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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1920)
0 CITY PAVING PLM FATE IS UNCERTAIN BASEMENT AND FIBST TWO FLOORS OF BROADWAY BUILDING ACQUIRED FOR EXPANSION LIEBES GETS LEASE OF H. LIEBES AND COMPANY. Figures Show $92,000 of Fur and Ladles' Store to Be Genera! Fund Tied Up. , Among Largest. WORST DAYS ARE PAST ALTERATIONS TO BE MADE Commissioner Barbnr Says Plant! 40 Over $400,000 'Will Re Spent in Will Lay 200,000 Tarda and Save $20,000 This Year. Patting In Fixtures, Stock and Remodeling of Quartres. TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, POHTLAND, 3IAKCIT 28, 1020 FOR BIG EXPAH Somewhere in ths future rests the nltimate (ate of tbe municipal paving plant. into which approximately $92. C00 has been invested from the gen eral fund of the city of Portland. . According to figures compiled by City Auditor Punk, the city epent $10.31.00 in the construction and equipment of the original plant on the east side In 1918. In 1919 the city expended J10.5SO.95 In prelim inary construction work or tne Duna ers and plant at the foot of Jeffer son street. In the present year $36. 413.05 has been expended on tha new plant. These sums Include the cost of equipment. In addition the city council tamed over a $2,000 rotary account to the paving plant as working capital. Ad ditions to this fund increased it until the records show that the rotary ac count now amounts to $29,587 and additional expenditures authorized will require another appropriation of $5000, according to the record. Machinery Item Big One. From June 17, 1918, to December 1, 1919. machinery costing $13,444.94 was purchased for the paving plant and paid for out of the rotary account. The expense of operation charged against the same fund totaled SS0S6.46. A charge of 12 cents per square yard is made on all work to cover the cost of depreciation and cost of oper ation, which is not included In the usual compilation of costs assessed to property benefiting from improve ment. Ths overhead charge, after being credited to the fund lias been turned back to the city, leaving a balance of $4757, not sufficient to pay for the depreciation of the equipment which has worn out, which was lost In moving the plant and equipment which cannot last for more than an other year. Rotary Fund Tied I p. Money placed in the rotary account comes from the general fund and is now tied up in construction work. The city cannot utilize these funds for other purposes. In addition to the charge of 12 cents per square yard for work performed, the city reverts 10 per cent of the total cost of each job to the general fund, with the plan of paying inter est on the money invested in the plant and returning the principal to the general fund In the course of about 10 years. Thus far, according to records in the auditor's office, a total of $1213.05 has been returned to the gen eral fund in this manner, a sum not adequate to cover the interest charges alone. This sum includes $318.14 for which the city holds warrants, not collectable until assessments have been made. Profits and benefits of the munici pal paving plant which do not show on the records of the auditor include thq saving on work performed by the plant, such as maintenance of streets for which private contractors formerly charged 2i cents per square yard each year. The plant also paved Ter willlger boulevard, a unit of the city park system, at a saving estimated by Commissioner Barbur, in charge of the plant, at 0.0U0. Plant Itedurea Costs. Through the operation of the plant, it la said that the costs of paving work performed by private contrac tors have been reduced considerably. Commissioner Barbur maintains that -j.cyc2!H ipi ; I jptf " : 1 HMIJt'' SKETCH SHOWING QUARTERS QUIETLY SECURED BY WELL-KNOW FUR CONCERN. TILTON BUILDING LEASED MIRROft CO J1PAXT LARGE QUARTERS. GETS Doubled Floor Space needed to Handle Business of Concern on Ilanders Street. The two-story Tilton building, cov ering 60 by 100 feet on the west side of Fifth street, between Flanders and Glisan streets, was leased last week to the Oregon Mirror & Bevelin works for a period of five years. The property is owned by J. W. Perkins of Roseburg and the lease was han dled by Leon H. Bullier, manager of the lease department of the F. E. Taylor company. The building ad joins the Oregon Casket company property and is numbered 105 North Fifth street. The Oregon Mirror & Beveling works has been located for 14 years at Tenth and Davis streets and tbe removal to the new headquarters is occasioned by crowded quarters at Its credits amounting to more than $3000 I present location. The. new building due from maintenance work have not contains twice as much floor space. O. Rippen and William II. Rethlef- son, officers of the company, are plan ning the installation of valuable mod ern equipment at the new location. The company specializes in mirrors, plate glass and picture frames. Prosser Appears Prosperous. PROSSER. Wash.. March 22. (Spe cial.) Construction on the new build ing of the Harper Hardware & Furni ture company at the comer of Meade avenue and Seventh street will be begun within a few weeks. The new structure will be 60x120 feet and one story. Last week witnessed one of the record sales for the Prosser district in the sale of the C. P. Squires ranch home to F. C. West, a neighbor. The consideration was $8000 for the ten acres. The Squires' ranch is about one mile west of Prosser and is one of the most productive in the district being all in bearing orchard of com mercial varieties of apples and pears. MORROW ACREAGE SELLING Two Large Ranches in the Vicinity of lone Change Owners. IOXE, Or.. March 27. (Special.) Great activity Is apparent in the real estate market in Morrow county, ee pecially in this vicinity. Last week the J. J. Howard ranch adjoining lone on the east -and containing 500 acres was sold to Fred Buchanan of Butter creek for $25,000. George Staggs of Weston, Or., has acquired title to 1920 acres lying nine miles south of lone from M. IL Morgan at 35 per acre. INTERSTATE REALTORS MEET Plans Under Way for Convention in Spokane July 15-17. Plans for the annual convention of the Interstate Realty association, to be held in Spokane July 15, 16 and 17, are being already prepared and com mittees have been named among the Spokane realtors to make the session unusually successful, according to word which has been received by Paul A. Cowgill, secretary of the organiza tion. The general plans for entertain ment of guests at the convention are in the hands of the Spokane realty board, of which Arthur D. Jones is president and P. A. Scbedler is sec' retary. The following committee chairmen have been announced: Finance, F. E. Pope; hotels and registration, I. G. McCormick; reception and entertain ment, Fred K. Jones; programme, J, E. Watklns. Realty Transactions Annonnced. The following realty transactions recently concluded have been an nounced by Mrs. T. B. Keuhausen of Neuhausen & Co.: Dwelling of C. E. Cochrane on East Sixteenth street North to H. P. Drinker, $10,000; home on the corner of Twentieth and Brazee, Mrs. A. Jacks to Eugene Moore of Baker, Or., $7500; six-room bungalow on East Twenty-first street, It. D. Greer to R. A. Watson, $6500; dwelling of Sinclair Wilson on Hancock street to H. H. Humphrey, $10,000; C. W. Martyn residence on East Eighteenth street to A. S. Bee son, formerly of Chicago, $10,000; Rev. W. B. Hinson residence on East Fifteenth street to Dr. Charles Stuart Menzies. $8500; Dr. A. S. Nichols bun galow on East Nineteenth street North, to John M. Kickson. Castle Rock Real Estate Active. CASTLE ROCK. Wash-. March 27. (SpeciaL) A number of real estate transfers this week included a section of logged-off land of the Silver Lake Logging Co.'s holdings to a Mr. Wirthmier of Canada, the Lillis place on the west side, better known as the Captain Brown place, to J. R. Lowden of Seattle and the Pyle property be longing to Mrs. Minnie Studebaker. to Mrs. Grace McKinley. Expansion of H. Liebes & Co. into one of the largest and finest fur and ladles' specialty stores in the country is promised in the announcement made yesterday tnai mo company d additional space through a 10-year lease on the basement, first and second floors of the Broadway building, corner of Broadway and Morrison, and will start immediately making extensive alterations on the quarters to fit their needs. The Broadway building adjoins the present five-story building which houses the company on the south, and under the plan of alteration the two buildings will be joined and the pres ent quarters and the new quarters arranged under a systematic plan for the development of a greater store. The present entrance on Broadway will be maintained and another large entrance will be provided on Morri son street through the new quarters, while the corner of Broadway and Morrison will be altered and arranged to provide exceptional window dls play facilities. The work of altering the new quarters will start at once. the work being begun on the second floor in rooms now already vacant. and the present tenants will be al lowed to remain until the work pro gresses far enough to necessitate their moving. 980,000 to Be Expended. The company, under the lease, has secured all the basement of the Broadway building, the entire first floor except quarters of The Leader Cloak and Suit House and Madame Bourrct Millinery shop on the Morri son street side of the building at the extreme west end, and the entire sec ond floor except the quarters at the west end of the building occupied by the Illinois-Pacific Glass company and the Marinello Cosmetic shop. The above quarters will also be taken over at a later date, it is stated, but for the present ample floor space will be available without them. The sum of $80,000 will be spent at first in remodeling the Broadway building quarters and arranging the present quarters to harmojii.o with the enlarged scheme. Within a few months a total of over $400,000 will have been spent, including the entire costs of alterations and the cost of the additional stock which the com pany intends to place in the new quarters. J. V. Bennes, architect, ha prepared the plans for the alteration and it is" the hope of the company t have the quarters ready by mid-sum mer. Firm Believed Dummy. The lease was secured by H. Liebes & Co. from the Oregon company mysterious company which had bee quietly purchasing the existing lease holds for several months past an which, it Is declared, was little more than a dummy behind which the large ladies' specialty and fur store was working. J. D. V Donnell secured 10-year lease on the property for rl. Liebes & Co. from the Oregon com pany. and while tne rental was not given out. It is understood it will ex ceed $400,000 in total amount. It was in the winter that the Ore gon company, or wnicn tne iiaip Schneelock company was understood be the moving factor, began pur chasing the leaseholds In a quiet wa and only recently did they secure con trol of all the quarters desired. The sub-lease was then made to H. Liebes & Co. John P. Plagemann., president of H. Liebes & Co., came to Portland from San Francisco in 1S99, establishing ur store for the company in the old Corbett building at Fifth and Morri son streets. Quarters were main ained here, first in the old and then in the new Corbett building, until 1917, the company moved to its preS' nt quarters at 149, 151 Broadway At this time the company, which had been a fur store exclusively, branched into ladies' wearing apparel lines. Plans for the present expansion were made by Mr. Plagemann and worked ut under his guidance, but on ac count of his recent illness some de- ftiverside FAMOUS Fifth avenue is no more. The flat'Crowde ' thoroughfare of mansions now is the center of reta; j- i ar v i a t i; t' . ?J I j, . r a ui new t or Her no cnosen tor rua finest miacniiai ait I RltimrmlA Drlaelh Wentovnr nt Manhattan uiith i view of the Hudson, the Palisades; a place where con, . merce never can invade. j ' T""i UT Riverside, beautiful as it is, cannot approach tl ' fS scenic setting which Westover offers in Portland. Fro . these wonderful terraces are seen two great river t . instead of one; four great peaks, instead of none, and .'. addition a gorgeous valley and rugged mountain range, J, Our beautiful Westover booklet sent to any address free. Also for sale by any Realty Board member. w ESTOVER sites cost no more than any good resident!' ... V 1. J.-L t m 1IL-. ' property, t uu tun uuy vn iivcrui irrmi, rr iijr i phone, call or write for full information? ' Harold Jungck, Secretary " INTERNATIONAL REALTY ASSOCIATES, OWNERS . 1307 Yeon Building. Marshall 630 Residence, East IS? ' t : IerrAceS "Portland's Best View Homesites" GIANT ARCH WILL BE ERECTED BY AL KADER TO WELCOME VISITING SHRINE RS. been credited to the plant. The audi tor's office is now checking on this item as well as several other credits of minor nature which paving plant Officials claim. ' Charge Inadequate, Opinion. It Is generally conceded that the charge of 12 cents per square yard is not sufficient to pay the costs of all overhead expenses in connection wth the operation of the plant of fices of the paving plant. Office rent for the paving plant officials in the city hall, as well as rent for the plant and bunkers, located on prop erty owned by the commission of public docks, recompense for the time expended by City Commissioner Bar bur, Assistant Commissioner Johnson, City Engineer Laurgaard and other officials of the department of public works are not Included in the esti mated cost of jobs performed. Commissioner Barbur estimates that the municipal paving plant will lay 200,000 square yards of hard surface this year. 20,000 to Be Returned. On this estimate Commissioner Bar bur expects to return $20,000 to the general fund by the end of the present year and also have $24,000 to replace expenditures from the rotary account. Officials at the city hall who have observed the operation of the paving plant say that it has survived its most critical period. These eame observers say that a few good years would aid ths plant officials In eradicating the red ink which now predominates on the ledgers in the city auditor's office. But tha observers also assert that there is a tremendous element of chance la connection with the enterprise. EXTIRE PLANT TO BE BUILT Creamery Company Revises Plans for Eugene Building. KTGEXE, Or, March 27. (Special.) The entire plant as originally planned, instead of only one unit of the milk condensery and creamery ot the Mutual Creamery company in this city, will be erected this summer, ac cording to E. a Schmidt, assistant general manager of the company, who waa in Eugene recently. He said that when the plant is in operation tha company would have a payroll of $2000 a day here. The decision to erect the entire plant at once was reached by offi cials of the company when the amount of business signed up by the men in charge here was seen. It waa at first thought, said Mr. Schmidt, that there would not be enough business to keep a larger plant in operation. Contraots for milk and cream have been sisrned bv hundreds of farmers in the upper ' SKETCH OP TRIUMPHAL ARCH TO BE PLACED IN BUSINESS DISTRICT. Willamette valley and in the coast Erection of a great arch In the center of the business district, under which Shrine members will come to enter the oasis of Portland for attendance at country. Motor trucks will be used the national Shrine convention in June, has been announced by the decoration committee as a feature of the decorative scheme for the city. The arch in this valley to transport the prod- will cost in the neighborhood of $6000 and will be placed at a prominent position in the heart of the business district, the exact location to be determined net to the plant and coast country later. The arch is the work of Edward A. Miller, architect and member of Al Kader temple, who has spent a period of six months perfecting the design, products will be shipped by rail. "The arch will be a work of art." stated Frank S. Grant, chairman of the decoration committee, yesterday, "and is the outgrowth of the ideas of Tha plant will be in operation late several prominent Portlanders, Including ths architect and members of the decoration committee. The arch will be finished in oriental colors and will be tn tha fall. Its total cost is esti- beautifully illuminated at night, carrying out tne idea of Portland, as an oasis, the sun setting in the west, the figures of the camel and the sphinx 'play- gnatad. J. $100,044, ing prominent roles.". lay resulted and the expansion has not been arrived at as rapidly as was the expectation. Mr. I'lacemann's plans, as he outlined them prior to his illness, are now being put Into execu tion under the charge of the various heads of departments under Arthur F. Carraza, secretary of the company. FARM SELLS AT $1000 ACRE Small Place on Outskirts of Eugene Brings IHgb Trice. EUGENE. Or., March J7. (Special) The sale of the Neednara brothers' little farm of 7V4 acres on the Elmlra highway on the outskirts of Eugene to F. E. Morrow, recently from Denver, at $1000 an acre is one of the latest of the many farm deals report ed during the past week. This Is said to be one of the beet suburban farms around Eugene. It is set largely to prune and cherry treen and Needham brothers have made specialty of raising pure-bred hogs on tbe place for a number of years past. additional 2S feet on Shenandoah ter race, increasing his alta to 10H feet frontage. Mr. and Mrs. Trouty expect to erect a home this spring upon their 85-foot lot on Westover road, while It Is understood Mr. and Mrs. Hansom will buUd later; Pioneer Resident Sells Tarra. Thomas Morris, Sr, en of the pio neer residents of Rainier, la.it week sold a farm of 673 acres In Columbia county to It. Gray & Co., of Hammond, Or. The purchasing concern will take immediate control and plans exten sive developments along stock lines. The sale was made through George II. Johnson, of the T. O. Hlrd rompnny. Ths roocldcratlon wan not lvn. I tliouch It is known that timber la In Lincoln county whs tsken In pi payment, the ri-M bring In cash. ! California Man Buys Oregon Far GTtEK.WlLT.K. Cal., March it (Special ) Maurice F.. Hunt, a ', cr.ifful farmer In the Indian valley j a number of years, lei f this week KoRue Itlver valley, Oregon, ulicrei has purchased a farm of ll acrra, I location i ffve miles from ths to nf 1r11n lltinl artM mA.I f V. I - I ..' but Is shipping a carload of furnltp and equipment. Mrs. Hunt and dam ler. KuKenta, will leave for Meif within a fw 1v I STORE TO ENTIRE BtTLDKVG TO BE USED BY END OF YEAR. Furrier Firm to Expan1 Lines to Women's Ready-to-Wear Goods in Future, Enlargement of the store of N. M. Ungar, furriers, Into a women's ready- to-wear store ultimately occupying the entire building in which the firm is now located at the southwest cor ner of Broadway and Alder streets, is forecast. The firm on April 1 will take over the quarters in the corner of the building now .occupied by the Broadway cigar store. At the present time the N. M. Ungar quarters are in the form of an "L" on both iides of the cigar store, with entrances on both Broadway and Alder streets. Some time ago the company se cured a lease on the entire building at that corner and intends to take over the premises as existing leases expire. By the first of January, it is announced, all the leases will nave xpircd and it is the intention ot tne company to begin at that time the alteration of the building, addition of another story and the Installation of a modern store for fur goods and ex- lusive lines of ladies' ready-to-wear varments. The improvements. It is said, will cost in the neighborhood of $100.IM0. The building is three tories high at the present time ana a foiwth will be added. Besides tne Broadway Cigar store and tbe N. M. Ungar company, tbe first floor is oc cupied by the Quality Shop and the Whltehouse Millinery shop. About April 1 the N. M. Ungar com pany will close its store for about 10 days whla alterations are carried out niting their quarters with moss now occupied by the cigar company. For the rest of this year the company will continue to handle furs and fur goods exclusively, branching out into the larger field only after still more floor space la secured with the ex piration of leases and Improvements to the building about ths first of next year. WESTOVER LOTS VS DEMAND "California Syrup: of .Figs" For ia Cl.ar liver and Bowel ft other! Say "California, then you 'win gtt genuine "California Syrup oLFiji Full, directions for babies and children of all age who are constipated, bilious, feverish, tongue coated, or full of cold, are plainly printed on the bottle. Children love thisUelicious-laxative. h" Available View Sites Become Few Daring Recent 3Ionths Sites n Westover Terraces ars tie coming limited, due to the rapid sale of the view property during the past few months, according to Harold Jungk. secretary of the International Realty associations, who own the property. Among the recent purchas ers are Samuel L. Eddy, Frank H. Ransom. J. H. Prouty, Alfred Aya and Rupert Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. Eddy mads ths pur chase of a site with 95 feet frontage on Westover road, which they expect to improve shortly, as do Mr. and Mrs. Aya, who secured, a tract of 100x120 feet on Cumberland road and Luray terrace, Rupert Hauser secured an i -BY GOLLY! THEY'RE BULLYT .' ? uv Never Shake you up, Dr Inconvenience. All that Headache, Biliousness and Constipation is gone! PAPE'S FOR INDIGESTION I- CHEW A FEW STOMACH FEELS FINE! At once! Relieves Indigestion. Heartburn. Gases. DysrwDs caused bv Aciditv. Hurryl. Buy a box at any druff store. Rei' "Common Sense Rules Regarding Jtomach" in every package .