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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1910)
8 E SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 13, lItJ. ST. JOHN BUILDING IS UNPRECEDENTED All Former Records Broken and Payroll Is Being In creased Daily. BIG MILL BEING REBUILT Construction Crews Are Busy on Peninsula, Where Large Fac tories Are Being Erected for the Coming Season. St. John building permits for the first ton days of March amounted toi (20.000, making a total in round numbers of $62, 000 since January 1. This is almost half the amount for the whole of last year ad Judging by present indications is a very small part of the probable total for the present year. The most important construction work row going on Is the rebuilding of the Portland Manufacturing Company plant, which was destroyed by fire not Ions Rgo. Peter Autzen, who owns all the stock In this concern, is hard at work getting new buildings erected and new machinery in place with which to re sume business. . He has several largo contracts on hand waiting to be filled. The plant is to be somewhat enlarged nnd each department will be In a sep arate building, constructed of timbers sheeted with corrugated Iron, with the exception of the dry kiln and power house, which are . to be of either brick or cement. The new buildings will consist of a drum-room 32&100, where coffee drums and other barrels will be made; a tin top . (fruit basket) room 32x100: a dry kiln 20x80; fir panel room 40x100, main building 60x80. where the bulk of the machinery will be located, including saws, peeler and veneer cutters; main ware house 32x100; excelsior cutting-room, in Which the present capacity is to be doubled 36x60; excelsior warehouse 24x 60; stock-house, 60x60; dry shed and dock, 100x160, and a power-house 26x50. The boilers in the power-house will be ISO horsepower and the engines 100 horsepower; there will also be one 60 horsepower electric motor and several smaller ones distributed through the various departments. A sprinkling sys tem will be installed for fire protection and the entire cost of buildings and machinery will be $60,000. The con otructlon work is being done by C. W. Bolen, contractor of St. John, who with a large force of men is using up lum ber at the rate of 7000 feet per day. The rebuilding of this plant and the probable addition a little later of a large door factory means much to St. "John and especially to the 75 former employes who have had to seek other employment after the fire. The pay roll averages $900 per week when the place is in full operation and Its loss is even now greatly felt in St. John. The Marine Iron Works is working hard on the dredge Chinook, and has the work on the dredging machinery about completed. It will be ready to claim its second payment on the Job in a very few days. Mr. Maher expects to complete the work consid erably ahead of contract time. One of the large boilers is out of the ship and the other one nearly so, and men are at work making the necessary re pairs These two boilers are the larg est ever handled north of San Fran cisco. The St. John Lumber Company now employs 400 men and is running night and day to finish its contracts, and Is at the same time using a large force In making Improvements. The latest of these Is a $2600 stable and a 75-foot tower for a water tank to secure pres sure for a Are protection system. The Collapsible Box Company Is In creasing Its output each day under its new management. The other waterfront industries are trowing rapidly and enlarging their plants. Special activity Is shown by the St. John Laundry. . the Modern Machine Works. Glllen & Chambers Asbestos Products plant. the Johes Milling Company, the St. John Ship building Company and the Douglas Planing Mill. Plans are being perfected by which it is expected to secure three im proved streets up the hill from the waterfront this season. This will ben efit materially the many Industries lo cated along the railroad and the river, It Is hoped. STUDEBAKEB COMPANY BUYS Site on Killrngsworth Avenue to Be Improved. Two corners on Kllllngsworth ave nue and Borthwick street changed hands last week, calling attention to the great amount of realty activity in that section of the city. These two properties are located but one block east of the corner of Kllllngsworth avenue and Albina street, which at present seems to be the hub of that district. One of the properties transferred is the northeast corner of Killingsworth avenue and Borthwick street, a quarter Mock, which was purchased by F. L. Weaver, manager of Studebaker Bros. Company, for $6000. It is intended that if the development of this district continues as now expected that a por tion of the lot will be covered with a suitable building for the establishment of a branch Studebaker house for wagons a"nd vehicles generally, to take care of the trade now developing on the north end of the Peninsula, PRELATE'S DEATH SUDDEN Bishop II. W. Spellmeyer Dies at Hotel After M. E. Conference. ATLANTIC CITY, X. J.. March 12.--Bishop Henry W. Spellmeyer, of St. Louis, who was here presiding over the annual New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference, died suddenly at the Ho tel Dennis today. Death was due to heart disease. Bishop Spellmeyer was not feeling well last night and told friends he did not expect to attend today's session of the conference. When he failed to ap pear about the hotel, inquiries . weru made for him and the manager went to his room. The door was forced open and the body was found lying partly on the bed, partly on the floor. It la thought that when he felt the heart : attack coming on he tried to summon assistance, but died before reaching the - room telephone. The news of his death created con sternation In the c6nference, which was adjourned for the day. BlBhop Neeley. of New Orleans, will presldo over tho remaining sessions. Bishop Henry Spellmeyer was bori In New York, November 25, 1848. Fte Iwas a graduate of the New York Uni versity and Union Theological Seminary. He married Matilda M. W. Smith at Haverstraw, N. Y., who survives him. Bishop Spellmeyer held pastorates In Newark, N. J., and vicinity for 35 years. He was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church In 1904. His official residence was In St. Louis. SUFFRAGE HITS SEATTLE Miss Millholland to Organize Yet Another Branch of Movement. SEATTLE, Wash., March 12. Spe cial.) Universal suffrage in a new garb is to gain a foothold in Seattle, if the plans of Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, of New .York, are carried Into effect. Mrs. Mackay has decided to make this city headquarters for a state branch of the Equal Franchise Society, and for that purpose will soon be represented here by Miss Inea Millholland, National organizer. In addition to various organizations of women, Including a subordinate so ciety of the National Council of Women and the Federated Clubs, the stats al ready has the Washington Equal Suf frage Association, of which Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe Is president. The Suf frage Association membership Includes women who demand the ballot, and pro- NEW CARBARNS ON EAST SIDE WILL BE HURRIED TO COMPLETION FOR USE- . .Witt t"X ' .v . -An""" STHl ITIRB AX EAST AKKENY JLSD BCRXSIDE STREETS, Walls are up for the east section of the reinforced concrete carbarns under construction for the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company on East Twenty-eighth street, between East Ankeny and Burnside streets. It will be 200x100 feet, but the first part, wil be 50x200 feet. It Is announced that the old carbarns at the corner of East Twenty-eighth and Couch streets will be replaced with a modern structure in the near future. This building is a frame structure, covered with replaced with a modern structure 1 pose to take an active part in public af fairs as soon as they are given the chance. The Equal Franchise Society recruits Its membership from the exclusive and fashionable sets, who presumably, are Indifferent to the privileges of the bal lot and do not care to shoulder Its re sponsibilities. 300,000 CONCERNS TO PAY Corporation Tax May Exceed $25, 000,000 Estimate Slightly. WASHINGTON, March 12. Approxi mately 300,000 corporations amenable to the law Imposing a tax of 1 per cent on their net incomes above $5000 have made returns to the Internal Rev enue Bureau. Additional returns are expected to swell the number to 826,000, which will be in keeping with the es timate made by the officials before the law became operative. There are 409, 000 corporations listed in the United States, but a large number have for some time been generally regarded as "dead" and existing in name only. It is now generally believed from the re ports of collectors thus far at hand that the estimate of $25,000,000 revenue from the corporation, tax this year may be exceeded slightly. PHONE GAIN t $30,000,000 American Combine Would Make Capitalization $500,000,000. NEW YORK. March 12. A recom mendation that the capital stock of the American Telephone & Telegraph Com pany the so-called telephone trust be Increased to $600,000,000 is contained in the company's annual report, made yes terday, but other than to say that the company desired to be "forehanded" no reason is given for the requested Increase Of $200,000,000. Wall street believes the company pur poses still greater expansion, though the report states "none of this increase will be needed during the current year for ordinary capital expenditures." The company had a net revenue for 1909 of more than $30,000,000, while the Bell system earned net $48,367,500. Within a radius of 75 miles of Tamplco there exists the most abundant and valua ble petroleum and asphalt deposits yet dis covered in Mexico. THREE-STORY BRICK ON t T 1 i 'til I4 'I 41 l SAFE PLANT LARGE Factory at Kenton Planned to Supply Entire West. PAYROLL TO BE OVER 200 AVlthln 60 Bays Davis Safe & Lock Company .Will Have Buildings Completed at Cost of $211,000.. Patent Filler. Is Featured." ' " Work Is going ahead rapidly on the plant . of the Davis Safe & Lock Com pany, which Is being built at Kenton at a cost of $210,000. This, the only, safe . .l manufacturing company west of Ohio, is preparing to handle an output to cover the entire Western territory, " and the site at Kenton Is situated with ideal shipping facilities, having trackage with ail the railroads and deep-water front age along the back of the property. The Davis Safe & Lock Company was organized by John E. Davis and C. B. Mitchell, the latter now being the presi dent of the organization. At first it was Intended to issue stock, the company pat enting a filler material which, it is declared, will not only make the safes absolutely fireproof but also much lighter than the ordinary safe. The small concern had some trouble in in teresting capital enough to get a site and had started to issue stock in small blocks when George F. Heusner. one of the owners of the Kenton Townsite Company, became Interested and himself financed the building of the great plant. Largest Factory in North. Now the factory is being built. It con sists of two large buildings, one being the largest factory north of San Fran cisco. The site is within a few hundred feet of the end of the Kenton carline and consists of a tract 273 by 1250 feet. The main factory building is a brick and con crete structure, two stories high and lOOx 460 feet. It Is of modern onstructlon, practically fireproof and equipped with all the necessary machinery for assem bling the safes, vaults, etc Here are located the offices, the storage rooms, the machine shops, and all the principal divisions of the factory. There is in addition a foundry building, 100x190 feet, two stories, equipped with the neoessary furnaces, traveling cranes, etc, to make It an up-to-date plant. The equipment Is all the best and special ma chinery has been installed to make the safes manufactured even better than the ordinary burglar-proof safe. This is a great machine that welds. Instead of rivets, the corners of the safes. The plant will be completed within 60 days and will start with a payroll of about 100 employes, which is to be in creased to 175 mechanics and an office and. sales force of from 40 to 50 at the end of the first month or so. Every part of the safes will be manufactured at this plant from the raw materials. Filler Big Improvement. The basic idea is a patent filler which was discovered in Its natural state by Mr. Mitchell in the Cascade mountains. This, according to Mr. Heusner, exists in vast quantities. It is said to be something like asbestos, magnesium and a silicate, but so far has defied the attempts of chemists to UPPER WASHINGTON STREET -""l ' i V If 1 ti - t W. O, VAX SCHUYVER. BUILDING AT TWELFTH AD classify it definitely. It is absolutely impervious to heat, and very light, which makes it a desirable substitute for cement, with which the ordinary safe is filled. Mr. Heusner says: "We shall be able to build our safes so they will weigh about one-third what an ordinary safe weighs. Instead of a cement filler we use this patent filler, which we have protected by 17 patents. Cement makes the safe as heavy as lead and on that account large safes cannot be taken Into many of the office buildings on account of the ordinances. Our safes will be so much lighter than the other safes that it will be possible to take almost any safe into any building. Another effect of, their being light is that a fall will not injure them as much. It is well-known that, in great fires the safes are damaged more through the fall than by the fire. This is because they are so heavy that when they crash down through several stories they are likely to break open. 'We" have had tests made of the filler which prove it to be absolutely impervious to heat. A sheet, one Inch thick, has been held for hours against the hottest blow pipe obtainable and on the side away from the flame no trace of heat could be felt. Acid tests have also been made and we believe that now we have a safe really fire proof as well as burglar proof." The officers of the company are: i 1 4 ' . its President. C. B. Mitchell; vice-president, James B. Kerr; chairman of the board of directors, George D. Heusnor and secretary John E. Davis-. The buildings Were designed by Christian Spies, architect, of Detroit. Mr. Spies Is now here superintending the work. BUILDING RISES RAPIDLY VAX SCHUYVER BLOCK SOOX BE HEADY. WILL Structure at Twelfth and Washing ton Will Be Used for Store and ' Hotel Purposes. Rapid construction has been the feature of the erection of the Van Schuyver store and rooming-house at the northwest cor ner of Twelfth and Washington streets. This three-story brick building was started but two months ago, and now the shell is entirely completed and the inte rior finishers have started to work. The plans for the building were prepared by Bennes, Hendricks & Thompson, archi tects. The site is 100x100 feet, the entire lower floor being devoted to store purposes. On the second and third floors a central light court has been put in which is so ar ranged that every room will have outside light. The building, owned by W. O. Van Schuyver, m Is to cost $50,000 when com pleted. It Is of red pressed brick, mill construction, and the arrangement of the light-court is such that it presents an ap. pearanee somewhat at variance with the ordinary building of thte type. This court Is 24x50 feet, and is located in the exact center and front of the building, instead of in the rear. On the first floor are being installed six large stores, four fronting on Washington street and two on Twelfth. There is also a large lobby for the hotel, which will be conducted on the two upper floors. These flers have been taken under lease by Gevunta & . Co. The basement is waterproof and of concrete, and in addi tion to the heating plant has large stor age rooms. On the upper floors there will be 37 rooms to the floor, each with hot and cold running water and large closets. .Three suites on each floor have tiled baths. There are also two tiled common baths on each floor. Practically every BUILT IN RECORD TIME. WASHINGTON. y. - '-. . -' -.-- -.- -. , . f :. :".v - yi:-.. y A: .& S .-. y-'-:-' '" ' '- " 'V. ' i-1"-,. .-...-,- A il "1?--- or a Bundle of Rent Own Your Own Home Villamead is just beyond Laurelhurst, on the corner of West Avenue and East Glisan Streets. Villamead is improved with Cement Walks and Curbs, Graded Streets, Bull Run Water. These are all paid for and are included in the price of the lots. Choice Lots $550 and Up You Be the Judge Ride out on the Montavilla Car to West Avenue don't ride too far compare location, price and surroundings and you will be convinced that Villamead is the place for Home Building or investing-. Certificate of title or abstract of title furnished with every lot. room In the building Is an outside room, owing to the arrangement of the light court In the front. The majority of the rooms front on either Washington or Twelfth street. VINEGAR . COMPANY WINS Accusation Against Ingham of Sell ing Fluid, Mlsbranded, F"alls. The trial of the pure food case In the Federal Court against the Ingham Vinegar Company, which has been in progress all week, came to an end FVlday with a verdict of not guilty, llie defend ant was accused of selling vinegar that was misbranded. The government chemists charged that since the vinegar would not pre cipitate under the acetate of lead test it was not pure cider vinegar. The Ingham "Vinegar Company maintained present CHAPIN BEAUTIFUL WHICH? Deed to a Home ! v: r - -4,1111 r-x fjsi,; ..c- . .... iiL. Hi f V' ($- - , , 14 r vi. 4 S Lit-? 1 UST C S. E. CORNER THIRD AND OAK STREETS Agent on the Ground Afternoons that a great deal of the pure cider vine gar made in Oregon by the modern quick generator process would not re spond to the acetate of lead test and thst the test was not a fair one. Vinegar manufacturers from Hood River, Salem and Portland, besides Pro fessor Stafford, chemist of the State University, and Dr. Victoria Hampton, a chemist of this city, testified in favor of the defendant, declaring that the vinegar was pure and that the tests re lied on by the Government experts were not reliable. LILLISBETTER, GOES HOME 4 Banker Slashed by Cudaliy Is Re moved i'rora Hospital. KANSAS CITY, March 12. It became known today that after a week spent at St. Mary's Hospital, waiting for the knife Adjoining Westmoreland to the south, will be placed on the market in the next few days. Make your reservations NOW as these lots will go rapidly at the prices. For particulars & HERLOW Receipts Built in QfflPANY g wounds inflicted by John P. Cudahy, the packer, to heal, Jere F. UIIIh, president of the Western Kxchange Bank of this city, was removed to his homo last night. A nurse at the LI Ills residence this morn ing said over the telephone that the banker was getting along "splendidly." It developed today, that the directors of the Country Club, one of the most exclusive clubs In the city, adopted a resolution on Thursday night last, cit ing Jere Lillis to appear before the club and show cause why he should not be dismissed from Its membership. The resignation has not yet been acted upon. Officers of the club declined to talk of the matter. I.llllt and Cudahy are members of the Kansas City Club also. The officers of that organization have taken no action. It was stated that Mr. Lillts intends to take a long rest from bi3 duties as president of the Western Ex change Bank and that he may go to Europe for a year. see 332 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BLDG.