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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1911)
FINE HOMES RISE AT MODHT TABOR Sightly District on East Side Undergoes Big Development in Past Few Months. PAVING COSTS $200,000 Ttim Dwelling Completed at Total Outlay ' of $ 1 00,000 Other Beautiful Residence Rise. Park to He Developed. Mount Tabor la rapidly becoming on at tbe moit popular residence district of th Eaat Sid, flow to get atarted. It baa Improved raplilly since tba Morn-tne-sld Addition waa opened and thro urn on to market a few months ra Th opening and Improving of Belmont atreet baa greatly facilitated general development, aa it prorldea a fine highway from the Willamette River to the summit of ilount Tabor Park. Prior toth opening of Belmont afreet tbere were no direct street running; to Tabor Height or to tba proposed park, but with the proepecta of extending the atreet. property own ers In that district lmprored with hard-surface pavements East Sixty eighth and Hast Hlxty-nluth between East Yamhill and East btark streets. Also East Morrison and East Alder streets bar been paved through T bor Heights. Eaat Yamhill atreet has been partly tmproved from East Sixty-ninth street down the east aide of Mount Tabor to East Keventy-elxth atreet. ao that It la now possible for an automobile to ran over Mount Tabor by way of Belmont. East Sixty-ninth and Eaat Tamhlll streeta. Altos-ether the atreet lmprovementa Including; Belmont, from Eaat 6lxty-flrt to Eaat Sixty-ninth atreeta bare cost fully $100,000. Improvement of the atreeta has ae alated In the development of Tabor Helithta materially, fal of building lota In the Morning Bide Addition waa rapid from tha start. A large num ber of attractive homea have been built In Tabor Heights, especially near East fstark street and on tha slopes near the Bass Line road. A more beautiful building; location would be hard to find la Portland. FJaawrafe Hsasia Are Balls. B. & Joasulj a. who purchased the Massachusetts building; and grounds north of Belmont atreet In tha Morn ing; Side Addition, has completely transformed tha building and ground at a large expense. There are few If any mora beautiful realdences and grounds la Portland. Further eastward on the higher lev els of Mount Tabor many new resi dences costing from 13600 and tip ward have been built since the Morn ing Side Addition waa placed on tha market. To the eastward and In all directions there Is an unsurpassed lew. On East Fifty-fifth and East Falmon atreeta Robert Brooka Is com pleting a fine residence, which will cost completed 120.000. Tbere la a cement foundation and the superstructure la partly of red presaed brick above the Bret floor. The upper portion of the building la rough-cast cement In the rear of the house la a double concrete garage, whl h will -be reached from r.ast Fifty-fifth street by a concrete rlveway. The grounds will be high fcr Improved. Thla building la In tha same class with the borne of P. K Cobb on tha east aide of Kast Fifty-fifth, which, with the grounds, cost over IJd.ooo, Tha new home of C H. Chick on Bel trvnnt and East Fifty-third streets, costing I10.0OO. haa bean completed. It rsjika aa the most elaborate home erected at Mount Tabor except that of Blaine R. Smith. Just across Belmont street, which, with the grounds and garage, represents an expenditure of bore than K&.ooo. Mr. Chick s resi dence haa been elaborately finished In side and outside. Facing East Fifty third street la a concrete garage, which la part of Mr. Chick's property. It la provided with work benches, oil tank and equipment for the care of aa automobile. Across tbe atreet from Mr. Chick' home I the home of I E. Ualbralth. which haa Just been finished and la now occupied. Another high-class resi dence has been started on Belmont and East Fifty-second atreeta which will cost about llS.OdO. Henceforth only hlsh-class residence probably will be built at Mount Tabor, a the value of tbe property haa been Increasing rap idly the past few years. On either aide of East Fifty-fifth atreet there la a paving district which extend to East Forty-ninth street where the property ownere have paid out more than $li0.00 for water mains, aewera aldewalks and hard-aurfice pave ment. Jit. Tabs? Park ta Be lespreved. Improvements of the Mount Tabor Fark according to the promlaee made by the Park Board, la being urged by the Mount Tabor Push Club. C 1L Welch, president of the club, said yes terday: We were given assurance that the Fark Board would apend $15,004 thla TMr a the Improvement of Mount Tabor Park and surveys were made of the winding roade to run around the tde to the summit. Our club will In SANAT0F.IUM TO TrV t S-lrC r r r3 a-r 1VT1TITI01 sist that th! be done. The general plan la ruch that the road to be graded through the park wM etart ao they will connect with East Yamhill and East Sixtieth atreeta and Indirect ly with Belmont and pass around th park on a gentle grade to the top. It will be a popular drive from the eas ier of the city to the summit of Mount Tabor Park. W think we will have, one of the finest parka In the entire Portland system. "Included In the plan to mall beau tiful the Mount Tabor Park la a cas cade between th upper and lower new reeervolrs. whlcj, will add to the at tractivenesa The plan of the drive has placed the road along the margin of tha upper reservoir. When these de velopments have been completed, we hall be able to Invite strangers to vtait one of the most attractive spot In Portland, where they van have a view of the great reservoirs of the city- water plant and also th beau tiful suburb stretching out eastward to th foot of Mount Hood. Mount Ta bor Park la a valuable aaaet of Pert land. Two Heheel Balldlaga Rise. It la considered almost eertaln that Eaat Stark, or the city end of th Base Line- road, will be Improved next year, from Its present nd at Eaat Forty-flret atreet. Just how far th Improvement wtll extend remains to be decided, but It probably will be carried to Eaat Sixty-second street. It la one of the centra atreeta of th Eaat Sid and It la expected that next year It will be paved to Tabor Height and conneot with East Plxty-nlnth street. The School Board Is completing two large eohoolhousea At Belmont and Eaat Fifty-first atreet the O'.encoe la getting the weat wing of the build ing, which waa built two years ago. It will be an ll-roora structure with an assembly hall, and can accommo date 700 to S00 puplle easily. The new part will alone contain eight classroom. At Fast Sixtieth and Eaat Ash atreet the district Is completing the Mount Tabor schoolhouse. atarted two year ago, to take the place of the old build ing on East Stark and Eaat Sixtieth streets, which was destroyed by fire Mount Tabor will thus have two modern cholhouae by the first of the year, which will represent a coat of $140,000. BIG PROGRESS IS MADE YJlOlELirUKST ADDITION WAS OPENED TEAKS AGO TODAY, Transformation of Farm Into Beau tiful Residence District Com pleted at Great Cost. Today la th aecond anniversary of th opening of Laurelhuret. Portland's largest resldenc addition. Just two year ago thla property, then known aa th Haxelfern Farm, wee purchased from the Ladd Eatate Company by a syndicate of Seattle and Portland capi talist for a consideration In th neigh borhood of $1,000,000. At the time It was the largest realty transaction that had ever been mad In Portland, and whll many large realty deal have been made her since the Laurelhurst sale, none have approached It. ao far a the also and consideration la con cerned. leurelhurat today presents a vaatly different appearance from the Ladd dairy farm of two years ago. The tract la now a magnificently Improved high grade residence addition, and la rapidly filling np with a superior class of at tractive, up-to-date home. Nearly $1,000,000 ha been expended In the last It months In Improving Laurel hurst. There are now In the addition l miles of asphalt streets. 11 miles of cement sidewalks, nine-foot parkings, shade trees and a greater part of the addi tion haa cluster curb lights on both aide of the atreet. During tb. flrat year there have been erected nearly 100 residence In Laurelhurst. ranging In value from $1600 to $:S.000. The tract was originally laM out af ter the most approved aoientlflo land scape architecture. The street were made to conform to the contour of thla ground, with the result that although the tract la of a rolling character there are no unsightly fills and cuts In tbe atreeta Mead Murphy, selling agents for leurelhurat. have extended an Invita tion to th automoblllsts of the city to use the streets of Leurelhurat through out the rainy season for pleasure mo toring. Tbe property la reached from the center of the city over the Burn Ml bridge and Eaat Burnslde atreet. which Is hard surfaced to and through the addition. The H mllea of asphalt atreeta In Laurelhurst. together with the hard surface on East Burnslde. will afford the automoblllsts several hour of pleasant motoring during th Win ter afternoon. Laurelhurst la the acene of unuaual building activity, and haa been through out the Summer and Fall, nearly 100 new home hating been completed there thla year. CALTFORXIAX ACQCIRES TRACT M. D. Say Purchase M-Acre Ftum ta Clarkamae County. After exploiting th country between Rsnta Barbara, Cai, and Portland by horseback In quest of a desirable country place. M. D. Say found the kind of tract be was seeking In Clacka fas County, a few miles from the city. The farm which Mr. Say purchased Is hlichly Improved and waa owned aev eral year by 1. T. Snyder. The farm contalna H acres emd 1 well adapted to diversified farming. It Is Improved with good bulldlnga The price paid by Mr. Soy wai $5i00. The sale waa negotiated by DeYoung A Hartshorn. BE BUILT FOB, PENNILESS AND - - MrJ . , I' MILL BE LOCATED AT ST. THERE... i? XS I . r- ,a TITE SUNDAY OITEG OXIAN, PORTLAND. OCTOBER 15, 1911. i " jr. ' . -. if I ; A , " Se- - ' M' I 115- it'M-' ta-J Lwi. I I I UL LsiMa. I it ti : ' . " H - - .' Activity in New Subdivision Unequalled in Portland. . FIRST PLATT1NGS ARE SOLD yearly (330,000 "Worth of Property Disposed of In Two Weeks, landscape Gardening: and Model Farms Planned. Surpassing all records In Portland In the sale of suburban property. Hartman at Thompaon. In the past two weeks, have sold nearly $350,000 worth of lota and acreage In Parkroae, a beautiful rub-dtvlslon located east of Rob City Park. Up to yesterday virtually all of the lota In the first platting were dta posed of and also nearly all of the one-acre home sites In the adjoining sub-division had been aold. When It waa realized a few day ago that tha demand for thla claaa of prop erty was exceeding expectations. It was decided by the I'arkrose Association to put eurveyere in the field Immediately and prepare additional areas for tbe market. Many reaervatlona have been made already for home altea In the aecond plattlnga. The publto baa been eager from the first to acquire property In these holdings." said E. L. Thompaon, of Hartman Thompson. "We have been literally swamped for reaervatlona Whan we prepared the flrat plattlnga we believed that 1t would not be Beoeeaary to place additional tracts on the market until next Spring. It waa moat surprising when we found that we had cleaned up the first two sections In less than two weeka "The unprecedented activity provee that the publlo wanta first-class aoll and plenty of room for homea at the right kind of prices. They will find these conditions In Parkroae. The loca tion Is Ideal. By far the greater per centsge of the buyer are homebuild ers and within th next few months. SICK -FERS0NS. .-id - !t a . aas fl I t t jpae .y-- ' ' ..-1 !o 9TTIO. J4y:-hSrb: -, .. :jryr- . t-it--- rr PAFiKRDSESALESBIG jjCfT ' f -h-Tl sw . :-:t TTPESOF COSTLY HOMES BUILT IN MOUNT (' ''ii? -A "i" - i there 1 no doubt that many dwellings will be erected." The organization Is now planning to establish model farma on the one-acre tract a. Neat and substantial bunga lowa, email barna poultry-housea and other buildings will be established on the acre-tracta. One of the Important Improvements will be landscape garden ing. Charles E. Landgren. an expert landscape gardener, haa been engaged to conduot1 thle part of the develop ment Provision will be made lor flower beds, lawns, driveways, fruit trees, shade tree and berries on these traets. "There Is no dlatrlct ao near the city that can be treated ao easily and beautifully." said Mr. LandgTen. "The land iree ideally, the aoll la exceeding ly rich and there la everything In Its favor. All klnda of frulta and yege tables will grow here to the beat ad vantage." ' , Treparatlonr are being made by the Portland Railway, Llfrht & P Com pany to extend the Rose City carllne Into the center of Parkrose. The fran chise for the line has been granted by the county and actual to"'110" the extension will be started In a ahort 11 Among Investore who have Joined the organization recently I. Walter Bowne of New York City. Mr. Bowne was Mn Tortland last week and was so Im pressed with th- possibilities of Park roae that he purchaeed a "J""""? block of the company-e stock. Other Person, who have Joined, the organ tTon are: General C, F. Beebe, Captain Gordon Voorhle. . and United states Benator Chamberlain. W. IJ. ? ' wrtight has purchased a large Individual rract upon Vhlch he intends to make extensive lmprovementa PtAV MODERN SASTTAIUCM nenedJettoo BltegTof the Sick Poor Gampaijn for Funds. To.provia a modern sanatorium for poor persons In ill health and espe e thn.a afflicted with tubercu- loala the Benedictine Sisters of the eick Poor have begun a campaign to raise funds sufficient to meet the ex pense of the undertaking. The struc ture will be erected at St. Theresa Sta tion, on the Oragon Water Power line, and will be known as St. There. Sana torium. . Plans for the building, whl oh heve been completed by H. M- Fancher, pro vide for three stories and basement. The style of architecture will be. mod ern Renaissance Influenced by the moreaque conatructlon. The exterior will be of pressed brick facade, treated with glazed white terra cotta and gray cement stucco. . The building h been designed to provide -or the comforts and treat ment of sick people. On either side of the msln building there will be built detached wings, connected by ror walks and constructed eolely for warda and open-air treatment of patients. The doora of the Institution will be thrown open to all persona who are afflicted and without money to aeek treatment elsewhere. All donations for the Institution will be received by the Security Ea.vlr.g-. A Trust Company. TAXATTOX TO BE DISCUSSED C. K. Henry Will Add Realty Men on Subject. C K. Henry will be one of the prin cipal speakers at the Realty Board meeting at noon tomorrow In the rath skeller of the Hotel Portland. Mr. Henry made a trip recently to Van couver B. C where he studied realty conditions end the system of taxation in that city. He wtll com- tare the Vancouver system with that which la contemplated In the proposea i 1 , ivitam In this state. This dlacusslon has been invited for the purpose or Drinking tno irj erty owners in closer relations with the Board members. Other members of the Bosrd will speak on topics of local Interest. - President Chapln urges all persons Interested In the work of the Board to attend the luncheon. TABOR DISTRICT. 1 v - . . . "V1!? I : if - -tvr-ve .aeaVime iiiiiitiistrjrta.'w-w).. RIVER HOME SITES SOLD ACREAGE BALES AT ABERXATHT HEIGHTS REACH $70,000. Activity In. District In Past Few Day ' Is Marked' Improvements to Be Installed. Within the past few days there haa been a marked activity In Abernathy Heights property. near Rlverview. Chapln 'Harlow, agents for tnese home sites, made sales amounting to over $70,000. The tracts are subdi vided into one to four and five-acre building sites and they command a striking view of the. river and the mountalns- Among recent sales are the follow ing: It. W. Lewis purchased from C. E. Dant a s.70-aere tract, upon which he plans to erect an elaborate dwelling. There Is a fine spring on the place. C. E. Dent purchased from the Aber nathy Heltrats Company a tract of 7.J acres at $2000 an acre. Martha A. Hoyt purchased a one-acre tract for 12000; S. M. Mears a tract of 1.81 acres for $5600;' E. O. Allen a site of 8.9S acres, for- $7800; C. D. Brunn a 4.13-acre tract, for $8260. Other property sold by the Abernathy Heights Company waa a traot of 6.75 acres to John A. Shepard for $11,600. rh addition to making- these sales, Chapln Herlow sold for C. D. Brunn a modern alx-room 'house on Palatine HIU to W. S. Turner for $9000. A five-acre tract on Kellogg Lake, near Mllwaukie, was sold to Thomas Roberts for W. S. Love, the consider ation being $11,500. The tract is high ly Improved and Mr. Love will occupy It as his country home. The Abernathy Heights Company la planning to Install a complete water ayatem for the district. Bull Run water will be piped to the tracts for domestlo purposes, while additional mains will be laid to use river water for Irriga tion purposea t PORTLAND'S t - : "- -; : - - . , -?v - , I A ' sf h - -"x 5 - - ; I - , '-A S at- u ' - ' apr r J hf n - - k frv ; I r . . 'B; . - f SHv ,ir-i-i4kH-..iOT-4 , " ' " - lU.'l' " r ' HISTORIC EROWTH ATTENDS LIBRARY Public of Portland Is Given First Free Reading-Room 48 Years Ago. LEGACY AIDS INSTITUTION Library Association Finally Provides Entire County With Facilities. Elaborate Xew Home to ' Bo Built. When a number of Portland's pio neer citizens Inaugurated the circulat ing library In 1863, little did they think that their Initiatory efforts would prove the means of providing for pos terity such an important and useful Institution which In 48 years has crys tallzed Into the present Portland Li brary Association. Tho spirit of up lift and charity waa characteristic of those early residents and they bullded better than they knew. From its Inception the free library movement In Portland grew steadily and for 12 years the Institution was dependent solely upon contributions for its maintenance. In 1875 nine publio splrlted citizens banded together to place the institution on a stronger basis and It was Incorporated under the state laws as the Portland Library As sociation. The Incorporators were prominent pioneers, all of whom are now deceased. They were: Matthew P. Deady, H. W. Corbett. Lehman Blum, Addison C. Gibbs, SL W. Fechheimer, Henry Falling, W. S. Laud and Ph. C Schuyler. Legacy Aids Association. Its- membership was comprised of persons who paid Individual sums of $250. These payments entitled con tributors to permanent membership. Together with donations and member ship payments, the Investment funds have increased materially and at pres ent amount to $114,600. By additional subscriptions the as sociation was enabled to purchase the one-half block on Stark street between Seventh and Park streets. This prop erty was acquired in 1886 for $20,000. Upon the demise of Ella M. Smith, there was left to the association a legacy of $150,000 to be expended In the erection of a library building. The building was constructed and opened June 30. 1S93, and has since been used as the main headquarters and library. The building was designed for a cir culating library and has never been suitable to the demands of a publio li brary, with Its greatly increasing use and circulation. In the late '90s a number of citizens organized a free publlo library, with rooms in the City Hall. At that time there were few books on the shelves of the free publio library. This Insti tution at once beoame exceedingly pop ular and In a short time the facilities for accommodating the public were en tirely inadequate. The library was maintained entirely by voluntary con tributions. After a few years an ef fort was made to get the city to take the institution over and conduct It as a municipal Institution. Free Library Given Home. Largely through the efforts of W. L. Brewster a state law was passed au thorizing cities to levy a tax for li brary purposes and to enter into con tracts with existing library associa tions. This law was enacted In 1901 and the directors of the association en tered Into a contract with the city in July of the same year, by the terms of which It was agreed to provide the citizens with free use of the library. The city agreed to levy a special tax of one-fifth of 1 mill to maintain the library. In 1903 the Legislature passed a bill authorizing the counties to establish free county libraries or to enter Into contracts with existing library asso ciations to supply the counties with free library facilities. In that year Multnomah County contracted with the Portland Library Association ta pro vide free library and reading-room facilities for the residents of the oounty. Circulation Growth Big. ' Under thlB arrangement there was no circulation as a free public library during the first year. In the second year the circulation was 110.000. That was nine years ago. The present cir culation Is 770,000 and is said to be one of the largest in the country. At present there are. besides the cen tral library, four branches on the East Side, one at Sellwood, one at Alblna, one In Central East Portland and one at North Alblna. The association pro vides the needs of the county schools, there being at present 65. There are S3 clty'schools which are supplied with library facllitlea- In addition there are 23 deposit stations in the county. One of the most noteworthy private collections turned -over to me associa tlon was received upon tne aeam of FREE UBRASY BUILD IN (r ERECTED IN 1893. STRICTI RE COSTING 130,CO0 SOW IXADEftl ATE FOR John Wilson, a retired merchant Of England, whose demise occurred In September. 1900. There were 25,000 vol umes In Mr. Wilson's private library, many of them being rare and costly books. These books formed the nucle us of the association's .reference col lection which, in many respects. Is considered one of the most unique and valuable extant. Xew Building to Rise. To Miss Mary Frances Isom. the li brarian, and her corps of assistants much of the success of the present li brary system Is due. The library staff at present is composed of 37 members. With the sale of the library site last week for $400,000. the association has acquired a full block bounded by Yam hill. Taylor. Tenth and Eleventh streets, where there will be erected within the next two years an elaborate and spacious bulding. The board of directors of the Port-' land Library Association Is composed of the following: President, W. B. Ayer; vice-president, T. L. Eliot; treas urer, R. L. Sabin; W. L. Brewster, Mary F Failing, R. W. Montague, R. H. Strong. W. M. Ladd and W F. Woodward. REED COLLEGE PLANS RUSHED Actual Construction on Buildings to Begin In Few Days. With the drawings almoat ready fo the contractors and the first of the buildings already staked out on th campus In Eastmoreland. the com mencement of actual construction work on Reed College will receive an Im petus on the return to Portland of Hudson Bridge Hastings, chairman of the committee on grounds and bulldr Ings. Proffeeaor Hastings, -who haa been making a trip of inspection covering the more modern universities of the tt a o. rirldla West Is due to return tomorrow. He plans to devote his en tire time to the Immense work lnool ved In having the buildings completed In every detail when the college moves to Its own campus In the Fall of 1912. To this end an Immense temporary wooden trestle is being constructed on the site of the Eastmoreland viaduct to vacilitate the construction of the permanent structure and In addition to provide a roadway for the delivery of building raaterials to the campus. It will also allow the heavy steel ralla and other material to be deposited In Eastmoreland for the completion of th special car track throughqout the prop erty. Already the trenches have been prepared and polea erected and tha re mainder of the work will now be car ried out n probably 80 days. C XV. FULTON BUYS FIXE HOME Several Modern. Dwellings Sold, In IrvtngtOD! Last Week. That there Is active trading In resi dence property Is Indicated In the num ber of sales made In the last few days by E. A. Holslngton. Among ui closed by Mr. Holslngton was the sale to C. W. Fulton, ex-United States Senator, of a home at East Twentieth and Weidler streets, In Irvington. The house is modern throughout, and the interior Is finished artistically. It was designed and built by Z. K. Green ough. The purchase price was $10,000. Frank Drlgard, a recent arrival from Iowa, purchased a modern seven-room ' resldenoe on East Twenty-seventh and Brazee streets for $7500. C. K. Mar- . tin bought a seven-room house at East Fifty-third and Salmon streets for $6000. Ellen V. Mann purchased resi dence property on East Fiftieth street for $8560. Fred Clack bought for an investment a six-room house on Wy gant street for $3500. Maggie E. Pome roy purchased a five-room bungalow on East Forty-second street for $3400. Daniel Schmltke bought a lot on Eaat Davis street for $1500. Norman Bennett, of Omaha, Neb., pur chased for Investment a ten-acre or chard track near Sheridan for $5000. LAURELHURST HOME BOUGHT Active Week: In Realty Sales Is He ported by Charles Rlngler. Chas. Rlngler & Company report a busy week in real estate sales. Ellen V. Beatey sold to P. L. Rees, a lumber dealer, a modern seven-room bungalow on a 75xl00-foot lot on Laddlngton Court Laurelhurst. for $7260. This Is one of the most beautiful plaoes in this exclusive addition and is situated on a high and sightly elevation. Manning L. Howard purchased through this firm a lot In Laurelhurst for $1600. It is located on Laurelhurst avenue, near Glisan street. . Among the other sales of realty were three half-acre tracts In Parkrose. H. C. Wilson, a contractor, was the pur chaser, and he will hold the property as an Investment. The firm has added a high-grade In vestment department. B. K. Davis haa taken charge of this, and reports sev eral sales, with a demand for more than the firm can fill. A noticeable feature la the influx of out-of-town and East ern investors who are looking for busi ness openings. Work Starts on Frame Apartment. Architect E. Kroner has completed the plans for a two-story frame apart ment building to be erected for W. A. Dempsey at East Klnth and Hancock streets. It will have full cement base ment and will contain four apartments of six rooms eacn. ine puuuiob wm, be fitted with modern conveniences. PtBLIC'S DEMAND.