THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JTHLT 31, 1910.' NEW BUILDINGS 1 John W. Campbell, D. X. Thompson, Walter Adams. H. C. Flxott, J. A- Miller, R. D. Edwards, Peter Hume. Walter Adams. A. C. Mowrey, W. H. Morehouse, D. P. Price, Dr. R. S. Stearna and A. N. Wills. It has been through the personal efforts of these men that Sellwood has been kept to the front and has set a pace as a progressive suburb. Mr. Donaugh,. Mr. Wills, Mr. Campbell and Mr. Adams are the pioneer workers, for they were the organizers of the original Board of Trade. Rev. Mr. Thompson, pastor of the Sellwood Presbyterian Church, has been a factor in this suburb for the past six years and through him the Sellwood library and branch T. M. C. A. were brought about. W. H. Morehouse Is do ing a great deal for this suburb. Sell wood Is tho best organized suburb of Portland. ' "Something must be done to expedite the opening of street," said a property Owner on the Rant KIriA l Ta rof,rr. tv THIS SORT OF HOME ADDS TO CITY'S ATTRACTIVENESS L EASTSTARKSTREET ARE CULLED UNFIT1 Change in Business Center Is Acomplished by Good Structures. Representatives From All Ad vancement Clubs Form Organization. 5 0 BUILDINGS ' BRIDGE DELAYS DECRIED Joseph Buchtel Expresses Opinion of Dan Kellaber and OthersMadi son Bridge Brings Rejoicing. Annexation Talk Is Heard. BY X.. H. WEUJ9. Erection of a three-story fireproof building at the northeast corner of Grand avenue and East Stark street by W. I Morgan w'll complete the pro gramme mapped out for making East Stark the main business street In Cen tral East Portland. This new building will cover 100x90 feet, and with the basement rooms will contain five stories, although the details have not been entirely worked out. This will complete a series of four good buildings on the four corners of this Intersection. The fir&t one, on the southwest corer. was sold by W. L. Morgan recently for tlOO.000. It cost $45,000 to build and the ground cost 125,000, so that the profits on the prop erty were $30,000. The new building will cost at least $50,000. It will have to stand in the mud of the slough that seems to have no bottom. Mr. Morgan demonstrated that a fire proof building can be "floated" in the mud of this ravine when he built the six-story reinforced concrete building at the northwest corner of Grand ave nue and East Stark street. This was In one of the worst places in the slough. It Is felt that Mr. Morgan has con tributed substantially to the growth and prosperity of Central East Port land by his efforts to build up a new business center on East Stark street and Grand avenue, and he has cus--ceeded better than was thought pos sible. Since he began building at this inter section, property all along Grand ave nue, north and south of East Stark, has Increased In value. As East Stark street is a main thoroughfare, extend ing 16 miles directly east of the city, Mr. Morgan seems to have selected the right place for his new business cen ter. Business men on Stark say prop erty owners on East Morrison street will have to get busy or that street will lose much of Its present prestige. The "hold-up" of the Broadway bridge through the alleged obstructive measures of Frank Kiernai. Dan Kella her and others is not regarded with pleasure by restdents of the East Side. "There ought to be some way to make these obstructionists responsible for the injury they are doing to the East Side,' declared Joseph Buchtel yesterday. "In private transactions men are held responsible for the dam age they do their neighbors, and I can not see why Frank Kiernan cannot be held legally responsible for the injury he Is doing to a large part of Portland. This damage cannot be measured In dollars and cents, and it is all because of the selfishness of one or two men, who are using the courts' to delay the erection of this bridge. "The only object Dan Kellaher ever had was to discredit the administration of Mayor Simon, and his protestations of friendliness to the Broadway bridge," continued Mr. Buchtel, "are all bosh, as 'everybody understands' who knows Mr. Kellaher. As to the friendship of Dr. Van Waters and W. L. Black, the other members of the committee from the East Side Business Men's Club, every body knows where they stand. Dr. Van Waters is' known to have been opposed to the Broadway bridge months ago and so to have expressed himself. He said he could not see any use for this bridge. W. L. Black, of course, is clerk of the committee and represents the Hawthorne estate." As the Madison-treet bridge nears com pletion the call for property in the South East Side Increases. Owing to the delay in the completion of this bridge 00.000 people in that part of Portland have suf fered Inconvenience for months, but now that the time for its completion ap proaches they are willing to let the troubles of the past be forgotten in the prospects of the fine new highway across the Willamette River soon to be thrown open to the public. Property In the South East Side is in growing demand. One of the roost suc cessful plats placed on the market ia that of Saginaw Helghta, located "at Lents, six miles from the Courthouse. George T. Moore purchased this property of 45 acres four months ago. when it was covered with brush and stumps. Now there are graded street sidewalk and mains iaia. More man so per cent or tne lots have been sold. This tract is between Lents and Powell Valley road, and In its vicinity, outside the city limits, it la estimated that 10.000 people have made their homes. The prioe of iow jiere is Kill quits reasonable. It is believed that a majority of the people of the Lents district favor annex ation to Portland. The eastern boundary line has been fixed Just beyond the Junc tion" on the Mount Scott and lOntacada. lines. This line takes in all of the Mount Jcott railway and will cut out the 5-cent fare now charged between Lents station and the Junction, for a distance of three quarters of a mile. There ia a big set tlement beyond this proposed boundary line, but made up of people w ho have set tled on five and ten-acre tracts and these are opposed to annexation. It is proposed also to extend the city boundary llres southward to take in the new district south of Woodstock to John Creek, or Just north of the Clacka mas County line. This is a beautiful district, as is all the Woodstock coun try, on elevated ground and v ithln the in fluence of the site selected for the Reed institute In Eastmoreland. Whether the people of Portland are ready to take In this big territory at present, with the In creased responsibility of providing water mains, street light, police protection and other municipal advantages is an un settled question. There are fully 15,iX people now living just outside the rim of the city in the South East Side district. "God helps the man who h?lps him self la the slogan of Sellwood. Acting on this principle, this suburb built a beautiful clubhouse under the manage ment of the Sellwood Commercial Club, at a cost of $10,000. No other suburb of Portland has such a social and business center. This is only a beginning. Money has been raised and work srtarted for a branch T. M. C. A., where religious, phy sical culture and educational classes will be taught. The branch has three lots in the center of the suburb. The new building and equipment will cost $18,000. Some of the money comes from down town men. but the most was subscribed by residents. The men who have done things for Sellwood art D. M. Conaugh, ' the efforts made toward making Sandy Douievara su leet wide from East Twenty eighth street to the city limits, started many months ago through the Rose City Park district. It was found at the last session of tho Rose City Park Improve ment League that while the report of the viewers had been filed weeks ago, nothing had been done to get action on this report. This Is given as a single in stance of delay In street extensions. East Twenty-second street. In Brooklyn, from Powell streets Bouth to the Southern Pacific car shops, is another Illustration. Although the east half of this street was ordered opened months ago, the fence still remains. Property owners on the west side of the street had already given 30 feet. East Twenty-" I sixth street has been before the push clubs to be made 60 feet wide for the past five years, and the consummation la still ' several moons away. City Auditor Bar- j uu a.uBoa mure man anyone me in effective character of the proceedings to open streets and believes that some bet ter means should be adopted. $5000 MADE IX SEVEN' MONTHS Napoleon Davis Buys in December and Sells In July at Good Advance. M. J. Clohessy, of the firm of Clo hessy & Smith, real estate, McKay building, says the deal by which Na poleon Davis sold to J. W. Morrow the property at the corner ' of East Clay street and Grand avenue has been In correctly reported. The straight of the deal, he says. Is thus: Clohessy & Smith sold for Nanoleon Davis lots 1 and 2 In block 62 of Stephens' addition, at the southeast cor ner of Grand avenue and East Clay street, to J. W. Morrow, for $25,000. This was on Tuesday of last week. On December 1 last the same firm sold this same property to Mr. Davis for $20,000, so mat ne makes $5000 on the lot In seven months. There are several shacks on this corner, the combined rentals of which amount to $140 a month. The corner is occupied by a saloon, owned bv the Mount Hood Brewery, and a black smith shop and a laundry are on either side. Mr. Morrow has no plans for mulated yet for the Improvement of the property. It is said. Fine Riding School Begun. What is to be one of the finest riding academies on the Pacific Coast has been started on the northwest corner of Six teenth and Jefferson streets. This will bear the name "Kramer's Riding School," and Bennes & Hendricks are the authors. The building itself, exclusive of what fittings and fixtures will be put in later, will cost about $30,000. and will have two stories and a basement. It is to be in red brick and will cover an Irregular lot 83x111x101x110 feet. The general -contract has been let to Wlneland & Hub bard, and contracts for the heating sys tem and fixtures will be let later. Piling has been begun for the foundation. Apartment Leases Enecess. Claude D. Starr has put into opera tion in the King's Hill apartment, at the corner of King and Wayne streets, a plan which has been In successful vogue In the East and which he says works well for him. .That is a six months or a year lease, which he says the tenants are glad to sign. Mr. Starr has recently renovated this building and has Installed an automatic electrio elevator among the other Improve ments, i nis nas attracted a good class of tenants, and Mr. Starr says the plaos Is full. Eilers Warehouse Gets Addition. Eilers Music PTnua ViaA h,i a settled in its new wholesale block at corner or llteenth and Fettygrove streets, before more room was found necessary. Therefore a six-story addi tion Is under way, the cost of whloh Is announced as between $20,000 and $25. 000. The space will be used mainly for storage of new pianos. Eilers whole sale house now IncluilAa a block, and from this the company say i umiriuuies w an oi its 40 stores on the Pacific! Coast. It says also that from three to nine carloads are re ceived each day here. Plow Company to Build. Plans have been completed for a stx story building for the John Deere Plow Company, to be built on the block bound ed by Bast Morrison. East Third. East Second and East Alder streets. The plans were prepared in the East by tho com pany's architect, and the estimates for the building were all received at the home office. The building will be started this FaU. FOREST FIRES START AGAIN Every Available Man in Trout River Valley Called Out. gutter, wash., July SO. Another disastrous fire is raging at logging camp No. 5 and on the White Salmon River, and Homer Ross, one of the forest rangers of this section, called every available man in Trout Lake Val ley to his aid to fight the flames. When the firefighters left the loca tion of the blaze last week they con sidered the fire beyond all danger of spreading, but a stiff breese set it going again Tuesday. Another blase that at first was con sidered harmless Is that on Stegman Ridge, on the southwest side of Mount Adams. Surreys Are Completed. SALEM, Or.. July 30. (Special.) Surveys have been completed by the 8tate Engineer on the Rogue River project and the next move is to adjudi cate the water rights. Superintendent H. L Holgate. of Klamath Falls, has not set a date for hearing, but It is probable the hearing- will be held some time during September. This is a large project and there are fully 6000 claim ants who are interested. The acreage has not been totaled. Salary Cut, Marshal Resigns. VANCOUVER. Wash., July 80. (Spe cial.) Because the Council of Camas cut Marshal W. C. Warren's salary from $S0 to $25 a month, he has tendered his resig nation, to take effect August 1 It was accepted. Warren has been Marshal of Camas since the city was first incor porated. Chehalls Has 7 823 School Children. MOXTESA.NO. Wash.. July SO (Spe cial.) County Superintendent of Schools McKilllp has completed the m I tf"w'"'"i',w'" i uiium iimim iiiii "" '" '""r P iiiiiW'iiS.iMii1III " - - -" ' -- - ...-w.- ssissss s. T tlx v u : LL In gray shingles with white trimmings, the home of A. H. Lea, at the -southwest corner of East Thirteenth and Thompson streets. in Irvlngton, is as good an example as can be found of the class of homes that is making Portland famous. This house did not cost a great amount of money, probably not more than $4500, Dut Doth the architects. Kable & Kable. and Mr. Lea have put much thought on the place, and It shows. The house stands on a lot EOxlOO feet. school census for Chehalls County. There are now 7823 children of school age, of whom 4007 are males -nd 3818 females. In 1909 there were 6739, 3497 being males and 3242 females. EX-I0WANS HAVE PICNIC Association Grows ' and Plans Big Reunions fop Future Tears. - SPRINGFIELD, Or., July 30. (Spe cial.) The second annual meeting of the Iowa Picnic Association, comprising Lane County and adjacent territory, was held at Walker's grove in West Springfield yesterday. More than 500 members were p'resent and 100 new names were added MT70H MONEY SPENT IN PARAPHERNALIA TO MANUFACTURE PAVEMENT. : 1 m . 1. 1 -"; 1 rr?07A' ' f 3 . ' ' ' llatm, .I,, i l ttitfZ.m s- . w ' ' snissmiiinl1 " 111 s - jlintVI i-sjiilrjv . - o - " , s " ' V J mm Trrt-i i''1"""" - ' " 11 u-"'i' - owjer tzixztg PLAJTT OF IHDEPEHDEXT PAVIXO COMPANY. t " Covering the block between East Water street and the harbor line of the Willamette River, at the'foot of East Bal '. ?b ln, J1 000 'eet. the Independent Paving Company la erecting ths most extensive paving plant, it Is said. In the Northwest. It is estimated that, including the value of the block, ths big dock with Its bunkers and $500000 machlnery and the '"" nd aut Tehlcles. the company will have, all told, an investment of nearly nn Tt comPany Purchased the block of the Ladd estate for what is considered the remarkably low price of $150. 000. The property has a 200-foot frontage on East Water street, on which is the O. W. P. track, and extends into the Willamette River fully 600 feet, thus providing both water and rail facilities t or transportation. A present a dock extending out to the harbor line is being built. On this will be erected bunkers for storing paving material. The piledrlvers are now. completing the foundation for this big dock. The power slant for manu facturing the paving material stands at East Water and East Salmon streets. The company will have several auto wagons, besides its mules, for naudlin g .the finished product of the plant- WIlMHlllWHI'l'" '"" 1 111 ' . . v far enough back to give a glimpse of lawn and flower beds. Roses and vines have been trained over the house and over the pergola at one side. There Is an air of comfort and homeliness about the place that makes It attractive. Inside the same idea of comfort pre vails. One enters an entrance hall, where a vista of the living room is seen through beams that form arches. The living-room Is 14x27 feet and has a beamed celling. A fireplace Is in a recess where a seat has been built In. Through French doors .one passes to to the roll, making a total membership of 900. The afternoon was enlivened by speech making, singing, recitations and music by the high school orchestra of Eugene. Plans for bigger reunions than ever in future years were made. Three Urged for Postmasters. SALEM. Or., July 30. (Special.) Representative Hawley has made the following recommendations for post masters In the First District: B. E. Wolford. Talnax; W. W. & Adams, Malln, and E. C. Way, Pokegama. All of these postof flees are located 'in Klamath County. Steep Road to Be Improved. ENTERPRISE. Or.. July 30. (Spe t te; JMMl-Z- I IA . VCT r-J the pergola . at the side of the house. The dining-room Is of good size, 14x13 Vi feet, and has a plate rail with. plaster panels beneath. A sideboard has been built in. Fir is the wood used for finishing, stained a warm, pleasant brown In the hall, living-room and dining-room, and harmonizing perfectly with the wall tints. In the bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen a white enamel finish has been given the wood. The floors in the front rooms are of quarter-sawed oak with a good polish. All the fixtures cial.) Troy Hill, rising from the can yon in which the town of Troy is- situ ated, is being blasted to facilitate travel. The wagon road Tlg'nally was one of the most difficult and dangerous in the county. The road will ba widened, the grade reduced, and many curves lengthened. The Dalles Ships Fruit. THE DALLES. Or., July 30. (Spe cial.) Fifteen hundred boxes of fruit, apricots, peaches and plums, was the shipment from' local growers which tho steamer Teal carried to Portland yes terday. The first ripe watermelons of the season in this section were reported Monday from Dry Hollow, south of town. ,4 ,f 5. bi i-i mi are of a special artistic design. In finishing the upstairs Mr. Lea told his architects he wanted something dif ferent, so they evolved a scheme to make the main room, through the mid dle of the house, look like a ship's cabin. It lends Itself to this treatment readily, owing to Its form. Everything will be in keeping with this Idea and the windows will be In the shape of port holes. On a door at one end of the room will be arranged a pilot wheel. The woodwork here will be painted white. 1 BURNED AREA BUSY New Buildings to Rise Soon on Upper Washington. 5-STORY HOTEL PLANNED Good Structure Will Replace How land and ln Same Block Another 6 -Story Brick Will Go Up An gela Hotel to Be Rebuilt. That activity prophesied In these columns before the flames were quenched for the district visited by the recent fire on upper Washington street is in full blast. Before the ruins had stopped smok ing, T. L. Garland, who owns the 20x100 feet at the northwest corner of Trinity Place and Washington street, had stuck up a sign announcing that he would build a four-story apartment house there. Mr. Garland Is getting ready to build, but Instead of four stories he will make his bnllding five floors. A handsome brick block is promised at that corner. A tenant has already been secured for the ground floor at a good rental. Many expressions of regret were heard at the time of the fire because the Angela Hotel, the handsome' four story brick, which stood next the nar row building at the corner of Trinity Place, where Mr. Garland will rebuild, had to go. Morgan, Fliedner & Boyce, who put up the Angela for Timothy Kinney, will duplicate the plans in an other Angela. Work, it is understood, will begin soon on this. When Hugh McGuire and T. N. Stop penbach and Mrs. Dekum paid $100,000 cash for the corner at Nineteenth and Washington, they set a pace for values ln that vicinity which has had a ten dency to cause owners to hold on to their property, expecting, naturally and reasonably, a still greater Increase. That block between Nineteenth and Trinity Place will remain as it is in definitely. The lot next the corner Is owned by George Otten, who has made no plans for replacing the structures that stood there. Next to that, on the northeast corner of Trinity Place. Rus sell & Blyth have not yet decided what they will do. The purchasers of the corner at Nineteenth are also waiting. On the corner of Washington and Twentieth streets Keasey. Humason & Jeffery will build a fine five-story brick hotel building. This Is the loca tion where the Howland, a four-story frame apartment-house, stood. The new hotel will be leased locally, but defi nite plans have not been made as to the details of the lease or the construc tion of the building. Bennes & Hen drlcks. architects, are blocking- out pre liminary sketches. Across the street, where the old Ex position building stood, nothing will be done until after Morrison street is cut through. Mr. Blyth, of Russell & Blyth, who own the property. Is ln Europe, and Mr. Russell has made no plans whatever. Plans for the new Multnomah Club are under discussion. Several schemes have been outlined for this property. and the one that seems to be receiving the most attention ln a discursive way Is that of a roofed-over stadium. The fact that this Is an excellent location for the big auditorium Portland is ko lng to have gives chance for many plans ana much talk. ' 625 Men at Work on Streets. Not less than 500 men have been em ployed dally by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, since Janu ary 1, on street Improvement work ln Portland. The work is of a permanent character on streets on which the lines of the road are laid and which have been ordered improved by the city. The greatest number of men employed by tne company at any one time ln this work was (71 and the number is now Zs. CITY'S GOOD THEIR OBJECT Fireproof Structures to Be Worked For Along With Broadway Bridge. Payment for Water Mains and Parks Are to Be Taken Up, Sort of a clearing house of the push clubs and Improvement associations of Portland was formed last week. Th president or some representative mem ber from 10 of these organizations met at the Commercial Club Thursday night and took steps to form a permanent organisation which is to contain three men from each improvement club in the city. The second meeting will be held Thursday night. August 11. at the Commercial Club. Although certain well-defined meas ures to be taken up were mentioned t the first meeting of this org-anlzation. anything that Portland needs or any thing that will make for the good of tne city is to be the scope of tho work done. Enthusiasm and a marked in terest in the city's good marked the initial meeting, together with an ear- nestness and a faith in Portland's lu- : ture greatness that bid fair to en-1 dure. The meeting waa called by John H. Haak, president of the Mount Tabor Improvement Association. Invitations were sent out to 19 or 14 presidents of Portland's advancement organizations and 10 men responded. These were M. J. Morse, from the Waverly-Rich-mond Club; T. T. Geer. from the Rosa City Park Club; J. A. Currey. from the, Portland Heights Club; Frank J. Per kins, from the Mount Tabor Club; S. W.- Wallcer, secretary of the Sunnyslde Club; C. A. Bow. from the Mount Tabor Club; Dr. A. C. Smith, from the Seventh Street Improvement Association; B. B. Luten, from the Mount Tabor Club, and R. D. Merchant, from tne Kenllworth Club. Mr. Geer presided. Three things in particular were taken up in the discussion, which was frank and open, and marked by vigorous criticism of the agencies held respon-. sible for what the men present consid ered wrong conditions here. These three things are to be considered at the larger meeting two weeks hence and will be the first objects the or ganization will work for. These objects are the substitution of fireproof school buildings for the frame affairs now put up by the Board of Education, popular subscriptions for Broadway bridge bonds In small blocks and payment for water mains out of the general fund instead of by owners of property abutting, as Is the system followed now. Parks will also be worked for. The condition of the city schools came ln for the greatest amount of discussion. Numerous examples of un sanitary surroundings were cited, not ably in the Rose City Park school, the Mount Tabor school and the Portland Heights school, and criticism of ths proposed new Lincoln High school was indulged in. Mr. Currey showed irom figures he had been to the trouble of getting together how other cities are putting up fireproof school buildings for less money than Portland Is paying for wooden buildings. Municipalities that have built school buildings re cently were mentioned, together with the cost of these buildings, and this table was compared with one showing the cost of Portland schools, much to the detriment of the latter. In particular the new Lincoln High school was talked over, and the fact that it is proposed to use mill con struction at a cost of about $350,000 came ln for much censure. The cost of a Philadelphia High school at $150. 000 was compared, as was the $100,000. spent for one ln St. Louis; One of the purposes of the new or ganization will be to Incite an Inter est ln the taxpayers' meeting next De-.' cember, when an opportunity will bo given to take issue with the Sohool Board on some of Its rulings. . When the Broadway bridge waa mentioned there was an immediate ex pression of opinion to the effect that the necessary bo ds could easily - be sold through systematic system. The push clubs of the city will be the means by which this sale is to ba ac- compllshed. j Mr. Haak has promised the aid of his automobile in enabling the commit tee to call upon the presidents of all the Improvement associations ln the city to urge upon them the advisability of attending the next meeting of the "clearing house," two weeks hence. He, with Mr. Walker and Mr. Currey, will go at this task this week. DELAY BACKHAUL DECISION Commission Will Send 50 Men to Check on Railroads. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash- ! inpton. July 30. Tho interstate Com merce Commission may be unable to ; make a final decision in the Spokane and Pacific Coast back-haul case until Jan uary or February, though it originally planned to make definite reductions by ; October 1. Rate Expert C. A. Lutz, of the Com- ' mission, who will supervise the check- 1 lng up of railroads as ordered by the "Commission, will confer with representa tives of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific tomorrow, and, about August 1, will tart West with 50 assist ants to begin active work. A record will be made up for four months about De cember 1 and this will postpone any re ductions until next year. Bible Tauglit In New Ilght. 1 Rev. w. W. McArthur, representing the Denver Bible School, has arrived in Portland for the purpose of conducting: extension work. The object of the school is the teaching- of the Scriptures from a standpoint of healing. Among1 the subjects included in the school's course are: Gospel versus metaphysical healing The Scriptures the source of Gospel beal ing. The redemption of the body In eluded In, the finished work of Jesus Christ. Man's true relation to Cod throush the risen Christ. Man's true life through the holy spirit the ultimate of God'a providence. How God works and man's part. The day of Christ what and when ia ItT Jesus, the Christ, coming: in the clouds what is it? Uw versus Gospel. - Man the incarnation of the message of the resurrection. A public meeting- will be held at 8 o'clock this afternoon at the Hassalo Congregational Church, corner Of Kas alo and Twenty-eight ": " 1 lGll06.0