TTTE SXTTfDAT OREGOSIA. POKTLAJTO, AUGUST 21, 1910.
EAST SIDE FLATS
ARE PAYING WELL
Apartment-Houses Form Weil
Defined District and Are ,
Crowding Residences.
'PENINSULA TO EXPLOIT
Visions of Shipping Seen and Effort
Will Be Made to Get Factories.
Movement Started for Clear
Channel "Far Tp Hirer.
' BT U H. WKLLS.
I Many of tha permits issued for the East
'Bids ere for apartments and flats, and
these seem to congregate In tbs district
tfcetween Grand evpnue and East Twen
tieth street, and follow tha lines of atrsat
tears on Belmont. East Morrison. East
lnkeney. Clinton and Milwaukee streets.
Manx vacant lota In Central East Port
land are being Improved with this class
(of buildings, for owners of the property
'r finding that apartments par well.
, On the East Side along Grand avenue
the demand Is for offices and rooms.
Owners of the Healy building on Grand
iavenue and East Morrison, are changing
tie upper floors of that structure into of
Itlce apartments, cutting out the balli al
together. The Bruce building on East
lilomaon street and Union avenue, which
'was destroyed by fire Sunday miming,
contained nearly So persons. Every room
I was Ailed and applicants were turned
Wway almost dally for the reason thxi
there ware no vacant rooms,
i It Is found that the aparuaent houses
trKl up above the first floor very fast.
tXrnn this trend It Is safe to assume that
: within a few years the purely residence
districts on the East Side, where people
(own their homes, will be east of East
Twenty-fifth street, in such additions as
'Rose City Park. Laurelhurst. Irvlngton.
-Mount Tabor. Westmoreland. Eastmore
Uand. Woodstock. , Waverly-Kichmond.
"Waverlelgh, Sunnyslde. Montavllla and
other suburbs. These suburbs which have
weemed a long way out are really, close
In. At any rata business buildings, flats
land apartmenta will take the East Side
out to East Twentieth and East Twenty
tflfth. streets within the next tea years. .
Dr. J. R. Wetherbee. when president
'of the Portland Commercial Club, said in
'an address at a banquet given by the
IJast Side Business Men's Club a ll;tle
ver a year ago. that ha expected to sea
rand avenue lined with prosperous busi
ness houses and the street become the
leading business street of Ft Portland.
Fmce then three modern buildings have
been erected on Grand avenue, and plana
are now being prepared for a f?ur-etory
reinforced concrete building. kOxiw. to be
erected by W. L- Morfru and associates
on Grand avenue between East Stark and
fast Oak streets, which will cost 1S.00.
Business men on Grand avenue say that
business has increased 15 per cent over
-what la was In 130 tn all Unea. Ona part
'or the Morgan structure will be used
as a hotel. All above the first floor will
'be for rooms and this hotel.
C. A. Blgelow. of the East Side Bust
mexs Men's Club, contends that the East
tside must have a good hotel and play
house to retain Ita people. He haa been
urging this for several years, and still
(thinks the playhouse 4s the thing most
bleed ed.
i The North Albina Improvement Asso
ciation has started a movement to exploit
the Penlpsuia and particularly the manu
facturing district on Columbia Slough.
I. X Lively, vice president and general
rnanacer of the Peninsula Investment
Company, addressed a letter to the asso
ciation suggesting that It assist In locat
ing factories of every sort on Columbia
Blough. and the communication was re
ceived with enthusiasm. A live commit
tee was appointed to take the matter In
hand. In his address before the. associa
tion J. H. Xolta said that the plana of
the Inveatment Company are to dredge
out Columbia Slough tor deep-sea ahtpa
and create a basin for mooring them.
"When the plans of the Peninsula Com
pany are carried out." said Mr. Kolta, "It
will mean that Portland shipping will
fee done on the Peninsula, on Columbia
(Slough, on the Willamette below the
bridges and on the Columbia River, and
the bridge draws will not often be opened
for sea-going vessels. Already much has
rxn accomplished on the Peninsula In
the wav of locatlnc manufacturing estab
lishments, and this association ran do
.much to aid in building up this district."
S. 1 Osborne, preetdent of the associa
tion, spoke at some length outlining an
active programme for the development of
the Peninsula.
The ftrat steps for opening Villa avenue
. the city limits from the west side of
Xaurrlhurot have been concluded, and the
fnal opening Is now in sight. It will be
made feet wide first to the city limits
land then to tha s'alrview road, a distance
f 11 miles. Between Esst Sixtieth street
and Meridian avenue the widening Is ac
complished and pmperty owners are pay
ing In their assessments. Proceedings are
lender way to widen the avenue between
H ast Sixtieth street and Laurelhurst- This
pa. t will be accomplished In due course
of time. Making of a wide avenue of
e.V.s street Is considered one of the most
Important Improvements on the East
FUt. It has taken five years of constant
agitation on the part of a few who real
ised that such an avenue will be a great
thing for the territory north of the Base
.Line road. With a moderate grade. Villa
avenue will extend straight through to
-the Falrvlew road. There Is a fine terri
tory on either side of the avenue beyond
5e city limits which at present has no
Ulrect street Into Portland. The men who
hare worked In and out of season for this
fine avenue are William PeVeny. H. B.
I'.rklnson. D. A. Or oat. C. N. Rankin.
Judge Seneca Smith and several others.
The result of their efforts Is shown In -the
Increased value of tha fine property east
Bf Montavllla adjacent to tha avenue.
Owners of water front property south
f Hawthorne bridge are In hopes of get
ting the channel of the Willamette River
deepened as far south as MUwaukla,
Committees from the several organisa
tions are working on the proposition. On
both sides of the liver are sites for fac
tories. At Sellwood a three-acre water
front tract, with deep water Immediately
In front Is held at tlS.000. Two extensive
clocks have just been completed at Sell
wood for handling sand, cement and
building material, which are expected to
make building operations In that district
less expensive than heretofore. W. M.
Morehouse has completed a S20.000 dock
at the foot of Umatilla avenue and a
Jor dock has been finished at tha foot
of Linn avenue, both of which will handle
bulldlrg material- To make It easy to
reach these waterfront sites between
Hawthorne bridge and MUwaukla the
several commercial and push clubs arc
asking that the Oovernment clear away
few obstructions tn the river. D. M.
ronsugh. president of the Sellwood
'Board of Trade, saya he considers the
deepening of tha river channel south of
Hawthorne bridge an Improvement cf
rreat Importance for that district, as
"It will bring Into use valuable river
front property and really enlarge tha
Portland harbor, and I believe that the
Federal Government should dredge out
tha river for us."
Vacant houses on tha East Side are sur
prisingly scarce, and one vacant one day
la often occupied again the next. There
Is constant demand for houses renting at
about '.8 a month. Mall & VonBorstel
report demand for both houses and flats
brisk. Joseph BuchteL of Buchtel
Kern, reports a steady demand for small
houses of moderate cost, and complains
of tha difficulty of meeting the demand.
"We turn away people every day."
aald Mr. BuchteL "for the reason wa have
not tha nouses for rent."
From every part of the East Side
cornea the same report. In spite of tha
larg number of residences erected and
nnder construction a desirable house with
a for-rent notice on It is rarely seen.
B. E. Minor, of Bunnyslde. reports that
houeea In that district are .all filled.
Apartment nouses n m .
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pie who were driven out of the Bruce
rooming house, on Union avenue and
East Morrison streets, by last Sunday's
fire, had difficulty In finding rooms. At
this season the condition la considered
somewhat peculiar, and la taken aa evi
dence of the constant and Increasing
growth of the Bast Side as the resi
dence part of the city.
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SPEED IIRKS GRADING.
PECXXIAK MACH1NK HASTENS
WORK IN IiATTREXHTTRST.
Fifteen Horses Attached to Ona
Device $1,6 00,000 Worth of'
Improvements Under -Way.
Out in Laurelhurst there Is a machine
at work, drawn by IS horses, that grades
tha streets, carries the dirt on a chain
arrangement, and loada a wagon In two
mlnutea. This la part of the outfit that
Twohy Brothers, tha railroad contract
ors, have at work In the north halt of
the tract.
Charles . K. Henry aaya that about
1 1.(04. 000 worth of Improvement work la
bain done now In Laurelhurst. and that
It la being carried on with all the speed
possible.
In the northwest quarter of the tract
sewers, gas mains and water mains have
been laid, and service pipes carried to the
curb line of each lot. Three trenchea
had to be dug In each street for these
utilities pipes, owing to the present or
dinances. In this section concrete side
walks are being put down on each street,
and eight miles of asphalt paving will
have been laid by the Barber Asphalt
Company by November 1, according to
their contract.
Altogether.' In Laurelhurst, : miles of
asphalt will be laid In the winding
streets, which Is expected to be a valu
able asset in attracting automobllea
thither, especially when tourists desire
to see the city.
Twohy Brothers have steam shovels at
work In the north half, grading for tha
streets, while In the southwest quarter,
where 31 acrea will be comprised in Ladd
Park. Archie Mason haa a big grading
contract.
Laurelhurst was platted October 9, 1909,
and since then Just about 0 per cent of
the lota have been sold, says Mr. Henry.
Sales are keeping up well, too, he de
clares, The remarkable speed with which
Laurelhurst Is being transformed Into a
fine residence district has had a stimu
lating effect on the surroundings The
promoters are contributing largely to the
present prosperity of the East Side and
especially to the territory that la tribu
tary to the Bumsldo Bridge. At present
the entire addition la torn up by tha im
provement operations in progress.
Among the recent homes projected Is
that of Dr. J I. X. Keeney. which will
stand near the residence of Charlea K.
Henry. Dr. Keeney'a home Is to be on
tha atyle of a California bungalow, with
unuaually wide porches on the east and
south sides, and a large ports cochera on
the north. .The living room will be 1030
feet In else, finished In Ivory enamel with
a rock-faced cut sandstone fireplace of
unique design. For the dining-room the
sis will be 18x18 feet, and tha finish
mahognny with a decorated frlrse encir
cling tha walls. Ona of tha attractive
features of tha dining-room will be a
large built -In buffet wtth leaded glass
doors and a large French plate-glass mir
ror. In other respects, the finish of the
dwelling will correspond. Exterior walls
of tha first story will be of red pressed
brick, the remainder to be covered with
ehtnglea stained a French gray. Work
on the basement haa already been com
pleted. Tha cost of this residence will be
IhuOi). The plans were drawn by tha
Spencer-McCain Company. '
The plasterers are at work In Mr.
Henry's home, which will be one of the
costliest In tha addition. He la sparing
no trouble nor expense tn getting a home
after his own heart, and many features
will add to tha comfort and attractive
ness. Mahogany will be the wood used
downstairs for finishing.
BCRXED BCILDIXGS REPLACED
Fire at Montavllla WUI Result in
Improvement of District.
Roberts Roberts have prepared
plans and specifications for a one-story
brick building, t0x5 feet In else, to
be built at the corner of East Stark
(Base line road),, and East Eighty
first streets, at the present end of tha
Montavllla carllne, for the Ukase In
vestment Company. The Interior will
be of pressed brick with plate glass
store fronts, and the cost will be S7000.
At this corner Leander Lewia will
put up a two-story frame building to
replace the one-story building destroyed
by the recent fire. The entire burnt
district will be replaced with modern
buildings, at a coat of aoout 1:5.000,
Tha total loss at the fire was less than
thla sum. so that while the fire waa a
calamity to the losers. It resulted In
clearing away a lot of shacks which
are to be replaced with good buildings.
Work has already started on these two
buildings.
ACRES ARE TO BE PLATTED
Balrd Place, on Taylor Ferry Road,
Is Sold.
M. C. Reed announces ha haa bought
a half Interest In the old Balrd place,
next to Primrose Acre, four miles out
on the Tsylor Ferry road, for 10.x This
will be called Alexander Villa homes,
says Mr. Reed, and will be cut up into
half-acre tracts and sold by the North
w Realty Company of which he la
president.
This tract la at Ryan station on tha Ore
gon Electric, and is set out to fruit
trees. Water will be put on tha tract
either from Capitol H!!U which adjoins
It on the north, or a system will be In
stalled. Mr. Reed has faith in this part
of the country about Portland, and aaya
that Alder Springs Addition, nearby, has
been practically sold out.
URGE PROFIT MADE QIICKLT
James Sargent Clears $11,000 In
Land Xear Burlington In 2 Months.
Ona of the quickest profit-taking real
estate deals recently reported is the
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purchase and sale of 409 acres of farm
land adjoining tha new town of Bur
lington, a Portland down-the-rlver aub
urb. In this deal Jamea Sargent, audi
tor for the Hotel Portland, cleaned up
121.000.
In June Mr. Sargent purchased tha
property, paying I15.00H. Friday ha
aold 2su acres to- George Bayne, of Sa
lem, for 115.000. and 1X0 acres to W.
C. Black, of Portland, for 121.000. In
two montha. therefore, ha mads nearly
150 per cent.
PARISH HOUSE TO BE STARTED
St. David's Replacing- Old Building
With Good Structure.
. Ellis F. Lawrence, architect, has pre
pared plans and specifications for St.
David's parish house, to be erected on
Esst Morrison near East Twelfth
street In place of the old building
which now standa on the ground. This
was the original structure and waa tha
first .church occupied by the congrega
tion. The new parish house will ba 42x88
feet, and the cost will ba In tha neigh
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borhood of J8.000. It will ba two
story In height. On the first floor
there will ba tha guild room. The
space on the upper floor will ba occu
pied by two class rooms, a large audi
torium, a stage and a steward'a room.
The exterior will be wide-lap rough
spruoa siding. There will be no base
ment. Work will be started on the
new building tha latter part of tha
month.
Wensel Frltsche, architect, has pre
pared plans for a church. 38x45 feet,
for tha Montavllla Presbyterian con
gregation on East Qllsan and East
Seventy-fifth streets. It will contain
six class rooms and an auditorium and
will be used temporarily for church
purposes. The basement will contain
a kitchen, banquet hall, ladles parlors,
furnace and fuel room. It will be built
on the rear of the lot and later the
congregation will put up a handsome
church edifice.
. Boston Man Likes Portland.
George Taylor, of Boston, manager of
tha Eastern Concrete Company,, waa the
guest last week of his friend, Aaron H.
ttould, architect in the .Worcester build-
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Ing, himself a recent arrival here from
Boston. Mr. Taylor saw all that he pos
sibly could of Portland in the short time
he was here, and promised he would re
turn aa soon aa ha could and make some
Investments here. Portland appealed to
Mr. Taylor more than any other city he
baa seen in tha West, he said.
MILL'S SITUATION' TO BE IDEAL
S. Ban's 1 8 -Acre Tract on Willam
ette Slouch Has Advantages.
Work will soon beg-in on the lumber
mill to ba built by S. Ban on the Wil
lamette Slough. Announcement of the
purchase by Mr. Ban through George
D. Schalk and C. F. Bunker of a 13
acre tract a mile and a half above
Linton waa made last week. Lake City,
114.000 was paid, the former owner be
ing A. K. Tlernan, of Salt Lake City,
Utah.
This land lies ideally for shipping
lumber, for it has a frontage of 1400
feet on the Northern Pacific tracka nd
In tha alough is 28 feet of water, suffi
cient for lumber carriers. Mr. Ban
will build a lumber mill of 100,000 feet J
capacity for native lumber, and a" hard
wood mill that will utilize woods from
South America and the Philippines. As
many as 400 laborers wil be employed,
it is said.
East Side Lot Brings $45,000.
J. G. Edwards, of Hay Creek. Or
paid 845.000 for a corner lot 50x100 feet
at the aoutheast corner of Union ave
nue and East Burnslde street last
week, according to Edgar J. Daly, who
announces the sale. There are several
frame buildings on the lot at present,
which will give way, according to Mr.
Edwards' plans, to a substantial struc
ture as soon as the leases expire. Mr.
Edwards is the former owner of the
famous Baldwin Sheep & Land Co.,
which held the largest ranch In Ore
gon. He is soon to build a four-story
garage building at the southeast cor
ner of Washington and Twenty-first
streets.
Real Estate Man Takes Trip.
- Pr,i1 A. Jacobs, head of the Fred A.
Jacobs' Company, which is gradually '
absorbing the Jacobs-Stlne Company,
has left with his wife for New York.
On August $1 they sail for Europe, and
will be gone all the rest of the year.
They plan to be back In Portland again
New Year'a morning of 1911. The trip
will inolude a tour of England,
France, Swltserland, Holland. Germany
and Italy.
JAPANESE TAKE LEASE
M. HACHIYA COMPAJTY PLAXS
LARGE ESTABLISHMENT.
Building at Firth and Flanders,
100x100, to Be Used for Its
Business Exclusively.
As a po&lble nucleus of a good
sized Japanese business colony, the
M. Hachlya Company, general import
ers, has leased for 10 years the three
story 100x100 brick building at the
southeast corner of Fifth and Flanders
streets. The company is to pay a
graduated rental, starting at 700 a
month and increasing for five, years
until 31000 is reached, which will be
the rental for the last five years of
the term. Parish & Watkins negotiated
the lease.
On the upper two floors of the build
ing is the Minnesota- Hotel.. The
Hachlya Company bought the lease
from the management and will con
duct a hotel of its own in these rooms.
On the corner of the first floor was a
saloon. The ' Japanese decided they
needed the room, so they bought this
lease also, and in this room and the
next on Fifth street they will have a
large dry goods store.
Altogether there are four store rooms
on Fifth street and two on Flanders.
The Japanese will occupy all of these,
either conducting a business them
selves or renting the rooms to their
fellow countrymen. There are In the
realm of possibility both a restaurant
and a poolroom.
K. Inaba, the manager, is authority
for the statement of the company's
plana The rooms on Flanders street
may be used for shipping, he said,
although the large basement under the
whole building may be used for this
purpose.
The company has a branch in Osaka,
Japan, and alno another local store at
Fourth and Burnslde streets. When
the plans for the Fifth and Flanders
building are all worked out. It will
have the larcrest Japanese establish
ment in Portland and one of the larg
est in the whole country.
Gantenbein Avenue Home Sold.
Deshon & Hawk have sold a six
room modern residence at 914 Ganten
bein avenue, near Skldmore street, to
John M. Newell, of the Weeks Granite
Company, for 33000. This property was
owned by William Berlrne, of Seattle,
Wash., and was bought as a home. F.
H. Deshon and Charles V. Hawk have
purchased a lot in Arleta 40x100 feet on
Second avenue and the carllne at Lents
for $4000. F. W. Ingle was the owner.
This property Is occupied by a frame
store building 30x38- feet and yields a
good income.
Hay Creek Stock Sold.
Last week Ixlgar J. Daly, L. B. Mens,
fee, Guy Standifer, Pete Sorenson and
James Elwood bought the remnant of
the stock owned by the Baldwin Sheep
ft Land Company, which owned the fam
ous Hay Creek ranch. This purchase
Included 22.O00 sheep, besides cattle and
horses, and Mr. Daly announces the price
as $300,000. This same coterie bought the
26,000 acres In the Hay Creek ranch some
months ago.
The Importance of
Electric Light
Increasing attention is being given to artificial
Humiliation, whether for the mansion, cottage, fac
tory, store or office, because proper artificial
illumination directly affects the efficiency of all
concerned. No one can work to the best advantage
in a poorly lighted room. Something will suffer,
either the work or the man; probably the former,
possibly both. From a humanitarian, as well as
from a business standpoint, the use of a properly
designed electric lighting installation is essential.
For information call
The M. J. Walsh Go.
311 Stark St.
Pacific Iron Works
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CASTINGS OF ALL KINDS
STEEL BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES
HI STOCK 3 to 24-inch beams; 3 to 15-inch channels; 1x1 to 813
inch angles; all sizes unequal angles.
East End Burnside-Street Bridge, Portland, Oregon.
HOMES OOF SLOPE
Mount Tabor Grows Steadily
in Beauty.
MUCH PAVING IS PLANNED
Many Improvements In District Are
Brought About Through Vigorous
Action of Mount Tabor Push
ClubGrowth Is Eastward.
Mount Tabor has many beautiful homes,
and many more are planned. Among ths ,
recently-built residences are those of As
sistant City Superintendent Gault and
Edward Peterson, which have lust been
completed on East Main and East Sixty
second streets. Mr. Gault's home standa
on an attractive elevation and cost $10,00&
Mr. Peterson's home is on the east slda
of Mr. Gault's residence, and its cost also
was $10,000.
On West avenue, or what is now East
Sixtieth street, are many beautiful homes.
P. P. Dabney's residence, at 225 East Six
tieth, and that of John L. Hartman, at
247 East Sixtieth, are typical of the class
of homes that line this street. Several
other residences are being completed, in
cluding that of J. Davis, north of the
Base Line road, which will cost $5000.
The new home of Plain R. Smith, on
Belmont near East Fifty-fifth street, is
now being finished. It is ono of the most
pretentious residences now being erected
at Mount Tabor, and Is partly of brick
and partly frame. Plans have been drawn
for tho new home of S. B. Cobb, of the
Standard Box Factory, In South Mount
Tabor, on East Fifty-fifth street, and .
work has been started on the building.
It will cost $1,000.
Elevation Adds to Beauty.
Mount Tabor is considered one of the
most beautiful suburbs of Portland, both
on account of its elevation and its gen
eral contour. Belmont street at present
extends to and has been paved to East
Sixty-second street, and Is the most popu
lar street on the East Side for automo
biles. Along Belmont street are many
beautiful homes and others are being .
erected.
The Methodists have built an attractive
church edifice on East Stark street at a
cost of $20,000, and the city has completed
an engine house at a cost of $11,000, which
stands on Bast Stark street. The Board
of Education plans to erect a schoolhouse
on ' East Sixtieth street north of East
Stark to replace the old structure on
East Sixtieth and East Stark streets. It
may be made fireproof. The Mount Tabor
Push Club has started a general cam
paign for fireproof schooliouses in Port- .
land. This club, under the leadership
of J. H. Haak, assisted by W. A. Lald
law. Frank Perkins. W. G. Oberteuffer,
P. P. Dabney and others, is making Mount
Tabor a fine residence district.
Much Paving Is Planned.
Very soon the hard-surface street Im
provement district at Mount Tabor will
be worked out. This Includes the paving
of all streets between East Fifty-third
and East Sixtieth. Work has been started
on several of these streets. Sewers are
to be laid in all these streets at onoe
before the pavements are put down.
These contracts have been let. for this
district Is included In the north branch
of the Brooklyn sewer district. It Is due
to the Mount Tabor Push Club that thla
street Improvement district was formed.
Also extensive improvements will be un
dertaken In the new Wlllams Park. Al
together the outlook for ilount Tabor is
promising. The development has not been
as fast here as In some other suburbs,
but the growth has been substantial. In
a short time Belmont street will be ex
tended to the top of Mount Tabor and
Improved, for proceedings for this ex
tension aro well -under way. This will
make Belmont the leading street ex
tending from the Willamette River.
Work Is progressing on the new stone .
Presbyterian Church on Belmont and
East Fifty-fifth ertreet. The stone part
has been completed and the roof en
closed. The structure will be completed j
tor dedication this Fall. The cost Is
estimated at $15,000. Rev. E. M. Sharp j
Is the pastor. i
Residences are rapidly pushing east
ward from Mount Tabor. Montavllla Is i
extending eastward over the level terrl- j
tory and new homes are being built on j
both sides of the Base Line road and ;
Villa avenue for two miles eastward. The j
Davis tract, on Villa avenue, la filling
up with new cottages. The practical
certainty that Villa avenue will be made
80 feet wide between Meridian street and
the west side of Laurelhurst has already
stimulated thie entire cistnct. -
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