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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1919)
2tE STHTDAY OREGOXIAX, rOKTLAM), AUGUST 10, 1919. 19 BUILDING IS ACTIVE DESPITE HIGH COST Permit for $100,000 Addition Granted to Factory. . FORTABLE SCHOOLS ON LIST Industrial Structures With Fair Pro portion of Residences and Oarages Are Contemplated. In spite of the high and ever-increasing coHt of materials and labor, build- lB Xorth Portland and he was immedi ately charmed. , The f5rt building at the new plant will be a concrete fireproof structure occupying 30,000 feet of ground space. Mr. Christ will remain in Portland for three weeks longer to see the building well under way. . "We expect to have the structure completed in 45 days and to be operat ing by October 15," Mr. Christ said "Once in operation we will supply the entire Pacific coast as far east as Den ver with waxed paper from this milL We are incorporating the Western Waxed Paper company at $250,000. "The largest consumers of waxed paper are the bakers, though it is used for wrapping food products of all kinds, candies, chewing gum and similar arti cles. "The paper from which waxed paper is made can be made in Oregon as well as anywhere. It is not being made here at present because there has been no demand for it, but several mills are preparing to supply us with the paper, which will be finished in our plant. . The paper required for this work is the highest grade of 90 per cent sulphite. It takes the best grade of paper to stand the strain of going through the waxing process and re ceiving impressions in three colors." Mrs. Christ accompanies her husband. ASTORIA FLATS MODERN PORTLAND MEN INTERESTED I.N APARTMEXI HOUSE. G. M. McBrlde and T. S. Randies Finance $150,000 Building Hav ing Latest Improvements. One of the most modern and comfor tably equipped apartment houses in the state will be the proposed "Columbia apartments" to be built at Astoria by a corporation headed by George M. Mc Brlde, president, and Thomas S. Randies, vice-president, both of Port land. Plans for the building, made by F. Manson White. Portland architect, have been approved by the owners, and the contract for construction is to be let August 20. The building, which will cost f 150. 000. will have a concrete basement and su perstructure of tile laced with brick and trimmed with cast stone. The entrance will fee a spacious paneled lobby with built-in seats, mirrors, colo nial columns and a beamed ceiling. All COLUMBIA APARTMENTS SOON TO BE BUILT AT ASTORIA BY PORTLAND CORPORATION. 1 , - - v r iirim. rnn -i rr i y Thin fhree-K.orT apartment honne, Tthlrb vvhh deKlened by F". ManMon White, will be equipped with every modern eon- lenience ffiir toe romfun 1 lis dwelieri. The luprratruclurc will or of hollow vile, lacea wiik Dricic and trimmed with stone. Ing in Portland is showing increased activity. During the past week per mits were granted for the construction of buildings to cost thousands of dol la rs. 11 ;t us a re being c hecked by the city bureau of buildings for many more. Permits granted in the past week are principally for industrial buildings, with a fair proportion of residences and ga rapes. Three portable schools, to take care of the overflow from the public schools of Portland, are to be erected imme diately, to be ready for opening- ot school next month. They will be locat ed at Hast Twenty-ninth and Murray, Kast Twenty-eighth and Pine and East Seventh and failing streets. The three schools will cost a total, of $35,000. They are to be erected under the direction of the school board. iOO.OiO permit Is Granted. The largest single permit issued dur ing: the week was for a $100,000 addi tion to the plant of the United States bakery on East Everett between East Eleventh and Twelfth streets. A permit was also issued to the Honeyman Hard ware company to start grading; at East Ninth and Jlisan streets for the new warehouse that is to be erected there. Plans for the warehouse have not yet been completed. The Western Structural Steel & Tank company received a permit to build a trainwa y 720 feet long to connect its plant at" East Sixty-seventh and Halsey streets with the O.-W". R. & N. tracks. It i understood that this company in tends to increase its plant so as to double its output of sjeel boilers and tanks. A warehouse with 10,000 square feet of floor space is to be built by Vick brothers of Salem at East Second and Madison streets. This company, which has been conducting an acrency of small automobiles at Salem intends to widen its scope and handle tractors and farm implements as well. The Portland Feed company took out a permit to construct additional bins for grain and seed in its warehouse at East First and Stark streets. I.uhor Temple Plaim Complete. Plans for the new Labor temple to be built at Fourth and Jefferson streets have been com pie ted by Hough taling; & Dougan, architects, and are in the hands of the city bureau of buildings for checking. The permit for construc tion will probably be issued early this week. Garages featured heavily in the build ing permits issued last week. Among them is a public garage to be built by J. M. Llewellyn -at 1362 Greeley street bet ween Port land boulevard and Holman street. It will be the only pubiic garage in this district. The Cry st al tee & Storage company was granted a permit to erect a private garage for its machines at 434 East Main street. J. J. Cahalin was au thorized to build a public garage at Eleventh and Stark streets. The L'kase Investment company will build a public garage for W. 11. Wallingford at Fif teenth and Couch streets. Harrv Parks, of the Hose City Print- ery, who has built and rented a num ber of portable garages in this city re ceived .permission last week to con struct eight more of these portable garages of the same design. Among the projected new residences which received authorization last week are a two-story house to be built for N. B. Gregg at 1139 Cumberland road, which will cost $12,000. and a house to be built by the Rice Construction company at 123K East Davis street, which will cost $11,000. They are living at present in the Ben son hotel. THOMPSON" CO. CHANGES NAME Realty Firm Now Known as Mctzger-Parker-Ferguson Co. Announcement was made last week by W. W. Metzger, president of the Stanley S. Thompson company, of a change in the personnel and firm name of the company. The firm, which is now to be known as the Metzger-Par-ker-Ferguson company, will consist of W. VV. Metzger, president; J- P. Parker, first vice-president and secretary; V. W. Ferguson, second vice-president, and B. L. Metzger, treasurer. The principal change made is the ad dition to the firm of W. W. Ferguson, recently manager of the lease depart ment of the F. E. Taylor company, and Bernard L.. Metzger, son of W. W. Metzger. HQME OX HEIGHTS IS SOLD Charles A. Estey Buys Eight-Room Modern Residence. One Portland Heights home and two building sites changed hands last week through; the agency of Mrs. John Brooke. Charles A. Estey purchased the modern eight-room residence of the late Carleton Lewis on Mountain boule vard. The house is situated on about two and one-fourth lots, commanding a good view of the city. - Thornton T. Munger bought from Ella Rhorer a .tract in Alta Vista, consist ing of about three lots, upon which he intends to build a home. Maurice W. seitz bought irojn Henry Dickson a building site on Sherwood drive, where he also intends to build. TWO COMPANIES CONSOLIDATE Scandinavian Sletten - American Absorbs & Jones Firm. The Scandinavian -American Realty conrpany last week was consolidated with the realty firm of Sletten & Jones, composed of O. O. Sletten and L. A, Jones. The new firm, which will be known as the Scandinavian-American Realty company, will occupy the for mer office of Sletten & Jones at 248 Stark street. The business of the com pany will be principally in farm land. Officers of the consolidated company are j. o. Johnson, president; L. A. Jones, vice-president, and O. O. Sletten, secretary and treasurer. FACTORY SITE PilRGiSEO WORK ON S 10 0.000 PLANT . STAIiTS TOMOHHOW. Six Lots Are Sold. Six vacant lots at Trinity place and Nineteenth street were purchased from the board of school trustees last week by the Metropolitan Investment & Im provement company as an Investment. The price was announced as $80,000 by the Fred A. Jacobs company, which acted as agent in the transaction. corridors will be six feet wide, and alt rooms will be large and well lighted. all the living rooms being 12 by 20 feet dimensions. The whole building covers a floor space of 60 by 200 feet on a 100 by 200 foot site. Among the modern conveniences to be incorporated In this apartment house are an electric passengter elevator and saparate freight elevator, and all built In features for the kitchens. Each kitchen, whether for a two or three room apartment, will contain a Pull man breakfast alcove, with table and seats built in, capable of seating four persons. Each alcove is to have a case ment window with a flower box. All kitchens will have cooling closets and refrigerators, electric ranges. Ironing boards, flour and sugar bins, broom closets, spice drawers. 12 cupboards, eight drawers and 13-foot one-piece sinks with double drainboarda of granite wood. All bathrooms will be finished in white tile and will have liien closets and dressers built Ample laundry and storage facilities will be provided in the basement. The building is to contain 65 apart ments 21 of two rooms and 44 of three rooms. All three-room apartments will be arranged so that the living and dining rooms may be entered separate ly trom a private entry, and every apartment will have separate bed closets and dressing closets. The first floor of the building is to be 15 feet above the ground on the lower side, so that though the building win De downtown no hili climbing wil be necessary to reach it. There will be sufficient elevation to command the panorama of bay and river. RESIDENCE PROPERTY IS SOLD . Out-of-Town , Investors Purchase House and Quarter Block. Two large sales of Portland residence property to out-of-town buyers were transacted recently through the office of L. K. Moore. One of these, on the southwest quarter block of East Seventh and Knott streets, was pur chased from E. C. Eckeraon by Emma J. Gooding of Boise. Idaho, for $12,000. The other, an eight-room house at 448 East Fourteenth street North, was purchased from R. J. ' Ginn by J. D. Brown of Baker for $5000. The residence of R. J. Ginn at 759 Hancock street was purchased by A. K. Higgs for $10,000. DEALER SELLS SIX HOMES R. H. Torrey Reports Unusual Ac tivity in Realty Market. R. H. Torrey reports unusual activ ity In the real estate market for this time of year and as evidence of this activity cites six sales he has trans acted during the past three weeks. A six-room bungalow at 1198 East Burnside street was sold for G. Klor fein to E. C Peets of the Babcock com- ImH i-i-t.: ;5 SI St 'mm, s.-ii .... - j : r . . it Picture your car as you first saw it with its dazzling radiancy-and you will have some idea 01 how it will look when cleaned and polished the O-Cedar-way. I or O-Cetar Polish- '$ sold by all Dealers 25c to $3.00 Sizes ft or your Channel! Chemical Company, Chicago Automobile Toronto Londc Pans Use O- Cedar Polish the O- Cedar Polish Way First, remove mud, dust, etc, from your car by washing with water in the usual way. If yon have used oils, or wax, it is best to use Ivory Soap to remove them. Pour about 4 ounces of O -Cedar in a pan and add a quart of warm water. Saturate a clean cloth in this and go over the body of the car. Do not attempt to e'ean too much at a time take one siae of the body or a fender first. Follow by rubbing with a dry doth. But little rubbing is required to produce a hard, dry, lasting lustre. pany for $6000. A seven-room house at 114 Floral avenue was sold for W. Dorres' to Leslie J. Werschkul. office manager for the Portland Flouring Mills, for J6000. A seven-room bunga low at 42 East Forty-first street North was sold for J. P. Hoben to Seymour Washburn for 16800. A seven-room bungalow at 106 Floral avenue was sold for S. C. Dalton to Dr. Sam B. Foster for 16750. A nine-room residence at 20 East Thirty-ninth street was sold for H. W. Hughes to Coy Burnett, a Port land attorney, for 112.000. A seven room house at 1332 The Alameda was sold for R. G. Callvert to May Rhodes for 7500. WAR WORK IS OM RECORD U. S. CHAMBER NOW IS KNOWN AS BUSINESS ORGAN. BUNGALOW OFFICE IS RAZED Relic of Own -Your -Home Campaign Is Sold for $125. The Own-Your-Home bungalow at Fourth and Stark streets, which has been idle since the close of the local own-your-home campaign, was sold last week for $125 to J. B. Gehr, an employe in the office of the building commis sioner, an-d is being torn down. Unconfirmed rumors say that the site of the bungalow Is to be used for the erection of an office building. The cor ner is owned by the John Clark estate, which donated its use for the campaign President Tells of Growth of Body and How It lias Helped to Bring Country Together in War. The official files of the war depart ment at Washington contain the war record of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Portland delegates who attended the St. Louis convention of the body brought back information to Ore gon business men of the ma z-nitude of the work it had performed. The record was furnished to the government in re sponse to the official request for a story of the contribution of organized busi ness toward winning the war. President Ferguson, of the national chamber, says t hat the war was won through the ability of American citi zenship to accomplish by co-operation and without compulsion as close organi zation as was achieved in Germany by means of force. Ha said further in his talk at thj GROUP OF MEMBERS OF UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DIRECTORS' PARTY CAUGHT BY CAMERA ON STEPS OF PUBLIC AUDITORIUM, WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN INVITED TO HOLD 1920 CONVENTION OF NATIONAL BODY. Andrew Chrit Jr.. President of Wax Paper Company, Buys Two Acres in North Portland. Andrew Christ Jr.. president of the Central Waxed Paper company of Chi cago, has purrchaed for his company two acres of land in the north Port land manufacturing district as a site for a plant to cost JlOC.OOrt. which, it is expected, will be but the first unit of a larger plant. Some of the machinery for the now plant is already rolling, aid Mr. Christ yesterday, and construc tion of the building will begin Mon day morning. A t present there is not a company in ureuon manufacturing waxed paper, Mr. Christ explained, and the business the Central Waxed Paper company has been doing with this section of the eoun try from its Chicago miil made It advisable to establish another plant on the Pacific coast. Afrer visiting vari ous factory sites in California and the Puget sound district, he came to Port land. W. 1 Boise, a Portland attor ney, showed him the Swift properties 51 t , -t . Y I ? I w f s J -v, , f I k f , . ty . 1 1 ; vj : ' .1 v lAr:-.1 1 0 M - 1: i V : -A '-Vf ?V r ! S . . 4 4 - - " . rr-r i ' . . . iff I ' 1 ' j - r ; Jt . 1 1 I i ' Immn t - 7" i, 7, , , in'fVi " " ' Chamber of Commerce last Thursday that its inception grew out of a real ization that business men had little voice in the formulation -of laws that affect business, but that after seven years since the idea of such an organi zation was inaugurated at a conference of representative business men with President Taft and Secretary of Com merce Nagel, in 1912, it has come to-be recognized by the government, no less than by business, as the mouthpiece through which business speaks on na tional affairs. The cosmopolitan character of its membership of 1400 bodies, with more than 700,000 members, is reflected in the personnel of its directorate, composed ot financiers, investment bankers, re alty dealers, merchants in various lines manufacturers, mining operators, rail road officials and the manager ot a steamship company operating a line ol vessels, are some of the lines -represented on the board. All of them are men who accepted the places as a duty to the public and through motives of loyalty to the high purposes to which the organization is devoted, as stated by the president, who is one of the shipbuilding authorities of the country. Constructive work of the chamber has been directed to efforts to co-ordinate business and industry for the betterment of conditions of workers and that through better understanding higher standards may be attained. The summer meeting of the directors at Seattle the past two days is the first that has been held "on the Pa cific coast and is in recognition of the Pacific trade developments, say the directors. tends to build a large apartment house soon. The deal was transacted through the aeency of "Wakefield, Fries & Co. This veteran. E. B. Lamp here, was addicted " to the excessive use ot tobacco tor many years. He wanted to quit, but needed something ve heiD him. Me learned of a fre book that tells about to bacco habit and how to conquer it quickly, eas . recent letter he writes: have do desire for tobacco any more. X feel like a new man." ' Anyone desiring a, copy of this book OB tobacco habit, smoking and chewing can get it free, postpaid, bv writing to Edward J. Woods. TD-16. Station F. New York City. You will be surprised and pleased. ' Look for quieter nerves, stronger heart, better digestion. Improved eyesight, increased vigor, longer lifi and other advantages if you 0.iit poisoning yourself. Adv. In a lly and salely. FURNITURE ST0RE TO OPEN Charles Uudeen, William Sundeen and Leonard Slribig Back Deal. A new furniture store will be opened soon in the brick building at the south east corner of Second and Yamhill streets by Charles Rudeen, William Sundeen and Leonard Stribig. Sundeen and Stribig have been connected for several years with the Oadsby furniture company. The three-story building, which is owned by Everding & Farrell, was leased by the new tenants last week. They will make alterations costing about 51C.O00. The deal was handled by Mall & Von Borstel. Mayor Baker, wko demonstrated acoustic properties of bnlldlmfc, la third from rf jrht, top row. Lower row, left to rijtbt Frederick J. Koater, San Fran elKCOt J. L Powell, Wichita. Kan.; R. A. MeCormlck, Baltimore; Charles C. Gcerge, Omaha f Joks Joy Kdson, treasurer, Washlaartou, I. C L S. Utliette, Minneapolis F. It. Jo has ton, New Britain, Conn.; A- B. Faraohar, York, Pa, - Carpenters Ask $7.20 a Day. YAKIMA. Wash., Aug. 9. (Special.) Following the action of the painters, who have been on strike for the past two months, the carpenters' union' has announced a new schedule, calling for an increase in pay from $6 to $7.20 a day, effective September 1. $60 a Ton Offered for Beans. YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 9. (Special.) The Libby. McNeill & Libby cannery has announced that it will pay $60 a ton for green beans, instead of 50. The cannery will put up about B0 tons of beans. Dr. Koehler Bays Lote Dr. George F. Koehler has purchased from Abe Tichner a lot 71 by 100 feet in dimensions at the corner of Twenty third and Everett streets, where he in- CATARRH is no-r earily overcome by using an antiseptic oil spray, which ab sorbs and dislodges the hard web like mucous membrane of throat and nose. Quick relief is always ob tained by using the McKenzie Ca tarrh Spray. 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