THE SUXDAI OREGONIAX, PORTXANl; DECEMBER Si, 1913 9 a. M" . - " " ' "" 1 " . ; i . - i - BUILDING ON EAST SIDE PROGRESSES Cold-Storage Plant for Use of Commission Men Is Nearly Finished. . PRETENTIOUS HOME RISES Jtridein'r of Daniel Kern, at Cost of $.10,000. Is Sightly structure, Kii limnnil DlMrU't Has Marked Boom In Homes. Rapid progress Is being made on tbe foundation of ttie two-story bui'ding for the D. P. Thompson estate on East Alder and Kast First streets. covering a hair block, and costing; $80,000.' It win have a complete basement for coiri storage purposes. Tt is the first bulla! lng erected on the Kast Side specially for the use of commission men and will be' occupied by two commission firms, who will move from the West Side. The two-story brick cold storage structure of William Reed, at the south west corner of Kast Firt and Kast Oak streets. Is nearlng completion, the brick work already having been completed. It will be a cold storaKe building, the cost being about IS5.000. The two story concrete building of the Pacific Bridsre Company on East Water and Kast Salmon streets has been completed, at a cost of $14.000. It will be usej for general purposes.- offices and other thins:, hy the company. The school district has completed the addition to the Fernwood Schoolhouse. on Ham-ark and r.ast Thirty-third streets. The addition has six rooms and an assembly hall and is a brick struc ture of attractive design. It more than doubles the capacity of the Fernwood fcchnoihouse. The Huffman Schoolhouse. on Kast Sixty-seventh and Powell streets. Is nearly finished. This is a reinforced concrete building of six rooms. It will be completed some time In February, when it Is expected that the old South Mount Tabor Schoolhouse will be aban doned. The new South Mount Tabor Improvement Association is circulating petitions asking the Board of Educa tion to make the building a community center and erect a swimming pool. Schoolhonse Is Obsolete. The building was erected about 30 years ago and is somewhat obsolete as far as a schoolhouse Is concerned. It occupies an acre. It would form a south entrance to the Mount Tabor Park. Unless made a community center It would likely be abandoned. H. L. Johnson, secretary of the club, says that the building can be made Into a community eenter and an auditorium for meeting purposes. At the suburb of Lents Crawford & Letrt have Just bought a lot 100 by 21 feet on Main street, on which they will erect a two-story reinforced concrete building. They have completed a two story reinforced concrete building on the east side of Main street, at a cost of $15,000. which Is occupied. Plans are being drawn by Irish brothers for a two-story reinforced concrete building to be erected for Mrs. Hattle Tott. It will have space for three stores on the Brst floor. It Is expected that a permanent build ing for the Lents Branch Library will be erected next year. A eommlttee from Lents Commercial Club has been in vestigating sites 100 by 100, but no se lection has been made as yet. Mrs. II. L. Addlton has offered a site in her addition. Realdeace la Preteatlous. In the matter of homes, the residence of Daniel Kejn. on Kast Fifteenth and Clackamas streets. Is the most preten tious under construction. It is a three story brtrk and stands In tne renter of the half block facing toward the north. It was estimated that it would cost $25,000 when the plans were drawn, but it will probably run to about $30,000. Another home begun Is that of W. F. Ilawkes. on Kast Twenty-ninth, be tween Stephens and r:ast Harrison streets, which will cost $4500. A large number of attractive homes are being erected in Laurelhurst, Rose City Park district and other sections on the Kast Side. What Is called the Rich mond district, between Hawthorne ave nue and Division street. East Thirty ninth and East Fiftieth streets, has had a building boom for the past three months. More than 150 new homes, averaging $2000 each, have been built in this territory In that time. At pres ent 100 new homes are being erected in this district. East Forty-second, East Forty-third. East Forty-fourth and East Forty ninth streets are being built up with new homes for almost their entire length. Attendance at the Richmond School has Increased more than 130 the past year, and when these new homes fill up there will be a still further In crease. A number of portable school houses a.-e now used and several more - ; :f- Us it 1 ' ' tl t1T' ".---" TYtK ' Yy 'we: - ,B rzZg V- TV X 1 I'll : . v-. . . . v V. t, 7 .NEW I.NTKK-a'Ol'NTV BKIIXiK AT Kl)EH(i will be required after the beginning of the new year. C. K. HENRY VRGES OPTIMISM Former President of Realty" Board Gives Spirited Address. That all the business men of a coun try depend on the real estate men to bring new industries to their doors for a small commission, so that merchants, bankers and all the rest or the com munity may reap profits for the rest of their lives, was asserted by C. K. Henry, former president of the Portland Realty Board, now a resident of California, in an address on "Optimism" at the weekly luncheon of the board in the Commercial Club Friday. "You men are pessimistic:" he de clared. "What reason have you? Too say the banks do not encourage Invest ment. If that Is true, talk to them about it. Remember your importance to the community, and make them com through. The banks can't prosper un less you do. and will do much to accom modate you if you meet them In the right spirit. "There is no real reason for hard times. There has been no famine, pestl leme or great disaster. We have; Just harvested the greatest crop in our his tory. Vou arc Just- sitting back In an attitude of pessimism, letting things Henry called the attention of his audience to the hlvrh taxes. The taxes, he said, must be kept down if outside capita' is to be brought to Portland. Only taxpayers. Mr. Henry said, should be 'allovred to vote on bond issues. Eugene Brookings, former president of the N Progressive Business Men's Club, addressed the board on the In come tax: The next meeting of ths board till be held January 1. HOME BUILDING A C T i V E MODERATE - PRICE DWELLING" IN CREASE IX M JIBKH. la All Parts of City Modern Hesldeaees Are Inder Way Tw Fine . Irvln'srtoa Homes Plaaued. - I n the construction of dwellings Port land continues to make a gratifying shov.-Ing. Moderate - priced residences comprise the larger proportion of new residences. Activity is noted in all parts of the city. S. 6. Lathrop Is planning to erect a two-story frame dwelling on East Twenty-third street, between Ivon and Division streets. The building; will cost about $2000. K. E. Bowman Co. have obtained a permit to erect a two-story frame dwelling on East-Twenty-third street, between Brazee and Knott streets, at a cost of $5000. The same firm will build another $i000 two- story frame dwelling on East Twenty-fourth street between Brazee and Knott streets. Plana for three $1500 bungalows, to be built on Commercial street between Cook and Ivon streets by W. M. Smith have been completed. L. C .Moulton secured a permit last week to erect a bungalow on Glenn avenue between Bryce and Shaver streets. The building will cost about $2800. Plans for a two-story frame dwelling, to be built on Pacific street between Peerless and lmperla.1 streets, for E. A. Murphy, have been completed, and work will be started at once. Tbe building will cost about $4000. John George obtained a permit last week to build an $1800 bungalow on Fremont street between Rodney and Williams avenues. Work on the build ing will be started in the near future. a. M. Habighnet has obtained a per mit to build a bungalow on Gladstone avenue between Kast f orty-rirst ana East Forty-second streets. The build ing will cost about $2000. v Plans for a one-story gymnasium, to be erected on Russell street between Fenwick street and Patton avenue, have been completed. The building will cost about $3000. Sidney O. Lathrop obtained a permit last week to build a two-story frame house at 4S0 East Twenty-third street, between Ivon and Division streets. The building will cost about $3000. Jones Buys Vancouver Block. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Dec. 18. (Spe cial.) The Sedgwick building, at Eighth and Main streets. 50 by 1U0 feet, and two stories hidh. has been sold by Mrs. Isabel Sedgwick-Putnam to R. V. Jones, president of the Western Trust Company, of Portland. The value of the property is about $40,000 and some wheat land in Eastern Oregon was taken In the deal. The building is occupied by business concerns on the lower floor and by a rooming-house on the second floor. Cannery Ships 16 Carloads. ALBANY. Or.. Dec. 20. (Special.) Showing the value ct a cannery in the average Willamette Valley community. D. w. Rumbaugh, or this city, county fruit Inspector of Linn County, reports that the cannery at Brownsville, though comparatively a new Institu tion,' will ship 1( csrloads of csnned fruit out of the county this Fall, He says also that though the apple crop Is unusually light -this year, 17 car loads of first-class apples have been shipped out of Linn County this sea son, to say nothing of second-grade fruit and culls. ' - 'i lilssll ai ''sV if. K ..-WV -T.vW-'T jJST if... I U.S. -S...-S : t, v-w. j I . vY . -x-svy a i STAIRS FROM VISTA AVENUE WILL CONNECT WITH MONTGOMERY DRIVE Commissioner Dieck Prepares Plans for Proposed Concrete Improvement, After Receiving Petitions From Prop erty Owners in Portland Heights Cost of Constructing. About $5929, To Be Paid br Residents. , Vt vSl , . .- "stS- 1 - -I - 'iivjJvt, y Vf$ rTsri rv: -I -'Ji-- . t . g s ! , i , , ' r - - Ui-; t v. , f fy tmm JUyr fv; i 4 itn rife t&:s. s&xzgg M After the receipt or a petition from property owners In Portland Heights, City Commissioner Dieck has prepared plans for proposed concrete stairs lead ing up from Vista avenue to Montgom ery Drive. The stairs, the cost of which probably will be paid by the property owners with some assistance from the city, will be about B929. They will be artistic.. the steps to be guarded by railing and provision being made ror a landing half way down. CITIZENS' SPIRIT WINS BRIDGE AT XEWBERU FRUTS OF TAXPAYEHS' activity. Three Years' Effort," la YVhlch ( mlsaloaers of Tim Coonties Had te Be Interested. Crowaed. XEWBERG. Or.. Dec. 20. (Special.) The completion of the bridge at New berg across the Willamette Klver is the culmination of active work which be gan nearly three years ago on the part of enterprising citizens of this city with the Commercial Club as the chief factor. The fact that Board of Com missioners of Yamhill and Marlon Counties had to be interested added to the difficulty. At one time there was opposition to the project from a por tion of this county, but that opposition disappeared when the work was finally ordered and as the advantage to the entire county from having a bridge across the river became apparent. The contract was let to the Coast Bridge Company, of Portland, and B. A. McClatn, an engineer, who had been with the company ever since it was or ganized, was put in charge of the work of construction. Previously Mr. Mc- At present there is no street or walk 'emlina- between Vista avenue and ,w VJt fl T "in, where Montgomery Drive leaves Vista avenue, to Carter street, ' The stairB. will make a suitable connection In the ce:iter of this stretch. The project is proposed as a part of the Vista avenue retaining wall which is now in course of construction. Estimates of quanti ties p.nd cost.of the structure are given hy Commissioner Dieck as follows: 67.5 yards 1-2-4 concrete at $15 yd. ..$1012 Ciain was with a Seatire contracting company for seven years, and while with that company he superintended the construction of the million-dollar bridge across the Frazler River at New Westminster. B. C. Work was begun rjere April 17 last and under the contract the company had until April 17 of next year to complete the job. As large a force as It-was possible to operate was puti on and there has been no lagging since with the exception of three weeks' waiting for steel. The structure Is 2179. feet long, of which 756 feet are steel construction. Jn boring for the foundation of one of the piers a fir tree was struck many feet below the bottom of the river. This was worked out with much difficulty. Then a sec ond was found in the way and when that was removed still another had to be disposed of. The total cost of the bridge is 185. 800. shared equally by Yamhill and Marion Counties. WORK WELL UNDER WAY 1SG OF OREGON STREET BRIDGE PROGRESSES. TO Double Tracks by Streetcar Company Are Laid and Concrete Base and Sidewalks Completed. The paving of Oregon street from Union avenue to the railroad bridge is being completed. Double tracks have been laid by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and the stone blocks are being placed between the rails. So far only the concrete foun dation for the pavement has been laid and tiie cement walks completed. A big fill was made in Aciams street across the cut which extended to the railroad yards. In order to lay the concrete foundation on the fill the material had to be packed with a roKer. Kust First and East Second streets have been paved from Oregon to Holla day avenue. Tiie Portland Railway. I.rtght &. Power Company has put down a single cai track on Kast First from Holladay avenue, to Oregon street. The double tracks on Oregon from Union avenue give direct access to the railway bridge for Union-avenue cars and the track on ICast First street g-ives access to Williams-avenue, and other cars directly by that street. The present lines on Occident street will continue probably to be used and will form a loop with the tracks on Ore gon street. These improvements represent an expenditure of about $200,000. Oregon street was first wkTened from 60 to 70 feet at considerable expense. If the district builds its trade school buildings, as proposed, on the two blocks ottered by the Anglo-Pacific Realty Company, on East First street, north of Hoiladay avenue, which is considered probable, it will add much to this territory. It will mean that several hundred pupils will come from all portions of the city. Two blocks and the street. 6 feet wide, are In cluded In this' site, 400x460 feet. Ac cording to fhe suggestions of Director riummer the buildings will constitute a great workshop and will be built ac cording to scientific plans for such buildings. . Honey Production 500.000 Pounds. . NORTH YAKIMA, Wash.. Dee. 0. (Special.) The honey production of ' ' 730 i is ugnt post, ai uy l ner feet hand ra" at ". Hl square yards curtain wall stucco geu 1.00 14 vases at 10 Reintnr'.'tnir ale-!. G'.W iba. 140 4c KxcavatlllK Slid grsdlns 40 linear feet concrete piling at $2.oO 150 Totsl UUol hv:i Htipni- f.et hand rail (Montgomery . Drlvej at J.5 Add 20 oer cent tor contingencies DfO Orsnd total Yakima County for 1913 totaled 500.000 pounds, one-third of the entire product of the state, according to .1. B. Ramage. secretary of the State Association of Beekeepers. The Walla Walla Valley is credited with producing as much as Yakima, and the rest comes from all over the state. TWO COWS I1ETIRX $:t0,000 Klickitat Farmer Makes Good on Investment In Thoroughbreds. WAHrKIACUS, Wash.. Dec. 20. (Special.) The story of H. C. Davis, who resides Just over the line In Yaki ma County, will doubtless be emulated to some degree by the Klickitat cattle men who seek to improve their herds by recent investment in thoroughbred animals. Mr. Davis was one of those lucky farmers who bade opportunity to. open the door and he gained a little assist ance at the proper moment. Five years ago with $300 he started with the as sistance of a loan of (320 and for $620 cash he bought Eleanor Wayne, a thor oughbred Holsteln cow. Davis was careful and later he acquired Bonnie Echo, that proved to be a typical Hoi stein. Investments In land were re sponsive to a patient investor. Recent ly he sold and netted from the two cows and their progeny $30,000, after five years' keep. Mr. Davis believes Klickitat and Yakima Counties offer great outcomes for the right kind of farmers. 1 MmmSmSmX t i , 1 "5 " I ' i w.,uu. &pi ! :MY;T 'Y--k L4mi -TY t fcs&ik ir'i , sSy -it Z t f V " Y Y Yv ' 'v.. -:-;'.y : Wo-,;- - - fc I, h in jff - A iKft a .YilUftTrr. -1V-1 -1 . A "tti i fit i nrftY t nft i i - w nr-n it.nv ,immt i t THREE-STORY BUILDING ERECTED BY MASONIC LODCSB. M'MINNVILLE. Or., Dec. 20. (Special.) The new Masonic Temple, a three-story structure, will be com- -i-.. u-i, 1 j h U i h Hinn- partment store'. The building will cost about $40,000, and is the largest building 1n McMinnville. It Is the third home built by the local order of Masons. Its construction is modern In every respect. It is located r h n .trwti whi.h is the heart of the business section of McMinnville. It has a large basement and covers a quarter block. - HODEL HOMES RISE Modern Workingmen's Dwell ings Under Construction. ENGLISH PLAN FOLLOWED Project of Fred A. Jacobs, or Met ropolitan Improvement & Invest-' ntent Company, Meeting With Success In Portland. i - Fred . A Jacobs, president of the Metropolitan Improvement & Invest ment Company, while In Europe last Summer, made a particular study or model workingmen's villages, and he is now working the plan out locally. Mr. Jacobs feels that the opportunities for giving workingmen In Portland and in the United States better homes for their own good as well as for the good of the Nation are just as great as they are in England or elsewhere in ""Pe- To this end the Metropolitan Com pany Is.now building 100 modern work insmen's homes in the southeastern section of the city. The first ten of the houses now are completed and occupied ku. unit of ten will be finished thU month, and the third unit of ten will be ready for occupancy '" the new year. The homes will be com pleted at about the same rate during ii,. s..rlnir. and If present plans ma terialize, it Is expected that the com- min h tocreased to GOO houses next "year. ' Each house, of fovr and flvo. rooms, is built on a 50 by lot, with provision for back and. font doorvard, truck patches and lawn. The district is on a new carline tens'on' so that the community is easily acces sible to the city.' Mr. Jacobs-already has been given as surance that his community, plan tor Portland -Is a logical one. and acc": racy of his judgment la proved by the tact that they are being taken and occupied by workWmen as soon as they are completed. "There is a real, actual advantage to be gained in putting a working-man .n a good, clean, well ventilated, sanltary place of abode, in-good surroundings, and there is as well a psychological ad vantage of considerable weight said Mr. Jacobs yesterday. "Then there Is the humanitarian aspect of the case. Altogether it means "etter health con tontment, more agreeab domestic companionship, longer life, better work and general happiness. "As the English statesman.. Burns, says, the prestige of a nation depends upon its breadwinners, and it behooves that nation to treat its breadwinners ''Portland has another reason to feel proud of its progress, "having been chosen the first city in the Northwest to be given the advantage of the model community. JirCANN COMPANY BUYS TRACT ON TWENTY-EIGHTH FOR PLANT. Granite Working Establishment to Be Set V Will Be tbe Largest In Northwest, Is Announcement. By the purchase, announced yester day of a tract of land containing 25, 000 square feet at Twenty-eighth and Nicolai streets, by Frank I. McCann. of the McCann Stone Companj of Seattle and Portland, the establish ment in this city of the largest granite working plant in the Northwest was made certain. . Before completing the purchase of the property, which is officially known as tracts 1, Z ano a. - new Industrial Center Aoaiuun, McCann inspected many sues ai van- ous points on the uoasi anu mum; .-..( ,i in nlacn the new worts in Portland on account cf the superior transportation facilities and other conveniences offered by this location He will leave for Seattle in a few davs to arrange for the dismantling of the big gang saws and other special machinery In the branch works there. This together with much new equip ment, will be erected in the new plant, which will be capable of turning the heaviest description of granite work required by the modern skyscrapers The McCann Company has supplied from their Sixteenth and Thurman street works all the cut stone work of the new Central Public Library also of Reed College buildings. Tnese works will be devoted hereafter to the monumental business exclusively. They are now making arrangements to start In the new plant the stone re quired for the new Northwestern Elec tric building being erected on the PH tock block. This is the third large stone work ing concern to be located in Industrial Center by the agents for the tract, F. N. Clark & Company, who report that activity In this clss of property is STONEWORKSASSURED FINE STBTJCTTTKE UNDER WAT AT M ' MINN V1LLE thA hnm nt the oca Masonic uoofre. the past 12 months. PRUNES NOW BEING PACKED. Western Clarke County Crop Iarge and of Fine Quality; Price Good. RIDGEFIEL.D. Wash., Dec. 20. (Spe cial.) The prune crop this season in this locality and that of Sara, a large prune section of Western Clarke Coun ty, was large. In some instances very large yields were in evidence. The prunes were of large size and' of excellent flavor, nearly all being perfect. Packing is still in full swing, but will soon be finished. Most of the crop was contracted at a good price. Those who contracted their prunes early In -lie season were able to get only 5H cents a pound, while those who contracted later received as high as 64 cents John M. Hoff, of Sara, one of the largest prunegrowers in that commun ity, dried over 25 tons of fruit and received 6 hi cents a pound, while last year he received only 4?4 cents for his crop, considered then a good price. Mr.' Hof f's prune crop this year was ex traordinarily heavy and his orchards well filled. Mr. Hoffs prune orchard comprises about 13 acres. At the pres ent time he has about 1600 trees of different varieties. This is one of the largest prune farms in Clarke County. In this year's prune crop, Mr. Hoff will realize over $3200. - , Many owners of small tracts of land close to this community have had their land cleared and are setting them In prune orchards and other fruits. H CARS ARE ASKED IRVINGTON PARK WANTS ADDI TIONAL SKRV1CK. At .Mass Meeting Held Last Week Step Are Taken Also to Secure Srhnolbonae for District; ' Residents of Irvington Park district will ask for better car service on the Alberta line and for the erection of a modern schoolfiouse as soon as It can be done to replace the present tempo rary portables now used on the Ken-' nedy Fehool grounds. These requests were formulated at a well-attended mass meeting held in the Arcadian CiUbhouse Thursday night. East, Thirty sixth street and Alnsworth avenue. The' demands for Improved streetcar service are 'that the Alberta cars shall run through without stops to the corner of Alberta and East Thirtieth streets, that during the rush hours of morning and evening cars shall be operated not less than every five minutes, and during other times the cars shall run every 10 minutes, A committee from the mass muetlng was appointed to co-operate with a like committee from the Vernon Women's Improvement Club In present ing these requests to Commissioner Daly. The schoolhouse question was con sidered at length. It was declared that the East Irvington district needs a schoolhouse to seuve the 2600 persons tributary to the Kennedy grounds. It was reported that a considerable num ber of small children are required to go long distances to reach the Vernon building. An effort was made y swing the meeting around to the support of a movement to declare the recent school levy Illegal. The tide in that direction was stemmed when Professor Parker, of the Vernon School, said: "If you succeed in rendering void the tax levy made at the last school meet ing, which is exceedingly Improbable, how do you expect to get a schoolhouso in East Irvington? You will be wasting effort In that movement, and I am lnr clined to think that the opinion of District Attorney Evans is right when he said that the levy Is legal and will stand. It is my judgment that the Board of Education will be entirely fair to the East Irvington people and will provide a building as soon as it can be done; but it looks to me like a waste of time and effort even to try to ren der void the tax levy. I shall be glad to co-operate with the people here In their efforts to get better school facil ities." The meeting voted to defer the circu lation of the petition against the school levy, and authorized the chairman to appoint a committee to take up with the Board of Education the matter of Improved school facilities until such time as a modern schoolhouse can be built on the Kennedy, grounds. It was decided to organize a perma nent improvement association in the near future arid the names of all pres ent were taken as a preliminary step. Hood Hirer Absorbs Apple Bonds. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 20 Spe cial.) A. W. Stone, who has had charge of the $45,000 issue of refunding bonds of the Applegrrowers' Association, re ports that Hood River ranchers and business men have taken practically all of the issue, and that one more week will probably close the matter. Koud Laying Heavy Steel. TOLEDO. Or., Dec. 20. (Special.) The Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, leading to Yaquima Buy, has completed laying about 18 miles of heavy rails. Twenty cars of laborers were side tracked here Tuesday. The road ex pects to have new steel laid to Toledo by January 1. ' win oe usea ror omces inu a de nowbrisker than it has been