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8 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. JULY 18, 1920 PLANS COMPLETED FOR MANN COHAGE Work on Memorial Expected to Begin in Short Time. BUILDING TO BE FRAME. Drawings Call for Structure to Cost About $22,000 Two and Half Stories High. - Plans for the new Anna. Mann me morial cottage to be erected on Reed college campus as the latest addition to the group of college buildings there, have been completed by the architect. A. E. Doyle, and bids will be called for during the coming week. It is expected to have the structure under way within a short time. - The new building was made possi ble through a gift to the college from the late Mrs. Anna Mann. In Mrs. Mann's will was the provision that the Portland home place, or proceeds from the place, go to the college, and the executors of the will have Just disposed of this property for $22,000. . The cot tape will be erected on the west end of the" campus, and plans prepared by Mr. Doyle call for a building of the English cottage type, in harmony with structures now on the campus, of which Mr. Doyle was also the architect. The plans call for a building to cost in the neighborhood Of J22.000. The building will be of frame con struction, finished on the exterior in stucco, and will be 32 by 72 feet in dimensions, and two and one-half torles in height. On the first floor will be a large living room, with library opening off of it, where the women of Reed college will be able to meet . for social functions. On this floor will also be a conservatory, re ception room and kitchen. Two large fireplaces will adorn the first floor, one in the living room, the. other in the library. The second floor will contain six bedrooms and four study rooms, the study rooms being so arranged that they will be available from any of the bedrooms. There are also two bathrooms on this floor. Three of the Studies have fireplaces. The building will be used as . a social center for girls and women of Reed college, and the living rooms on the second floor will be occupied by women members of the college fac ulty. ' Work on the building will be rushed, with the intention of having it ready for students and faculty members as Quickly as possible. While it is considered Impossible td have the structure ready in time for the opening of college in the fall, ' K- is thought the building will be ready for occupancy by Thanksgiving time. . . i IS McGVlRE AGEXCY PUTS J. CROSSIEY IX CHARGE. W. Branch to Handle High-Class Resi dence Property, From $7500 and Upward. Beginning Monday morning, J. W. Crossley will have charge of the "high class" residence department of the Frank I McGuire agency. Es tablishment of this branch of the McGuire agency was necessitated by a constantly increasing demand for homes ranging in price from $7500 upward. The new department will be operated under the McGuire system and offices will be maintained in conjunction with the headquarters of the firm in the Abington bldg. .. Mr. Crossley has been a resident or i"ornana ior a number of years nd is thoroughly familiar with the real estate market of the city. He was for several years connected with the Jjaurelhurst company and after ward became associated with Thomas Viggers In the Crossley-Viggers com pany. Upon the dissolution of this firm in the spring of 1919, he became secretary of the Portland realty board. During the past few months he has co-operated with Paul G'Mur phy in the sale of several hundred houses erected by the government at Bremerton, Wash., and Vallejo. Cal. The McGuire staff now numbers 17 salesmen, and two more will be added to assist Mr. Crossley in the new department. . .. HOME BRINGS GOOD PRICE Suburban Place of C. B. Brunn Is Sold to W. E. Roberts. " A splendid house sale of the past week was that of the C. D. Brunn suburban home at Riverwood. The dwelling was purchased by W. E, Roberts and while the consideration Swan nvi tsiven, ii waa unaersiooa 10 e nearlv ISO. 000. Mr. Rrnnn in th president of the Blake, McFall com pany,, whHe the buyer, Mr. Roberts, is a member of the firm of Roberts Brothers. - The dwelling is one of the most beautiful of that district and stands upon a plot of two and one-half acres of ground, overlooking the Willamette river. The house is mod ern in every way, while the grounds are landscaped. Mr. Roberts will take possession of his new home early in August. The deal was handled through W. H Ross, local realtor. IMPERIAL ARMS SELLS LOT Quarter Block at West Park and Harrison Valued at $25,000 The Imperial Arms company of Portland last week sold a quarter block of land at the southwest corner of v est Park and Harrison streets t Fred Elwert of Sherwood, who made the purchase as an investment. Th sale was negotiated by Fred E. Tay lor of the . E. Taylor company. The deed did not specify the consid eration, but the property is said to be valued at approximately $25,000. The location is in the center of a popular apartment-house district and has a facing of 100 feet on the park blocks. A residence stands on the inside lot along the west end of the property, but the balance of the quar ter block is vacant. Prank Ii. McGuire Is Father. Frank L. McGuire of the McGuire Real Estate company was passing around the cigars the last three days of . last week. Mr. and Mrs. McGuire became the parents on Thursday of a baby girl, ; . DEMAND CONTINUES BRISK u ...... 3 JW.V Two homes sold recently by the Cre y .... p. - S 1. -FW Forty-fourth street North, In the Alameda district. Mold V T- Francla Drake for 4750. Beloir Dwelling pur chased by Henry Freeman from William R. Kaiser for -000. It la located at 1118 East Twentieth street North, n Alberta. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP FAILS IN OBTAINING LOWER FARES Boston and Seattle Held Up as Examples and in Both Instances Street Car Riders Have Been Forced to Pay More Than Cities Elsewhere. BY WILLIAM C. BENBOW. M' ANY persons have been of the opinion that municipal owner ship would secure or permit low rates for public service. The ar gument is that with such a plan no dividends would be paid on "water" or on inflated . values; that the city attorney could handle the litigation of a public utility when operated by the city and save the expense of a legal force such as a public utility must have in order to operate at all; that all the accounting and book keeping could be carried on by the city force without extra expense (?); that the engineering department of the city could look after the engi neering question of the public utility without an extra charge (?); that the city could borrow money to operate the utility cheaper than the utility. and. incidentally, that the utility, be ing relieved of all taxation and all public burdens now imposed on public utilities whose stock is held by private persons, the car-riders would be bene fited by lower fares. Several cities have attempted to se cure low rates by this plan. In Massa chusetts the public was invested by a legislative act with the full control for ten years of the public utilities of all the large cities of that state. The value set on the public utilities taken over was a cash value determined and agreed to by the legislature of the state. The return on such value was at as low a rate per cent as bonds could be issued for by the state or the city of Boston and sold on the market, if actual ownership of the utility had been taken over. Hence, the test was the same in that state as though the state of Massachusetts or the city of Boston had become the actual owner of the public utilities of the leading cities of the state. Question Is Tested. It was a shrewd move on the part of the people of the state of Massa chusetts, because they could by such a plan test out the question whether Photo by Bushnell. J. W. Crossley, well-ksona Portland realtor, who joins ranks of Frank L. McGuire . . agency on Monday. - FOR MODE RATE PRICED EAST SIDE DWELLINGS. - K - ,.. ... w w ?. - Savldge company. They arei Above public ownership would secure lower rates without the danger of an enor mous public debt in case they were mistaken. But the result is not lower rates, as was hoped, but, on the con trary, higher rates. The street-car fare was at first five cents, then seven cents, then eight cents and at last ten cents. This rate applies to Boston, Fall River, Lowell, Cambridge, Lynn and Lawrence. These are the leading cities of the state of Massa chusetts. In fact, the result was that the rates of fare in these cities are the highest of any f the cities of the United States except Pittsburg, where tho street-car system is run by re ceivers at a ten-cent fare, and Seattle, where the street cars are run by the city with a ten-cent cash fare. The city of Seattle is having a clean-cut experience of the value of municipal ownership as a means of saving or maintaining low street-car fares. The effect of municipal owner ship. is clearer in this city than In Boston, because certain public charges or public burdens are still a charge in Boston against the revenues of the street-railway system of the state. Also the utilities' property is still taxed. In Boston all the taxes and public burdens ordinarily imposed on a public utility are there a charge against the revenues, obtained from the car riders. Seattle Fares ITp. But in Seattle, the car-rider does not pay any part of the ordinary taxes imposed on privately owned public utilities. Neither does the car rider pay any of the public burdens usually imposed upon public utilities run by private management. Never theless, the fare is the highest of any of the cities of the Pacific slope. It may be said that the municipal ownership of a short line in the con gested center of San Francisco is proof that municipal ownership brings j low fares. But, although this line I only serves the congested districts of that city, yet it is running behind, according to reports, at the rate of $11,000 a month; while the United Railways of San Francisco must take care of the outlying districts and of the unprofitable lines by superior economies and management or become bankrupt. To use the taxing power of a city to bankrupt a legitimate and neces sary business enterprise seems to be a very poor public policy. The public service commission of the different suites, with all their failure and faults, have established in a very difficult time a much better and more stable system. They, have been ex ceedingly slow, it is true, to raise rates and the result is that about one fifth of the public utilities of the country are in bankruptcy. And nearly invariably a receivership has been followed by a rise in fares. '. - . - Rlsea Held Justified. . These public service commissions, in the face of a nearly universal and unanimous opposition of the public. have saved to the public as low a rate as it is at all possible to do and have secured to it and continued for its benefit a necessary public service. These men with their political life in imminent jeopardy have neverthe less . went forward . and, when . the necessary facts were obtained ren dered a just decision as they are re quired to do by their oath of office. The very law under which they act, enacted by the people themselves, re quires that the rates of public utili ties be "fair and reasonable." "Fair and reasonable" means fair and rea sonable, to everybody; to the city, to 53 km.. ;:?.:; Home of E. M. Fouch, at 606 East the utilities owners and to the car riders who use the service. It would not be fair and reasonable to make a rate so low that the serv ice would be discontinued. The fundamental reason why pub lic ownership will nevr be able to procure a low rate of fare as against private ownership with public regu lations, will be discussed In a future article. MERCURY WORKS PLANNED War Eagle Mining Company Lets Contract for 2 0 0,000 Bricks. GOLD HILL, Or.. July 16. (Spe cial.) The War Eagle Mining com pany of Medford, a Seattle concern recently taken over by local people, has let a contract to W. H. Stickel of Gold Hill to burn 200,000 brick at the mine 12 miles north of Gold Hill to be used in the construction of a 30-ton Scott mercury furnace on the works. The property, consisting of 36 claims, known as the Utah group of mercury mines, was purchased by Salt Lake City men In 1915 from the original locaters and later sold to the Seattle men who developed the property. The mine is equipped with two 12-pipe mercury furnaces with 10-ton capacity and has been a steady producer since 1915. The present equipment has been used only on high-grade ore, running better than 17 per cent, but with the completion of the Scott furnace ore running as low as 2 per cent can be reduced at a profit, with mercury selling at present prices of from $80 to $90 per flask of 75 pounds. Legion Men to Wear "Civies." CLEVELAND. In contrast to the khaki which all were wearing two years ago. the 3000 delegates to the second national convention of the American Legion here in September will march in civilian garb. All former service men here at the time of the convention will be asked to participate in the procession. Dele gates from all over the United States, Cuba, the Philippines, Hawaii. Mexico, Canada, England, France and Bel gium, representing a membership of more than 1,500,000 veterans of the world war, are ' expeected. CONSTRUCTION OF HANDSOME NEW ANNA MANN COTTAGE AT REED COLLEGE WILL START SOON. Sketch f roi of latest addition to a the late Mrs. Anna CORPORATIONS TAKE TO BUILDING HOMES Stability Depends on Housing Facilities, Says Report. MOVE TO BENEFIT LABOR! Xext Few Years Will Bring Unpre cedented Activity In This In dustry, Is Prediction. The next few years will witness a tremendous amount of home building by large industrial corporations, ac cording to a statement issued by S. W. Straus & Co., which says: 'As the season advances building conditions throughout the United States are growing more acute, and we cannot hope for complete and per manent economic stabilization until the nation's housing problem has been solved. Not only must there be am ple housing facilities, but home own ership must be given immediate and substantial encouragement. In effecting the minimum of la bor turnover and in fostering a broad spirit of loyalty, co-operation and contentment among the workers, the Industrial corporations of the country will find that the development of home owning practices among their employes will do more practical good than any other expedient. Owner Is Made Thrifty. when a man acquires his own home he feels, as never before, a sense of responsibility in the preservation of the orderly processes of business and realizes with keen enthusiasm tro stabilizing value of thrift and pru dent habits of life. "There are many indications that we are coming into a new order of life in America, which will mean radical innovations in industrial financing. Large employers of labor will be prompted more and more in their desires to co-operate with em ployes in building homes which shall be owned eventually by the workers. This new spirit will manifest itself in a tremendous amount of home building in all the large industrial centers of the country during the en suing few years. Loan for Corporations. "In- harmony with these develop ments and in order also to lend all possible encouragement to the na- I tion's necessary building programme, I S. W. Straus & Co. have arranged to make loans in the form of first mort gage bond issues in amounts of $500,000 and upward to responsible, firmly established industrial corpora tions engaged in the production of es sential commodities, the proceeds to be devoted to the construction of dwellings for employes. We hope and believe other lending institutions will offer the encour agement of their resources and pres tige in advancing a great national industrial housing movement. It li our opinion that all possible steps should be taken both by extensive employers of labor and by financial institutions to the end that there shall be developed as speedily as possible widespread homebuilding pro- gramme, which will accomplish more than any other one feature toward the development of thrift, happiness and prosperity among the American people. XEW REALTY FIRM STARTS Sturm-Kefer Company Takes Mem bership in Portland Board. With four men all of wide experi ence in the real estate and investment field affiliated in its organization. new real estate firm, the Sturm-Kefer company has opened for business. The headquarters of the firm are at 214 Fifth street. The organization has al ready taken out a membership in the Portland Realty board. F. L. Sturm and C. W. Kefer, the heads of the company, are both men of wide business experience, Mr. Sturm having been a successful in- terurban railroad builder in North Da kota for some years. Mr. Kefer, who will be in charge of the company's office, has been a Portland resident for many years, having been con nected with the Pacific Title & Trust company and the Union Abstract com papy. R. W. Morse, who held a commis sion as captain during the war, will be in charge of the city sales depart ment and C. A. Morse, who has had considerable real estate experience in the middle west, will have charge of the farm lands department. HOOD RIVER ORCHARDS SOLD J. L. Carter and Gus Miller Dis- pose of Two Tracts. HOOD RIVER. Or., July 17. (Spe cial.) J. L. Carter, owner of the pioneer commercial tract for 18 years, has sold his 50-acre east side orchard to John Rath of Chicago, who ex pected to arrive here with his family about August 1. Sixteen acres of the place are in commercial trees, a por tion of which were planted 25 and 30 years ago by M. V. Rand, one of the first men of the district to venture into apple growing as a business. A private trout pool is located on the place. Mr. pnd Mrs. Carter plan living in loeal college enmpus, f22,O0O women's Mann. A. 12. Doyle la the architect. ' prj j Portland. They were In charge of the state blind school at Salem for a time. Mr. Carter, ex-president of the Oregon Pioneer society, was for merly member of the legislature from this county. George W. Friday, former owner of an east siile place, has purchased from Gus Miller his 11-acre orchard tract on the Belmont road. Mr. Mil ler and wife will remove to a place recently purchased from M. R. Noblo on the Columbia River hig-hway at Ruthton hill. The place bought by Mr. Friday, containing 11 acres in full bearing, is considered one of the banner placis of the Valley. I REALTY HEAD EXTERTAIXS Xew Home of F. E. Taylor Scene of - Brilliant Reception. The new home of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Taylor on Westover terraces was the scene Tuesday evening of a brill iant reception, at which several hun dred members of the realty profession of the city and their wives and friends were present. The occasion was in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ingersoll, house guests of the Taylors for the summer. Mr. Taylor was recently elected to the presidency of the national asso ciation of real estate boards and Mr. Ingersoll is secretary of the asso ciation, a position which he has held for some years. Following the elec- JONES CASH STORE PROSPECTUS OF STRUCTURE: tion of Mr. Taylor, Mr. Ingersoll came west with his wife from Minneapolis in order to have a conference with Mr. Taylor regarding plans of the as sociation for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll left Wednesday evening for Spokane for the annual meeting of the Interstate Realty association on the last three days or last ween, where both Mr. Taylor and Mr. In gersoll had prominent places on the programme. NIXE HOMES SOLD SAME DAY Tuesday Proved Banner Day lor Frank. Li. McGuire Company. Tuesday was the banner day of the present year for the Frank J ic Gulre company, nine residences being sold by the company on that one day. with a total valuation of over $25,000. This record sale is considered as Lhnnrlant refutation of the belief In I some circles that the realty the realty market wa slowine up in Portland and tnai the house shortage was going to be relieved by some unknown means be- vond new building. There still con tinues to be a heavy demand for homes, realtors generally throughout the city report, although with the usual summer exodus to the beaches and mountains the situation has been Eomewhat relieved. However, with the fall return of business and school activities, the shortage is expected to be keener than ever and a strong de mand for homes is looked for. With the exception of one day last year, Tuesday was tne recora any m the history of the McGuire company. Sales on one day in 1919 mounted to ten. according to the records. How ever, Tuesday, with nine sales, is a record-breaker for the company thus far in 1920. The nine houses sold were located in almost as many dif ferent sections of the city, showing a wide and substantial demand, rather than a little flurry in one locality. XEW OFFICES ARE TAKEN Carey-Savidge Company Moves Into Room 211 Same Building. The Carey-Savidge company, which has been located in room 219 Railway Exchange building, has moved to room 211 of the building. The change was made in order to give the company larger quarters, necessary with the expansivn of its business, and gives it more desirable quarters on the north side of the building, facing Stark street and at a more central and convenient location on the second floor. The rooms formerly occupied by the Carey-Savidge company have been taken by the Admiral line, lor- merly located at room 217. Honolulu Women Clubs to Inite HONOLULU. T. H. Women's clubs of Honolulu will unite in a federa tion to gain the strength that comes from union, according to a decision of a meeting of delegates from almost every women's organization in the citv which ' was held recently. A committee was formed to draft a constitution, which, it is expected will follow closely the lines of the San Francisco federation. eottase, aade possible through gift feazs a, dsns Amfe !aa s ists Jtc Fn STORE NOW IN NEED OF BIGGER QUARTERS New Building Planned for Jones Establishment. WORK IS TO START SOON Structure Covering Half Block to Be Erected on East Side Com pany's Business Grows. Plans for a new building for the Jones Cash store have been completed and work on the structure, which will be located at East Morrison street be tween East First and Belmont, will begin soon. The structure will be WILL HAVE NEW HOME ON EAST WHICH WILL. BE ERECTED AT O.XCE FOR MERCANTILE FIRM. mrec stones in neism uuu a. iuii uns ment, and will measure 100 by 200 feet in ground dimensions, occupying the half-block. The building will parallel the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, with sidings and modern facilities for handling incoming and outg o 1 n g freight, facilitating the company's mail order and freight business. It will be equipped with the latest sys tem of conveyors and a gravity chute will be used for the quick handling of merchandise. The plan for the new building includes a kitchenette, rec reation and rest rooms and other fea tures for the comfort and convenience of employes. The building will be of reinforced concrete construction, with steel sash windows, affording a maxi mum of light and ventilation. The Jones Cash store was organ ized in 1882 by F. A. Jones, with the original location on Front street near Alder. For more than 20 years the company did a mail order business from this location, but in 1904 it was found that quarters had been out grown and the company moved to a new building ' at Front and Oak streets. In 1908 the interests of Mr. Jones were purchased by Henry J.. and Sigmund W. Ottenheimer, who have directed the organization since that time. This year it was again found that the bustness had consid erably outgrown its location and the new building on the east side was projected for the company and will be built this year. The new building has been planned after a study of the best equipped mail order houses throughout the country, according to Mr. Ottenheim er, Houghtaling & Dougan are the architects. PLANE BRAKE INVENTED SOLUTION OF OXE AVIATION PROBLEM CLAIMED. Portland Mechanic Asserts Device Will Make Possible Landing in Small Space. J. B. 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