THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, JULY 31, 1910.
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PERMITS GO AHEAD
First Seven Months of 1910
$2,201,767 Over 1909.
SEVERAL ARE HELD BACK
Delay in Obtaining Permits Keeps
Down Total for Month Week
Shows Better Than Any Other
of Month Future Bright.
Building permits were affected by the
perceptibly livelier tone of businees in
general last week, and the week saw
more issued than any other week In July.
A peculiarity lies in the fact that the
largest permit of the week and of the
month came on the last day of the month.
This was to K. M. "Warren to erect a five-
tory brick apartment at the corner of
Tenth and Salmon streets to cost $60,000.
A numbpr nf InrcrA Dprmits. amonc them
the Selling building, which has been begun I
at the corner of Sixth and Alder streets,
nd the O. R. & N. freight houses, which
fcav also been begun, are yet to be
issued. The permit for the freight houses
h In the office of the Building Inspector,
but it is not yet ready. As a result of
this holding back, the amount of the
permits tor the month fell behind that
of July lat year by about 52000. In num
ber, however, they exceeded those --of a
year ago by 117.
Kor the first seven months of 1910. how
ever, the building permits exceed the like
period in 1909 by the enormous sum of
S2.201, 767. More big buildings are planned
now than at the corresponding time lat
year, and the indications point to a con
tinuance In the ratio of gain during the
rest of the year.
Th activity in smaller residences which
thaa been particularly noticeable during
the month, keeps up. Of the 123 permits
Issued, 63 were for homes. Of the 523
permits of the month nearly half wre
for residences. In detail the permits for
the week were as follows:
No. Amount.
Monday -...'. ;i Ko.740
Tuesday 17
Wednesday XI ;.'-i,or
Thursday 15 44,100
Frlduy ..." 17 17,700
Saturday 7 74.000
Totals . 123 :5S,5Uu
Monday.
Emll Krey Erect two-story frame flats,
Rodney avenue between San Kat'ael and
Tillvmook; builder, p. H. Shook; $7uu(.
F. K. HunRfrford Repair one-stury frame
dwelling;. tea st Twenty-eighth street, cor
ner AnkAiiy ; builder, same ; 1)00.
W. Perkins Repair two-ntory frame
dwelling. J17 Knott street between Commer
cial ana Cjanteubcin ; builder, same; 100.
William Moorehouse Erect one-story
frame office, laet' Thirteenth street be
tween Spokane and Tacoma; builder, YVai
dt'lo Bi-ub. ; $10oo.
L.lzlu A. tunlap Repair one-story frame
dwell ins. OOfc Kat SixtetMith atree between
Golnjc and Wytani; but.der, iian Maybe;
S l ooo.
Gertrude McKenny Krect one-story frame
dwelling. Watt street between Mount Scott
avenue and Char-alette; buiMwr, L.. G, Ale
Kenny ; siuon.
A. Hen rick sen Erect one-storv frame
dwelling, Mallory avenue between Fres
co tt and Going; builder, same; $.ioo.
Katon Hotel Co. Kepair Hve-story brick
hotel, Morrison street between Seventh and
Park ; builder, M Hoi land Hroa. ; $ouo.
P. J. Hen ricksen Erect one-story frame
d we 1 line, 107 J Cleveland avenue between
Alberta and Sumner; builder, E. J. Sher
man ; oO"U.
Swiss Floral Co. Repnlr one-story frame
dwelling. 412 East Seventh street between
?;m Kafael - and Hancock; builder, name:
1000.
1. Sehad Erect two-story frame dwelling
Larch etreet between Spruce and East Har
rison ; builder, F. S. Campbell ; $4OO0.
Richard Klnnear Erect one-storv frame
dwelling, Water street between Hamilton
nd Seymour; builder, V. H. Campbell; i'JOOO
E. M. Rasmnsaen Erect two-story frame
ouelltup. Peerless Place between Holliday
mnd Multnomah; builder, same; $.1500.
Malurkey A. Melt-hen Repair three-story
frame store building, corner Union avenue
and Eaot BUrnside street; builder, T. B.
6uhell)iammer; f.iOO.
A. L.- Evans Erect one-story frame shed,
(East Seventy-fourth street between Siski
you and Klickitat; builder, same; $200.
Lucia Pierson Erect two-story frame
dwelling. Broadway street between Twenty
necond and Twenty-fourth; builder. Security
Building Company; $4000.
Wesley Cooper Erect one-story frame
bed. Gay street between Aiiu worth and
Holman; builder, same; $100.
W. J. Carpenter Erect 1 V -story frame
dwelling. Elm street between Lincoln an d
Bedford; builder, same; $l0OO.
R. A Watson Erect 1 -story frame
d wellltiK. Broadway street between Twenty -ninth
and Thirtieth ; bulldur. George A.
tRoa; $2.-.oo.
E. C. Groce Erect 1 H -story frame dwell
ng. Vaughn street between Newton and
Thirty-second; builder. Fred Munger; $40O0.
I.. La mere Erect one-story frame dwell
ing. Forty-fifth a tree t between Holgate and
Pike; builder, E. v Reder; 91SOO.
W. E. Murphy Erect one-story frame
Dwelling, Brooklyn street between Twenty-
pint n ana Thirtieth; builder, E. W. Reder;
lisoo.
W. L-rsen Erect one-story frame dwell
frig, EL9t Twenty-eighth street Between
J-'mnkliu and Powell; builder hX W. Keder;
M. Ev Teal Repair two-story frame store,
Fourth Mreet between Yamhill and Taylor;
builder M. J. Reisner; $1000.
W. B. Powell Repair four-story brick
tore, 03 Delay street, corner Russell; builder
frank Brown ; $"0.
Mrs. C. E. Hill Erect two-Mory frame
dwelling, KuMt Thirty-iif th street between
(Market and Stephens; builder Home Building
Co. ;
F. I. Phelps Erect two-story frame dwell
ing. Eiit Forty-third street corner Raymond;
builder C. H. Rice; sAXn.
C. E. Stout Repair one-story frame dwell
ing, 705 Lei and street between Eaat Eigh
tenth and Twenty-first: bulkier same; 1000.
J, S. Meek Repair two-story trame dwell
ing. Taggnrt street between Ellsworth and
Clinton; builder same; $1000.
L. T. Ruyeell Repair two-story frame
dwelling. Cleveland avenue between Beech and
Freemout: builder Parker & anrteld: $14O0.
A. C. Citrry Erect one-story limine garage,
T:.iat Thirtieth street between Burnslde and
Ankeny; builiier Parker BanrielU; 200.
Orpheum Aiuuemt-nt Company Repair
four-ntory brick building. Seventh street be
twtn Airier and Morrison; builder J. Bing
ham ; $'KA'.
W. w. Graves Repair two-Jtory frame
building. lOiti Kst Washington street between
Thirty-fifth and Thirty -sixth; builder same;
$1OO0.
B. F. Cannon Repair one-story frame shed.
lf34 East Twenty-eighth etreet between Al
berta and Wygant; builder ame; $li.
J. R. Caples Erect one-story frame dwell
ing. Hancw k street between Eleventh and
Twelfth; builder same; $2uuo.
O. R. & N. Co. Eiect or.e-tory frame
d'k. river front between Ankeny and Ah
streets, builder Portland Flab Company ; $0Ou.
Tuesday.
F. E. Hilton Erect one-story frame gar
age. East Fifty-second street between Broad-.
ay and Hancock; builder, same; $'0.
J. W. Uelano Erect one-story frame
dwelling. East Eighty-second street between
Btark and Pine; builder, same; J1O0O.
Nicolal & Son Repair one-story frame
hed. Water street corner East Taylor; build
er, E. C. Wakeman; $1000.
Martha Midler Erect one-story frame
barn. Douglas street between Twenty-m-jt
and Twenty-third: builder, same; sr.oo.
Otto J. Kraenu-r Erect three-storv brick
apartments, southwest corner Sixth and
Montgomery streets: builders, Morgan. Flied
oer Ac Boyce; $J4.uoo.
Charles Hitter Erect two-storv frame
dweHnp. Powell Valley road between FiCty
rirst and Fifty-second; builder. J. R. Kelly :
$16oO.
Twohy Bros. Erect one-story frame ware
house. East Fifty-ninth street between Pa
cine and Oregon; builder, same; $J0OO.
Bernard Lisoski Repair oue-a'nd-one-half-
tory frame dwelling, 40 West Prescott
street between Concord and Denver- builder
same; $o0o.
George T. Meyers Repair two-storv frame
barn. 412 Davis street between Tenth and
Eleventh: builder. F. H. Wagner; $lud
H. Krieger Erect two-story frame dwell
ing. Russell street between t'nlon avenue and
evmth; bui:der. J. Si'hiewe; JJOOO.
C. H. Long Erect one-and-one-half -story-frame
dweiling. Eat Eighteenth street be
tween Sumner and Emerson; builder, same
00. M. P. Tomllnson Erect two-story frame
dwelling, corner East Twenty-first and Yam
hill streets; builder. T. Zellar; roH
Sisters of Good Shepherd Repair two-eory
frame e-hooI. corner East Twentieth ard Ore
gon streets: builder D. F. Campbell; $500
Ja-i. Colboriie Bepjur oiie-storx Xnune
dwelling. Spokane avenue between Thirteenth '
and Fifteenth; builder J. J. Gee; $1200.
E. C. Bobbins Repair one-story frame
dwelling. East Twelfth street between Thomp
son and Brazee; builder B. S. Red; $500.
J. K. Turner Erect one-story frame dwell
ing, Efet Sixty-eighth street between Peaxl
and Hoyt; builder same; $100.
Margaret N'aeve Erect one-atory frame
dwelling. Metzger street between Beech and
EUm; builder same; $2oO. '
Wednesday.
H. L- Lively Erect one-story frame
dwelling. East Seventy-fif th street between
Siskiyou and Klickitat; builder, same; $150.
John Clark Repair two-story frame sa
loon, 03 Fourth street between Stark and
Washington; builders. Franklin A. Shafer;
$75.
Ben Selling Repair ' three-story brick
store, Washington street between West Park
and Tenth; builders. Franklin & Shafer;
$100.
F. Mulkey Repair three-story brick store,
corner Second and Morrison streets; builder,
A. J. Authors; $1000.
T. C. Lock wood Erect two-story frame
dwelling. Mora street between Whitman and
N'ellie; tuUder. same; $10uO.
Wlnehart Estate Repair two-story brick
store. 164 Second street between YamnlU
and Morrison; builder, same; $25.
Charles Stobaugh Erect one-story frame
office, corner Third and Clay streets; build
er, same; $100.
Chambers & Farnsworth Erect one-storj
frame dwelling. Pearl street between Lyon
and Flora; builder. H- Clouser; $1000.
M. j. Jones Repair two-story frame store
building, 14i-151 Fourth street between Al
der and Morrison; builder. E- C Eicke
meyer; $1000.
W. E. Chambers Erect two-story frame
dwelling. Lodge street between Virginia and
Stewart; builder, H. Clouser; $1000.
G. A. Ttldon Repair two-story frame
dwelling. 507 East Morrison street between
East Thirteenth and Fourteenth; builder, J.
Penny; $100.
Mrs. w. A- Simmons Erect one-story
frame dwelling. East Seventy-sixth street
bet w sen Klickitat and Fremont; builder.
same; sou.
H. E. Dyer Repair threestory brick store
building. 105 First street between Washing
ton and Stark; builder, H. Hlrschberger;
$400.
ML&s E. L. Randall Repair one-story
frame dwelling. I5tl EaM Eighth street be
tween Nehalem and Miller; builder, same;
$200.
J ohn Stanff er Erect one-story frame
dwelling, Eaat Twenty-first street between
Prescott and Skidmore; builder. Building In
vestment Co. ; S2O0O.
John Ferril Erect one-story frame dwell
ing, Rodney avenue between -Falling and
Shaver; builder. E. Oberg; $1500.
Mrs. W. H. Carney Erect one-story frame
dwelling, Millard street between Lyon and
Floral; builder. H. Coslett; $300.
A. Brldgeon Erect on-tory frame
dwelling, Karl street between Twenty-seventh
and Twenty-eighth; builder, A. F.
Hanke; $1400.
S. Mathlson Erect two-story frame dwell
ing. East Forty-fifth street between Brazee
and Knott; builder, C- W. Christen3en;
$2000.
XTnited Railway Co. Wreck frame build
ings, northwest corner Twelfth and Flanders
streets; builder, same; $500.
H L. Hamblet Erect three one-etory
frame dwelling. MiseifsippI avenue and
Wlnchell; builder J. J. Gee; $50O each.
Hlbernla Bank Repair one-story brick
bank. 219 Alder street between First and
Second; builder W. H. Evans; $500.
George Ryan Erect one-story frame dwell
ing, Madison street between Forty-second and
Forty-third; builder Eatlnger & Wasson;
$2'i00.
J. S. Courtney Erect one-story frame
dwelling-, Eiaet Seventy-ninth and Irving
streets, builder J. E. Blackburn; $1000.
J. S. Courtney Repair one-story frame
church. East Seventy-ninth street between Irv
ing and Hoyt; builder J. E. Blackburn; $SOO.
Peter Shlitt Erect one-story frame barn.
Grand avenue between Beech and Failing;
builder same; $200.
O. Enqulst Erect 14 -story frame dwell
ing. 825 Gantenbeln between Failing and
Monroe; builder A. L. Enquist; $1800.
H. A. McCrum Erect two-story frame
dwelling. East Fifty-fourth street between
Harrison and Lincoln; builder M. McCrum:
$1500.
Charles Wade Erect one-story frame shed,
1321 Hood street between Flower and Pendle
ton; builder same; $50.
Thursday.
Mrs. K. J Lawter Erect one-story frame
dwelling, McCallam street between Mora and
Cross; builders, Charles McDermott & Son;
$200u.
J. A. Bell Excavate and build founda
tion, corner Vista avenue and Market street;
builder, M. Aradt; $O00.
G. F. NefC Erect one-story frame dwell
ing, corner Alberta and Commercial streets;
builder, H. R. Eckert; $1S00.
H. L. Ahlson Erect one-story frame
dwelling, corner Twenty-first and Linn;
builder, same; $1500.
George W. Broschke Erect two-story
frame dwelling, corner Twenty-second and
Thompson; builders, Moore Bros.; $12,000.
Moore Bros. Erect two-story frame
dwelling, corner Marguerite and Grant
streets; builders, same; $2000.
O. C. Case well Erect one-story frame
dwelling, corner Lewis and Spruce streets;
builder. W. H. Slavena; $2O00.
Mary Hays Erect three-storv frame flats.
Eajt Main street between Fourteenth and
ineentii: Duiiaer, k. ireemont; $10,000.
B. Boyson Erect two-storv frame dwell
ing, East Salmon street between Thirty
seventh and Thirty-eighth; builders. Sword
Ac Li. vveicn; $joou.
N. Thompson Erect one-story frame
dwelling, East Seventeenth street between
jvunngsworth ana Hoibrook; builder, same;
$1200.
K. C. Zehrun g R epa lr f ra me dwell Inc.
611 East Seventy-third street between
Burnside and Davis; builders, Becker &
fatackhouse ti'uu.
C. E. Johnston Erect one-story frame
dwelling. East Twenty-fifth street between
ivuiingswortn , ana eurman; ouuaer, same
$1S00.
O. X. Tweet Repair two-story frame
score ouiiaing, j-;asi btars street between
&eventy-ntnth ana eightieth; builder, F. s.
Hoibrook; $150O.
W. A. Armstrong Erect one-story frame
dwelling. East Fifty-ninth street between
Hassaio ana Multnomah; builder, W. A.
Armstrong : $1500.
Theo. Henrlehpen Erect one-story frame
dwelling, 1610 Macadam between Mills and
Nevada, builder, J. T. McCarthy; fltiOO.
Friday.
Plttock & Leadbetter Repair four-story
trame uwenins, jds ironi street; buna
er, F. H. Brandes; $100.
E. B. Nelson Raualr one-and-one-half
story frame dwelling. Woodstock and Har
vey streets; builder, same: 4100.
Arbuckle & Kay Repair two-story brick
iurw, juurruuu aireti ueiweer. aecond ana
'1 hlrd: builder. J. A. Melton : SliOOO.
Robert Wakefield Repair two-story frame
oweuing, corner lamnm ana Chapman
streets: builder. J. A. Melton: $2000.
McHolland Bros. Erect two-story frame
more ana rooms, .cast tignteentn between
sanay roaa ana iverett; builder, same
$1000.
D. W oodsworth Erect one-story frame
garage, uiton .faric boulevard near Custer;
builder, same: $200.
G. L. Yost Repair one-and-one-half -story
frame dwelling. Vale street between Haven
and Flsk; builder, same; $350.
Charles Seading Repair two-story framo
dwelling. 200 Caruthers street between First
ana front; ouuuer, same; sou.
R- P .Wagner Erect two-story frame
Biorc, comer m i w bukip ana tenter streets
builder, H. Myers; $2000.
Ed SchUler Repair two-story frame
aneinng, .o cabi rourieentn Detween Til-
lamooK ana i nompson streets; builder R,
J. Stewart ; $50o.
M. Bauer Erect two-storv fr-nm& ritraii.
ing. coiner Hart and Hamlin streets; build
er, same; $iOO.
William Trever Repair one-storv
dwelling, corner East Seventh end Shaver
streots; nuiiaer. ivmg & spraeue: SioA.
H. M. Hartman Repair one-story frame
aweuing, aiw i.ieoe Detween Thirty-ninth
ana i niriy-eignin streets; Duiiaer. K. Hart
man: $500.
Eugene Morse Repair two-story frame
a weiung, casi i wentiein between Til
lamook and Thompson; builder, N. C. Paul
son; $300.
A. Olson Repair one-storv frame dwell
Ing. corner Eighteenth and Brazee streets
builder. McHolland Bros.: S5iG
Thomas Sehultz Erect two-story frame
"".inns, fjubi mrum oeiween Knott and
Stanton streets; builder. J. R. Selbere: xort
G. E- Wls-htman Erect two-story frame
dm. i ii, lhpi rmj -lounn nexween inompaon
im j. i iiuiiiuuk . ouuuer. same; 1UOO.
Saturday.
Hlen Eilers Repair one-story frame
dwelling. 447 East Eighth street between
i niamooK ana i nompson; builder, same;
F. Went Erect twn.tnrw fm rr m h
ing. Grand avenue between Franklin and
Frederick; builder. W. B. Cobb: $3700.
Edith A. Davis Erect two-storv frame
dwelling. Schuyler street between Twentv-
nrst ana i w enty-secona; builder. H L
Camp; $75O0.
O. J. Sherman Erect one-story frame
garage, corner East Sixteenth and Taylor
streets: builder. H. 1 Camp ; $;5o.
D. Rtshland Erect one-storv frame
dwelling. Church street between Campbell
and Concord ; builder. D. A. Clearwater;
$2000.
F. M. Warren Erect five-story brick
apartments. corner Tenth and Salmon
atreets: Dunacr. ijieoisch & Joplin: $60,000.
G. J. Miller Erect one-storv frame
dwelling. Woodstock between Wood and
narvei ; ouimt-r. same;
Damage Suit Trial Set.
ALBANY, Or., July 30. (Special.)
Th suit -which J. R. Cartwright. of
HarrisDurg, brought against the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company for J16.
104 damages, will bo tried in the Uni
ted States Circuit Court at Portland a
the next session. Cartwright is suing'
lor carnages lor tne alleged ruination
or land caused by a change of the
course of the Willamette River when
the Southern Pacific constructed wing
dams at Harrisburg,
ARTIST EVOLVES ABIDING PLACE HIGH IN BOUGHS OF SWAYING CEDAE TREE.
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MLBINA GETS BOOST
Brick Building to Occupy Will
iams-Avenue School Site.
COST IS TO BE $75,000
C. H. and Ion Lewis and Robert
Smith Buy School Block for $105,
000 and Start Building to Test
Business of This District.
On the site of old 'Williams avenue
schoolhouse, which has been wrecked
and carted away, a $75,000 three-story
brick building will rise as fast as the
construction can be accomplished. The
entire block was bought by Robert
Smith, Ion Lewis and C. H. Lewis for
$105,000. The new building will stand at
the southwest corner, fronting 100 feet
each way on "Williams avenue and Russell
street.
The first floor will be fitted for stores.
On the second floor will be offices, and
on the third apartments. The structure
will be good looking, for there Is a possi
bility that clinker brick will be used. The
United Engineering & Construction Com
pany has the contract. Excavation was
begun last Monday, and the work will be
pushed to completion as fast as possible.
"That Albina country Is a good part of
the city," said C. H. Lewis, one of the
owners of the block. "There has been
nothing done In Lower Albina for 20
years, however, and very little In Upper
Albina. We felt that the only way to get
things started was to tear down the
school building and put up a good block
where It stood. If this venture is a suc
cess we shall build on the rest of the
block. There is much business in that
part of town, and I can see no reason
why a building such as this will not pay.
Vhe wreckers who tore down the
school building made a good thing," con
tinued Mr. Lewis. "For a long time we
could not find a firm that would pay
anything for doing the work. They all
wanted us to pay them. Finally one
firm was willing to pay $400. It turned
out that it saved between 200,000 and
300,000 brick from the old structure."
Fisher & Sill will erect a four-story
brick building for the International Har
vester Company of America on the prop
erty owned by the Nicolat estate at East
Taj-lor and East First streets, on the
west side of the Southern Pacific tracks.
It will be built heavily to accommodate
the agricultural implement and machinery
business. The Harvester Company has
leased the building In advance for five
years, with the privilege of extending the
lease for another five years.
The Northwestern Construction Com
pany has the contract to erect a two
story flat building on lot 3, McMillen's
Addition, Benton street, between Hal
re y and Clackamas, for L. N. Jfodel. It
will be 42 by 60 feet, with a full cement
basement, end will contain four five-
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RESIDENCE OF R. A. LEISY, WILLIAMS AVEXl'E, PIEDMONT.
room flats fitted with modern conveni
ences. The building will cost $7000.
Ray & Nelson were the successful bid
ders for the erection of the new home
of Judge W. L. Cooper, to be erected in
Laurelhurst. It will have two stories
and contain eight rooms. The cost will
be $5000.
D. J. Mahoney. a prominent builder,
has just sold a two-story residence on
East Forty-fourth street, near Hancock,
to C. E. Carter for $4500. Mr. Carter
bought the property for a permanent
home and will occupy the house as soon
as it has been finished. Mr. Mahoney
has purchased a quarter block at the
Northwest corner of East Forty-fifth and
Hancock streets for $2000. He will erect
two residences on the quarter to cost
$3500 each.
Plans are being drawn for a two-story
cement block building to be erected at
the comer of Killingsworth and Mary
land avenues for E. J. Jaeger, of Jaeger
Bros., which will cost $10,000. It will be
60x74 feet, the lower portion adapted to
general business purposes, while the sec
ond floor will contain four flats -of five
rooms each. C. A. Isackson is the con
tractor. George W. Priest has erected more
dwellings in various parts of - the East
Side than any single contractor in Port
land. He is both architect and contrac
tor, draws plans for his own houses and
then builds them, keeping constantly at
work a force ranging from 30 to 40 skilled
men.
Last year Mr. Priest put up 50 houses
in the Waverly-Richmond district. He
also built many dwellings in Albina and
Overlook. This year he is building in
Rose City Park. He has built five houses
in Merlow Addition, six in Rose City,
six on East Thirty-seventh street in
Rossme're, and six on Brazee street be
tween East Forty-first and East Forty
second, streets. These houses range in
cost from $2500 to $3500.
During the week he sold to the fol
lowing: Mary J. Feenaughty, recently
from the East, a $4500 house in Ross
mere; Mr. Matthews, manager of R. M.
Gray's clothing house, a $4000 house in
Rossmere, now under construction; C.
C. Shaw, of Shaw & Locke, a $3850 resi
dence in Rossmere; H. S. Sook, a $3500
residence In the same district.
Foundations have been constructed for
a two-story brick building on Vancouver
avenue, near Tillamook, which will be
built by J. F. "Wilson at a cost of about
$5000. It will cover the entire lot, which
Is 50x100, and which was bought from
E. D. Dewey for $2500. "Work on the
building is to be pushed along.
A block in Stephens Addition, No. 66,
bounded by Stephens and East Harrison
streets and Union and Grand avenues,
has been sold by Hartman & Stein to F.
J. Woodward for $28,000. Mr. Woodward
is an outside investor and will Improve
the property. X
At East Seventh and Hancock street
W. H. McMonies & Co., wholesale leather
dealers and harness manufacturers, will
soon have a new factory building, for
which J. O. Wrenn, architect. Is now
drawing plans. The structure will be
three stories high. 100 feet each way, and
there will be a full cement basement, 11
feet In height, with side lights above
the sidewalk. ,
The outside walls will be of reinforced
concrete and the Interior of slow-burning
mill construction. The building will
have a gravel roof. The collar depart
ment will occupy the basement; on the
first floor will be the offices, delivery and
shipping departments; on the second the
showroom and stockroom, and on the
third the workroom. A driveway will go
through the building.
HOUSE IS Iff TREE
Edward O'Neill Makes Castle
in Air Come True.
GROUND 60 FEET, BENEATH
Artist With Two and a Half Acres In
Irvlngton Park Evolves Idea and
"With Help of Friend Constructs
Room In Swaying Cedar.
Edward E. O'Neill, artist, designer,
city farmer, man of ideas, and ?o-id
feliow generally, built him many castles
in the air before one of them became
an actuality. Now he has one literally,
for he has built him a house up a tree.
Sixty feet above the ground, swiyins
with the breeze in his 10 by 10 do
main, he can look out over the rest
of the world and bid defiance to it
from the stronghold of his secnrely
f a ipn cr lfttlA VimiKA- nn In the branches
In the city Edward O'Neill draws
things for people in his studio in the
Rothchild building, scraping up the
wherewithal with which to carry on
the main business in life. This begins
when he leaves the hurly burly of the
city and steps onto the province where
his heart is, the two acres and a naif
in Irvlngton Park, beyond Alameda,
where he carries on the vocation of
city farmer, raising things in his gar
den, building a house to live in, runs
for his chickens and pottering about
the place.
His main interest in life, however,
is his house up a tree. Long has he
dreamed of it, and almost before he
had a place to live- in after he had
bcught his 16 lots in Irvlngton Park.
he had .the tree picked out in which
to build.
Charles Heft had a share in this ven
ture. He is the man who startled the
world by falling nine stories from the
Wclls-Fargo building with his pipe in
his mouth and not even breaking tho
pipe. Mr. Heft is chief engineer nf
the Oregon Hotel and knows all about
elevator construction. To him Mr.
O'Neill confided his dream of a tree
house, and Mr. Heft pondered over the
problems presented, his knowledge -of
engineering coming in mighty handy.
It had to be started at the ground,
with the first step of the crooked stair
way that leads up to it. This stair
way Is eight inches wide and has six
landings, at each of which the steps
make a sudden turn. Partly this flight
is a brace for the structure at the
top, and partly It rests upon braces
jutting out from the tree. It had to
be solidly and strongly built, capable
of supporting much weight.
After the place for the tree home was
reached, the platform on which it rests
had to be made, from the center out
ward each way. Mr. Heft did most of
this work, hanging by his feet head
down and bolting one timber to an
other. "It was a regular engineering feat,
building that floor," said Mr. O'Neill.
"There was Heft, hanging by his toe
nails, 60 feet above the ground, swing
ing head down, screwing In the bolts.
But she held when she was done,"
Then the walls were made. Sliding
windows on each side allow the room
to be inclosed In bad weather, the glass
not disturbing the view In the least.
Whenever it is desired the windows
can be shoved back, and it is Just the
same as being outdoors with a roof
overhead. That roof presented prob
lems also. It had to be waterproof,
fastened securely enough so it will not
blow off and fitting squarely so the
window sashes would not sag.
VThe last board In that roof was a
corker." commented Mr. O'Neill. "Heft,
out of pure meanness, I guess, left it
for me to put on. I studied and studied
over how to get It In place. It was
simple enough after I found out how
but it took some thinking. I merely
raised it on a stick, let it fill In just
the right place, and then fastened it
down."
When It was all done the house was
dedicated. Friends of Mr. and Mrs.
O'Neill she is crazy about it. too
helped them with a glorious house
warming, and after that It took its
place as one of the institutions of the
miniature farm.
It is 10 feet each way, will hold 12
persons, has window seats running
around the four sides, all comfortably
furnished with cushions, and the ulter
ior motive Jn the construction of the
house is ease and comfort. " It took
about three weeks to build and cost
$20d." i
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
EDITED BY L05E CASS BAER. .
BESSIE M'COT, whose dancing and
mtlng In "Three Twins" won tor
her an unusual distinction, is to
be raised to stellar honors next season
by Charles Dillingham. To accomplish
this purpose . "The Echo." in which
Richard Carle starred ' for a brief
period toward the close of last season,
has been selected. The play will neces
sarily be slightly changed to suit" the
eccentricities of the nimble Bessie, and
an early Broadway production Is an
nounced. It is common rumor, by the way, and
there is every foundation for it in
truth, that Bessie is to wed Richard
Harding Davis, the well-known short
story writer, just a soon' as the di
vorce proceedings are concluded which
will sever the bonds now legally bind
ing the writer to his present wife.
Evelyn, the angel child wife C Harry
Thaw, has apparently been nearly for
gotten. She lives in an old-fashioned
brown stone house In Thirty-third
street. New York, where she has a
"studio" right up under the eaves. To
a reporter who hunted her up tho
other day, Evelyn waxed eloquent
about her sculping den.
"At first," she said, "I fixed it up
so fine. I had beautiful rugs and fur
niture and pictures; I. had tapestries
and hangings and all that like an
artist's studio in a fairy story. But
I had to tear all that out. I couldn't
get dirty enough in it. And if you
cant get dirty you can't be a success
ful sculptoc"
The account further says that in
Evelyn's studio artistic confusion
reigns supreme, and in the midst of it
the child wife dabbles and putters at
clay modeling. Boxes, tables, a few
good chairs, shelves loaded with the
stuff of the trade, mounds of clay,
white casts of hands and heads and a
figure or -two, a square mirror tipped
in a corner holding a picture of a
sunset, a great array of theatrical
posters depicting ladles in abbreviated
garments singing the eternal question
of Kelly, or balancing nonchalantly on
their eyebrows that, is the picture,
apparently, of Evelyn's working quar
ters. .
The first appearance on the stage of
Margaret Illington Bowes, of Tacoma.
will be In an adapted translation of
"Jusqua 1'Eternlte. Years' ago Clara
Morris used an English version of this
same play under the title of "Miss
Moulton." The present adaptation of
"Until Eternity" is the work of Edward
Eisner, one of Miss Illington's com
pany. Other members of her support
are Nina Morris. Willa Vane. Ines Shan
non. Zyllah Shannon. Florence TImponl.
Walter Edwards. Jo"in D. Barry and
Melville Rosenow. For a month pre
vious to the first performance, which
will be on August 26. at Tacoma. Mrs.
Bowes will entertain the entire com
pany at a house party, durincr which
rehearsals will be in progress. After
a tour of independent playhouses over
tne country. "Until Eternity will ap
pear at Maxine Eliott's Theater in New
York.
Fritzi Scheft Fox has purchased a big
tract or land near Lexington, Ky..
where she intends to build a country
place.
E. Tt. Green, who has gone to New
York to assist his venerable mother, the
noted Hetty, in managing her vast
estate, was once a theatrical angel,
DacKing a musical comedy company.
Fortunately he repented before all was
lost.
A feminine aspirant for play-writin
fame and remuneration recently called
upon Henry B. Harris at the latter's
theatrical office In New York and left
a play with him to be read, at the same
time saying she would call again in the
course of a few oays to learn his opln
ion as to the value of the offering. A
week later, true to her word, she came,
and Mr. Harris politely informed her
that the play was Impossible, if for no
other reason than that it could be acted
In half an hour. "Well." she replied.
"you can have the actors read their
lines slowly, and have long waits be
tween the acts, and in that way you
could overcome that defect. '
Mrs. Pat Campbell, the English act
ress, who spent last season vaudevill
Ing in the East, has contracted with
William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet-
dramatist, to write her a play In which
she will appear as an actress whose con
duct in the course of a revolution has
an Important bearing on her country's
causes The piece will be a comedy,
written in fantastic verse. Until the
new play is completed, Mrs. Campbell
will rest, provided she is not tempted
with some of the "splendiferous" offers
she has - received from the music-hall
managers lately.
Robert H. Davis, one of the most
widely known and best liked newspa
per men in America, and present edi
tor of three of Frank A. Munsey's
publications, has come out with a new',
four-act play, "The Family," which the
Shuberts will produce next season.
Mr. Davis' Is a Western man and be
gan his work s a newspaper man In
San Francisco, but has long been es
tablished as one of the most promi
nent story writers in New York City.
"The Family"- is, however, the first
dramatic work from his pen. It is a
domestic play and has only six char
acters A mother's love is the essen
tial sentiment of the work, the char
acter of which is suggested by the
title.
Christie MacDonald has just sailed
for Europe, a little late for a theat
rical woman it would seem, as they
usually go early. Her object is to
spend some time in France in vocal
study.
A playwright of some note died in
London a few days ago Captain Rob
ert Marshall, author of "His Excellency
the Governor" and "The Second in
Command," both known in this coun
try. He also wrote "A Royal Family,"
which was popular about ten years ago.
His plays were light and amusing.
According to experiments made by
Charles Frohman in London, audiences
have ceased to care for plays in which
smart epigram is the principal feature.
Dialogue of this kind Is very well for a
seasoning, but what playgoers really
want is a play in which the actors do
something besides talk. It was found
at the Repertory Theater that of all
the plays tried only those written
along the more or less conventional
lines succeeded in attracting a large
number of persons to the house. Bril
liant talk is amusing for a time, but
when one has had an hour of it amuse
ment gives way to weariness.
There must be a plot, action, sus
pense, surprise; the plotless play,
which depends solely upon the dia
logue, has ceased to interest. Accord
ing to this, G. Bernard Shaw and his
school have had their day. There Is a
great deal of dialogue in some of the
contemporaneous French plays, but be
hind it there is always a story.
Martin Beck, chief executor of his
own wishes for the Orpheum circuit,
really means to fly. He has had his
recently purchased Herring-Curtis bi
plane taken to New York, and is soon
to begin taking lessons in the art of
cloud tickling. New engines are being
installed in the aeroplane and George
Russel, who has been successful in
making flights near New York, is to
be the instructor. Mr. Beck bought
his machine last Spring:. It was ex
hibited in several Orpheum houses and
then placed In cold storage until the
owner's sudden desire to fly has
brought it forth.
Henry W. Savage Is going to earor
something else to the Shuberts besides
The Merry Widow." It is to be the
widow's successor, and the new opera
was written by a trio of men who are
responsible for other' tunes which have
set the country waltzing Frani Le
har. Victor Leon and Leon Stein. T!.
new opera is called "The Prince'a
Child" in English, and such wi'l be ita
title when it is given its Broadway
production In New York. The Qerman
name of the production was "Das
Fuerstkind." and as tueh it ran 20
nights in the Johann Strauss Theater.
Vienna. The hero is aa American.
Mr. taavage has .acquired also tha
rights of two comodies Tvhich have
won the applause of Berlin's theater
goers. They are "The Leftenant's
Ward" ("Das Leutennantsmuendel".
by Leo Walther Stein. and "Baron
Good-for-Nothing" ("Baron Lieder-
llch"), by Helnrich Schrottenbach.
Eddie toy, who is now starring in
Up and Down Broadway." a New
York musical revue. Is responsible for
this story, which proves a name to be
of some Importance, classical author
ity to the contrary notwithstanding:
"It was not long ago," says Eddie,
"that I met a pretty young woman who
was Just in the act of going on the -stage
and had her career all mapped
out. In about five years she expected
to be more famous than Bernhardt
and a better actress than Julia Mar
lowe. In another five she was going
to have all the managers Imploring
her to join their companies and offer-
ing ner more money than Tettrazini
ever dreamed of getting. It sounded
good to her and she more than half
believed it.
"One day she came to me and she
said: 'I'm going out West to play In
"Peter Pan." Ain't that just too grand
for anything?' And I said I thought
it was a very fine beginning for a
young actress, and asked her who was
the manager of the company. She said
she didn't know, but it was 'Peter Pan
she was going to play in. and every
thing else was all the same to her. She
had it already laid out to make Maude
Adams take a back seat.
"Well, sir, about three months later
I saw that same girl again and she
wasn't looking nearly so fine. She said
she'd like a job In the chorus of n-y
show and that fifteen dollars a week
would do very nicely, so long as she
really got the fifteen. So I asked her
about her tour in 'Peter Pan.
"When I said 'Peter Pan' she looked
kind of .silly and said: 'I made a little
mistake in the name. Of course. It
didn't make any difference to me. but
when I Joined the company I found it
was "Panhandle Pete.
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