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TLTE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, APRIL 9, 1916. BUILDING PROJECT FINALLY iff S E Down-Town Block to Be lm proved With Structure to Cost About $32,00Q. $26,000 HOSPITAL PLANNED foitland Powder Johns Architects Get North School Contract St. Mill Plans Ready. Astoria Job Landed. The tringular-shaped block bounded ly Fifth. Sixth, Ankeny and Pino streets, which is owned by Percy Blyth and Mrs. Lewis Russell, is to be lm proved with a two-story and basement concrete and brick building, according to an announcement made last week. Architect Emil Schacht has been commissioned to 1draw the plans and specifications for a building that is to cost probably $32,000. The structure is to have a frontage of 165 feet on Ankeny street, 150 feet on Pine street, and 48 feet on Sixth street. A small portion of tbe block not owned by Mr. Blyth and Mrs. Russell will not be in volved In the improvement. The BoyaJohn - Arnold Company, which has been awarded the construc tion contract, commenced last week tearing down the billboards that have Xenced the property for several years, and it is understood buiding operations will be commenced immediately. No announcement has yet been made as to what tenants will occupy the building, but it is known that several automobile and accessory firms have leases under consideration. On three previous occasions plans were announced for the improvement of this property. Once a large building was to be erected for the use of the Chamber of Commerce and offices, while about a year ago a store build ing was planned. Hospital Bulldlns; Ordered. Dr. Noble "Wiley Jones has com missioned Jacob Dautoff to draw plans lor a two-story and basement hospital building on Marshall and Lovejoy etreets. near Nineteenth street, at an approximate cost of $26,000. The pro posed building is to cover 57 by 100 Xeet of ground, and will provide 3? patients' rooms. In addition to a mod ern gymnasium, masseur rooms and the various compartments pertinent to a hospital. Bids are now being taken or the work and construction will be started, it is said, as soon as the sub contracts are let. Portland Architects Selected. The Portland firm of Tourtellotte & Hummel have been selected as archi tects for the proposed school building to bo built at North Towdcr. Bonds in the sum of $25,000 were voted recently lor the purpose of constructing the building and the School Board has re quested the plans prepared as hurriedly e-s possible. Bank Plans to Be Ready Soon. The plans for the proposed United Etates National Bank building to be erected on the northwest corner of Sixth and Stark streets are progress ing in the offices of A. E. Doyle, the architect, and it is Bald they will be ready for final approval In the near future. The present tenants of the property have leases that extend to July 1, when -It is expected that they will vacate to make way for the Wreckers. Tlie entire lower floor of the build ing is to be given over to the bank, and it is understood that two additional floors will provide some 60 office rooms. The exterior is to be of re inforced concrete with terra cotta facing, and six large terra cotta pil lars on both street fronts. Architect Thompson Gets Joba. Lewis Irvine Thompson, a Portland architect, has completed plans for a two-story brick and mill warehouse, 60 by 130 feet in .foundation area, on the property of the Portland Woolen Mills at St. Johns. The interior is to be of elow burning mill construction supple mented by automatic sprinklers. The probable cost is given as $15,000. Mr. Thompson is also drawing plans for a large colonial residence to be erected for George C. Vinton, on Me linda Heights, across the street from the beautiful A. II. Maegly home. The Vinton residence will probably cost About $8000. 310.OO0 Church Is Planned. Jaceoberger & Smith are drawing plans for a two-story brick building at Maryland avenue and Failing street for the use of St. Stanislaus B. M. Church, at a cost of about $10,000. The second floor Is to be provided with a lodge room, a billiard-room and a dancing floor. Low Bid tor School la fS2,f01. The lowest bid submitted for the construction of the proposed east wing of the Franklin High School building at East Fifty-third and Division streets was entered last week by Muir & Mc Clelland, who figured $82,991. An ap propriation of $120,010 has been made to finance the erection of the entire uildlng. ' C A. Doke Gets Broadway Job. D. A. Conley, owner of the south wast corner of Couch street and Broad way, where a new building is about to be erected for the occupancy of the automobile accessory firm of Chanslor z Lyon, has directed C. A. Duke to handle the plans. The old frame build ings have already been razed to the e-round and it is hoped the new struc ture can be completed by June 1. The entire building is to cost between $12, 000 to $15,000. 51O,(M0 BaUdlnK Planned. X B. Clarke, a Portland architect. Is drawing plans for the erection of a two-story store and hall building on a TTnIon avenue site not yet announced. The building Is to cover land 48 by 100 feet In area, and will be of brick and tile construction. The probable cost is announced as $10,000. Portland Firm Getn Astoria Job. The officers of the Methodist Church nt Astoria have selected Architects "VVhitehouse & Fouilhoux to draw plans for their proposed new building. The exterior is to be of reinforced con crete with pressed brick face. The building is to cost about $22,000. The same architects are preparing plan. for a large residence to be built on. Cedar Hill for Julius Lippitt at a cost of about $11,000. Bids 'Will Clone fit Saturday. A. C. Going will receive bids until next Saturday night for the erection "f the building he proposes to erect st Marshfield on ground 50 by 145 feet in area. riYK SALES AND TRADES MADE Associated Investment Company Has Active Week. O. V. Bradley, of the Associated In vestment Company, reports the follow ing tale and trades: The furnishings of the Buck and liartford apartments, at Twenty-firt a n4 GUean itieeu, belonging to W. T. HAP Hoffmire, were traded to D. M. John, of Emmett, Idaho, for a 240-acre stock farm In Bear Lake County. Idaho. The modern eight-room house at E309 Forty-fifth avenue was traded to L. E. Wilcox for 60 acres improved farm land near Caldwell, Idaho. Lot 10, block 1, Hall's Addition, was sold to J. Jester, Jr. Eighty acres near Caldwell, Idaho, were eold to W. E. Chambers. The five-room cottage at 254 East Forty-third street was sold to B. B. BrumwelL nAKTMAX & THOMPSON' BUSY Itealty Sales in March Largest Ln Many Months. John H. Hartog, of Hartman & Thompson, reports that the month just ended has been, as regards the total number of sales, the biggest since he took charge of the firm's realty de partment, two years and a half ago. Besides tho long list of sales recent ly reported in these columns, the. fol lowing were negotiated during the last few days of March: A corner lot at East Fifty-third and Siskiyou streets to A. J. Brugger, ad joining the lot sold to this same build er a few days ago. Mr. Brugger will at once commence the erection of two modern houses, costing about $3500 each. They also sold Mr. Brugger a view lot on Wisteria avenue at the head of East Fifty-first streeet. The firm has sold the fine residence occupied by and belonging to Seward Rasmussen, located in Rossmere on East Thirty-ninth, to Dr. F. E. Schnei der, who has just returned from a six NEWCOMER 1 ?4 TR SEMI-JAPANESE BUNGALOW PURCHASED BY CHARLES CRAMM. Charles Gramm, who came to Portland recently from San Angelo, Tex., to manage the Interests of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company in Oregon, has Just purchased from Paul C. Murphy, sales agent of the Laurelhurst Company, an attractive seven-room semi-Japanese bungalow on a double corner at East Forty-first and East Ash . streets, Laurelhurst. Before locating in Portland Mr. Gramm thoroughly investigated all of the big cities In the Northwest and became convinced that Portland offers the best opportunities for life insurance business. By an odd coincidence, the new Gramm bungalow is located directly across the street from the home recently erected for J. L. Ewayne, a Texas capitalist, who also investigated all cities of tho Northwest before locating in Portland. months' tour through the East. The doctor and Mrs. Schneider, together with the family of Dr. Parker, his son-in-law, are now taking possession of their new home. Mr. Rasmussen ex pects to build a residence for himself in Rose City Park. To E. A. Black the firm sold a half- acre tract, known as lot A In block 13, with a small house on it. located in Parkrose, Mr. Black and family moved This lot is in a prominent location. diagonally across from the church. The McMinn Building Company bought lot 6 In block 36 in Beaumont, on East Forty-third street near Knott, on which Mr. McMinn has already be gun the construction of an unusually attractive six-room bungalow. Roosevelt Once Asked Insur ance Man Home. Letter of Abiuff Sent to ex-President ResultM lit AnnwfP Requesting "Life Man" Personally to Call on Teddy," but Sequel Not Yet Known. BY LIFE INSURANCE EDITOR. ACCORDING to a story originating in Chicago, Theodore Roosevelt recently received at his home at Oyster Bay a letter filled with abU3e and a check for J15. Both were from a life insurance agent. According to the letter the check was "for the payment of your time in reading the letter tell ing you your right name." The Colonel's secretary waa in a quandary and asked what reply should be sent, if any. . , "Send the check back," aald Roose velt, "tell him to sell himself a life in surance policy and come to see me per sonally." It is not known as yet whether or not the life Insurance agent accepted the invitation, but if the agent is fa miliar with the Colonel's views on pre-" paredness, there is just one safe bet. Theodore Roosevelt is not opposed to life insurance as an institution. . One of the large life insurance companies has for some time been circulating lit erature in which T. R. is quoted as say ing "Life Insurance increases the sta bility of the business world, raises Its moral tone and puts a premium upon those habits of thrift and saving which are so essential to the welfare of the people as a body." While the Colonel Is evidently not antagonistlo toward life insurance, he probably was justly Incensed at a scurrilous communication from a disgruntled agent who had failed to secure an interview with him. The agent was evidently one of the old type of life Insurance solicitors, which, happily, are nowadays seldom to be found. So firmly established is life Insurance among the people of the United States that it is necessary to go back 20 or 25 years to find the prototype of the agent who wrote to Mr. Roosevelt. The late Elbert Hubbard once said: "I remem ber that 20 years ago the sad. the seedy, shiny individual that used to come to see me with a battered hat was the life Insurance man. And I would eay 'For God's sake, why did you let that man In here?" and someone would aay, 'I don't want any policy, but here's 60 cents. Climb!' This man was a part of the spirit of the hour. We have elimi nated him now, thrown him out. He Is iff luvla." The great majority of agents today are men of fine breeding, education and culture. Nearly all the large colleges and universities have established courses in life Insurance, which is now regarded as one of the professions." The agents themselves have an or ganization called the National Associa tion of Life Underwriters, which is composed of local associations in all the large cities of the United States. Its present membership is approxi mately 7000 and its members have pledged themselves to conduct their business on an ethical standard which is really unique in the business world. Conditions today are as far remote from conditions 20 years ago as are the poles. By means of the life underwrit ers' associations laws have been enact ed which have driven from the profes sion the old type of agent, who Imag ined he could say anything to a pros pect and get away with it. The life underwriters' associations have effec tively put the lid upon the unscrupulous grafter, who In years gone by masquer aded as a legitimate Jifa insurance asenU w I AUDITORIUM IS UNIT MAGNET 0FT0UB1ST Adequate Place to Meet Is Declared Final Essential to Convention City. POSSIBILITIES POINTED OUT Coliseums. Prove of Injmeasurable Value to Eastern. Cities Port land's List of Attractions for Visitors Grows. -' Completion this year of Portland's $600,000 public Auditorium will fulfill the list of essentials necessary for making Portland a tourist and con vention city. Considered of first im portance are natural scenery and lm- FROM TEXAS BUYS LAURELHURST provements to attract the attention of the people who travel... Portland has this in the Columbia River Highway and the other scenic at tractions in and near the city. Of next Importance is a meeting place for large conventions. Portland has no" such place at present and therefore, is handi capped in the fights for convtions. An auditorium has many ues in ad dition to being merely a convention hall. It furnishes a place for large theatrical productions, entertainments. concerts, public dances, mass meetings, exhibit places for product shows and many other forms of amusement and business. The need of such a place is felt In all large cities and has been met In many of them with such buildings as Portland is now erecting. Coliseum Held Big; Asset. The Coliseum has been considered one of Chicago's big assets. It has helped establish that city as a political convention mecca. Chicago is followed closely by St. Louis, because of its mammoth meeting house, where thou sands can gather under one roof. The same is partly true of Kansas City and Denver, each of which has Issued bonds and built permanent audi toriums to attract conventions. Their success Is said to have been measur ably aa great as that of Chicago and St. Louis. With a magnificent auditorium, Port land will be in position to fight on equal ground with other cities for some of the conventions, even to one of the National political gatherings. In each of the cities mentioned there Is a regularly organized convention league or body whose business is to watch ahead for big gatherings -and figure out the chance of getting them. They make a systematic campaign for It through their delegates, augmented by special home committees. Combination Hall Planned. Portland's big meeting house is de signed along the same special lines as the ones in Denver, St. Paul, Milwaukee and Houston, the plan being for a com bination of assembly hall and theater. When occasion demands, the whole house may be thrown into one big audi torium. It may be a rolitical conven tion, a horse show, a Winter circus, an automobile show or exposition or what not. The Auditorium may ba used in open ensemble for the main convention pur poses, and by shifting doors be con verted into a smaller auditorium or theater in cam of necessity or con venience. The arrangement of the bouse and the mechanical scheme pro vided for may be suited to the needs of the particular conventions to be housed. For years Denver has used Its big auditorium for Winter concerts. That city hires a concert band the year around. Innls has been there for sev eral seasons. Some $30,000 a year is set aside for music. During the Sum- TWO-STORY SCHOOL O-' we- : :.J mww ' -:-; . ! . ; - - Atom" x.' Tt-w- ww.j". . iMry .-. : ....... 1 ?a-c:j I f .' - : - it -. 1 i PERSPECTIVE OF" PROPOSED HIGH SCHOOL. The plans drawn by the Portland architectural firm of Tourtelotte & Hummel for the construction of the proposed new high school at Springfield, Lane County, call for a structure of classic type with hollow tile exterior, faced with white Portland cement stucco and an Interior of solid plank fire-resisting ma terial. The building, which will cost nearly $3,000. will be the first unit of a group of structures, and is planned to take care of 400 students. It is to contain an auditorium with seating capacity of 600, supple mented by a moving-picture room, stage, dressing-room and library. The administrative offices and eight classrooms will be provided on the first floor and nine on the second floor. The building will cover a foundation of approximately 83 by 160 feet. mer the concerts aro given at the City Park. There is an Interchange of bands twice a vear. The municipal orgatiiza' tlon takes a tour and Is superseded -by another band from elsewhere. One of the results of the concerts has been to make Denver one of the particularly discriminative musical centers. Another use of the structure is for the presentation of large hippodrome shows and elaborate school entertain ments. There were staged some 5000 school children, forming a huge Amer lean flag and singing a cantata, in the Denver auditorium last Summer. It Is now an established annual Institution. The building seats 13,000. Ita full ca pacity, standing and seating, reached nearly 18,000 in 1908, when the Na tional Democratic Convention was there. Large symphony concert orchestras, traveling between Chicago and San Francisco always book in the Denver auditorium, to break the trip and play one or several concerts. .The same with the big grand opera companies going from coast to coast. These occasions attract from surrounding states. Several Built In Chlonsro. Chicago has built several coliseums within 20 years, because or their hav lng been found a big asset. Oldtimers there recall the old Coliseum down on Sixty-third street. It waa the one in which Bryan in 1896 was nominated the first time. It was destroyed by fire several years later. Then Chicago built another coliseum up town on the site of the old Libby prison, Michigan avenue and Sixteenth. It was there that President McKinley was nominated the second time and President Taft in 1908 and 1912. While RESIDENCE. 4 the structure was being built, it col lapsed, killing a dozen or more work men. It was rebuilt. St. Louis also has had a convention hall for many years. The old exposition building hall there was virtually its first, back In the early 90s. Then a temporary structure was built out near Four Courts building. This big wood en hall later was superseded by an au ditorium building of greater and more permanent type. Kansas Rebuilds Auditorium. It Is not so long ago but that one can recall how Kansas City's magnifi cent first auditorium was destroyed by fire some four or five months before the Democratic National Convention was to gather there and nominate Bryan the second time 1900. Un daunted by this $700,000 loss and stirred by the probable loss of the National Convention which already had been landed. Kansas City got together, sub scribed the money and rebuilt that structure In time for the convention. It was one of the beats of the times the rearing of the present auditorium, wherein many and varied, large and small gatherings and shows have been successfully held. Its capacity is about the sam as Portland's proposed audi torium. Wherein the Auditorium here will vary from those elsewhere will be with respect to the small assembly halls which can be used for small conven tions without using- the entire main body of the house. This is an arrange ment that is calculated to save money by answering every purpose for which an auditorium proper might otherwise be used without waste of light and heat. HEAVY BUILDEVG PROJECTED Alaska Man Said to Be Prepared to Make Several Improvements. (- It Is reported that an Alaska man who owns Portland property has com missioned E. C. Wegman, a Portland architect, to draw tentative plans and specifications for an apartment build ing, two fiat structures and eight resi dences that may be erected .on East Sido property, in the Hawthorne dis trict. It is said the figures have al ready been taken for the work, and that at least some or the improvements will be made without fail. Dr. H. F. Ong Is said to be consider ing the advisability of building a one or two-story briok store structure on Thirteenth and Salmon streets, and it is regarded as probable that this work will also be handled by Mr. Wegman, who acted for Dr. Ong in planning the apartment-house now riearlng comple tion at Clay street and Broadway. ' Stokes & Zellar. Portland architects, have completed plans for a 17600 resi dence to be erected for Frank Colllson on Irene Heights. BUILDING COSTING $30,000 IS PLANNED FOR SPRINGFIELD. 1" rW.L Sr. HALF INTEREST IN APARTMENTS SOLD D. B. McBride Now Sole Owner of Tudor Arms, at Eigh teenth and Couch. $90,000- IS PAID PARTNER Modern Home in Irvlngton Bought by J. G. Arnold $20,000 Ranch Near Grant's Pass Sold East Side Sales Numerous. On the same day last week that he obtained a building permit for the con struction of the $125,000 Imperial Arms apartment building on the northwest corner of Fourteenth and Clay streets. R. F. Wassell sold his half interest in the Tudor Arms Apartments, that cov ers a full quarter block on the north west corner of Eighteenth and Couch streets, to the holder of the other half interest. D. B. McBride. Mr. Wassell announced that he re ceived approximately $90,000 for his interest. The Tudor Arms was first occupied last October. It is a four- story and ground-floor building, witn 63 suites, divided alternately into two. three and four rooms. The exterior is of red brick, faced with terra cotta trimmings, while the interior finish is oak. The equipment includes hardwood floors, electrio stoves and shower baths. The Imperial Arms Is to be prac tically a duplicate of the Tudor Arms, except that it Is to differ slightly in exterior finish, have a larger court and contain one more apartment. Mr. Mo Brlde bought out the Interest of his partner as a private investment, while Mr. Wassell announces that he will continue construction activities. C. V. .Everett handled the deal be tween Mr. Wassell and Mr. McBride. fSOOO Deal Reported. Mabel C. Menefee has sold to J. G. Arnold her handsome nine-room, two storv modern Irvlngton residence, lo cated on East Broadway, near East Nineteenth street North, at a consid eration understood to have been about tsooo. As part payment Mrs. Menefee ac cepted title to a modern five-room bun galow and an acre of land near CtllDert Station, on the Estacada carllne. In the transaction both parties were represented by Samuel Doak. 160-Acre Place Bring' S-'O.OOO. The Gra.xts Pass Observer reports that W. C. kFry has sold his 160-acre farm near mat city, togeiner wim stock and tools to Miss lone Lindsey, of Boston, Mass., for $20,000. Mr. and Mrs. Fry expect to spend the year traveling over the state and as soon as the roads win permit tney piau taking a drive through Eastern Oregon. Windsor HelgTits Property Sold. E J. Lowe has purchased a house and lot in Windsor Heights, described as lot 21 in block 2. from Adele Brady, the consideration named being $3150. This property is located on the south side of division, near East Fiftieth street- Lot 11. in block 36. Sunnyside, located on East Taylor street, near East Thir ty-fifth street, has been purcnasen Dy Fred Schoen from Ernest M. Oatfield for $1100. Otto J. Voegler has take niitie to two lots In block 10, Central Alblna, and lot 16. In block 16, in Tremont Park, from Rudolph, the consideration named being $1000. East Portland Halt Block Sold. In East Portland a half block has been transferred by Flnley P. Mount to the Advance-Rumeley Threshing Company, the consideration named in the deed being nominal. This property Is located on East Mill street, between Grand and Union avenues. Its real value is about $36,000. Westmoreland Lot Sold. Lot 8, in block 4, Westmoreland, on the east side of Milwaukle street, has been purchased by L. H. Hansen from H. A. Andrews, the consideration named being $1000. In Sellwood. M. 13. Merges nas taken title to the east half of lots 12 and 13 in block 76, from Mamie Knutson for $1700, a home being included in the transfer. This property Is located on East Nineteenth street and Spokane avenue. Stephens Addition Property Sold. Jacob Johnson has taken title to the west 0 feet of lot 6, In block 94, Steph ens Addition, from Bertha Mores, the consideration named being $1900. This property is located on East Main street and Grand avenue. L. Morken has transferred title to a house and lot in Rose City Park to Robert M. Young, the consideration be ing' $3400. It is described as lot 6, in block 134. The property is located on East Nineteenth street, near East Stan ton street. . Kinsell Lot Sells for S10O0. A lot In Klnzell Park, east of Mount Tabor, has been purchased by J. A. Fenton from A. J. Frledley, the price being $1000. It is described as lot 3. in block 17, In Klnzell Park. In Arleta Park, near the Foster road In the South East Side, Katharine C. Griffith has transferred to Frederick Forey lots 21 and 22, in block 2. the consideration being $1600. A house was included in this sale. . A house and lot in Mount Tabor Villa, described as lot 12, in block 23. have been purchased by May Troutman for the consideration of $1500. In Rose City Park, Frank T. Collier has purchased lots 7 and 8, in block 1 r t-aJt UJJbtl 'XH u ixm 107, from the Mount Hood Development Company for $1000. This property is located on Sandy boulevard and East Sixty-second street. Ladd's Addition Property Sold. 'M. L. Surman secured title to por tions of lots 18 and 20. in block 21. Ladd's Addition, on Elliott avenue, the consideration being $6023. The Realty Associates of Portland transferred to Anna M. New for $1350 property described as lot 5, in block 95, Irvington. located on East Eleventh, between Stanton and Knott streets. A. B. Manley. took title to lots 21. 22. 23 and 24, in block 21, College Place, for $1000. . Tnquina Road to Be Open Tuesday. ALBANY. Or.. ADrll 8. (SneclaLt With about 100 men at work clearing tne tilde at tunnel 22, east of Summit, the Southern Pacific Company expects to be able to operate through trains on Its Albany-Yaaulna line bv Tues day. This slide occurred more than a week ago and was more serious than at first believed. Daily train service has been maintained by transferring wnere tne road is blocked. PASCO IS FEELING BOOT Ul lurstkuctiOX tv-ORir nrcrtv 1 fix FLOUR MILL. Crews Are Baay Sarveylns Land South of Town for Establish ment of Stock Yards. PASCO. Waal, A-i1 D ui uepression Is last giving . "L optimism. State-wide prohibition Ku Tin i - .1 . occKicu m nave crippled business, but there appears to . wut. e Leauy increase. uiio tne records disclose the fact that 25 ltounp TtA.mit i , residents of Franklin County during iium runco ana tne balance from the several small towns, no ar rests have been made in the county for ui tne ary law. The report of the Police Department shows only two arrests during the month, both on minor charges Construction work has been com menced on the 1600-barrel flour mill, which is beinar built t t v-! a . i v. .. Samuel Glasgow, of Spokane, and asso- Crews are busv mnbfn., .v, - .. surveys on the 200 acres purchased a mile and a half south of Pasco, where uuiuu Kiuca yaras will Do established. oeverai thousand dollars' worth of property has changed hands during the past month and more real estate deals Need of Ethics Held Essen tial to Success. E. Orris Hart Considers Problems to Be Met In Realty Huainvaa and Points out Their Solutions. Rlshta Are Defined. BY E. ORRIS HART. Chairman committee on ethics National A. 1814-18. 1 Estate Exchanges. TF THE real estate business is to i oe aigniried to the standard of profession, a code of ethics as o i .imuci ana practice for the Kumanco or the beginner as well as '" oc or experience is essential. rU 7 , '""e8'ns. such as those of medicine, law and architecture, have j..... ut, oi etnics, and it is equally Kmll0r,tJant lhat a nlgh standard should in oy tnose loliowing the bust ness of real estate. Why do we need a r-ni.r,l-,j .nj ard of conduct In other words, a code i7 u" own self-respect and highest succesa in our calling demands it. We need It to regulate and de termine upon a commonly accepted and honorable basis our relations with our clients, our customers and our fellow- ' as weil as the general public. v hiie some of the nmvidnn. . i, - code of ethics adopted by the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges at the Los Angeles convention last Jun mi&ht be said to be elementary "-criuoiu so axiomatic and ob viously right that they should be prac ticed as a matter of course yet such la the looseness with which some view even the most elemental moral obliga tions to their fellow-men that the set ting down in a code of definite rules of action as a guide to him who wants to do the right thing and a warning to the other whose selfish instincts incline him to trespass on the rights of uLuei-s; a measuring stick, as It were, by means of which the man of hic-h standard may be commended and the transgressor condemned and possibly uistipunea, seems to bo essential. At any rate, we are simply following the precedents found desirable by other professions when we formally adopt for our guidance a code of ethics. Among the sometime mooted men tions affecting real estate brokers, the right or wrong of which are definitely settled by the provisions of the code, the following are worthy of special comment: (1) An agent has no right to sell his own property to his client or him self buy a property from a client who is paying him a commission for his services as agent, unless he has his client's full knowledge and assent; nor Is it permissible for a broker in the employ and pay of one of the parties to a deal to take compensation from the other party to the transaction. without the knowledge and consent of each. (2) A broker should not try to "go around" an exclusive agency he knows Is held by a fellow-broker. The high est good of the business, both in the way of service to clients and custom ers as well as fair dealing with fellow broaers, requires willingness at all times to co-operate with the agent ex clusively representing one side of the deal, on the basis of an equitable divi sion of the resulting commissions. (3) Paragraph 6 of section 3 of the new code seems to very fairly dispose of the delicate question which often comes up between brokers who fre quently change listings, in that it de fines the duration of the term during which a broker who has accepted a list ing from a fellow-broker is bound to recognize that broker if any deal re sults, and indicates under what cir cumstances it may be permissible for the broker having formerly received such Information to do business direct with the owner, or through some other channel, this being permissible in cases where the instrumentality of the bro ker first giving out the information Id clearly shown to have ceased and the property or customer has come to the other broker through an entirely different Instrumentality. (4) There Is also a provision against relaying property in other words, a broker having had a property listed with him by a fellow-broker should not re-list it with a third broker with out the consent of the broker from w.oin Ve received the listing. S The naming of fictitious consid erations in deeds of conveyance is also condemned. (6) Another important provision of the code Is that all controversies be tween members of the real estate board shall be settled by arbitration rather than by a suit at law. (7) The code makes it a duty to the public and to fellow-members io re port to the board fraudulent misrep resentations or illegal acts pertaining to real estate which may work Injury to innocent or ignorant persons, and makes it the duty of tlie board to the community to take steps to stop such practice;, and punish the patties guilty Of. them. WORKERS ARE -NAMED COMMITTEES CHOSE.V TO HANDLE STATE REALTY MEETINGS. V Aseuta From AU Over State Yill As semble Here In July to Form Oregon Association. At last Friday's meeting of the Port land Realty Board F. E. Taylor, tho president, appointed 15 committees to handle the state realty meeting In July, when "real estatern" fmm .n ... Oregon will assemble in Portland to organize an Oregon realty association that is to have member boards in the various cities. The 'personnel has been announced as follows: Convention hall H. L. Idleman, Wal ter Daly, George P. Dekum and Frank McFarland. Programme (Speakers and music) Dean Vincent, Harry Beckwith. John Daly, Herbert Gordon and John Carroll. Hotels C. DeYoung. Phil Metschan. Jr.. and C. W. Huntington. Invitation Frank McCrillis. i. M. Walker. W. E. Flnzer, John Wilcox and W. J. Hofmann. Publicity Chester Moores, , Arthur Caylor and James J. Sayer. Train reception Frank Ix McGuire. Malone Hutchins, Charles L. Wheeler. A. K. Hill. w. W. Jordan. N. M. Apple and O. V. Badley. Registration and badges G. R. Peck, Fred German. Max Lueddemann, S. P. Osburn and W. H. Webb. Decoration (Hall, pennants on autoa. etc.) T. J. Baldwin. C R. Hotchkiss, J. Fred Staver, Sidney G. Lathrop and A. R. Rltter (Ritter, Lowe & De Forest). . Transportation Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, F. V. Parsons and Archie Meyers. Automobiles E. N. Wheeler, C Oeh ler. M. E. Lee, Oren S. Hubbell and W. H. Ross. Budget George P. Henry. W. A. Firebaugh, E. S. Jackson, E. B. Mo Naughton and . M. J. Clohessy. Entertainment (Luncheon, banquet, etc.) Walter Gill, C. A. Houghtaling. William G. Toung, W. R. Kaser and Samuel Norton. Smoker Fred A. Jacobs, Henry W. Fries. O. W. Holcomb. George D. Schalk and Charles Rlngler. Sightseeing (Columbia River High way, etc.) L. W. Cronan. Earl Clark. G. G. Rohrer, William Mall and C Lewis Mead. Finance F. N. Clark. Leo Friede, O. W. Taylor, Fredrick Strong, A M. Shannon. W. M. Killingsworth. J. M. Healy, Franklin Griffith, C. V. Everett, Charles E. Haak and 11. P. Palmer. Rose City Park Home Sells for S30OO. George E. Weller sold to Charles E. Rowley lot 10. in block 139, Rose City Park, located on East Fifty-first, near Stanton street. The price of the prop erty was $3000. In Sellwood. on Douglas, near East Eleventh street. Elizabeth D. H. Sell wood transferred lot 14. in block 46. to W. H. Vost. The consideration was $1000. The Crown v Investment Company transferred lot 8, in block 9, Parkhurst, to I. L. Sehilt. for $1215. Also in Park hurst this same company transferred lot S. in block 9, to D. Nemerovsky for $900. Klabcr to Hold l air April 11. CEXTRALIA. Wash., April S. (Spe cial.) Extensive preparations are be ing made for a community fair to be held at Klaber on April 14, it being the first of its kind in Lewis County this year. School work will be displayed, contests staged in athletics, arithme tic, spelling, declamation and a com munity dtnner will rlns. the evpnt State Members Portland Realty Board The following real estate men are the accredited members in their re spective cities of the Portland Real ty Board. None of these sought membership, but were selected after a canvass of the available men In their line. If you have a real estate transaction in any of these cities or wish information, write them: Albany J. A. Howard. J. V. Pipe. Amity, Yamhill Co. J. P. Allison. Astoria Astoria Harbor Imp. Co. Van Dusen - Co. Rend J. A. Eastie. Grauts Pnsa I". B. Herman. Joseph Moss. Hrppner Smead & Crawford. Klamath Falla Edmund M. Chilcote. Marahfieid I. S. Kaufman & Co. Title Guaranteo & Ab stract Co. North Plains F. M. Wadsworth. Philomath Henry Ambler. KoaeburK W. A. Bogard. Tillamook Rollie W. Watson. Directory of Prominent Life Insurance Agencies Members of Life Underwriters' Association of Oregon Wm. Goldman, Manager, KATIO.NAL l.li-'K. Oreuonian lil(i H. la. Collon, Manager, MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL, LIFE. Chamber of Commerce Bide. K. L. Harmon, Manager, PENS MUTUAL UKB, Northwestern Hank Bldg;. Horace Mecklem, Manager, KEW ENGLAND MUTUAL. Lll Northwestern Bank Bid-. G. M. Slocum. Mgr.. RELIANCE LIFE IN 3. CO.. Pittsburg-, Pa. 20 Morgan mag., foriiana, or. p Lockwood, Vlce-Pres. and Gen. Mgr.. COLUMBIA IIFB & TRUST CO, 02 Stevens Bldg. Pottle-Grossmayer Co.. General Agents, THE TRAVELERS' INS. CO, 808-310 Wilcox Bidg. w. W. A mf Bhnrv Manager. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL, LIFE INS. CO. Xsorinwestern ubqk uiug. Judd Lowrey. tnpt.. AMERICAN CENTRAL LIFE IN3. CO, 719 Dekum Bid. BUILDERS SUPPLIES and HOME SUGGESTIONS J. C. ENGLISH CO. LIGHTING FIXTURES E. Trrlnsr and TJnlon Avonire, Factory to Couimrr, Phones E. 1245, O 126. There Is a Good Paint House in Portland TIMMS, CRESS & CO. 1S4 SECOND STREET. Architects, Contractors, Building Material Men, Attention ! The .1. Mt'f'raken Co. hav r!im.v nrl i o tb BlRke-MrFall bldf.. 4."fc 4tli t Tu con junction v it h. tboir regular line m re nv niuanng mo specialties lonrerlv oid bv tlie F. T. Crow Co. Mr. J. IX Kiplev tvU rtnin his position as manager of this de partment. rno&M sroadwajr D747 A 4m,