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. i . . . . I . THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, JULY 9, 1922 EAST SEISM BUILDING ACTIVITY FEATURED BY ERECTION OF RESIDENCES IN MX SECTIONS OF CITY APARTMENT HOUSE CONSTRUCTION ALSO ACTIVE. jTRUCTURE district, andalmost as many more will be started during the remainder of this year, according to present plans. Harold Jungck,' who is in chai of the development of that section, said that the district was enjoying the greatest building activity in its history. Virginia' Court, a private street west of. Culpepper terrace, was paved -recently and a large number of the homesites on it have been sold. sisseuii PLANNED BY LODGE Pronounced Construction , Activity Noted. Washington Masons Order Immediate Construction. mmi RESIDENCES. ALSO RISING Work on Two-Story Structure for Howard Cooper Company Is Started. Business buildings and residences comprise pronounced building ac tivity in various sections o the east sid-e. Construction work on the new two-story building for the Howard Cooper company at 361 Hawthorn avenue between East? Third street and Grand avenue, began last week. The new building win oe useu a the salesroom and distributing point for the company, which deals in road machinery, and in addition will house the offices. The present location of the firm is 250 East Wa ter street. The building will be of concrete and will cost approximately $30,000 when completed. A. C. Myers is the contractor. W. W. Lucius, architect, Lewis building, drew the plans and pecifications. $20,000 Building Rising. '' Construction work on the new 120.000 building on the southwest corner of East Oak street and Grand avenue began last week. The new building is being built by the Wood-ard-Clarke company, but will not be used by them at present. It will be one story and basement, 65 by- 100 feet, and will materially add to the appearance of the business district of Grand avenue, filling an unsight ly hole adjoining the Oregon City Woolen Mills plant. Houghtaling & Dougan are the architects and Zanello Brothers have been awarded the contract. The building will be of concrete con struction. Residence to Be Erected. Among new east side residences to be erected there are four which will not cost less than J5000, for which architects have just com pleted plans and specifications and upon which work will be com menced soon. John K. Honey will build a new residence at 1129 East Couch street, between East Thirty-ninth -street and Laurelhurst, at a cost of $7500. Jacobberger & Smith, architects, have just completed the plans. The tiew building will be 34x44 feet and -one- and one-half stories. Otto Schuman has had plans made for a new one-story residence at 410 East Thirteenth street, between Tillamook and Hancock streets, to "cost $5000. Ernest Kroner is the architect. - Joseph Brown will have a new home at 831 East Harrison street, .to be one and one-half stories, cost ing $5000. Hansen Brothers are the architects and will build the resi dence. N. C. Pearson has had specifica tions completed by Robnett & Me-' Clure for a residence at 534 East Forty-fourth street North, between Brazee and Knott streets. It will be 31x44 feet, one story, and will cost $6000. New Homes in Alameda. ' Work has been started on two - additional new residences in the Alameda district. One of these is for Dr. Fred E. Gulich, and is being put up at 915 Alameda, between Regents drive and -Glenn avenue. The other is for W. Ertz, archi . tect, who has started the erection of a home for himself at 991 Ala meda, between Glenn avenue and Thirty-third street. - The new home for Dr. Gulich is to be 33x46 feet, two stories, and will cost "approximately $17,000. The new building for Mr. Ertz will be constructed, at a cpst of $10,000 and will likewise be of two-story height. Mr. Ertz has prepared the plans for both the new residences. BRICK OUTPUT IS NORMAL Prices of Northwest $13 to $13 Depending on Grades. The" brick industry of the country is producing a more nearly normal "amount of brick than at any time for two years, is the declaration of Cthe monthly digest issued by the -Common Brick Manufacturers' asso ciation of America, with headquar ters at Cleveland, O. The report says that there has been no change during the last month in quotations "on brick in the northwest section. "Shipments from the yards during the last month were greater than the brick produced," said the report. "Ninety-three firms shipped a little ,'over 95,000,000 with the kilns burn ing out 89,000,000. That there is lit tle reserve stock to draw upon is ' Indicated by the fact that orders on , books total 258,000,000, stock on hand being only 154,000,000. v. "The composite price at the yards reported on January 1 was $13.47, in May $12.75, on June 1, 12.68 and this month . $12.83." " : The report gives quotations in the northwyest at $13 to $18 a thousand. The coal shortage is declared to be becoming a problem with manufac turers in the east. -FIVE HOUSES BEING BUILT .JjEimmerman-Waller Company Has Extensive Home Plans. Five houses are being constructed V in different sections of the city by i the Zimmerman-Waller Building company. In addition the company announced last week that it would J begin immediately the erection of j several more four and five-room bungalows on property owned by K. P.; Walker in the North Piedmont 'district. A design which is proving popu lar is a house with combination liv ing and dining room, two chambers, a kitchen, bath and breakfast nook, the company reports. Provision is ; made for fireplace, built-in buffet and for disappearing table and fron ting board in the breakfast nook be sides other modern conveniences. NEW DEVICE PROVED USEFUL Waffle Iron and Griddle Latest r ' Electrical Appliance. ... The latest development in the way ; 'of electrical appliances for the '- home to be introduced in Portland "ls the combination waffle iron and griddle. This little device may be used foe either baking waffles or . hot cakes and as a consequence is .'proving popular for use In warm - . weather when the housewife does :' not care to use a large stove ;. In appearance the device looks not 'unlike the ordinary waffle iron. However, the corrugated portion OLD HOME IS OUTGROWN Sevr Building Is to Adjoin Pres ent Oiie on East Eighth and . ' . Burnside Streets. Above at left New $25,000 residence erected by F. E. Bowman & at East Twenty-eighth and Hamblet streets, Alameda Park. Above at rlght--Resldenee for Mr. and Mrs. Walter . Gadsby to cost 20,000 now being erected on .Westover road, Westover Terraces, r Center New $75,000 apartment - house unit completed by Hoffman Rasmuiisen at 796 Eaat Hoyt street. Below at left Home to be erected for Dr. James Rosenfeld at Twenty-first and Myrtle streets at cost of $30,000 on plans prepared by Jacobberger A Smith. At right Residence for Mrs. Holt Wilson now under construction in Georgian court. which makes the surface peculiar to waffles may be reversed and a smooth surface is presented On which hot cakes can be baked. - The change from a waffle iron to a grid dle requires but a moment. When used for baking hot cakes the iron Is opened and laid flat, pre senting the appearance of two grid dles connected 'by a hinge. RESIDENCES WILL BE BUILT Homes forDr. James Rosenfeld and Mm. Holt Wilson Begun. Work of razing old buildings at Twenty-first and Myrtle streets has been begun preliminary to the erection of a $30,000 residence on the site for Dr. Jemes Rosenfeld. Plans for the residence have been prepared by Jacobberger & Smith and the building will be a combi nation of frame concrete- with stucco finish. It will have 12 rooms. A. W Horn is the contractor. Work is under way on a resi dence for Mrs. Holt Wilson ' in Georgian Court. The house also was designed by Jacobberger & Smith and will cost about $7500. It has a beautiful site overlooking Vista avenue. It will be completed about the middle of September. W. G. Carl is the contractor. Unique Fireplace Invented. E. C. Alford, 506 Artisans build ing, is the inventor of a fireplace with a cast-iron fireback and air chamber from which warm air for heating can be conveyed to all parts of the house.. Mr. Alford. says he has installed one of these in his home at Goodin Station and it is proving satisfactory. He will givj a demonstration of the fireplace In a new residence on East Twenty second street three blocks south of the Woodlawn carllne on the even ing of Thursday. July 13, after 7:30. Parsons College President Quits. 'OTTWMWA, Iowa, July 8. Dr. Ames Montgomery, for five years president of 'Parsons - college at Fairfield, Iowa, has filed his res ignation from that positon to accept the presidency of Centre college at Danville,K he said in a telegram to the Ottumwa Courier Friday. Dr. Montgomery is spending a vacation at Livingston, Mont. EIGHT-STORY BUILDING TO BE ERECTED ON. PRESENT SITE OF J. K. GILL STORE AT THIRD AND-ALDER STREETS. -. 'dri mm rtmMz ri &mW ' 5-4,-- life. ih '" 1 -. -i? -1 , ms A Jt3: 5 trffi 'rrjjJ pPW vtla i p 7 ad. im $lWi T$h y mm WOMEN REALTORS MEET PARTY OF SIX TO GO XORTII TO VANCOUVER SESSION'." Mrs. T. B. Neuhausen to he Head of Party Named to Visit ' Annual Convention. 1 Led by Mrs. T. B. Neuhassen, a party of six members of the women's realty board of thia city will go to Vancouver, B. C, to attend the an nual" convention of the Northwest Real Estate association to be held there July 19 to 21. Besides Mrs. Neuhausen, the party will include Mrs. John Brooke, Mrs. Emma B. Keller, Mrs. Mary E. Lent. -Mrs. Alvin Johnson and Mrs. I. H. Zemp. Plans for increasing the member ship of the women's board were dis cussed at a luncheon held at the Washington street Hazelwood Fri day noon with Mrs. Neuhausen, the new president, presiding. It is the intention to put on a membership campaign following the Vancouver convention and winners in the cam paign will receive a year's mem bership dues. The organization de cided to admit associate members, and this 'type of membership will be open to women who are not li censed real estate brokers, but who are interested in the activities of the organization. - It is planned also to give the or ganization a new name, and all members -were urged to make sug gestions for this proposed change at the next meeting. The next meeting of the board will be August 4. Mrs. Lillian De Keater will be hostess at the next meeting. BIG BUILDING PROMISED NEW STRUCTURE AT ; THIRD AND ALDER ASSURED. '. STRVCTVRB WHICH WILL COST $130,000" WILL BE DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY' TO' SPECIALTY SHOPS, Eight-Story Business House to Go .' Up on Ground Occupied by J. K. Gill Company. The 'announcement 'of plans for erection of an eight-story building to house Specialty stores exclusively at the riorthwest corner of Third and Alder streets, the practical com pletion of the second unit of the Hoyt-Glisah apartments by Hoffman & Rasmussen and the commence ment of work on numerous resi dences in various sections of the city formed the outstanding features in the building activity-of the past week. ' . The specialty store building, which will cost $175,000, is to be erected by I. Holzman on the pres ent site of the J. K. Gill bookstore. It is to be modeled after a type of building that has come into general use in Los Angeles and San -Francisco and in eastern cities. Con struction work will start on the new- building after the J. K. Gill company moves to its new location at Fifth and Stark streets, probably in Janu ary. Plans for the structure have been prepared by Claussen & Claussen. It will be of reinforced concrete and will occupy the entire lot, 50 by 100 feet. The second unit of the Hoyt Glisan . apartments,, now practically completed, will be opened for occu pancy August 1, according to an nouncement of Hoffman & Rasmus sen. It contains 27 three, four and five-room apartments and cost in the neighborhood of $75,000. The building is of stucco finish. It is similar to the first unit located at 800, East Hoyt street, with the exception that all apartments have bedrooms' and there are no disappearing beds. , The firm plans ultimately to construct a third unit of a similar type. Work on this will probably be started' this fall. SNAKES FOND OF PAINT Recent Painting of Home in Penn sylvania Attracts Reptiles.' wSaTHERLY, Pa. S. P. Rice,' superintendent of the ' Tide Water Pipe Line company, and his wife, who reside near Penn Haven, say they are being visited almost daily by snakes, some of them of mon strous size and of many varieties. Including the poisonous rattler and copperhead. Neither Mr. . nor Mrs. Rice is afraid of the reptiles and believe the snakes are being at tracted on account, of the recent painting of the Rice 'home and the bridges of the New Point. It is said that the reptiles are fond of paint and the grease used on the railroads. I Residents say they have frequently seen black snakes licking grease along rail road tracks. . PULLMAN RIFLEMEN WIN State College Team Makes Hgh Honors at Camp Lewis. CAMP LEWIS, Wash.. July 8. By making a score of 1823 out of a possible 2100, the rifle team of Washington State college cadets carried off high honors at the rifle meet of the reserve officers' train ing corps' camp here. - The winniag team received a statue, "Doughboy of the West," to be held until the next contest in 1923. Competing teams represented the University of Washington, Univer sity of Oregon, University of Idaho, California Institute of Technology, Colorado School of Mines and Ore gon Agricultural college. . Klan Probe Asked. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 8. The Imperial County Taxpayers' associ ation has asked Attorney-General Webb to investigate activities of the Ku, Klux Klan in. Imperial county, according to a special dispatch from El Centro to the Los Angeles Times. : Phone your want ads to The Ore gonian. All its "readers are inter ested in the. classified columns. A new $75,000 lodge building of two stories and basement to adjoin the present structure owned by the Washington Masonic lodge on EasK Eighth and Burnside streets will be built at once, according to action taken at the last meeting of the organization. Plans for the build ing have heen completed by the Washington building association and the finance committee and the com pletion of the architect's drawing is expected soon. The new building will increase the valuation of the property-owned by the lodge to more than $150,000 an will add a 65 by 100 foot build ing to the 60 by 100 foot fcuilding al ready on the property The present facilities have been found to be in adequate to meet the' rapid growth of membership which the lodge has had. . ' " ' .. Gymnaainm Is Included. The new building will include a full basement to be used as a gym nasium, parlor and for club rooms. The gymnasium will be completed at a later date, for it is not thought that the building will be fitted com plete at the. outset. On the main floor there will b6 a large room, 56 by 80 feet, to be used either as a ball room, dining room or. audito rium, as occasion demands. There also will be a mezzanine floor. The second stony will contain the lodge room to be built in amphi theater style with a 20-foot stage. The ampitheater will accommodate about 800 persons, or double the ca pacity of the lodge isoom if it were built in the ordinary style. The new structure will be of reinforced concrete, faced with brick. Lodge Lara-eat In State. The Washington Masonic lodge is the largest in the state. It. has a membership of more than 1200. It was ' chartered June 23, 1869, and since that ' time, has met -in various buildings on the east side in the vicinity of Grand ' avenue. ' The Martha Washington Eastern Star lodge, affiliated with the Washing ton Masonic lodge, also has the dis tinction of being the largest East ern Star lodge in the state' and at one time had the largest member ship of any Eastern Star lodge west of Chicago. It now has a member ship of approximately 1000. The puilding association of the Washington lodge Is composed of James E. Martin, president; Sheldon F. Ball, vice-president; H. H. Young, George H. Botsford, William W. Mc intosh and A. H. S. Haffenden, di rectors. . The finance committee is made up of L. W. Mathews, George L. Bauch. D. J. Sid well, C. G. Tip ton and W. H. Barton. . The present officers of the lodge are: Albert H. S. Haffenden, worthy master; Oscar Beck, senior warden; Robert Lallan, junior warden; R. B. McClung, treasurer, and James H. Richmond, secretary GADSBY'S HOME UNDER WAY $20,000 Residence to Be Built on ' - Westover Road. A - beautiful old English type residence costing $20,000 is now under construction for Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gadsby on a J00 by 110 foot site on Westover road in Westover Terraces. Plans for the structure were pre pared by Lawrence & Holford. The building will be finished in the in terior in the latest type and will be heated by a hot water plant. This .is one of 12 houses now under construction in the Westover $25,000 RESIDENCE FINISHED Nine Rooms, With Two Baths and Fireplaces, Are Included. A $25,000 residence has just been completed by F. E. Bowman & Co. on a 100 by 100 foot lot on the northeast corner, of East Twenty eighth and Hamblet streets in Alameda park. The home is of the Spanish type and the exterior is finished in stucco with blue trim. I There are' nine rooms. Including tw.o baths and two wood fireplaces. A double garage is connected with the house. Outside there is a brick terrace with wall fountain. The house is heated with a vapor heatirtfe system. Torie your want ads to The Ore gonian. All its readers are "inter ested in the classified columns. ,THE WORK WE DO TlfVEEN YOU AND ME - IS Plumbing-, of high ri a i-rw ' i ' pHERE are no supplies in this shop but those of high quality. There are no tricks in our plumber"s kit of tools or in our busi ness conduct that doesn't square with courteous treatment and fair prices. Get acquainted with our telephone number. ALASKA PLUMBING & HEATING CO. 363 EAST MORRISON ST. East 2954. 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