoting, and the large metal staircase will be fitted with woodwork of solid mahogany. The separate apartments will be well appointed. All will be equipped with the modern disappearing beds, with fireless cookers. built-in porcelain lined refrigerators, electric dumb, wait ers, built-in china closets in each' dining-room, and all the built-in conveni ences for a modern flat. Plate glass will be used throughout in the build-, ing, and the finest crystal will be em ployed in the light fixtures. All the dining-rooms will be wainscoted i-nd beamed, and the kitchens, baths and bedrooms will be finished in white enamel. The structure will be equipped with a new system of steam heating, and will also have a modern ventilation system and a vacuum cleaning plant. In the basement. In addition to the five apartments, there will be an Individual storage-room for each of the occu pants of the flats above. There will also be a large laundry, with patent clothes-dryers. Each apartment will have a private reception hall, and in this hall will be placed a private tele phone. The plans for the building will be filed at the office of the Building Inspector before the first of the month. Erection of a modern schoolhouse for Woodstock Is assured this year. It will be completed so it can be occupied next Fall, according to the present plans. A site of nearly two acres, oast of tlvi present schoolhouse, for which the Board of Education paid $3600 ha.y" been se lected. The old building contains only Valley four rooms, was erected more than 11 years ago, and is no longer adequate for this growing suburb. Probably an eight room building will be erected this year, which will be sufficient for two or three years. The King of Opportunities Without question this city will become a large commer cial and nianufacturing cen ter. Liocqted at the cross roads of a great railroad high way, and right between the Crab Creek Valley and the Big Bend Country. It ia the first division point on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad, out of Seat tle. It is already a pay-roll town. President Earling, of the C., M. & P. S. R. R, in an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, says : "Upon tlie completion of surveys now under way, we will build a line both north and south from Othello to reach the wheat fields already yielding, and districts that will be developed with trans portation facilities" Facto ries are now being built. Roundhouses and repair shops are already established which will employ men of all trades and walks of life. The land about this city is now being irrigated, and is destined to be a fruit country equal to any of the Northwest. The analysis of the soil is the same as that of the famous "VVenatchee fruit lands. The cli mate is perfect. In fact, keen judges say that Othello fruit is the perfection of pomology, possessing all that is highest in quality of the Wenatchee and Yakima fruit regions. Othello City lots and acreage now for sale on terms to suit the purchaser, by the Othello Improvement Co., 219 and 220 Commercial Club Building. P. B. Newkirk, Managing Di rector. AVrite or call for free booklet. Phone Marshall 727. OTHELLO