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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1912)
THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAH. PORTLAND. JULY 28, 1912. 1U STREET 1 TO DISTRICT Improvement of East Glisan Will Open Extensive Resi dence Section. IMPORTANT ARTERY FOUND Boulevard 80 Feet in Width and 15 Miles Long to Be One of Finest in City Kailroad Grade to Be Ixwered. In Center Addition, the district east of Laurelhurst. much progress has been made the past year. The most the main line of the O.-W. K. N. on out to the city limits, joining the Rose City Park district. CHEHALIS SCHOOL , SMALL Bond Election to Provide for Addi tion Defeated by Water Party. CHEHALIS. Wash.. July 27. (Spe cial.) Chehalis' School Board has abandoned plans for erecting a con crete addition to the rear of the high school building, owing to the bids be ing higher than anticipated. It was intended to pay for the work by war rants Issued for emergency purposes. At a special election held some time ago. shortly previous to the water bond election, there was an active fight made by those favoring a municipal gravity water system against voting bonds with which to erect an addition to the high school., Friends of the water plan feared that success of the school bonds might imperil their proj ect and they succeeded in defeating the proposed issue for school purposes. Now that the board of lour arbitra tors, selected by the City -Commission and the local water company, have summarily adjourned owing to their inability to agree on the fifth mem ber, and there- seems a serious ques tion as to how to get into court to compel an arbitration of the matter, there is no early prospect of carrying out the gravity water plans. The citizens of Chehalis will also BAKERIES PROTEST BOYCOTT GRARGE Log Cabin and Royal Answer Allegation of Mutualist Association. . BOTH SIDES PRESENT CASE Xcvt Co-operative Store at Alblna Ad dresses Communication to Ore gonian Asserting Double Discrimination. The directors of the First Mutualist Association of Portland, have raised a protest against what they declare to MODERN APARTMENT-H0U3E NEARLY COMPLETED. swis'IfsL. ! -tfW Sill 4ll P 'M tlU I 1 I S4f2- m i p -i J l 1 JUL 11 JLJJ t THREE-STORY BLILDIXG ON EAST SIDE TO COST 40,000. A modern three-story apartment-house Is being finished at Williams avenue and Emerson street. North Albina, for Dr. Frank Holton, covering ar quarter block, 100x100 feet. It is the finest structure of the kind in North Albina. The front facing Williams avenue is provided with a deep court extending well back from the street, which provides ample light and ventilation. There is not a dark room In the building. The cost trill be about 110,000. important achievement for that dis trict is in the widening of East Glisan street from 60 to 80 feet, between East Forty-fifth and Kast Sixtieth streets, and the initiation of proceedings for the Improvement of this street by grading and cement sidewalks. Through the efforts of the Center Addition . Improvement Association, three street improvement districts have been formed in Center Addition, located north and south of Kast Glisan and East Forty-fourth and East Fifty sixth streets, in which all the streets will he improved by grading and lay ing of rement sidewalks. Considering -that Center Addition nas Deen -ooi-tled" up in the matter of streets, these prospective improvements may be con sidered a good showing. Sewers are to be laid through the district as soon as the Kast Stark street trunk is finished. This trunk will be extended through Center Addi tion to East Eighty-second street in Montavilla. Proceedings also are un der way for the opening of East Burn stde street between Laurelhurst and East Sixty-third street. Surveys have been made and stakes have been set for the extension of this important street. Within about a year Center Addition will be one of the best resi dence sections east of laurelhurst. The general plan is that East Glisan street, which has been an SO-foot street to the city limits and extended to Rockwood as a county road, will be graded and provided with sidewalks now. end later paved to the city lim its. The street has been so improved between East Sixtieth and East Eighty second streets now In accordance with this plan. Important Street Opened. That East Glisan will be a great street in future is conceded, as it will be the longest wide street on the East Side, not excepting Sandy boulevard. East Glisan will extend fully 15 miles from the Willamette River and 80 feet wide, with almost level grade for the entire distance. With a fine section on both sides, it will command a heavy traffir rivaling the Base Line Road. The men who initiated and brought about the widening of Kast Glisan street to SO fert were making some lo cal history, in the opinion of men who have studied the situation. It will connect with the road to Fair view and Gresham. and command much of the traffic which usually follows the Base Line Into rortland. With the opening of the street between East Twenty-eighth and East Twenty-sixth streets, connection will be made with the Sandy boulevard, and the time will come in the near future when a bridge across Sullivan's Gulch will connect Kast Glisan with the new railroad brldae. It has been decided that there shall be no grade crossing on the main line of the O.-W. R. ft N.. which traverses this entire district. The track at this point is somewhat low. but must be lowered more' to admit of the erection of viaducts shove the track. It was considered that the time will soon come when this section will be filled up. and grade crossings will be dan gerous with the increased growth. To construct viaducts will "she expensive, and only a ew will probably be built to start with, others to follow as may be required. rarllne la Sought. North of the O.-W. R. & N. line Is a large district. Including Euclid Addi tion, which is filling up wivh homesJ The people of this section have started a movement to secure an electric rail way on the Barr Road to connect with the Rose City Park line on . Sandy boulevara. They have organized and will make a strong effort to get this extension. This branch will probably be built as far as East F.ighty-econd street when it is constructed. It will serve the large and growing territory between East Glisan street and Sandy boulevard, where it was proposed to build the city end of th-- Mount Hood Railroad. The Country Club grounds are lo cated in this district, besides which is the fine district, extending eastward to the city limits. Settlement from Mon tavilla is swinging northward toward the Rose City Park district, forming a large section which Is remote from any carltne now constructed. It is covering the vacant land adjacent to have to do without a much-needed ad dition to the high school facilities, the board- having decided to rent extra rooms about town for school uses the coming year to accommodate the large ly increased attendance. HARRIMAN SPREADING OUT Every Office in Wells-Fargo Build' ing to Be Occupied by Road. After August 1 every office in the great 12-story Wells-Fargo building will be occupied by the Harrlman rail roads. But one concern not connected with the Harrlman system remains in the building now. It has orders to vacate at the end of this month. Its present quarters will be taken by the Portland, Eugene & Eastern, under which name the Southern Pacific's electric lines In Oregon will be known and which now occupies almost the entire fourth floor of the 'building. Even after this change is made the Wells-Fargo building will not be large enough to contain all the Harriman of fices. , Some departments now find' room in the Fenton building, across the street. The claims department and, part of the legal department of the Southern Pacific have their headquar ters In the Fenton building. As the business of the Harriman lines con tinues to expand it is probable that ad ditional space will be sought in neigh boring buildings. If the Southern Pacific erects a ter minal depot on North Fourth street, such as is proposed for use of its elec tric cars, some of the offices may be moved into quarters created there. EXCURSION IS WANTED Floral Society Thinks Dahlia Show Will Be Big Attraction. The Nehalem Floral and Industrial society has Issued an invitation to the people or Portland to arrange an ex cursion and attend the big Dahlia Show, which its members propose holding the last week of August. The society lays claim to having the place, where the finest "dahlias In the world are .grown, and in the coming show, intend to vindicate its claims to visitors from all parts of the state and of the Northwest. Not only does the society Itself offer an attractive list of prizes, but several Portland merchants have also agreed to make donations to the premium list, to show the interest taken by this city In the show. It was the Nehalem Floral and In dustrial society that decorated the Port land business men's excursion train with flowers and evergreens, on the re cent excursion from -this city to Tula mook and neighboring cities and beaches. be a boycott on the part of the Log Cabin and Royal bakeries against the association's co-operative store re cently opened in Albina.. It is declred by the directors that the two companies have refused to de liver bread and pastries to the store. The managers of the companies when seen yesterday declared . that their action in refusing to deliver to the new store was not an attempt at boy cott, but was because the institution did not use enough of the baked goods to warrant the companies soliciting their business and in so doing Jeopard lzlng th- sale of geods to the other stores of the neighborhood. Communication Sent Out The following communication has been received: Portland. July. 56th, To the Editor, As ordered by the Board of Directors of the First Mutual Association of Fortland, Oregon, I request space in your valuable paper for acquainting the public with an apparent boycott by certain selfish brsiness interests, said interests being the Log Cabin Bakery and the Royal Bakery. The Log Cabin Bakery refuses to deliver bread and pastry to us be cause, as they state, the other grocers In this vicinity object. The Royal Bakery refuses to deliver, with no statement' of cause- whatever. In view of the fact that we are do ing a strictly cash business, both in purchasing and selling, we resent any such action on the part of - the busi ness men of Portland. We believe that our money is as good as anyone's, and that if it were not for the fact that the grocerymen to whom we have been paying toll object from a selfish stand point, these bakeries would not re fuse to do business with us. "We" . Explained In order that the- public may know who is meant by "We," will explain that "We" means the membership of a Co-operative Grocery which has been established by the people in the Al bina district. The object of this or-1 ganlzatfon is primarily to reduce -the cost of living by discarding such fac- r - 9! TTTT A HTU TOTL7 MAKES BAY CITY DEEP SEAPORT TAFT (Oregonian, Saturday, July 27.) TAFT'S PEN OPENS UP HARBOR WORK SIGNATURE TO CONGRESSION AL BILL MAKES MONEY -. AVAILABLE AT ONCE The signature of President Taft yesterday to the river and harbor bill, as passed by Congress, made the money carried by it immediate ly available for the work projected and in progress in this district. . . . . This includes initial appro priations of $100,000 each for the improvement of the entrances of Tillamook and Harbors, which will be under the direction of Ma jor Morrow, and it is expected that before Fall these projects will be under way. Work to Commence Soon as Possible AY CITY - - ' - Soon to Be Oregon's Second Metropolis B EXPLANATION The Government Engineers estimate it will cost $814,000 to complete the jetty at the entrance of Tillamook Bay and the deep channel direct to Bay City. The $100,000 appropriation is only the initial money. The balance of the Government's half will be provided for by Congress just as it is needed. (Journal. Saturday. July 27. NEWS OF SIGNING OF n UNO HARBORS BILL IVES ENGINEERS Activity reigned in the offices o( Majors Morrow and Molndoe, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, this morning1 on the receipt of a telegram from Washington, to the effect that President Taft yestorday sigrned the rivers and harbors hill. With the signing of the bill th appropriations for river and harbor work in the Oregon districts are re leased and money for improvements secured through, the efforts of Sen ator Jonathan Bourne can now be used. Major Morrow said this morning that he will immediately write to the people of . and Tilla mook (County), which received ap propriations of $100,000 each for bay and bar improvements, each of those places furnishing equal amounts. Work will commence as soon as possible. NOW WATCH BAY CITY ON TILLAMOOK BAY Hundreds of Doubting Thomases have been postponing their intention of buying lots in BAY CITY, thinking the Tillamook Bay improvements would never materialize. ALL DOUBTS ARE N"OW DISSIPATED. Those who procrastinate further will have reason to lament their apathy when OREGON'S BEST OPPORTUNITY knocked repeatedly with pressing invitation to share in the FORTUNES TO BE MADE IN BAY CITY Lots $65 to $1500 on Easy Terms Absorb all the information you can about BAY CITY, the deep water seaport and railroad ter minus on Tillamook Bay. Call or write for literature and other information about Oregon's com ing second metropolis.. ' INFORMATION COUPON Send full information about Bay City. .. Name . . Address BAY CITY LAND CO. - 701-2-3 SPALDING BLDG., PORTLAND tors as are non-productive. The 'or ganization employs a manager to buy and sell at the best possible prices, sriiinc nt the regular rates charged by other grocers, balancing the business at the end of each quarter and return ing to the membership the excess price the latter have paid for groceries In that time. In comparison with the - above actions, the courtesies we have re ceived from the wholesale grocerymen are a source of treasure to us and de note an Insight into future business on their part which the two aforesaid bakeries have not been able to grasp. In order that we be not misunder stood, will state that we are not a cut-rate organization, but sell for the same prices that others sell, and In stead of their being one proprietor, there are a great number, the profits being divided among them. Also be It understood that we have all the clean, wholesome bread we can sell and that the bakery from whom we buy is glad to sell to us. Also, If there are ony other bakeries that can sell us cheaper with as good mater ial, we will be glad to deal with them. This is respectfully submitted to he public for their opinion, and for Infor mation as to some of the causes of the high, cost of living. Very, truly. B. O. KEAJJ. Secretary-Treasurer. First Mutualist Association of Portland. Royal Stops Delivery . J. A. Heusner general manager of the Royal Baking Company said yes terday that his company nas discon tinued delivering" bread to the co operative store because the stop' there has not been profitable. "The new store uses only about eight loaves of bread each day. he said, "and it has not paid us to bother about go ing in wlt?i such a small order. It is a business proposition pure and sim- nle and is not an attempt at boycott At any time the co-operative store can give us an order that compares with the orders of other grocerymen in point of size we will be glad to fur nish bread and pastry to the lnstltu tion." H. F. Rittman, manager of the ' Ivg Cabin Baking Company said yesterday that he has not positively refused to deliver bread and pastry to the co-op erative store, but has not solicited the business because of the fact that there was a fight on between the old grocers and the new store. "It is a matter of business with us, sair Mr. Rittn.an, "If I should agree to give the new store bread the old stores would cut us out and Sell the goods of other concerns. This of course would hurt our own business. It is up. to me to protect my own trade and when I have to jeopardize the bustness of a good section of the city to win the" favor of one concern I do not feel disposed to do so. Any time the business of the new store warrants our soliciting its business there will be no objection to furnish ing our products." i - Railroad Commission to Be Bust. SALEM. Or., July 27. (Special.) The State Railroad Commission is pre paring for a busy 10 days with the fol lowing hearings set starting with next Monday: July 29 Hearing at The Dalles as to suspension of the 'fence law on- the O.-W. R. & N. along the sand dunes of the Columbia. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, three hear ings at Baker Sumpter Valley log ging rates, brought by the Baker Com mercial Club; Sumpter Valley valua tion hearing and all rates on the Sumpter Valley brought on the com mission's own motion: August 2 Two hearings at Vale C. B. Smith against the Oregon Short Line, and A. B. Cox against the Oregon Short Line; August 5. at Kamela Hearing as to loading facilities on the O.-W. H. & N.: August 7. hearing at La Grande C. A. Barret and others as to fencing along the line of the Northern Pacific. MODERN LAUNDRY BUILDING RISES ON EAST SIDE. BIG BUILDING TO RISE SOON Excavation Is Started on Corner on Lower Broadway. Excavation for the basement of a modern building- was started last week ah V 1 A I W 1 Alt Anm&w of Root nn atrMt and Broadway. This will b one of the mfcst desirable corners on the street. It Is declared, as it is hut a biocic xrom the end of the Broadway bridge now being rushed across the Willamette at that poirK. Mrs. M. MeAyel. owner of the prop erty has no very definite plans in view, but the basement is to be 12 feet deep and will " answer for a large apartment-house, hotel or store and office building. The dirt is beingMaken to the east approach of the Broadway bridge, where it is used for filling In the buttresses which will be the East Side landing of the structure. Some of the dirt will be used In filling Broadway across Montgomery Gulch. The name jraxtte applied to a tw paper Is derived from a small Venetian coin, the price of the first news sheet published lbre. . flag tI f W.LM&'U,J'ilM .1 U m lia-W-WiVwx-'gg? TWO-STORY, 8TRICTCRE TO COVER LOT 122x125 FEET. ' , Work has been started on the modern two-story structure for the American Laundry Company on the East Side, the contract for the construction having been let to Thomas Muir a few days ago. 'The build ing will be located on East Third street, near East Glisan street. It will occupy ground space of 122x125 feet and will be of mill construction. It will contain two stories and basement. The exterior will be faced with brick. It will be one of the largest and most modern laundry buildings in the Northwest. The structure was designed by Aaron H- Gould, a Portland architect.' - Compare This With Life in a Crowded Apartment If the cost were the same which would you have a "home" In a crowded apartment, with no room, little air, none of the pleasures of homo or would you choose with its broad acre for your home, with plenty of fresh air and sunshine, and best of all, the joys and comforts of a roomy country place right at the edge of the city? With the cost the same, of course, you'd take Parkro3e. But stop to think that living in Parkrose is only A FRACTION of the cost of living in town. There's no comparison. In Park rose you can have your own vegetables, milk, butter, eggs, fruit most everything you can think of and don't have to pay good hard dollars every time you turn around. Find out about Park rose from us. Call us up or come and see us today. SLAUSON-CRAIG CO. 304 OAK STREET. OPP. COMMERCIAL CLUB ACTIVITY IN ALTA MEAD One hundred men are working in Altamead. The cement walks and curbs are being put in as fast as material can be put in place, and a num ber of new homes are being constructed. We sell good lots with, alleys on EASY TERMS There is yet good choice, but if you delay long the price will be higher. ' CHOICE LOTS AT $500 Base Line Land Company, Owner - 272 Stark Street I t