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TTTE SUNDAY" OREGONI ANr " PORTL AND. JUNE 20. 1915.
ROAD AND
OTHER JOBS GIVEN
Construction Contracts of
Past Week Approximate
. More Than $1,500,000.
PAVING TO BEGIN AT ONCE
Addition to Marshall-Well Ware
bouse and Pilot Rock Junction.
, Terminal Are Also Awarded.
, '" Others Call for Bids.
" The outstanding event of the past
week in local construction circles was
the award by the County Commission
ers of about 66 miles of hard-surface
paving work, to be done on the Colum
bia Highway, the Sandy. Base
Foster. Canyon. Powell Valley and
Slavln roads, at a cost of approximate
ly $1 000.000. The successful bidders
were the Warren Construction Com
pany, the Boyajohn-Arnold Company
ind Hans Pederson. Montague-O'Reilly
Company. Pacific Bridge Company.
Clark-Henry Construction Company
and Oskar Hubar. The bulk of the
work was given the Warren Construc
tion Company and BituUthic was given
the preference in the choice of ma
terials, although concrete and brick on
a concrete base were given recognl-
t-Followins the award of the con
tracts Thursday Roadmaster Yeon and
the officers of the respective contract
ing firms announced that work would
begin Immediately and the prospect is
that all of the improvements will be
completed before the close of Fall. A
large force of men will be put to work
this week as a result of last week's
awards. ,
Many other Contracts Let.
Thomas Muir secured the contract
for the construction of the three-story
addition to be made to the Marshall
Wells Company's warehouse at Fif
teenth and Kearney streets at a cost
Of $50,0p0.
Twohy Brothers obtained the contract
for the construction of the terminals
to be erected at Pilot Rock Junction,
near Pendleton, by the O.-W. R. & N.
Company at a total cost of J400.000.
The Alameda Construction Company
secured the general contract for the
construction of the new school to rise
Immediately at Warrenton at a cost
Of $14,000.
The contract for the repairs to be
made to the Armory building at Tenth
and Couch streets has been awarded
to C. H. Cooper, who took out, in the
name of Multnomah County, a building
permit of $8000 denomination for the
received the greneral contract for the-
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at Ilwaco, Wash.
- Bids Asked for Several Big: Jobs.
F. A. Naramore, superintendent of
properties of the School Board, is re
ceiving bids for the construction of
the $100,000 Franklin High School that
is to rise at East Fifty-second and
Division streets, for which plans have
already been completed.
The city of Linnton Is receiving bids
for the construction of two extensions
of the Hillside drive that commences at
the head of Thurman street and ex
tends to a point near Linnton. The
estimated cost of the two extensions
Is $23,500.
Architects Tourtellotte & Hummel are
receiving bids for the erection of the
two-story hospital building to be
erected at Stanton and Commercial
streets for the Emanuel Lutheran Hos
pital Association at a cost of about
$18,000.
Potofrlce Bids Die Kext Month.
According to present arrangements
bids will be called for within the next
80 days for the construction of the
proposed $1,000,000 Portland Postoffice.
The plans will be completed by that
time, if the schedule holds true. Con
tractors from all parts of the country
are expected to bid for this job. ;
Code Change to Come l"p.
The City Council promises to vote
Wednesday on the proposed change to
the building code presented recently by
the Builder's Exchange. If the ordi
nance passes, as is likely, property
owners will be allowed to erect two
tory mill-constructed buildings within
the inner district.
MiOBDlenm I . Oppoted.
Property owners in in a vicinity of
East Fourteenth and Duke streets have
enetered a protest against the construc
tion of a proposed 1000 crypt mausole
um at that location and their protest
will be aired next Tuesday before the
City Council. Several hundred prop
erty owners, fearing that the proposed
structure might injure the value of
their holdings have the protest.
Two Jobs Go Ahead.
Architects Emil Schacht & Son are
completing plans for the erection of
the new dock and warehouse to be
built for Albers Brothers on the west
ide of the Willamette River, near the
Broadway bridge and construction will
be commenced immediately by the own
ers, who will use day labor. The esti
mated cost is $20,000.
The same firm is supervising plans
for the construction of a $10,000 resi
dence to be built at Astoria for C. W.
Houstan, a contractor of that city.
SOOO Residence Is Started.
Ipaac Hunt, a Portland attorney, last
week obtained a permit authorizing the
construction of a two-story frame resi
dence, to cost $8000. at 6410 Westover
road, in Westover Terraces. The plans
were drawn by -Earl A. Roberts and
John Hedstrom has the contract for the
work.
Church Temple Is Started.
Actual construction of the $40,000
Sunday School Temple, to be built ad
joining the main edifice of the First
Methodist Episcoal Church at Twelfth
and Taylor streets was commenced last
week, when J. A. Backstrand, the con
tractor, took out a permit for the foot
ings and walls of the building. The
plans were designed by Archihtects
Tourtellotte & Hummel.
Irvington Geta S400O Residence.
W. McLeod has commenced the erec
tion of a- two-story frame residence at
624 East Twenty-fourth street North
in the Irvington district. The building
permit covering tne work cites the
probable cost as $4000.
- fTOOO Building Br gun.
For the Holmes estate, of Astoria,
the L. R. Bailey Company has broken
ground at 755 Thurman street for the
erection of a one-story mill-constructed
Ftore building that will cost about
$7000.
Repairs M ill Cost 40O0.
The Lang-Jacobs Investment Com
pany took out a permit last week to
alter the two-story brick building lo
cated at the northeast corner of Sixth
end Alder streets, which was leased
recently to the Wonder Millinery Com
pany. The contract has been awarded
to A. W. Kutsche and will cost about
$4000, according to the plans drawn
by E. B. -McXaughton.
.O0,0OO Spent for Improvements.
Water mains and street Improve
ments have been made in the Mount
Scott district, between East Fifty-sec-ond
and East Seventy-fourth streets
and south from the Powell Valley road,
to the amount of more than $500,000
within the past two years. Water
mains have been extended over a much
larger area than is here Indicated, and
they have been carried through Lents
to the city limits and beyond Lents at
the Junction. Nearly all streets have
been improved between the Powell Val
ley road and the Foster road and nearly
all the others between the Foster road
and the Arleta schoolhouse. Little of
the old Woodmere water plant, pur
chased by the city, remains, as all the
pipe lines have been replaced with
larger Iron mains.
Permit Issued for Bis Dock.
A permit has been taken out by the
Star Sand Company from the St. Johns
Recorder for the erection of a sand
dock on the waterfront, between Rich
mond and Johns streets. t It will be
360 feet long by 150 deep. There will
be three roadways underneath to per
mit teams to go under the dock, so
that material can be dropped quickly
into the wagons. - Cost of this dock
will be about $35,000, and work will
be pushed forward as rapidly as pos
sible. It is . announced that arrangements
are being made for a cargo of coal,
to be brought from New Orleans by
a vessel for this dock, where she will
receive a return load of lumber. This
dock will be constructed to handle
sand, cement, coal and other material.
To Complete Machinery Hall.
The board of directors for the Multno
mah County Fair Association has con
tracted for lumber to be used In fin-
PORTLAND MEN RECEIVE CONTRACTS FOR $27,000 SCHOOL AT ILWACO, WASH.
' PERSPECTIVE OF BUILDING THAT WILL HAVE ASBESTOS ROOF AND FIRE-RESISTIVE INTERIOR.
Tourtellotte & Hummel, architects for the $27,000 school building to be erected immediately at Ilwaco,
Wash., last Thursday awarded the general contract for the work to Charles F. Kratz, of Portland, and the
plumbing and heating contract to Fifinegan Brothers, also of Portland. The bids were opened in the
presence of the Ilwaco Board of Education, J. A. Howerton, C. H. McKlnney and Mrs. .C. E. Kerlee.
The new building will be along classic lines and will cpntain nine rooms for the grades, three recita
tion rooms and supplementary quarters for the high school, an assembly room with a seating capacity of
350, with a stage and dressing-room at one end. The foundation will embrace a space 76 by 146 feet in
area. The roof will be of asbestos and the interior fire-resistive in character. The gymnasium and man
ual training room will be located in a separate building.
ishing the machinery hall on Its fair
grounds at Gresham from the Sandy
Lumber Company. This will be the
only building improvement made on
the grounds this year.l The directors
plan to set a day In July to come to
gether to do the work on machinery
hall without incurring expense.
Residence to Cost 920,000.
The Oregon Home Builders have
started the erection of a two-story res
idence on Bryce. avenue, between East
Thirtieth street and Regent drive, the
cost to be $20,000.
The Columbia Contract Company Is
having a one-story ordinary filling sta
tion built on East Water street, be
tween East Main and East Salmon
streets. Cost will be $700. A. W. Kurt
sche is the builder.
A. Pajunen Builds Home.
A. Pajunen is building a two-story
residence on East Thirty-ninth street,
between East Couch and East Davis
streets. Cost will be $5600. R. M.
Wade Company is repairing its ware
house on East First street and Haw
thorne avenue. Cost will be $300.
Joseph Street is building a residence
on Minnesota street, between Bryant
and Buffalo streets, that will cost
$1700 when completed.
Dwelling; to Cost $1300.
The Metropolitan Improvement & In
vestment Company will erect a one
story residence on East Sixty-eighth
street, between 'Fremont and Beech
streets. Cost "will be $1500. H. R. Kib
ler is the builder.
William- McLeod is having erected
a $4000 two-story residence on East
Twenty-fourth street, between Stanton
and Siskiyou streets. Mr. McLeod is
superintending the erection of this
building. .
George W. Martin is repairing a
building on East Forty-second street
and Sixty-fourth avenue. Cost to be
$200.
S2500 Residence Began.
T. B. Winshlp has started the erec
tion of a residence on East Fifty-second
street, between Sacramento and
Thompson streets, the cost to be $2500.
T. W. Thompson is repairing a dwell
ing on East Taylor street. between
East Twenty-second and East Twenty
third streets. Cost .will be $500.
The Hawthorne residence on East
Twelfth and Belmont streets Is being
repaired at a cost of $5000. It will be
entirely rebuilt under this contract.
T. R. Howitt's Home Finished.
The new home of T. R. Howitt. in
Gresham, which has been under con
struction for the past three months,
has been finished and will be occu
pied by the family this week. It Is a
California bungalow type and is one
of the most pretentious structures of
the sort erected In Gresham this year.
It was built on a concrete foundation.
The outside is pure white, with interior
finish In golden oak on natural fir.
The grounds comprise a quarter block.
Roy and Frank Gibbs and Claude
Stockton were the builders.
$20,000 BUILDING
FRANCES APARTMENTS, UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON EAST TWENTY-FIRST STREET.
Construction work Is advancing rapidly on the 20,0(Jb two-story brick Frances Apartment building at
East Twenty-first and Powell streets. The -building is being erected for Benjamin Amsterdam. The plans
were drawn by' Architect 'Leslie W. Murray and the contractor Is G. G. Deaver.
The ground floor of the Frances building will be divided into five stores, while the upstairs will contain
14 two- and three-room apartment suites and three offices. The basement embraces 7000 square feet.
Post and girder construction is being used in the building, stud partitions, solid brick walls with white
. brick facing and plate-glass, store fronts. It is estimated that the building will be completed in about a
month.
REALTY DEALS ARE
r.lANY ROT SMALL
Rose Festival Puts Quietus
on Large Trading, Busi
- ness Property Begging. .
NEW COMPANIES LOCATED
Demand for Leasehold Premises
. Reported Active and Transac
tion In Outside Divisions
Are Quite Numerous.
Aside from a multiplicity' of small
deals the local realty market was dull-
er last week than usual. Apparently
everyone was too busy recuperating
from the Rose Festival to figure on
large deals and those big transactions
that have been brewing for several
weeks were put over to another week
for settlement.
The general trend of the market all
Spring was for the purchase of resi
dence rather than inside business
property and the run of events as
Summer opens indicates that the same
symptoms will endure.
Not content with locating two new
Portland manufacturing Industries on
the East Side during the past few
months, the Multnomah Manufacturing
Company, which has been organized by
two Eastern capitalists, and a logan
berry Juice manufacturing plant in
stalled by F. A. Breck, a former East
erner, who became famous recently by
selling William Jennings Bryan an
order of Oregon loganberry Juice to be
used in lieu of his customary grape
Juice, Stanley S. Thompson, a Portland
realty dealer closed a large number of
leases last week.
9Tew Leases Reported.
Among them are the following:
274 Taylor street, storeroom leased
to H. X. Brown Company, for plumb
ing store, by Sol Bloom, owner.
148 Fifth street, leased to A. R.
Kubet, tor Model Shoe Repair store,
by Security Savings & Trust Company.
Large corner storeroom in the brick
building at Union avenue and Davis
street, leased to the Multnomah Man
ufacturing Company, manufacturers
of women's garments, by G. W. Jack
son, Jr., owner.
73 North Sixth street, leased to
William F. Sauer, for a barber shop,
by the Harrington Estate, owners.
327 Davis street, leased to the 'Ad
vance Sign Company, for electric sign
works, by the Harrington Estate,
owners.
Apartment Boildlng Transferred.
An important deal was closed when
the Base Line Land Company took title
to the Stanfield Apartments. Front and
Porter streets, at a consideration of
$35,000. The grounds will be beauti
fied and extensive repairs made at
once. The Stout Investment Company
handled the deal.
Suburban Acres Sold.
The Smith-Wagoner Company has
consummated a deal wherein Hans
Neilseni took title to ten acres In their
subdivision of Multnomah Acres, with
a monetary consideration of $4500.
This place is highly improved, both in
buildings and products of the soil. Mr.
Neilsen purchased for a permanent
residence.
Irvington Hlme Is Purchased.
T. B. Neuhausen has purchased the
east half of lots 11 and 12 In block 93,
Irvington, from Emma A. Clements,
the consideration being $6500. This
property is located on East Tenth and
Thompson streets. The Western Bond
and Mortgage Company has trans
ferred lot 10 In- block 15, Loveleigh, to
Adelina Hllgers ' for $650. Eugene
Bongen has - sold lot 5 in block 86,
CONTAINS APARTMENTS, STORES
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Sellwood. to W. Proctor for $1500.
William M. Killingsworth transferred
lot 14 in block 23, Walnut Park, to
May Copeland, consideration being
nominal. John Northrop sold to John
Stewart lot 10 in block 105, Laurel
hurst, the consideration being $2500.
, Laurelhurst Sale Reported.
' W. N. Everett last week sold an at
tractive bungalow located In the west
side of Royal Court, between East
(Jlisan street and Buena Vista avenue.J
Laureinurst, to rrea JJay, claim agent
for the Southern Pacific Railway, for
$6800. Including last peek's transac
tion, Mr. Everett has sold 12 houses
that he built in that addition.
Mornlngside Lot Brings 370.
T. G. Anderson transferred lot -9 in
block 3, Morningside Addition, Mount
Tabor, to che Bankers" Investment Com
pany for $3700. W. W. McCully took
title to lot 9 In block 2, Goodwood, from
Roscoe Morrill. The price named was
$3500. Claud Adams purchased lot 10
In block 12, Hawthorne's First Addi
tion, from Halfden Pereliua for $1200.
3. H. Fenner Bays Lot.
J. H. Fenner purchased lot 2 in block
4, Gleneyrie, from T. M. Hurlburt, the
price paid being $1554. Frank' W. Lam
bert transferred lot 18 in block-5. Glen
Harbor, to Pearl Lambert, the price
being $3000.- The Joseph A. Strow
bridge Estate Company transferred
lots 36, 37, 38 and 39 in block 14, Errol
Heights, to Joseph Seko, the consid
eration being $1100. P. P. Dabney
tranferred lots 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
In block 2, Goodsell Addition, consider-
ation nominal. The value of the prop
erty is about $10,000.
Ladd's Addition Lot Brings 91SOO.
Minnie M. Goddard purchased lot 23
In block 21. Ladd's Addition, from the
Ladd Estate Company, the considera
tion named in the deed being $1800. In
the Burrage tract, on the Peninsula, H.
E. Ryder purchased lot 13 in block 19
from H. J. Thompson for $650. In the
same tract -Elmer L. Perry purchased
lot 16 in block 29 from Niels P. Chris
tianson for $650. The 1905 Real Es
tate Company sold lot 7 in block "O,"
East St. Johns, to Olof Wiberg. the
consideration named in the deed being
$700.
Mount Scott Property Sold for $1850.
Louise Voigt purchased a portion of
lot 1 in block 5. Mount Scott, from
Charles E. Johnson. Price paid was
$1850. A house went with this sale.
The Wellington Investment Company
transferred lots 13, 14, 15 and 16 in
block 22, Wellington, to Marguerite
M. Streek. the consideration being
$1425. Mortie LeFevre. purchased lot
15 in block 27, Fairport, from Effie
Sperry, the price named being $1500,
with a house. Theckla Bright sold lot
5 in block 8, Clemson Addition, to Ella
White for $1200.
Margaret XL Adams Buys Home.
Margaret H. Adams purchased a
house and lot in Groveland Park from
G. E. Weller. The price was $3000.
The property is described .as lot 15 in
block 6, Groveland Park. Lots 23 and 24
In block 3. Point View, were purchased
by Mr. Thringer from Mary Tryon, the
consideration being $1050. Isabella
C. Garrison transferred lot 14 in block
4, Scof fin's Addition, to Thomas, Cei
ley for $1500.
John W. lVorthcraft Buys Lot.
John W. Northcraft purchased lot
15 In block 2, North Irvington, from T.
M. Hurlburt, the price being $3332, a
Sheriff's deed being secured. The Well
ington Investment Company purchased
lot 40 in block 7. Wellington, . to Alex
Lakso, for $500. The Realty Associates
of Portland, "Or., sold lot 14 in block
88, Irvington, to Emily Constance Bax
ter for $1350. .
Sales Made In Laurelhurst.
The Laurelhurst Company trans
ferred lot 1 in block 111, Laurelhurst,
to Mrs. Minnie Pajunen for $1600. Al
bert Burke purchased lot 11 in block 7
for $1600. The Laurelhurst Company
transferred lot 25 in block 26 to Robert
H. Williams for $1550.
A. Johnson Buys in Gleneyrie.
A. Johnson has purchased lot 1 in
block 4, in Gleneyrie Addition, from T.
M. Hurlburt, the consideration named
in the deed being $1844. Leon Swett
transferred lot 15 in block "A," Duni
way's Subdivision of Riverside Addi
tion, to-Fritze Bitte for $1700. Wal
lace McCamant took title to lot 15 in
block 17, In Terrace Park, from J. W.
Conway, consideration nominal. C. C.
Bendtsen purchased lot 17 In block 7,
Ivanhoe, from Paul Gall, consideration
$1000.
AND OFFICES.
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'ROAD PLANS MADE
City Is to Build Connections
With Interstate Bridge.
PROJECT TO COST $60,000
Viaduct 2 33 Feet Long to Be Con
structed and Dirt Fill 1160
Feet Long for Street Exten
sion Is to Be Made.
Plans have been- filed by tho ' mu
nicipal department of public works
for the construction of a 233-foot via
duct and the putting in of a dirt fill
1160 feet long from Bryant sjreet to
Columbia Slough roal. along what .will
be Union avenue. The project is the
city's plan for connecting up with the
interstate bridge between the present
end of Union avenue and the city limits,
where the bridge approach will end, as
far as the county is concerned. The
project Involves an expenditure of $60,
000. Flans were prepared by Municipal
Engineer Holmes.
The Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company donated to the city a strip of
land 30 feet wide along its tracks from
Bryant street to Columbia Slough.
Property owners then donated -5 feet
on each side of the Btreetcar company's
donation, giving the street & total width
of 80 feet. Proceedings for the exten
sion have been completed.
The project now coming to a head in
volves the improvement of the street
as extended. It involves the putting in
of a dirt fill from near Lombard street
to the right of way of the O.-W. R. & N.
Company, the construction of a viaduct
over the O.-W. R. & N. tracks and the
building of a fill from the viaduct on.
north to the city limits at Columbia
Slough road. The fill from Lombard
street to the railroad viaduct will be
476 feet in length and from the viaduct
to the city limits will be 684 feet. About
30.000 yards of material will be re
quired. This will cost about $6000.
The viaduct will be of concrete and
steel and will be 233 feet long. It will
pass 22 feet above the tracks of the
O.-W. R. & N. It will be of the type
constructed over Sullivan's Gulch at one
or two -points. The viaduct will cost
about $32,000.
From' the north end of the viaduct
there will be a fill to the city limits.
This will run down at a grade of 3.85
per cent to Columbia Slough road. A
two-foot fill will be required at the
Slough road. The approach to the
Interstate bridge will be constructed by
the -county up to the Columbia Slough
rqad to connect with the city's street
extension.
When the fill is completed work will
be started on pavement. It is expected
It will cost about $21,000 to pave the
roadway its full distance. The. cost of
this will be borne by the abutting prop
erty owners. The cost of the fill and
the viaduct will be assessed against
property In a large district which will
be benefited by the improvement.
LARGE FARM IS BOUGHT
E. A. THURSTON RANCH NEAR INDE
PENDENCE BRINGS :tO.OOO.
Mountain Valley Stock Farm in Morrow
County Sold for $120,000 Wallowa .
Sale Is Closed.
One of the largest ranch sales in
Oregon last week involved the transfer
of the 350-acre E. A. Thurston property,
located three-quarters of a mile north
of Wells Station, in the Independence
country, to O. T. Murphy for a re
ported consideration of $30,000. Mr.
Murphy will establish hla permanent
residence on the place immediately,
while . Mr. Thurston plans building a
new home near Portland.
S10,000 Farm Sale Reported. ,
The report comes from Heppner that
J. C. Stapleton, who recently purchased
the Mountain Valley stock farm from
W. O. Minor has sold his holdings to
A. A. Steed, who will remove his family
of six from Oregon City to take up
his residence on the Morrow Countv
ranch. The price paid for the place
was $20,ooo. -
Wallowa County Farm Sold.
Elza Makin has sold his 320-acre
ranch, located eight miles northeast of
Joseph, and his residence property in
Joseph to H. B. Moody, of Asotin,
Wash., for a total consideration of $18.
400. Mr. Makin will move to Asotin
next Spring, having received residence
property there and a large livery ban.
as part payment for the ranch. Hi
will probably convert the barn into a
garage.
Portlander Buys Near Sutberlln.
William A. Adams, of Portland, has
paid Edward McCallum for the latter's
423-acre place, located six miles east
of Sutherlin, $14,800. The deal was
closed through the St, John Land Com
pany, of Sutherlin. .It is announced
that Mr. Adams plans making extensive
improvements to the property.
FARM OIVEX FOR "APARTJ1EXTS
i
Davenport Building Traded at Val
uation of $40,000.
' DAFASCUS, Or., June 19 The larg
estdeal .made in this section recently
was. closed when John Semler traded
his 100-acre farm near - here to Mrs.
Ada Parvin for the Davenport Apart
ments, at Fourteenth and Jefferson
streets, Portland, at a valuation of
$40,000. The farm is known as the old
Tong place, which Is a portion of the
original Cook donation land claim, and
la one of the finest farms in the coun
try. The Davenport apartment-house
consfsts of 26 apartments and Is mod
ern .in every respect, having been
built only live years ago.
The parties in the. transaction are
taking possession of the newly ac
quired estates this week. Mr. Semler
and family will reside in Mllwaukle
indefinitely.
Albany Arcliitect Gets Job.
Tho City Council of Tillamook last
week selected tho drawing of Charles
Burgrass, an Albany architect, as the
best one submitted for the construction
of the proposed City Hall to be erected
at Tillamook. Several 1 Portland archi
tects were entered in the competition.
Bonds in the sum of $30,000 were re
cently voted for the new structure, but
It is said the building will cost only
about $20,000. The building will be
two stories, of brick and mill construc
tion, with space for the various city
offices, the fire department and the
City Jail.
Furniture Contract Is Let.
Directors of the Gresham Union High
School last week let the furniture con
tract to R. R. Carlson, his bid being the
lowest on competition with two Chi
cago firms. This equipment Includes
furniture for all the rooms, seats,
desks, chairs and tables. All these will
be supplied at once. The schoolhouse
will be completed by July 1. with the
gymnasium, and will be occupied in
September.
"WAGES FOR MOTHERS"
HUBBARD'S LAST WISH
Lusitania Victim Makes Plea for Women of America, Advising Husbands
to Provide Against Day When "Misfortune "May Overtake You.
BT LIFE INSURANCE EDITOR.
CATE has finished the last chapter
I in Elbert -Hubbard's essay on
"Silence." That is unless he Is able
to communicate from the great beyond.
Previous to his excursion on the Ill
fated Lusitania, however, he contributed
an essay on "Wages for Mothers," pub
lished in the New Tork American, which
is worthy of sincere consideration.
In excerpting from the noted writer's
essay on this subject we find emphasis
on the fact that "The most beautiful
word. in our language is home. Also,
the home should always be a beautiful
place.
"The mother is the center of the
home. In the primitive home the
mother also performed the function of
church, school and government. She
made laws which governed her children.
She was their teacher of manual train
ing, of world wisdom, ethics and morals
"Among men might was right. But
the mother had a finer sense of Justice,
awakened through her love for her
babe. She defended the weak against
the strong1.
"The modern human " being wants
money in his pocket, money in his hand,
money in the bank, money to give him
independence, money that he may have
exercise for his will and brain. And all
people who "labor in the great work for
civilization receive money.
. "Allr except mothers.
"As society is now organized a woman
loses her economic independence when
she gives her services for 23 or 30 years
to the bearing and care of citizens for
the state-
"If the father of her children is a
good earner, if he is generously in
clined, if he is unusually wise and sees
how important is his wife's business.
If misfortune does not overtake him.
then his wife may have sufficient
means to develop and give to the state 1
REALTY MEN ARE ACTIVE
FOUR. IN ATTENDANCE AT NATION
AL CONVENTION IN LOS ANGELES.
Committees Busy Planning for Enter
tainment of Delegates Return
ing From Meeting.
With four -members of the Portland
Realty Board present at the eighth an
nual convention of the National Asso
ciation of Real Estate Exchanges,
which opens at Los Angeles tomorrow
for a four days' session, plans are be
ing perfected by local committees for
the entertainment of delegates and
their families who will pass through
Portland on their way home.
The chairmen of the reception com
mittees met at the office of F. E. Tay
lor Monday to outline the detailed
plans. L. W. Cronan's committee will
look- after the Minneapolis special
party of 100, H. P. Palmer's committee
after the Chicago delegation of 100, Dr.
Henry Waldo Coe's after the Detroit
party of 50 and Earl A. Clark's com
mittee will look after the entertain
ment of the Boston and other parties.
Each committee consists of 22 Realty
Board members.
The visitors will be entertained in
a true Portland spirit. Special auto
mobile trips will be made to all points
of Interest in Portland and the sur
rounding country, a dinner will be
given at one of the prominent hotels
and all visitors will be presented with
gorgeous bouquets of Portland's finest
roses and rhododendrons.
The Portland delegation at the Los
Angeles convention headquarters Is
made up of President Taylor, Paul A.
Cowgill, secretary of the Portland
board ; J. D. Lee and Dean Vincent. Mr.
Vincent ' is a candidate for the presi
dency 'of the National association.
ILWACO HAS BUILDING BOOM
Auditorium, Garages, Movie Theater
and Other Business Houses.
ILWACO, June 19. (Special.) Il
waco has enjoyed a small-sized build
ing boom this Winter, there having
been no less than nine new business
buildings erected, besides several alter
ations and additions to existing struc
tures. The list will be augmented by
several more in the near future, the
principal one of which will be a new
public school building to cost approxi
mately $25,000.
This list of new buildings marks a
high-water record for Ilwaco. old
timers declaring the number of the
new buildings erected during the past
six months to be more than has been
erected for many previous years. The
largest of the new structures put up
so far Is the two-story auditorium and
dancehall erected by the Finnish So
cialist Work Temple Association on
Lake street. It is a frame structure 40
feet wide by 90 feet long. Other new
buildings are: Two garages, a modern
moving picture theater, a real estate
office, a photograph gallery, two pool
halls and a large warehouse and office
building for the local mill and lumber
company.
The work in the building line anil the
steady work which the building of the
north Jetty has furnished, together with
the vast amount of land clearing which
the introduction of cranberry culture
has caused to be done, has made Il
waco a prosperous community and the
business interests here are in accord
with the National Administration in de
claring that the industrial depression
Is purely psychological.
Fiske Tires to Have New Home.
Emil Schacht & Son, Portland archi
tects, last week awarded W. C. Arthur
the general contract for the erection of
the one-story S0x65-foot brick building
BUILDERS' SUPPLIES and
HOME SUCCESTIONS
Rector System
A Perfect House-Heating System
Economical to Operate
Portland Gas and Coke Co.
J.C ENGLISH CO.
.i - TTLITlXT
LIGHTING
FIXTURES
C I rvl n and t'nion Avenue.
Factory to Connumer.
Phones K l'.45. C 12IH1.
Phone Main 160S.
THE
Morgan Wallpaper Co.
WALLPAPER
213 Second Street, Near Salmon Street.
ISpf
a family and live happily while doing
so.
"But these ifs make so tremendous
a load of conditions that thinking
women pause and think carefully be
fore they say 'yes.
"If we consider the business of the
world as a unit, it woultl cost no more
to give wages to mothers than It costs
us now to maintain the Joo lot' that
the state has to care for.
"And then we might be able to elim
inate the army of unemployable, now
ranged on park benches, in bread
lines, penitentiaries, hospitals, insane
asylums, houses of correction, homes
for the imbeciles or blind.
"Would not a mother have greater
incentive for mental activity? Would
not even an average mother carry re
sponsibility as did Roman women who
were conscious that they were the
greatest benefactors of the state?
"Would not the home bo a more
beautiful place if mothers had the
power and stimulus that men have, of
wages for their work?"
Right here it may be quite apropos
to supplement Mr. Hubbard's human ap
peal with an answer. No thinking man
will deny that it is his duty to supply
the mother of his children with suf
ficient funds for the necessities of life.
Yet those who fall in this duty are
many. The selfish men who come home
on Saturday nights with their week's
wages depleted doubtless would surpass
the British army in numbers. Thus tho
seeds of dependency and delinquency
are sown, and the harvest is deplorable.
But there Is even a greater danger
which confronts the mothers of men.
What if misfortune should overtake tho
bread winner, as Mr. Hubbard has
asked? What If the provider bo taken
away unexpectedly? Here Is where Mr. ,
Hubbard's proposal of wages for moth
ers will find its proper place. And there
is but one great human agency only
one which can serve as humanity's
paymaster life insurance.
that W. H. Wallace has agreed to build
on the southeast corner of Couch street
and Broadway for the FIske Tiro Com
pany. FRUIT WAREHOUSE rLAJTNED
Growers" Exchange of Hood River
Leases Railroad Frontage.
HOOD RIVER. Or., June 19 (Spe
cial.) The Fruit Growers Exchange,
the local affiliation of tne Northwest
ern Fruit Exchange. has leased 150
feet of frontage on- the Mount Hood
Railway yards here and is making final
preparations for the erection of a three
story cold storage warehouse and re
ceiving station. The first story of the
structure, which will have a capacity
of approximately 75,000 boxes, will be
built of concrete and hollow tile.
J. E. Ferguson, formerly an architect
at Astoria, who was recently elected to
the board of directors of the exchange,
will superintend the construction of
the building.
33150 Is Sale Price.
Goddard & Wiedrick sold for - Miss
Bertha B. McCarthy the premises at
416 Prescott street to William Vteidt for
$3150. The property consistf- of a seven-room
dwelling, with lot ICOxlOO. cor
ner of Prescott and East Sixth streets.
Mr. Reidt intends to make additional
improvements.
LOG.
Wanted
Large corporation, doing , a
wholesale business, wants' a
new building erected; will
lease for 5 to 10 years; must
have R. R. switch unless
very centrally located. Ad
dress Manager, P. 0. Box
253, Portland. -
Directory of Prominent
Life Insurance Agencies
Members of Life Underwriter
Association of Oregon
Win. Goldman, Manager.
MANHATTAN LIFlfi.
Oregonian fildg.
H. G. Colton, Manager,
MA3SACHCSETTS MUTUAL LLS,
Chamber of Commerce Bldg.
K L. Harmon, Manager,
PENM HC1UAL Llim.
Noritiwesttrn Dank .Blag.
Horace Mecklera, Manager.
NEW ENGLAiS'O MUTUAL LIVE.
Norlhweatern Bank Bldg.
Alma O. Kit i. Manager,
MUTUAL Lili'E INSUKANCB CO. OS" H T.
Corbett Bids.
13. M. Slocum, Mgr.
RELIANCE LIKE INS. CO.. Pittsburg. Fa.
208 Morgan bidg., Portland, Or.
S. P. Lockwood, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
COLUMBIA LIFE & TRUST CO..
Spalding Bldg.
Pellls-GioBHmaycr Co., General Agents,
THE TRAVKLERS' INS. CO..
808-310 Wilcox Bldg.
John Pauer, Manager.
PKUDENTIAL 1N&. CO. OK AMEBICA.
60'J Northwestern Bank Bldg.
E. W. Amesbury, Manager,
NORTHWESTERN MTJTUTL LIKE INS. CO,
Northwestern Bank Bldg.
Judd Lowrey, Manager,
AMERICAN CENTRAL LIKE IKS CO.
503 Dekura Bldg.
Western Oregon Agency,
COLUMBIA LIFE & TRUST CO.
StlTz It- Bltsa. Gen. Agtg.. SOS Er'd'ng Bldg.
SUPERIOR SERVICE
BEST QUALITY
M. L. KLINE
Wholesaler, Faaltleaa Plumbing: nna
Heatins Material. .
S4-SS-S7-8B FKOiM STRtSKT
There Is a Good Paint House
in Portland
TIMMS, CRESS & CO
184 Second Street
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