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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1913)
lO TITE SUNDAY OREGOJflAN. PORTLAND, SErTESIBER 21, 1913. NEW PANAMA BUILDING LEASED; TENANTS NOW OCCUPY OFFICES Height of Handsome Six-Story Structure May Be Increased to Eight Stories Cost of Building Already la $105,000 Construction Is Thoroughly Modern. I , ! i MwyJii! ill W&n him Hill" " - - - " ' !' n it fi n TP " l-H J j 111 1 '--"' "7"' "-v. WE NOW OFFER The Choicest, Close-in-Business, Manufacturing, Warehouse, Residence and Apartment Property on the East Side, viz: TWO STORIES MAV BE ADDED TO STKITTUHB THAT CO.ST $106,000. Located between the Willamette River, East 18th, Everett and Halsey Streets. This property was platted in 1871 and held prac tically intact by the Oregon Real Estate Co. un til July this year, when it was purchased by the ANGLO-PACIFIC .E ALT Y CO. 13 JK THE six-story Panama building: at the northeast corner of Third and Alder streets, which has juet been completed, was transferred yesterday, tog-ether with the ground lease, from fred Frits to the Panama Building Com pany, composed of Paul Wessinser and associates. The consideration anounced was 125,000. The building: was de signed for store and . office purposes, the first floor being- cut into stores and the upper floors Into offices. It has been completed and is now being occupied by tenants. The lot is owned by Mrs. Kate Strode, Mrs. Rose Bridges. Mrs. Anna Uerrall, V. K Strode and J. B. Bridges, Jr. The terms of the ground lease are, first five years, $1250 a month; next five years, $1600 a month; following- five years, $1150 a month. There Is a provision in the lease extending: It for five years at the rate of $1150 a month if the lessees add two storiea to the building; during the first 10 years. It is the Intention to add these stories if conditions wax rant. The building- cost $105,400. CIIY FIGHTS FOR. WATER OFFEK OF $3500 BY COO'CII. .FIXAIiY FORFEITED. Aftci Court Decision, 22 Property On ners Assert Rights to ' More. Flow Than I Found. NEWBERO, Or, Sept 20. (Special.) This town baa a publloly-owned water system which supplies water of the best quality, l'art of it is brousnt from a mountain spring and a few years ago the City Council took steps to Increase that source of supply. An offer to buy a spring- situated about four miles from town was made. The city offered $3500, which was not ac i cepted. A commission was appointed to set a value on the spring- and a re port .was made to the Council fixing the value at $2000. The owner refused to accept this amount and appealed th case to the Circuit Court, and It final ly reached the Supreme Court. It i said that he lost out there by the fall ure of his attorneys to look after the case. A few weeks ro the city let a con tract for the digging of a ditch for main from this spring in order to utll Ize the water. A force cf men was set to work, whereupon an Injunction suit was brought by 22 land owners through whose property water from the spring flows. They claimed gross withdrawal of 280,000 miners' Inches of water each 24 hours. The case was tried before Judge Holmes at McMinnville this week. Attorney Van Wickle, of aleni. appearing for the 12 complainants and City Attorney Chapln for ?ewberr. Thirteen wit nesses were examined for the com plainants and one for the city the City Engineer. He testified that In the stream running through the land of the complainants there are only 175,000 miners' inches of water each 24 hours: that there are three other springs flowing- into It in addition to the main spring, and that a measurement of the water In the channel below the -lands of complainants shows that only 4000 miners' inches are diverted during 24 hours. Under this evidence the court decided In favor of the city. This particular suit was based upon claims of prior diversion of water. Suits for riparian rights claimed by these land owners are yet to be heard. POKTIiAXD'S XEED IS TOLD W. D. Fenton Says Deep "Water Is City's Hope. . "Portland needs but one thing to make It possible for her to become the premier shipping-' center of the world in future years and that Is the open ing of the Columbia River to heaviest ocean ships," Is the statement made yesterday by W. D. Fenton, who has Just returned from a four months' trip In Europe, during which he visited the principal cities of the British Isles, France. Italy, Germany and Holland. "In all the trip I found no city that in my Judgment possesses the perma nent natural elements of greatness In a big commercial way. that are to be found here." Mr. Fenton passed a large part of nts time In Ireland and England, and he declares that the conditions that pre vail there now are largely due to the continual emigration of their best blood to America. Australia and South Africa "They are doing everything in their power in Great Britain to hold their nnonla migration. lCrerv strike 4 story from the United States, every ac count of hard times or labor trouble, is printed in all of the papers of the coun try In big headlines. Whenever there is a hard-luck story comes back, about men walking the streets of Paclflo Coast cities out of employment. It Is played up as strong as- possible. In spite of this, however, there is annually a huge movement of the best and most enterprising people out Into new coun tries." In Ireland,' he said that Indications now are that the fight around the home rule bill will be more bitter than ever before and may in the end result in an election which will return an old con servative party to power and delay the adoption of home rule for years. The land bills, which nave been In opera tion for about ten years, he says, are having a valuable remedial effect and a large proportion of the people are rather desirous of having them tried out further, . instead of changing - to home rule. NORMAL GLASSES GROW Attendance at m.oxmouth ix first aveek is 200. Plans Proposed to Get Voters Out. . EUGENE. Or.. Sept. 20. (Special.) A mass meeting of Eugene citizens was held this week to discuss ways and means of securing a favorable vote for the , unlverblty on the two measures which are referred, to the voters at the election in November. That much depends upon getting voters registered was one opinion ex pressed, and means will be. taken to urge upon every citizen the- necessity of - being prepared to vote when the election conies. Another mass meeting has been called for next Monday evening. Bids Are Opened for Xew Gymnasi um, Construction of Which Will Be Hurried Along. OREGON NORMAL, SCHOOL. Mon mouth. Sept. 20. (Special.) The first week of school here for the new year closed yesterday. The attendance is the most gratifying feature of all as nearly 200 students have enrolled. This is about the total enrollment for the whole of last school year. Some of the students who left Oregon when the Normal Schools were closed down and entered training schools in other states, have returned and will take their di plomas from Monmouth. Tha opening days were greatly sad dened by the tragedy which befell two of the most popular Instructors of the school Misses Harlow and Frldd, who lost their lives on the ill-fated steamer State of California in Alaskan waters. The new teachers chosen to " till the vacancies are taking hold vigorously, Manv needed improvements have been mad. in the buildings and every thine noints to a prosperous year. Bids Were . otiened yesterday for the new gymnasium. ' "J Since the purchase a corps of engineers has been engaged in re-platting the manufacturing and warehouse property located along the O.-W. R. & N. right of way for grading same to track level. The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway has purchased right of way along the south side of the present railroad and is now grading and laying track which gives Terminal Facilities to this pro perty with every railway system entering Portland. esideoce Apartoient-- usiness Wrarelioose d Manuf actoring Locations at Reasonable Prices on Easy Terms R B A. F. SWENSSON L. Y. KEADY Phone A7173 SALES AGENTS 1016 Board of Trade Building (Temporary Office) BANDON FINANCIERS TO PUT UP $18,000 STRUCTURE, ONE .OF FINEST CONCRETE BUILDINGS IN COUNTY. ' . "first" "nationa. '"tiANiC - - ' I 1 . O'WtttW VttiaMa ; a . ywHm :.j g Imw ,;r v.am Mmsmm.- 'lUfff 1 !inn ihlnn H ! 'Mi -fi i it i-v ..f h.v . t;' i : . M - ; i'j,' "-Hi-' ' h ft T1 'tl HMMfi ' rh ( ml ( h - j in ' :;: I I vif ! t til- I llfc EV HOS1B OF FIRST NATIONAL BAAK. BANDON-; Or., Sept. 20. (Spec! aL). The First National Bank is erecting a new building here, which will be one of the finest struc tures in the county. The building is located at a point where Jts imposing front will show to good advantage, ' and ' the appearance of the City of Bandon will be much improved. ' , - .' The structure 1b reinforced concrete throughout and ' will cost $18,000. The front of the building will be artistic and classic. - The .burglar and fireproof vault will, be the latest thing in -bank vaults. The officers of the bank are H. L. Uoston, president; 1 C. y. Lowe, vice-president; E. D. Webb, treasurer; E.- Dyer.' E. E. Oakes, J. L Eldwell, Thomas Devereux. A. McNalr and E. B. Thrift, directors. SUBURB'S GROWTH BIB STANLEY DISTRICT ATTRACTS MAXY SETTLERS. Lands Are Subdivided and F.uyers Engage in Intensive Farming Car Service Satsfoctory. One of the prosperous suburbs of Portland surrounds Stanley station on Johnson Creek, on the Gresham Electric line, lust south of the Mount Scott dls trlct. The land adjacent to Johnson Creek, between Mount Scott and Sell wood, is very fertile. Many properties have been subdi vlded into smaller tracts, on which suburban homes have been built Be tween Errol station and Stanley station at least SO new homes have been built on these acreage tracts. These home builders raise poultry and have fine gardens, and reach Portland by the Gresham and Estacada carllnes, which make hourly trips at the present time. South of Stanley is the Wichita ds- trlct, east of Milwaukle, a suburban territory of great prosperity. Land is moderately priced and a greater por tion of the larger tracts have been sub divided in smaller areas. Three new schoolhouses have been built In this territory, the Harmony, the Wichita and the Ardenwald, the latter having just been completed and opened. It is a four-room modern structure and cost about SS00O. On. the south, settlement has gone beyond the city boundaries and extended into Clackamas County. The gap between Portland and Oregon City is rapidly closing up so that soon there will be a continuous setlement between Portland and Oregon City. Homes Are in Demand. Demand for homes has been brisk during the past few weeks, according to C. De Young & Co. This firm re ports the following recent sales: A five-room modern Dungaiow in Vernon, located on East Twentieth street. North, for E. T. Land to J. B. Duvio. of Seaside, for tzsoo; five-room modern bungalow, situated on Blandlna street, near Alblna avenue, for B. H. Miller to W. T. Newby, for J2500; six room modern bungalow on Ainsworth avenue, between East Thirteenth and East Fourteenth streets, for W. W. Woodworth to Emma D. Bach, for 2600; four-room modern bungalow on the corner of East Sixth and Webster streets, to Captain P. J. Hansen, for IS 04. Clarke Gets Early Start. VANCOUVER. Wash., ' Sept 20. (Special.) To boost the Clarke County fair and prepare plans for the fifth annual fair next year a massmeeting has been called at the Vancouver Com mercial' Club rooms Saturday afternoons-September 27. by J. O. Wing, president-manager of the fair asso ciation. The board of directors and all offi cers connected with the association will be present and committees- will be ap pointed to get - to work on special lines. Stock will be offered for sale, and already $2600 worth of shares have been subscribed, to be paid for when a certain amount has been sold. Toledo Club to Join National Body. TOLEDO; Wash., Sept. 20. (Special.) The Toledo Commercial Club expects to take a membership in the National Rivers and Harbors Congress as a re suit of the visit to this city of Pro- fessor W. D. Lyman, state director of the organization. Toledo Is Lewis County's only point having water transportation, being at the head of navigation on the Cowlitz. The boat service out of here gives splendid ship ping facilities for the crops of the tributary territory and the subject of river transportation Is of great local Interest PBOGFIESS IS MARKED SOUTH MOrST TABOR MAKES RAPID GROWTH. District Has Many Advantages for Homebuilding, in Opinion of H. L. Idleman. School Grounds Improved. JUNCTION CITY, Or.. Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) The School Board has had in stalled paper towels for the lavatory instead of cloth towels. There has been room fitted In the third story of the high school building for a lavatory. Many Improvements have been made on the public school grounds, swings. trapeze, etc The members of the School Board of Junction City are Jake Miller, Jessie Soverns . and L. Jensen, chair man. Toledo Pupils Enter at Chehalls. , TOLEDO, Wash., Sept 20. (Special.) Toledo's schools have 2S pupils en rolled In the Chehalis High School and 82 in the grades. There are 17 in the freshman class and eight In the sopho more. Five teachers are employed. Pro fessor Beham being the principal. Alfred .Austin, the late poet laureate, was lucky in his ' work as a Journalist. For many years he did his daily task at home with the assistance or a telegraph wire run Into his study 60 miles from the Lon don Standard office. His .Instructions came over the wire and his editorial article went to town by train. sometimes he would telegraph, the whole article.. No section of the city has expert enced such steady, healthy growth as has South Mount Tabor during the last few years. People with an eye to both health and beauty have located here. They own their own homes, breathe the ozone from the myriads of flowers and shrubs that adorn the velvet-clad lawns, and wonder how people can be content living in stuffy apartments downtown," said H. L. Idleman, a mem ber of the Portland Realty Board, yes terday. "Some of the sturdy old pioneers set tled here 30 years ago and used to walk the three miles Into the city, do their shopping and hoof it back again in time to feed the chickens, tend to the horses, milk the cows and then be ready for a good, hearty meal. One old resi dent told me he had shot elk right here on Mount Tabor. But how different now! With the advent of good street-car service, hard- surfaced streets, a splendid school and a well-equipped playground, we feel quite 'citified.' The extension of the Hawthorne carllne to East Seventy- fourth street and Twenty-ninth avemie has opened up a fine residence district which is now developing fast and where i property is cheap. Very few people appreciate the ad vantages of living a few miles removed from the heat and turmoil of the city, where nature holds out to you one hand of health and the other of plenty. "Mount Tabor Park, containing 170 acres, will be developed into the most beautiful natural park in the city if not on the Coast, and will be ap proached by wide and shrubbery-Ilned boulevards from Division street and West avenue. "Groveland Park, among the most beautiful residence spots on the East Side, has stately firs in every yard cooling and clearing the atmosphere.". Meat Inspectors In Berlin are employing the moving-picture camera In their work, enlarged photogrnphs showing micro-organ. irmn In motion If thff mwHt Is diseased. 413 Stark. STUDIO Main 5S73, Photographs Buildings, Construction Work. Three Operators. Stark-Davis Company Plumbing Supplies. Wholesale "d Retail, Contracting and Jobbing-. 240 Salmon Street, Bet. 2d end ad 1'lpe l'llat. .Phone, Main TOT Twelve Streetcar Lines pass the corner of Fifth and Washington streets, making it the Hl'R of the RETAIL DISTRICT of Portland. In selecting offices for profession al or mercantile purposes, a central location is important. The Swet land building, is so located. Space arranged to suit tenants. Moderate -rentals. All-night elevator service. Apply 303 Swetland Building
