11 - LAURELHURST CLUBHOUSE AND ITS GROUND PLAN 3 III KILLINGS! IS BUSINESS HIGHWAY Don't Put a Burden on Your Widow That You Wouldn't on Your Wife T Provide Her With an Income for Life in $ , "The Company of Satisfied Policyholders" Numerous Improvements and Substantial Buildings Add to Importance. PARK JS GREAT FEATURE Peninsula Recreation Grounds De clared Most Popular Spot In Portland and Is Unequaled in Several 'Respects. In his address at the banquet held In the Pilgrim Congregational Church last week J. II. Nolta told of the re markable progress that has been made along Killingsworth avenue, where $1,000,000, he said, has been expended in the erection of the Jefferson High School, the Albina Branch Library, on the Peninsula Park and in other Im provements. To these may be added the improvements the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company has made in the plant on Klllingrsworth avenue. Killingsworth avenue has been paved In spite of opposition for one mile. Then came the campaign for the lo cation of the Jefferson High School, which was secured after a hard fight, when another neighborhood tried to get it. The greatest achievement was the securing of the Peninsular Park at a time when other localities were seek ing parks. The tract secured proved ideal, for there has been developed what is considered the most popular park in the city. There are about 20 acres in the tract. Recently there was com pleted recreation buildings, including a central auditorium and two gymnas iums, one for boys and one for girls. rrnlnnulai Rose Show to Be Held, Arrangements are being completed lor a special Rose Show for the Penin sula to be held in Peninsula Park dur ing the Portland Rose Festival for two days. June 9 and 10, dates that will no Interfere with the main Rose Show on the West Side. Committees from the North Portland Commercial Club and the Women's Auxiliary are now making arrange ments for this show by which they ex pect to draw thousands of people to North Portland.- Mr. Nolta also outlined what the lighting scheme of this show will be by which the sunken garden will be illuminated by hundreds of colored electric jets. He said that he had been assured of the assistance of prominent men, including Commissioner Brewster and Park Superintendent Mische. Mr. Nolta has taken up the matter of placing live salmon in the pools of water now used for wading, as one of the novel attractions of the Eaet Side Rose Show. The Peninsula is the real rose home, iwhere they grow in great beauty, perfection and profusion. There will be plenty for the Rose Show and several carloads to give away. Sunken taardrn I'neaufiled. To the sunken garden Mr. Nolta called special attention, declaring that this feature has no equal in the United States. It will, he. said, be a feature not found in any other city In the country, for besides the exhibit ot roses, that will come from 17 neigh borhoods on the Peninsula in competi tion, in the sunken garden more than 100,000 roses will be in full bloom on the bushes. One object of the Peninsula show is to show the growth of that part of I'ortland, and not the least evidences aj-e the Jefferson High School and the Albina Branch Library, the latter standing on Killingsworth avenue. Mr. Nolta spoke of these improvements in order to show what a community may accomplish through the united efforts i. vi 1110 ijcupi:. "We got the high'school and Penin sula Park by staying with the job and . by united efforts of the people," said Mr. Nolta, "and we are going to invite the people of Portland and the visitors to the Peninsula show to come out and see what has been done in this part of Portland. We want it understood that North Portland Is loyal to the Wesc Side Rose Show and that we are going to co-operate witn tne Rose Festival.1 Property Grows In Value. The recreation buildings in Penin aula Park cost more than J30.000. Al together the city has spent more than $100,000 in the park alpne. ivillingsworth avenue was the first street improved with hard-surface in that part of the city, but others have been paved since. Work has been started on Albina ave nue. the street which passes Peninsula JJarK on the west. side. It will be pavea to Lombard street, a distance of nearly one mile. The Portland Railway, Light & Power company is relaying its tracks on Al bina avenue preparatory to this im provement. The work will be finished In advance of, the festival. It Is part of the illumination plan to light this street from Killingsworth avenue to the park and if possible to Portland boulevard, along the entire west side of the park. The cost of the improvement of Al bina avenue and the relaying of the double car tracks will be about $75,000. - Sewers and pipe connections hav been made In the street so the pave ment will not have to be torn up again. KlllliiKnvvorth Long Street. Killingsworth is one of the longest streets in North Portland. It runs from the bluff above the Willamette River nearly to the city limits. The street nas Deen widened to 60 feet from Union avenue to about East Forty-first street, and graded for most of this distance and cement walks laid, but the paving was deferred until the property would stand the expense of the work. The paving will probably be under taken this year. At the river end from Patton avenue only a macadam Im provement was made, which will soon be changed to hard-surface. It is expected that all the streets north of Portland boulevard will be paved as soon as the sewers have been laid. It has been said that when an other bridge is built for that part of the city it will be located at Killings worth avenue because it is a Ions and central street. All the streets under consideration as approaches to the interstate bridge cross Killingsworth avenue. GILBEIJT IMSTniCT GROWING Rapid Development East or Lents Noted in iPast Jr'ive Years. Dedication of the Calkins Hall at Gilbert's Station on the Gresham Rail way, east "of Lents. Saturday night last. Indicates the remarkable progress that has been made in that suburb with in the past 'five years. Within that time tliis district, extending to Syca more Station, has been cleared of stumps and fallen trees and a fine residence section built up. More than 150 attractive home have been built near the Gilbert schoolhouse, which is the center cf the zone. The land was sold off mainly in acreage tracts to men who wanted more space than they could get in a single lot, with the re sult that it is a settlement . of small farms. Gilbert schoolhouse is the cen tral point for this district. .Calkins Hall will be for the use of the people for a year free of cost for lectures and all public functions. It is centrally located for this purpose. The Gresham Railway passes through the district. The Foster road also passes through this territory. There was some effort made last year to have the Gilbert School District annexed to Portlund district, but it did not suc ceed. EE PLAN IS TO MAKE FOSTER WAV 05-FOOT BOILGVARD TO LENTS, Double Tracks and Short Route Over Line to Mount Scott Is Also Pro posed Programme. One of the important improvements proposed for the Mount Scott district is to make the Foster Road a 95-foot boulevard from Bast Fifty-second street through to Lents. The general plan is to take over the 35-foot right-of-way strip occupied by the Mount Scott railway on the south side of the road and add it to the street between East Fifty-second and Fast Seventy- second, and lay bard-surface for this distance. It is further proposed to lay double tracks for the Mount Scott railway to Lents. This would provide a shorter route for the Mount Scott line than the present route by way of Woodmere. The Foster Road is the great avenue for the Mount Scott and Lents dis tricts. It leads into Clackamas Coun ty and carries a big traffic. According to the Bennett plans, the Foster Road is the central avenue to the southeast side territory, and is to be extended to a connection with East Burnside street. Already there is a heavy settlement alonsr the Foster road for a mile north and south to Lents and then on' to Johnson Creek two miles east of Lents. The- County Commissioners have re ceived a communication from the Lents people to the effect that they have taken up the question of making the Foster Road a wide highway. It is said that it will be an easy matter to widen the road, as the houses along the road are set well back from the road and few, if any, will bave to be moved. The Foster Road at present is 60 feet wide. lrvingtou Residence Is Sold. Chrtstatn Christensen ias purchased from Robert B. Beat, architect and builder, a new dwelling in Irvington, located on East Eleventh street be tween Knott and Stanton streets. The building is l'A stories high. The con sideration was $5300. Two colored men were discussing their younj 10ns. and the first said that he In tended to make ht hopeful an astronomer. ai s a rine job," he concluded. "Ys " drawld the other, "Yoh done tol me dat more, out hut a he gwlne to do In dil day lime ; CLUB PLANS READY Laurelhurst Soon to Have Community Structure. $20,000 ESTIMATED COST Building Will Be Erected on Site Including Mne Lois With Good View Social Room to Be One 6f Its Features. The Laurelhurst Club is soon to pos sess as attractive a community home as any of the many others built in Portland. The club organization about a year ago planned to erect a clubhouse the latter part of that year but the plans were postponed on account of the in terference of bad weather and the lack of a sufficient sura of subscription money. ' Last week the plans submitted by the architectural firm of Whitehouse & Fouilhoux were, accepted and the clubhouse, when completed and fur nished, will represent an investment of more thajt $20,000. Located on nine lots of club property at East Burnside,' Laurelhurst avenue and East Ankeny street, the building will command a magnificent view of Laurelhurst Park, which adjoins the club's holding near the proposed site cf the bandstand. - The clubhouse alone will cost ap proximately $12,000 and the spacious grounds "will be improved with sunken gardens, tennis courts, walks and park ways. The grounds leading down from the club building will be terraced off at different levels and a terrace will be built around the tennis courts. Colonial Plan Followed. The exterior of the club is to be of shingles with a rough-cast cement fin ish to the basement walls and chim neys. A distinctive country type of architecture will prevail worked, out with colonial detail. The porches will be flanked with flower boxes, the idea being to make the surroundings as near like those of a typical country home as possible. The floors will be hardwood throughout. . The over-all dimensions of the build ing will be 98 by 68 feet with the longer dimension running In a north erly and southerly direction. The fea ture room of the building will be the large clubroom on the first floor. It will be 44 by 28 feet and run through th9 two stories to the celling with the rafters showing from below. At the south end a glassed-in porch. 29 by 12 feet in else, will be arranged so that it may be thrown in with the big clubroom on the occasion of large gatherings. A large hall on the- north will permit of similar annexation. At the east end a second glass porch will open out into a terrace, 56 by 12 feet, overlooking the tenuis grounds. French doors lead to the terrace and there in the shadow, protected from the rays of the hot sun, social affairs will bo held in the warm Summer after noons. At the northeast a service en trance will lead to the serving and stc:erooms, with a stairway going di rectly to the steward's quarters and another stairway leading into the base ment. Main entrance to the building will be effected through a porch at the corner of Kust Burnside street and Laurel hurst avenue. At the right of the ves tibule and entrance hall, the men's eoatroom and lavatory will be installed and at the left will be the women's dressing-rooms. Uonllng Alleys Provided. The lasement will house the 'bowl ing alleys, the Billiard rooms, the boiler-room and the compartment -for the lockers and showers. Over the main hall, of the first floor, a gallery win look down Into the club room and elsewhere on the second floor will be the card and domino room and the steward's quarters. The members of the club are enthu siastic over the prospects of a club home In the early future and are plan ning to conduct an active campaign during the coming 30 days to Increase the present life membership from 110 to 200 or more. Over $10,000 is now on hand to be applied on the building fund and each additional life member ship will bring in $100. The officers of the olub are: Dr. J, D. Fenton, president; Herbert S. Mc Cutchen. vice-Dresident: Owen Sum mers, secretary, and S, B. Cooke, treas urer. The trustees are: J. C. English, Dr. E. H. Anthony and Allen H. Mc Curtain. There are, 250 members. The club has. been active in promot ing the Interests of -the district. It was successful in its petition to the School Board urging that a school site covering the double block bounded by Laurelhurst avenue. Royal Court, East Forty-first and East Forty-second streets, should be bought for $30,000. A school will be built as soon as funds are available. The club also secured an improved car service and the In stallation of arc lights. HOME CREDITS DO MUCH GOOD Beuna Vista School Patrons Are Pleased W ith Results. BUENA VISTA, Or.. March 14. (Spe cial.) According to reports coming from patrons of the Buena Vista school the home credit system Is doing much to unite the school and home. For th-; past two years the plan has been In operation in this school and the results have been gratifying. Not only do the students do better work at home but their school studies have been brought to a higher mark. The 10 students receiving highest credits during February in the Buena Vista High School were: Raymond Frost, 6740; John Lacy, 5695; Nola Roy, 5575; Clara Schneider, 4325; Orville Wells, 3436; Alfred Loy, 3350: Clifford Wells, 3025; Leonllla Smith, 2395; Ray Ground, 2340; Ouy Peterson, 2105. Sanitarians In tropical countries are be rlnninff to uudrstund that ants uramonf the insects which transmit diseases. INSURANCE HELPS SAVE WIDOWS FROM PENURY Some Ideas on Saving. Witn Some Reasons Why the Man of Family Should Invest in Life Insurance, Offered. HAVE you ever thought of the idea of turning your wife over to an institution to be taken care of? Or of trying to secure a pension of some kind for her? tou propose to take care of, and support her yourself, do you? You don't want her seeking a pension from anyone you are quite able to provide her with all the income she needs, and you don't need any help from the state as long as you are sane and can do a man's work? And why should anyone ask you such a fool question? Well, it does seem foolish and yet just a moment! You are speaking of your wife: you say you are seeing to it that she needs no financial help from anyone but yourself. But how about your widow? Have you ever thought of her as your widow? Well, isn't it about time that you should? She may be a widow any day perhaps 20 or 40 j years hence, perhaps tomorrow. How I are you planning to care for her then? Are you going to let her turn to the I state and plead for a widow's pension to keep her from want? Thousands of widows all over the country are doing It. Fourteen states have passed laws establishing such funds during the past year. Is your wife, who is now look ing trustingly and proudly to you for her comfort and happiness, to be, some day. one of these widows receiving a state-awarded pension? - Does that idea come as a shock to you? Do you realize that the day she be comes a widow she also becomes bereft of your earning capacity? Salaries never find their way to the grave, t-o If you are not a capitalist and if your wife is dependent on your daily earn ings, those questions are not quite so foolish as they first seemed. How will you provide for your widow7 If you were not a man of means, there is only one way -by life insur ance: for your wife may be a widow tomorrow. Even If you are today possessed of large property you may not be a year hence, nor ten years from now. "Riches make themselves wings and fly away." The vast majority of men, however prosperous in their active years, ulti mately become poor. Life insurance is the only sure way of providing for one's widow. It is easier to make money than to save It or to invest it. You can easily name nine good earners to one good saver. Most men would come to their old age with a snug provlsion.for their declining years If they could save as well as they could earn. Every year it grows more difficult to save, not only on accouut of the in creasing cost of living and the con tinuous enlargement of our needs, but also because of a growing Impatience with simpie, modest, self-restrained liv ing. We are yielding more readily to the little allurements and temptations of life than was the habit ot our fore bears. But there is always some compen sation for every loss. Never before were there such incentives for saving. The modern savings Institutions, and the newly Instituted Government postal savings banks, and, best of all, the lite Insurance companies, provide the great est incentives to saving and the surest rewards for thrift ever invented by the mind of man. One may be a good saver, and still live bis last days in penury for the lack of knowing how to. Invest his earnings properly. Most business men lose neaviiy on investments made outside their busi ness. The average wage-earner loses a large share of his precious savings in various forms of wildcat and get- rich-quick investments. The percent age of loss suffered by those who have put their hard-earned money into standard, old-line Insurance companies Is almost negligible. No business man with miscellaneous Interests, no investor In stocks and bonds, no dealer In real estate, can show so small a percentage of losses as is entailed by those who put their money into high-grade life insurance. Here Is what life insurance does for the ordinary man: It compels htm to save on a scale that he himself has named after due deliberation. It Joins hissavings with others in a co-operative investment that is big enough to secure all advantages. It puts his savings Into. tne nanas oi those whose business it Is to know what he cannot know about Invest ments. . . It gives his earnings the safeguards provided by state laws affecting Insur ance companies. It leaves him free to give his whole time and thought to further earnings, saving him all vexation and anxiety Incident to the care of property. It takes Into consideration the un certainties of a man's earning power, and makes provision for such modlh- Only Company ".exclusively Oregon" Best for Oregonians Home Office, Corbett Building, Fifth and Morrison, Portland A. L. Mills, President. L. Samuel, General Manager. cations as conditions may require, mak ing sure that the Investor gets all that he pays for, no matter how far he may fall short of his original Intentions. And, best of all. over and beyond its merits as a means of accumulation, it plays the role of a fairy godfather to the dependents who find themselves suddenly cast upon their own resour ces through the unexpected and prema ture death of the one who provides. The easiest, safest, surest and most satisfactory way to save and keep on saving is to purchase from a tented, old-line, conservative Insurance com pany some form of life insurance suited to your circumstances. This Is the beat way to save, even though you have no one dependent on you and do not expect ever to have such dependents, and It la even better still for those who do have dependents. Here, are some reasons advanced as to why the man of family should have life insurance: First He believes it his duty to provide his family with the necessary comforts of life food, clothing, etc., while they need his protecting care. This the sensible, self-respecting man will do if he lives. Second He believes it his duty to carry tire insurance on his home and property a duty no one will question. Third Life insurance for the hus band, the breadwinner, guarantees an estate for old age, protection to and for his family, as Are insurance pro tects the home and business. Fourth Fire Insurance statistics show that the ratio of fire loss per annum is only 1 to 1000. Life insur ance records show the ratio of deaths to be 16 per 1000. Fifth The man who has insurance in a good, legal reserve company has not only protection for his family, but at the same time is adding to his estate an investment of more value than can be immediately available to supply family comforts atid necessities than he can give them In any other manner at the same cost. Sixth The limited payment life and endowment plans provide the best forms of policy for the Insured between the Ages of 18 and 43. They give the Insured an estate for full amount of policy from the beginning, and guaran tee cash and non-forfeiture values every year from the third year to the end of paying period. Seventh The guaranteed conditions, liberal provisions and benefits, with the increasing reserves, surplus and divi dends to policyholders make our poli cies a source of income as safe as a Government bond. OVERLOOK GOES AHEAD prosperous residence: district in albina advances. Improvement Clob Takes Active In terest In Movements to Aid Onrn and Adjoining Sections. Overlook is one of the prosperous residence districts in Albina. It has a most beautiful location, resting on the high bank above the Willamette River overlooking Portland. It has more than 60 attractive homes of the best class, many costing as high as 10,000. It was platted from the Ab rams tract. The streets have been im proved and provided with cement side walks. The Russell-Shaver car runs through Overlook. This line has its north terminus In Overlook. The 'Overlook Improvement Club Is one of the progressive clubs of that section. Frank Deuster is president and C. E. Steelsmith secretary. At present the club is working with other Peninsula clubs in the movement to have Patton avenue extended by way of Maryland avenue through Lower Al bina to a connection with the Broad way bridge. The City Engineer. Mr. Deuster reports, is having plans pre pared for this extension, and will have maps ready in a short time showing the route down the hill from Fremont street to Lower Albina avenue. Mr. Deuster points out that this route-will be of great benefit to the whole Peninsula from the fact that Patton avenue is 100 feet wide and extends across the Peninsula, intersecting all the Important boulevards and streets. When this boulevard has been carried down the steep hill on a three per cent grade, as proposed, it will provide Overlook with a more direct route to the Broadway bridge than it now has. It may result also in routing the St. Johns cars by "that new street. The Women's Improvement Club Is another Insurance Company C. S. Samuel, Assistant Manager. active Overlook factor which has a large membership. BCILDIXG ACTIVITY KV1DENT Property Along Base Ljne llond Be ing Improved Steadily. George W. McCoy, a pioneer real estate man of Portland, reports build ing activity on the Base Line road, east of Mount Tabor. He says that. 40 new houses will be under way there within a month. Nine houses are under con struction there now. These houses range in cost from $1200 to $2000. Last week Mr. McCoy reported the sale of nine lots in this district to a buyer who will build homes. , Mr, McCoy has owned property in that district for many years and still retains a number of parcels there. "There Is a building boom In prog-' regs there," he said. "This year at least 50 or more houses will be built in this neighborhood." The extension of the Mount Tabor carline into this territory has greatly helped Its development. Settlement is extending eastward along the Base Line road until the Russellvllle school- house and Grange Hall are within the settlement 2one, but still outside the city limits. If the Base Line road is paved, as proposed, it will probably result in making It a highway through district lined with, homes to the Twelve-Mile House. CAXXEIIV ADVICE IS SOIGHT ConiuilsHion to Pass on Proposed Kit- terprlbe Is Kuvored. CORVALLIS. Or.. March 14. (Spr-. cial.) The Corvallis Commercial Clul has been asked to wage a campaign in the Willamette Valley for the appoint ment of an advisory commission for the purpose of aiding communities con-, siderlng the opening of canneries. "Too many small towns," said George 11. Tinker, member of the local develop ment committee, "have the idea that because Eugene, Corvallis and a few other cities are operating canneries" successfully, they can do the same. That is not the case. We must see to it that where a cannery la started it gets th right kind of a start, because a can nery failure is an awful black eye to a community." It is the belief of those who have considered the proposal that a commis sion should be appointed by the Com mercial Clubs of the Valley to make an investigation for every community that proposes the erection of a can r.ary, with instructions to assist in every way possible if a cannery is con sidered feasible, but thut otherwise it should be discouraged. 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