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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1910)
THE SUNDAY O R EG O XI A X. PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 6. 1910. EAST SIDE JOINS near Ainsworth avenue, was bought by A. C. "Wheeler, a sawmill owner of Ore gon, City, for $3650. Mr) Wheeler bought the property for a borne and will occupy the premises at once. A- E. Borthwlck sold 100x100 feet on the corner of East Twenty-third and "Jar rett streets to Mrs. Roxana Courtney for $900. Mrs. Courtney will erect a home in a short time. Charles A. Edwards, who recently came to Portland from the East, has purchased th residence of Mrs. Maiinda A. Mitchell, on East Eighteenth, between Brazee and k'nnf f tr&f.l a f rr- OfM). Tt la -a mruarn RIVER HOME NOVEL F. A. Spencer Has Handsome Residence on Willamette. New Structures Are Rising All Districts of Section. in home recently completed. DESIGN IS SWISS' CHALET DISTRICT KEEPS VP KECORD io B U I L D I f J G ADVANG PROGRESS IS WATCHWORD Fine Blocks' "Being Planned, and Others Just Completed Are Quickly Rented by Seek- ers for IOcatlon. Building devalopment on the East Ride is keeping pace with that on the West Side, and in the business section a large number of handsome brick blocks - are being- erected and many : others are feeing planned. More than ever the demand for store spaces along i Grand and Union avenues, as well as : on the many cross streets from East ' Seventh and East Eighth streets to the ; river front, has been growing; and on J the two avenues and on the bridge . streets the development has been such . that the West Side resident who has not visited the East Side in the last i few months can hardly credit the change which has taken place. "Expand, develop, build and boost," is the slogan of the East Siders, and j as a result this part of the city id forging ahead at a pace which is little short of astonishing. Plans are being made for hard-surface streets, and that part of the city is now far ahead of the West Side in the character of its streets. Here, too, the great prepon derance of homes has had the effect of calling into being a vast number of corner groceries, so much so that the local commission jobbers are now seri ously considering the advisability of moving in a body to a convenient East side warehouse and jobbing location where they will be nearer the center of the greater part of their business. Local commission merchants estimate that about 70 per cent of the grocery business is located on the East Side, ! and but for the great cost In moving and the fact that valuable leases now held on the West Side would have to be relinquished, the move would have been made ere this. A great wholesale center, as well as manufacturing center, is being devel oped on the East Side, and the track age of the O. R. & X. and the Southern Pacific lines, and these, with the rap idly growing retail business, is giving a metropolitan character to the East .Side, which is only eclipsed by the dis trict known as the "downtown" section on the West Side. Plana are being prepared by Knighton & Root for a three-story brick building. 500x100 feet, to be erected at the south-' east corner of Holladay avenue and East First street, for Sengstake & Lyman, to cost about $;16,000. The lower portion will be UBed for stores and the two upper floors for offices and apartments. Five stores will front on Holladay avenue and two on East First street. There will be TO rooms in the upper rooms. Plans for this building will be ready March 1. A modern brick business building Is to be erected on the west side of Union avenue, between Russell and Knott streets, by Mrs. Daisy Lotts, recentlv from Knoxvllle. 111. She purchased a quarter block on Union avenue for $7000 cash from Meyers & Dedrlch last week, and then returned to her home in the East, with the intention of having the building erected this year. The cost of the building as proposed is $30,000. and this will be the most pretentious struc ture In that portion of the city. R. Politzsch, of the Lower Albina Flour Mills, will erect a modern home on tho Icorner of Wasco and East Fifteenth streets, to cost about $8000. Charles Harkneas also will put up a handsome home on East Fifteenth and Wasco streets in the Spring. Karl MoCroskey will erect a frame 20 room apartment housn on Albina avenue, north of Killingsworth avenue, at a cost of $7000, for the accommodation of tho teachers from the Jefferson High School. It will bo 40x60 feet. Excavations have been started for tho foundation. O. Fish will erect a frame building, 60x100, on Itlllingsworth and Campbell avenues this Spring. - John A. Toting has purchased a iuar- tar-block In Riverside Addition, corner of Willamette Boulevard and Patton ave nue, for $2000, and is having plans drawn for a $15,000" building. It will bo ot con crete block and will be for stores and offices. Many attractive homes are to be erect ed in Overlook Addition. Sales have been made to the following parties tho past three weeks: F. W. Hies, four lots for $4000; Paul Paulson, one lot for $1000; A. llleg. one lot. $10ix); Charles Wicks. , two lots. $2000: Kcls Lundo.ui.st. one lot: Oregon Building & Trust Company, two lots; V. J. Z.ey. ono lot; Jlella M. Mo Cully, one lot; C. E- Steelsniitli. one lot; Kimball & Wagner, eight lots: Hugh Farmer, of Tho D.Tllr.s. one lot; Portland Realty Company, two lots, and others. Plans have already beon ilrawn for 12 houses to be erected at once which will coat from $2500 to $10,000. T. G. Anderson, recently from Cali fornia, is erecting several bungalows in Menefee's Addition to Roso City Park. He has four houses tinder way in the vi cinity of East Forty-fifth and H:ncock streets, which will cost a'oout is!i.0.t0. These houses are Sx3S feet. Mr. Ander son, who is a member of the Chicago School of Art. is pleased with the dis trict on account of its pieturesMUe scen ery. He will erect many ntr.-artive liom's in that district. F. E. F.owevman & Company have sold for the Huithes eetate n lot. on lirazoe und Knott street to Cutter Lewis, of the Eastern & Western Lumber Company, for $iS00. and plans are belni? prepared for a two-story frame Swiss cluilet. Tile cost is estimated at $touo. Mike Fitz gerald purchased two lots on East Twen tieth street from E. H. Moore for fS400, and Is making arrangements to erect a house. W. C. Hay bousht a lot on East Eleventh street for $1500 and is having plans drawn for a $3500 bungalow. At Euu Seventeenth and Knott streets n J40O0 home is to be erected for R. A. Sc.oan. Plans are now being prepared by Jeorge Foote Hunham. It will be C4x7 feet, two story and seven rooms. the Oregon Building & Trust Company will erect & two-story seven-room house mi the lot they recently purchased on Thompson street, near East Twenty-seventh street, hi Irvington. It will cost sbout $4000. H. E. Wait, of Hood River, purchased for a home the new two-story modern house on Alberta and East Sixteenth streets for $3:160 from Mrs. Mable J. Wil son. A 100x50 lot on Foot Eighth street. of Xew Home Each Day. . Rose City Park makes a good showing in the building line. According to Wal ter Seaborg. chairman of the publicity committee of the Rose City Park Im provement League, the district for the week ending January 29 maintained its building average of starting one-fifth of all 'the new houses in Portland costing $2000 and over, and one-fourth of the houses costing $1700 and over. The fol lowing houses were started during that week: Mns. Isabel. $2000 dwelling, EUst Fifty second, near Sandy Drive; T. Q. Ander son, $S000-dwelling. Hancock street, near East Forty-fourth; Mr. Anderson, $2700 dwelling. East Forty-sixth street, near Broadway; J. S. Courrhey. $1900 dwell ing. East Forty-ninth street, near Sandy Irive; Norman H. (Bean, $1700 dwelling. East Fifty-third street, near TillSmook. A number of new houses also have been started for wjhich no permits have yet been Issued, raising the average to more than one new house started every day. FLATS BRING $100,000 JAEGER BROS. BUY BUILDING OX CTPER WASHIXGTO.V.i A. S. Ell is Makes Good Profit Sale or Stanley Apartments at King: Street. One of the largest sales of improved property made recently on Upper Wash ington street was consummated yester day when the firm of. Jaeger Bros., Jewel ers, purchased the Stanley apartments at the northwest corner of King and Wash ington streets from A. S. Ellis, the con sideration named being $100,000. Part of this sale price resulted from other prop erty taken in trade. This property consists of 51 feet front age on Washington street a depth of 100 feet and a width at the back of the lot of 70 feet. It is occupied by a finely built apartment house of four stories built by Mr. Ellis and completed last Fall at a cost of $63,000. The property now pays a good income on the invest ment price of $100,000, giving a rental an nually of $13,675. The apartment is strictly modern in every particular. It is a four-story white pressed brick building of the latest de sign and contains 35 apartments of three, four and five rooms each.' The flats are all finely appointed, being equipped with the latest disappearing furniture, tele phones in every flat, all the finest built in appliances and a fine electric elevator, a steam heating plant, and is one of the best built apartments in the city and one of the finest on Upper Washington street. The opposite corner of King and Wash ington streets was purchased by Mr. Ellis two weeks ago for $45,000. Mr. Ellis will now improve that comer with an apart ment house costing $100,000. Jaeger Bros, own two other properties In the same block. One is the old Bailey property, which has a 70-foot frontage adjoining the Stanley apartments. This Is covered with an old frame dwelling. The same firm owns the Weaver apartments di rectly across the street from the Ellis property purchased yesterday, and 60x100 feet on Lucretia street just off Wash ington street. This Is practically vacant property and may be improved in tho near future. The sale of the King and Washington corner was negotiated through the agency of Kirk & Klrkham. This is the third piece of property transferred on Upper Washington street within the last week. On Friday L. B. Moncfee sold to Timothy Kinney the riuarter block at the southwest corner of Twelfth and Washington streets for 200,000. This sale was negotiated jointly by Walter G. Cox and Chester G. Murphy. Mr. Kinney bought tho property with the ultimate idea of Improving the corner with a fine building, but can do nothing until the expiration of the leases a year hence. The property was purchased by Mr. Mencfee but a month ago for $175,000. A year ago Scott Brooke bought the property for $135,000. Tho third large sale on Upper Washing ton street was the purchase a week ago of the inside lot on the north side of Washington street between Thirteenth and Twelfth streets by Loewenson Bros, for $t'5,M0. This- is a 50x100 foot lot, prac tically vacant, and the purchasers are now having plans prepared for a five story building for tho lot. The property was formerly owned by Ed J. Daly. Scot-go Rodgers and Joseph Meyers. It was also sold through the agency of Welter . Cox. Rose City Park Builds at Rate J SWISS CHALET ON WILLAMETTE IS IDEAL HOME. J; ?- i l -vM.t hi - II- ift, - - -V-l7i i 1 1 na .11 m h i 111 m' -'" T-Jy..g.lafJ-- . ... . . m f ,BI , ,n , -vi-jj I f ltt:.II)KCE Of FKA.VK A. SPEXt'EB AT RIVERD.1LE. Beautiful Site at Rlverdale Is Uti lized for $25,000 House of Great Artistic Beauty, With All Con veniences Offered in City. . Among the homes recently completed in Portland is that of Frank A. Spen cer, manager of Allen & Lewis, near Rlverdale, which for its unique archi tecture and striking beauty of location has attracted a great deal of attention. The house fronts on the White House Road and the Willamette River, and lies directly opposite the extension of the (Jolf Links, and almost on a lino with the new Waverly Clubhouse, soon to be erected. ' This residence, which with grounds represents an investment of $25,000. was designed by David C. Lewis, and is of a modified Swiss chalet form. The property fronts 200 feet on the Wil lamette River, running back to the White House Road at a varying depth from 60 to 175 feet. It has an en trance directly from the road, through picturesque grounds, inclosed by rustic stone walls. The house proper is built on an Immense rock, which projects directly into the river. It has a con crete foundation, the foundation walls varying from 24 to 34 feet in height: indicating on the part of the architect and engineer not only originality, but daring in overcoming natural difficul ties. The residence has IS rooms, is two stories in height, with high and sweep ing gables, and a sub-story in the con crete basement. On the main floor the entrance leads directly into a large living-room, with coloni.U fireplace, fin ished in Moravian tiles. The woodwork is white enamel, with mahogany trim mings, and the walls are in blue silk tapestry. Adjoining the living-room is the hall, from which a wide stairway ascends to the second, story. This hall is in hemlock, stained a sage green, and the general design has a Japanese -motif. Directly adjoining the hall is the dining-room, in mulberry tapestry: the woodwork all in Philippine mahogany, stained a very dark color. On the next floor are three bedrooms, linen-room, connected by a dumb-waiter with the laundry In the basement; sewing-room, and a very large tiled bathroom; also a large sleeping-porch facing the river and leading from the main bedroom. This sleeping-porch Is located In one of the great gables, a feature that the architect has made prominent in carry ing out a general Swiss style. In the basement are the servants' rooms, two in number, laundry, automatic gas plant, etc. Along the entire frontage of Mr. Spencer's residence, on the main floor and ' projecting over the river. Is a porch 50x12 feet, one-half of which is an open terrace, and the other half cov ered and so arranged that during the Winter months it can be glassed In, making a beautiful conservatory, with entrance from both living and dining rooms. In constructing the house, light and view have been constantly in mind, and the full frontage on all sides Is largely of glass, all of heavy French plate. The grounds are most attractively planned, equipped with' an electric plant for irrigating, swimming cages so that river bathing can be resorted to with safety, boat landings, etc. With the success in carrying out so many novel ideas In the construction of Mr. Spencer's home. It is certain that similar improvements will soon follow along the beautiful Rlverdale frontage, until the stretch In the vicinity of the old water works will resemble that on the Hudson River, In New York, famous for the past century for its beautiful river homes. BURNS ARE SOON FATAL Jesse P. Cliurcliill Expires as Result of Mine Accident. BAKER CITY. Or.. Feb. 5. (Special.) Jesse P. Churchill, who was badly burned while applying a coat of tar to a cyanide tank at the Dorothy Flag staff mine last night, died early this morning. Churchill was rushed to this city as soon as tho accident was dis covered, and then to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where his injuries were dressed. He began growing weak about midnight, and soon expired. After Churchill was taken from the tank, where he was horribly burned by the upsetting of a gasoline torch, he re tained consciousness. He talked of the accident on the way to the hospital, and was cheerful to the last. Buhylon's inha-hitams frequented libraries l 17 centuries lefore Christ. A Fruit Ranch on the Upper Columbia Wouldn't you like to have a choice irrigated 10-acre tract facing the Columbia River, commanding a view of it for 50 mile3, with the snowy Blue Mountain range visible in the south? Wouldn't such a tract, rich in volcanic ash- soil, perfectly drained by nature, lying so even as to make irrigation a pleasure, appeal to' you as a fruit land buyer? Wouldn't the fact that within two miles of such a tract are two transcontinental railroads, the O. B. & N. and' the Northern Pacific, and a third one building, namely, the North Coast, appeal to you? ' Wouldn't you think that such ground, with; such good shipping facilities, had a distinct advantage to the farmer producing fruit, ber ries and garden truck? Especially with such centers as Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane not more than nine hours' ride, any one of them. Wouldn't you think from looking at the map that the district at the junction of the Snake, Yakima and Columbia Rivers was des tined to become one of the most populous and richest farming districts of the Northwest? It is the heart of the Northwest and gateway to the Pacific. Wouldn't you be impressed by the fact that yon could get land in 5 and 10-acre tracts in this district, under a completed project, with guaranteed perpetual water rights, at from $150 to 250 an acre, on easy terms? Wouldn't you like to know more about , BURBANK-ON-THE-COLUMBIA The Columbia's New Irrigation Project. Special Excursions run from Portland to the new project. BUR BAN K LAND COMPANY BRANCHES. Seattle, 114 Columbia St. Walla Walla, 12 East Alder St. Xsrtb Yakima, IB So. Klrt St. f'aico, Villard Hotel Tacoma, Spokane ASK FOR ONE OF OUR KENTON IS ACTIVE Peninsular District Growing With Great Rapidty. BIG DEMAND FOR HOUSES Dwelling Spoken For as Soon at Construction Work Starts Hotel Being Hurried to Completion - to Care for 'Tenants. The Kfcutou Building &- Contract Company has started the erection ot three cottages, to cost about $4000 Even before the foundations of these buildings have been completed the houses have been spoken for, so great, is the demand for houses in Kenton; and the completion of the concrete block hotel is being pressed to relieve the situation and meet the demand. Owing to unfavorable weather the hotel will not be completed and opened until April., It Is a three-story build ing, 90x100 feet, and is the most im portant structure under way in this district at present. Work on the concrete block build-' ing for Charles Rowley, of Troutdale, tl- i 1 1 KA ctaro,l a V Ana. T will hn on ..... w v wv I office and store building and will be r - - -- ' . ... si"-.1 - Main Office: BURBANK, WASH. MAIR & PRALL, Portland District Sales. Agents, 2 Lumbermen Building, Corner NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOKLETS. FREE erected at SIcClellan and Derby streets. Samuel W. ITryer, who recently pur chased two blocks in Kenton, on Jlc Clellan street, will soon start on tho erection of a building 100x100 feet. It will be either of brick or concrete. The forms have been completed for the plant of the Davis Safe & Lock Company, on the Columbia Slough road. The contractors have been waiting un til dangrer- of freezing weather passed before starting- on the concrete work. For the five buildings for the Wood Pipe Company, work is progressing: rapidly. The frame building for the cement sewer factory has been com pleted. All plants are just north of Kenton, and tributary to Kenton. In Swlnton, the residence district near Kenton, many sales have been made and a largre number of homes will be erected this Spring. Dawsor street has been surveyed, preparatory to the laying of hard-surface pavement this year. This im provement will run from the railroad cut, connecting with the Dawson bridge, up the Peninsula to Peninsula Station, making connection with Killingsworth avenue, either, by Albina or Patton ave nue, thus providing a through strf-nt down the center of the Peninsula. Xeed or this street has been felt on the Pe ninsula tor some time. It will be 80 feet wide. Much time has been taken up in the preliminary proceedings, as the connecting streets were only 60 feet wide and had to be widened to SO feet. One of the finest residences erected on tho Peninsula has just been com pleted on Dawson street, near the Co lumbia Park, by J. B. Teon at a cost of $8000. It is an eight-room, two-story building,- with an attic and sleeping porch, equipped with sliding windows of glass. A. J. F. Bowman drew the plans and had the general contract of this res idence. Mr. Teon will occupy his new home about March 1. C. H. Fleming, resident of University . , - ...v. . . nun 1 1 a j SiBOO home on Stockton street. Nash Brothers have the general contract for the work. B. H. Crosk is having plans prepared for a residence. L. Girard has utarted on the erection of, a 16-room apartment-house in Portsmouth, near Willis avenue. There will be four three room and one four-room apartment, and th5 building will be three stories in height. Its cost will be about $15,000. and it will be the most pretentious building erected on the Peninsula for some years. Kenilwortli Has Building Boom. In Kenilwortli a general building move ment has been inaugurated. The Port land Trust Company has just purchased IS lots in quarter blocks in Kenilworth and will start the erection of dwellings on them. These residences will range In cost between J1700 and $2600. ' On quar ter blocks the company will put up three houses, but on the single lots one house as a rule will be erected. The property purchased is scattered all over the addi tion. T. H. Compton is laying on in lots the five-acre tract at Bast Twenty-first and Powell streets. It will contain 40 lots. Kanutcdt After State Office. MOSCOW. Idaho. Feb. 5. (Special.) The friends of County Auditor Ram stedt have begun a campaign for his nomination for State Treasurer. Auitor or Secretary. Mr. Ramatedt is a Re publican and is 34 years of age. He obtained his education in the public schools here and the State University. His parents were among the very early pioneers of this section, coming here 30 years ago. Many Seek Census Jobs. 3HATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 5. Twelve hun dred applicants for positions as census enumerators are" being examined today in the First Congressional District of Wash ington by officials under the sujjervision of Census Supervisor R. W. Hill. Three hundred and sixty enumerators will . be selected from the 1200 applicants. ........ - ; .......... 13 UOO CHKSa See the Painting of This Project in Our Window Call and arrange to join one of them up river this week. BUILDING RAZED QUICKLY SULLORY BLOCK GIVES WAY FOR FINE STRUCTURE. United: Engineering & Construction Company Has Contract for $2 50, 000 Business Block. The work of demolishing the Mallory building on Stark street, between Third and Fourth, to make room for the six story concrete structure to be known as the Railway Exchange block. Is going ahead rapidly. The work was startted on February 1 and already the greater part of the building has been razed. The contract for the erection of the building has been given to the United Engineering & Construction Company, and the building Is to be finished by Au gust 1. The workmen have shown every sign of making a record-breaking dash in lbuilding if the rapid start is to be taken as a criterion. The building is already being rented, and a large number of reservations have been made. The structure which is now being razed was occupied up to the very last moment the workmen en tered, and now the former tenants have scattered to every part of the- city. Some of these will return to their for mer location when the building Is com pleted. The new structure is being "erected on a 27-year lease, and will be one of the finest buildings ever built in Portland on leaded ground, or at least on ground leased for such a Bhort term of years. The cost of the building will be $250,000 and the permit for its erec tion will be issued within a few days from the office of the City Building Inspector.- I.OCAIi CIIIXESE PROGRESSIVE Moy Back Hin Favors Opening of Killingsworth Avenue. Moy Back Hin. ' Chinese Consul at Portland, who owns twenty acres on Killingsworth avenue, which is to be opened and Improved with hard-surface pavement between Union avenue and East Forty-second street, is pro gressive and wants to see the improve ment made. He was approached by those who are opposing the opening and improvement of the street this week and asked to sign a remon strance. He not only refused to sign, but declared that he wanted to see the street opened and improved. A considerable slice is taken from his Going to build ? Settled the Roofing Question vet ? (Jr it may be that you have placing. If you want a without paint or repairs, are looking tor. Let a tend yea sample f of Pioneer Roofing . and oar 32-page Roofing Booklet. PIONEER ROLL PAPER COMPANY DEPARTMENT 5 LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA RASMUSSEN & CO., Distributors, Portlajid, Or. Fifth and Stark Streets OFFICE OPEN EVENINGS large tract, but he is willing and says that as soon as the street is paved he will build several houses and open his land. At present the committee on waiv ers is securing the signatures of prop erty owners between East Ninth and East Forty-second streets so that the improvement may proceed at once. Tho committee is searching the records for the names of absent property owner.", and expects by the next meeting of the Killingsworth Association to have the whole matter cleared up. It is necessary to secure the names of all owners along the street In order to avoid the long delay Incident to widen ing proceedings. The property owners are determined to get the improvement under way this Spring. It will cost about $150,000. FIXE RESIDENCE IS PLAXXKII William Knight to Build $8000 Home in Milwa-ubie. Plans and specifications hare been prepared for a 10-room two-story resi dence to be erected tn Mllwaukie for William Knight, of the Multnomah Mill and Construction Company. It will be 34x60 feet and the cost will be from $7000 to $8000. Architect Jacobberger drew the plans for this building. It will be the most pretentious buildlns in Mllwaukie and will be built on the bank of the Willamette River near the old clubhouse. William Reldt, who has purchased the northeast corner of Union avenue and Brown street, 76x100 feet, and the southeast corner of Union avenue and Brown street, 66x100 feet, for $15,000, has commissioned Architect J. O. Wrenn to draw plans for a three-story concrete building to cost $30,000. The lower floor will contain six stores and the two upper floors will be for apart ments and offices. The building will be erected on the northeast corner or Union avenue and Brown street, work to start at once on the foundation. BEWLEY BUYS . FOR $26,000 Invests in Corner at Fifteenth and Everett Streets. R. 1... Bewley, a local capitalist, and associates purchased the property at the northeast corner of Fifteenth and Everett streets from S. W. Rethlef sen for $26,000. The property Is 75x100 feet in size and is considered good pros pective warehouse property. The sale was made through the agency of Hor ace II. Fisher and Harry B. Sill. The property is occupied by three residences now paying 7 per cent on the price of the Investment. The pur chasers will hold the property as an Investment. an old root that needs re roof that will wear for. years f loneer Roofing is what you