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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1921)
8. TIIE . - SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, . PORTLAND, JULY 17, 1921 ES RESIPENCE SALES SHOW INCREASING DEMAND FOR HIGHER PRICED HOMES; Mid-Summer Piano Sale A o5.0hterest.You? Recent Deals Indicative of We are in better position than ever to render effective service in your buying at a Increasing Demand. Saving of $157 to $505 During This Sale! HEIGHTS ARE ATTRACTIVE Residences Ranging From $4000 to $18,000 Reflect Scope of Recent Transactions. Wou i"y J x : v j j t 1 Ll XWW -O - sr"'. r''T$ !wJ ' An increasing demand for the fclgher priced and more substantial residence property of the city, and consequently a more healthy tor.e to the residence market, is indicated by recent sales made by Coe A. Mc Kenna & Co. ' This concern has sold within the last few days a total of 13 residences at prices aggregating more than $80,000. Only one of these houses was sold for a price as low as $4000. Ths remainder ranged between that figure and the top price of $18,000. Earlier In the season the principal demand in the city a for the lower priced bungalows and residence prop erty. The fact that the demand for the higher priced homes is shown to be increasing IB considered an en couraging feature and indicative of a greater Interest in real estate. ' Height Inviting Field. - Not only is there a tendency on the part of new arrivals in the city to purchase homes, but many old-time I'crtland residents also are invest ing in the higher priced residences, according to (leorge Mahoney, sales manager for Coe A. McKenna & Co. Mr. Mahoney declared that there is an unusual amount of inquiry in heights property of all kinds. Both new arrivals in the city and old resi dents are Interested in the acquiring cl homes with the beautiful view fur nished by the heights property, he eaid. The two highest priced residences reported sold by Coe A. McKenna & Co. are both located on Portland heights. One of these is a beautiful colonial residence at 718 Kings court, which was sold to Louis Gerlinger by Robert Livingstone for $18,000. SettlnK Scenic Lookout. This residence has 10 rooms and two fireplaces. The Interior arrange ment Is what is known as old Eng lish, with the beamed ceilings and imllar finishing. The house has a shingled exterior. It is located close In and has a beautiful view of the city, river and mountains. Another of the houses reported sold by the same company is the Portland heights residence at 737 Talbot road, .which was sold by Charles B. Malar key to Caroline Benson Unander for $14,000. This residence Is beautifully ar ranged in the Interior, with two fire places, hardwood floors, shower baths, sun room and large bedrooms. A stone stairway leading up to the front entrance and a big, roomy front porch are other features. Other Important Sale. Other residences reprfrted sbld by Coe A. McKenna & Co. recently in . elude the following: O. R. Miller to Carl H. Haesland, 759 East Seventeenth-street North. $425U. " W. H. Monroe to Mrs. Lena Raap. 414 East Thirty-eighth street North, ."000. H. J. Jackdon to J. A. Bishop, 535 East Fifty-first street North, $4750. Mrs. J. W. Taylor to C. E. Wilson, 1063 Rodney avenue. $5000. J. H. (illbauKh to Albert Koch, 460 Hancock street, 94500. M. Barber to P. M. Baldwin, 224 Al berta street, $5300. George R. Domkee to E. E, Shank, 1544 Jordan street, $4000. B. C. Vahl to Ernest Defayes, 042 East Thirty-sixth street North, $4750. W. K. Merrltt to M. M. Israel. 483 East Thirty-seventh street North, $5300. Julius Uossche to Mrs. N. II. Duff, 1091 Thurman street, $5750. BUILDING IS PURCHASED AUcn-Wllden Bedding Companj Gets Frame Structure. The Allen-Wllden Bedding company purchased last week the one-story frame building at' 65 North Union avenue which that company has been occupying for the last two years under a lease. The building was sold by the United Artisans and the pur chase price was given out as $3000. The sale was negotiated by J. P. Parker of the iletzger Parker com pany. The building involved in the deal covers 50x100 feet of space. The bed ding company announced that it would make general improvements of ' the premises and would install additional machinery. Mr. Parker also announced that the three-story brick building at 824 Williams avenue was sold by Seattle parties to Joseph Illk. This building has two store rooms below and the upper stories are occupied by apart ment property. The purchase price was said to be in the neighborhood Of $10,000. An increasing demand for small business property for purchase was reported by Mr. Parker. 9100,000 BUILDING PL.UXED Bret hod 1st Churches to Erect Set tlement Center. Plans are being prepared for the new $100,000 building which is to be erected by the Methodist churches of the city at the northeast corner of Front and Caruthers streets for the housing of the Portland settlement center conducted by the Home Mis sionary societies of the Methodist Churches. The new building will be used to carry on the settlement work which has outgrown the present quarters of the Home Missionary society at 209 Caruthers street. The proposed building will cover a ground space, 100x100 feet. The lower floor will house a large auditorium, gymnasium, domestic science labora tories and sewing rooms. Upper floors will be used for dormitories for girls. There will also be facilities for the clinic maintained by the settlement association. - The funds for the erection of the 'new building will be raised by popular subscription. It was an- announced that several thousand dol lars have already been contributed. New Department Opened. " The Johnson Dodson company an Bounced last week the establishment of a business chance department with A. Richambach in charge. It was an nounced that this new department will handle lodging houses, hotels, rentals and leases and similar busi .ness. Mr. Richambach has been a resi dent of Portland for the past 20 years. He formerly operated a busi ness chance business in the city. innl I-- 1. f 3 4 S 1 1 s " " vj.. wx.. i:.- Above Colonial residence at T1S Kins; Coart sold by Robert Llvlnsratone to Houhc at 7:7 Talbot road sold by Cbarlea B. Halarker to Caroline Benson. were negotiated by Coe A. McKenna A Co. . COST TREND ILLUSTRATED MODERN E A STMOKEL A X D HOUSE ODER OLD CHARGES. Residence of R. C. Diebenkorn May Be Only $6500 Instead of $10, 000 Two Years Ago. An illustration' of the trend toward lower building prices is had in the home now being built for R. C. Die benkorn on the corner of Crystal Springs boulevard and Rex avenue, in Eastmoreland. Mr. Diebenkorn is one of the department managers for Olds, Wortman & King and his new home is located directly across from the East moreland municipal golf links. It Is a well-planned English type cottage of seven rooms with every conven ience demanded by the home owner of today. Two years or less ago this home would easily have cost $10,000 to build. The plans have been prepared by LeToung & Roald and the archi tects' estimates call for an expendi ture of $700(T, though the indications are that $500 will be 'cut from that sum. Many homes in the city not so complete or as large as the new Die benkorn residence have sold during the last 18 months for 60 per cent more than his initial cost. The building eite faces southwest and is 76x100 feet in area. The home incorporates many ideas that seldom appear in a building of this size, in corporated from larger and more elab NEAV HOME IN EASTMORELAND ILLUSTRATES TREND - Hr 1M1IH -.16 f - B W--a " "" '-itiMnHtiniinnri-i w - . f-js. ' i, , . . - ' - . ' STRUCTURE IS BEING ERECTED FOR R. C. DIEBEXKORS AT ISOOO SAVIXC. 3 - i -if ft. ' "- ' -.S .:vh orate structures. The low cost was only achieved by careful and pains taking supervision and by means of many changes in planning. For In stance, some desirable' wants were canceled to make the house as eimple as possible. Thus it was found neces sary to lay oak floors downstairs and hemlock in the bedrooms. The architects designed the house to fit its site. It will be 39 by 36 feet ground area and the finish -is shin gles, laid 15 inches to the weather and painted a gray. The roof will be a rich brown stain. On the lower floor are a large reception hall, a living room 15x22, a dining' room 13x15, a breakfast room between the kitchen ' and ' dining room 7x10, a kitchen, large guest room and com plete bathroom. The upper floor has the owners' room, 12x14, a bedroom 13x14, and a bathroom. 16 OXE-ACRE TRACTS SOLD Ascot Property, 1 Miles. East of Portland, Is in Demand. The sale of 16 ' one-acre tracts In what is known as Ascot acres, seven miles east of the business section of the city on the Base Line road,, was reported last week by the firm of Boone-Clearwater which is handling the sale of that property. It was -announced that a ' number of residences will be erected on the property in the near -future and that practically ail purchasers .are plan ning to build. The property is cut by the Trout dale electric line. ... Phone your waul ads to The Ore gonian. Main 7070, Automatic 560-95. 11 .i. vv Loula Gerlinger for fIS.OOO. Below Unander (or 14,000. Both these aales MORE HOUSES TO GO OP ACTIVE BUILD IX G IX YVILSHIRE TRACT PREDICTED. Large Xumber of Homesltes Sold In Sew Addition and Many Buy ers Plan to Build. , A tremendous volume of building activity is- predicted for Wilshire ad dition, a new tract adjoining Alameda on the east and Beaumont on the north, where the J. L. Hartman com pany has sold 62 building sites in the past three weeks. a A. H. Hickman, salesman for that company, announced that already ten purchasers of building sites have started the erection of homes. Prac tically all purchasers, he said, are planning to build in the near future. A number of the purchasers of home sites are declared to be ex service men who plan to take advan tage of state loans provided for in the bonus law. Porter brothers, who own the tract, are grading the streets and putting the addition in shape. A huge cater pillar tractor is being used for pulling trees and stumps preliminary to grad ing work. The city is preparing to lay water mains in the tract and this work will start, in about a week, it was an nounced.; IN BUILDING COSTS. 7M Pianlata SXt $26 cash, $t moathly tM Thompson $45 S2 cub, $18 noBtaly $106,850.00 Tou can afford to pay $15 cash. $6. $8 "or $10 monthly. Tou can, therefore, afford to buy now during this Readjustment Period Sale Tour old Piano organ or phonograph or city lot taken as first payment. Your boy or girl working can now save $10 monthly ana secure a musical education? plan' orB" fcAVfc JSY BfcLNG YOUK OWN SALESMAN. The Schwan Piano Co, makes it easy for you proved duality Dlano bv Its organized methnri nf rflstrihnf Inn ll.Mnc!lsr. , , .. 4 i , . r i vou benefit h. ih. ffi 9ft. . 98r and still lower ori n iral frf firs't' piymeentPriCeS " epecia1, factory rebuilt and used pianos do not sell as ORDER YOUR PIANO BY MAIL. understand why we have thousands of oe snipped subject to your approval a wi me piano you may oraer. SI of the piano you may order. Every from the manufacturer. lO1.10:t Tenth St. at WaMhlnjrtoii and Stark Stm. CITY GETS CHAIN STORES SKA GO COXCERS PURCHASES TWO LOaiL GROCERIES. General Manager of Company Ex pects This City to Become Great Commercial Center. The 'purchase of two grocery stores and the establishment of two others in different sections of the city featured the entrance into Portland last week of Skagg's United Stores, a concern which is operating a string of 40 grocery stores and meat markets between Portland and Salt Lake City. M. B. Skagg, who is general man ager of Skagg's United Stores for Oregon and Idaho, announced that the transactions meant that his con cern already had an investment of $40,000 in Portland. This, he said, probably would be increased as the business of the concern prospered. The stores taken over by Skagg's United Stores included the Freeman grocery at 249 Yamhill, formerly op erated by M. Freeman, and the Java Coffee company at 291 Yamhill street. In addition new stores were estab lished by the same concern at 226 Yamhill street and at the corner of East Tenth and East Burnside Btreets. Mr. Skagg said that his firm had also established a store at Salem, Or. The district office for Oregon of the string of stores will be maintained in Portland in future, Mr. Skagg an nounced. Mr. Skagg plans to make his home in this city and will keep in touch, with the business of this section of the chain of stores from this city. With this in view he purchased last week a residence at 915 Dunckley avenue. The Skagg's United Stores has been operating in the northwest for the last seven years. The concern has rapidly spread its Jurisdiction over cities in Utah, Idaho and Oregon. The establishment of the firm in the Port land field was declared to have been due to the belief that this is one of the best business fields to be found in the country. "We consider Portland to be a city with a future second to none in the country," said Mr. Skagg, "and for that reason we are well pleased to get established in the Portland field. We look forward to this city domi nating more and more trade terri tory and becoming one of the big business centers of the country." BIG REAITX TRADE CLOSED Big: Garage Building in Albany Is Exchanged for Farm. ALBANY, Or.. July J6. (Special.) One of the largest real estate trans actions reported in Linn county for some time was closed here Thursday when the big garage building eirected about two years ago by C. H. Murphy at the corner of Second and Ells worth streets in this city, -and now occupied by the Murphy Motor com pany, was traded by Mr. Murphy for a 320-acre farm north of Lebanon, owned by Otis R. Keebler. Whatever cash consideration was involved in the deal was not made public. The Murphy building is one of the best garage buildings in the state. The Keebler farm includes a well developed prune orchard and one of the most modern farm residences in Oregon. The deal will not change the busi ness of the Murphy Motor company in any way, a9 it will continue to oc cupy the building. REALTORS IX PARTNERSHIP J. O. Elrod and H, A. Dryer Open Gorden Building Offices. J. O. Elrod and H. A. Dryer, Port land real estate men, have joined partnership under the firm name of Elrod & Dryer and have established headquarters in a suite of eight office rooms on the second floor of the Gordon building. It was announced that an important part of the business of the new con cern would be the handling of the diked lands of the Multnomah drain age district. They will also handle farm and timber lands and houses. J. W. Crossley, formerly connected with the office of Frank L. McGuire, will have charge of the house depart ment of the new firm. The sale of the drainage district lands will be in charge of C. H. N'aylor. XEW PACKIXG PIAXT OPENED Carstens Company Finds Portland Great Distributing Center. The new $30,000 plant of the Car stens Packing company, 106 Front street, was opened last Thursday with a reception which was attended by local packers, butchers and business men generally. This company recently purchased the three-story building occupied by the new plant and installed up-to-date coolers and other equipment. Thomas Carstens of Icoma, presl- Hi Kimball $Jl tli cash, (It monthly IN PIANOS AND PLAYER PIANOS AT At a Saving; pf $33,551, in Which You Share If You Buy Now. ...iV. a-: T .nV.-l-.V or JVh.?nV h .IL. Read, study and compare our quality, prices and easy terms, as advertised, and you will r mail-order buyers. We prepay freight and make delivery in your home within 200 miles, besides the niano will fin RlinlPrt t rv TCnnnoa t tt nin rr a x-oa wa a 1 ) i-tw ino- fli n w r rrw i .:... 1 1 : . . . 7 piano or organ Dur chased carries with It icIiwa.o PIsoi Co. dent of the company, who was in Port land for the reception and opening of the plant, announced that the plant was located here as a result of the realization that Portland was a great distributing center. NEW BRIDGE IS DEDICATED n Structure Over Snake River Cost About $120,000. BOISE Idaho, July 16. (Special.) Another bridge across the Snake river was dedicated this week. It is lo? ated four miles south of Hagerman on the Idaho-Pacific state highway. The contract tor the structure was let just a year ago and it was de signed by the bridge department of the state bureau of highways. The cost was approximately $120,000. Governor Davis officially dedicated the bridge. With the governor at the time were Commissioner of Public Works Hall. Colonel D. P. Olson, di rector of highways, and Charles A. Kyle, bridge engineer of the state highway department. Taxpayer Attends Masquerade Ball. WASHINGTON, D. C. Ex-Secretary Lansing said at a dinner: "Our taxes are too high. The only way to get them lowered is to pro test against them strenuously. This is being done. "I heard of a chap who went to a masquerade ball the other night in a costume, that excited a great deal of comment. He wore, in fact, a long tailed shirt, socks and shoes but no trousers. " 'George said his host rather se verely, 'what the dickens do you rep resent Venus preparing for the bathr " 'No," said George, complacently. 'This is an original idea of my own. rpresejiatapyer! era A Plentiful Supply of HOT WATER at HooseelessInK Time. Housecleaning cannot be thor oughly done without a plentiful supply of hot water. A REX Water Heater assures a constant, copious sup ply of "piping" hot water. Ends water heating on the range. Saves hours of time. Dependable. inexpensive and safe. Installed with the minimum of trouble. We can quickly give you full information as to cost of setting one up in your home. Alaska Plumbing & Heating Co. 363 E. MorriKoa St. East 2B54 HOUSE PAINTING BERGER BROS. BROADWAY 500 RELIABILITY and SERVICE FURNACE We have ' the Richardson-Boyn-ton Furnaces bota the pipeless and the regular kind. We are ex perts on heating and ventilating. We will give you the benefit of our forty years' experience in this line. It will, save you future trouble and expense by Installing the right furnace In the right way. J. C. Bayer Furnace Company . 204 MARKET ST. "Vindows, Doors, Glass Builders' Hardware. Finish Limber, Palnta and Rooflngr We Uaanfactare Alt Oar Special Work Prompt ' at ad Free Delivery HEACOCK SASH & DOOR CO. X12-214 First St. Blaia 485-B3S-M fttecer 2S cash, $11.46 monthly """""I'i J'Jf "u " u"rs Pr-"8 "e you. Liberty and other bonds, phonograph or old piano or organ accepted 'the Schwan Piano ra c-naranreo rr OFFICIALS EET HOMES WASHIXGTOX DEPARTMENTS TO MOVE IXTO CAPITOL. Treasurer to Have Quarters Where One of Finest Vaults in West Is Located. OLTMPIA, Wash., July 16. (Spe cial.) A meeting of the capitol com mittee, composed of Governor Hart, Treasurer Babcock and Land Com missioner Savldge. was held in the quarters of the governor Thursday afternoon, at whicih it was decided to ask the city of Olympia to improve Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets in order that there might be better ac cess to the new capitol. A resolution was also adopted for the cleaning up of the foundation begun under the Rogers adminitra tion, and which will be used for the foundation of the main building of the group, for which the plans are now being drawn by Wilder & White in New York city. The old Stevens block, the site of the first home of the territorial gov ernor of Wasington, Isaac I. Stevens, the house still standing, is to be cleared off and the little yellow residence at the corner of Twelfth street, which Governor Stevens used as his office building, will be torn down. It Is believed that the tparine 1 4 .INS--' tsgfr iCLU- -Dl 22 Houses Now Under Construction Built to Endure See Them VOIR OWN DESIGN PORTLAND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Succeaor to Fanchrr-McLrsn Co. DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS SOS-9-10 Lewis Building Phone Broadway 3852 pASHIHGTOII an, jmmi ana sssi -a. lb BOARD The J. McCraken Company Portland, Oregon Sole Distributors Building Materials Elake-McFall Bldg. Bdwy. 5747; Anto. 547-67 HOME BUILDERS USE MILLE Oregon Standard Paints v Made in Oregon Wears longer goes farther costs less MILLER PAINT CO. 172 First Street ONE ROOM It Yon lie Oscillating Portal Wall Beds Recess Wall Beds Peerleaa Built-in Breakfast Table. Seats, Ironlns; Boards, Etc. Sold Exclusively In Oregon by TIMMS, CRESS & CO., Inc. Building; Specialties Paints Varnishes. . 184 Second Street. Main 72. S265 195 3 Jlos. k Mas. Stelnway 99S $U cash, $1 monUUy $73,299.00 to buy now and own a new, im- .. " " ' F. c'l7 or traveling salesmen, and a,if ..ii. f.?."f'i.f...Z- pArtlnnd's liBrjrft Piano Diittrlbutora down of this building and the clean ing up of the old foundation presaged the facing of the old foundation with granite preparatory to asking the next session of the legislature to build the main building of the group. Within a few days several more of the directors and state officials will I be housed in the Insurance building, l which Is rapidly being prepared for their occupancy. Among those who will move are the state treasurer, who is to be fitted with one of the best fire-proof vaults in the west, the necessity for whioh was one of the main reasons for the changes in the new Insurance building. The state auditor will move into quarters on the second floor of the building, and the director of business control will also have his main office on that floor, with additional quarters in the basement. These moves will make way for the Placing of the state traveling library in the old capitol, and this will save 11200 a year, which would have been paid out in rent for that institution had the new buildings not been built. A like amount was saved when the department of public works was moved into the old capitol from the basement of the public library, where it had been housed for years. Peasants Killing Bolslieviki. REVAL, Esthonia. The Moscow newspaper. Economic Life, asserts that during the month of May more than 200 employes of the bolshevik food department, making requisitions of food, etc., in the country, were killed by peasants or bandits. 3x "-fWRw"XW IIII!!l!!iIIIIIIllll!III!l!iilli!!!l!IEIIlllllllIill MAKES TWO the Moder ."; Aat- i X