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BUILDIHG FCWETIf AND
AfiY APARTMENT
Close-in -Residence Districts
?Will Scion Be Graced by ;
Costly Buildings.- ;
JSEVf IMPROVEMENTS .
-c.WILL BE UP-TO-DATE
Four and Fire-Room Plate Bent afl
, Twenty-Five to Thirty-Five Dol
' Isra Monthly Influx of People
, insures Better Returns. '
Kt after the splendid development
In business-house construction now In
progress In Portland, the most' notice
able' feature of the city's upbuilding Is
the Urge number of handsome apart
ment houses that, are going up In the
close-In residence districts of the west
side.' V. ; ..'" -'V.,-'" V: i.- -
t ! oni within the last two years
miioh attention has been paid to
this class of construction, while now
there sre no less man n inrw nu
construction, inu i " r
are being prepared for as many more of
the same iype. -
The interior arrangement of Wese
. ... 1 1 U thAiMMlJ mMt 01
them being arranged Into four and five-
room aparimenis. - ' ? ; t ..
People ssmaaA Apartmens. .
At' present in Portland four-room
Mrimuti nnm from 126 to 13&,wnicn
if or the same class of apartments is
about 12 per month a room higher tnan
in most other cities, including even
jhigh-priced New York., The number of
'people in a town set the prices of rent,
and the rents set prices of Prperty
ijust now people, are coming into Port
iland more and more, which means that
rents must .go even higher,-and this In
turn insures a , corresponding . rise - in
'nronerty values." Heretofore the-alue
C'e lot determined the class of house
tb3 must be put-on it regardless of the
demand for- certain kinds of living
rooms, and the result was smaller frame
flats now largely in.yogue. But the
time Is tieftr at handtf indeed it is not
right' at" hnd,r when the demand for
better apartments for cpuples and adults
without children causes a sharp demand
for apartments that at present are but
few in this city. That is. a bulldinr of
brick and stone, divided Into, three, four
Find five-room apartments with, thor
oughly modern fixtures and conven
iences, and, above all, with modern serv
ke in the shape of ; janitors and uni
formed attendants. '; "
Whether sociologists approve JW .no
a to its effects on th. race, the fact
remains that as a city growsthat the
lawn surrounded detached home gives
way to the many story apartment house.
And Portland is now on the verge, of
uch a change for the down-town and
lose-In'1 districts. Bace is becoming
:oo much in demand to use for lawns,
tt must be covered. " v '
iant Bacaslojf Abodes. -TAnother
building feature coming. Into
lemand in Portland is the modern "pach
lor apartment and " studio; - building.
These class Of apartments pay -extra
llgh ; rents, and appeal, to .a. 'desirable
lass of people. sThoae most; in demand
ire of ohaf and two rooms, with a very
mnlLirrtchen, hardly , more -than- a
lKid closet, and a small bathroom
Cached. . They must be kept open
'very hour of the night and day, and
very day-of the year, as they are de
'Ired bv artists, writers, and those who
an afford 'such surroundings, but who
iow for lack of them .are, housed In
oardlng houses. '; n-.f : ' ' ' 'I'"' :
The time is not yet, ' perhaps, when
'ortiand needs high-clsss spartments
rom eight to twelve rooms, as the de
"arid for that class of renters is sun
Hed more satisfactbrily now and will
e for soma years to come, by the -ached
house within easy riding dis
mce. t But high-class, small npsrt
tlAnt. .rtk n 1 4n ft.. hM A I r tV.
targer. dtles'llke New Tork and Ch
"so, wunin waJKing oisinncB ut nm
uslness section, allowing a freedom and
omfort not to bo had In a boarding
Hll MA a, til ,4 I. .Km .lv-MM n 4 I....P
pense than can be found in the hotels.
Kptirimrncs am coming miu uo
nand.-and he is a wle man who fore-
mis aemana ana puuas accoramgiy.
I Congresfamsn William Chapman HftW
y of the First district of Oregon has
(clared himself In opposition to a third
rm for TreslJont liooseveit. ,
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UOTHCrtrLP TEELMtAME
WASHINGTON ST6
DETROIT SOLVES
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Eecalcitrants Are Robbed of
: Power to Block Projects
.to Improve City.
CEAETEE AUTEOEIZES
COUXCILTO.PEOCEEH
s.-,..a-k,. mammmm ?
Bait Lake Also Has Laws by Which
Improvements " Are ' Carried For
ward When They Become Neces
ary Need of Portland. ' :
Paved streets Increase real estate val
ues, and the Increase Is always much In
excess of the cost of. the pavement. Of
this statement there is no doubt, The
history of every city in the country
demonstrates its truthfulness over and
over again, i : ' '
Tho . Question then naturally arises,
Why Is it that the owners of realty In
nearly every section of Portland refuse
to see this snd allow the thoroughfares
n whir thf-r live or .on which their
pr6perty is located to remain year after
year no oeuer man vuuimy
Indeed, not so good as many of the
turnpikes nat penetrate ine ricn mrni
lng districts? ,
:. .. .. Strests In Bad Shape.
. There are scores of streets on both
sides of the river, closely built up with
pretty i homes -many of them costly,
rnso-niilcent residences that axe in de
plorable condition. And who is to blame
for thlst Nobody but; the penny-wise
property-owner. Tne ignorant ma v ran
at Mayor Lane or at the council, but
under our charter ; they are perfectly
helpless, "-v --
It Is hoped by all who have the wel
fare of the city at heart that the char
ter amendment passed Mast--' Monday,
adopting the district paving plan, will
result in a vast increase in street paving
within, the next year or two In Portland.
-'.Detroit Solves Problem.
A well-known resident, of Portland
who has made somewhat of, a study of
the paving laws of the different cities
of the country is of the opinion that
Detroit, Michigan, has solved the pav
ing, problem. : xnere paving, is carriea
on under two plans petitloa-tind forced
favlng. Under the petition paving nlan
he city: council authorises the paving
of ? a street on . the Written -, request . of
one third of the abutting property-owners,
while under the forced paving law
thfc city charter" authorises the council
to force $500,000 worth of paying In any
one year, whether ' the property-owners
desire It or not, the council selecting the
streets to b paved. The result of this
law, : which IS but a few years old, is
that Betroit is rapidly-becoming one of
the best-paved cities in the -country.
Salt-Lake la. another city where -tne
voters were wise enough to restrict the
power " of the property-owner to block
meritorious paving projects. . , ',j
Portland residents are waking up to
the absolute necessity of more and bet
ter street -paving, and it is predicted
that unless tne recently adopted charter
amendment affords the requisite relief
the -people will , take the matter in hand
two years nence ana amena me cunrier
in ' such " a way as 1 to leave behind no
doubt concerning their demands.
' ' Feeding .Tree Trunk.
From the Paris Cosmos. '
" Mr. Simons, owner of an estate at
Allaire. Morblhan. France, having' oroved
that'the death of numerous annle trees
was thereult of an affection: of-the
rootlets, rendering them, unable to draw
from the ground the elements necessar"
for the life of the tree. ' conceived the
Ma of artificial nutrition by injecting
directly- into the trunk , a liquid that
might. replace the sap. 7 . . . .
-. The results "were very satisfactory,
and other trees, and even cabages. cauli
flowers and potatoes, have been similar
ly treated. l
Bfystcrlous Sounds In m Church. ,
fltrans-a sounds have been heard com-
ln from various Darts of St James
church, Exeter, for a considerable time
past ana errorts to soive tne mystery
have been fruitless. . At times the
niindia are like the chanting of psalms
and the practising of the scales. They
are usually noticed before the morning
6nd evening services.
. The crtieiaiB or tne cnurcn lummwi
VPstrdav that they have ben : heard
for tho i-ast two or tUee years. . (
THE OREGON SUNDAY
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NPW REcSlDPNCE OP,
cJ 1 E0VTLEPGe.78Trt.AWDEILMONTL.
RESIDENCE SITES
FII1D REM SALE
Movement Shows That Citi
! zens Arc Buying Places
for Their Homes.
SMALL TEANSACTIONS
AGGEEGATE LAEGE SUM
Bteady Buying Continues During the
Entire - Week Investment Com
pany . Secures Acreage ; Tract In
Balch's Gulch.
. Three sales of ., east side business
property aggregating over 1100,000 was
tne feature , of last week's realty ..ttiar,
ket,- while the . conUnued heavy , buying
of,, residence sites was an encouraging
sign that Portland ; wllk soon . become
known . as r; the city ; of f homes. ,
Transfers filed for record during, the
week went well abova $50,000 for each
day, nearly ; all k of which ; represented
sates of less than $5,000 each. ' ; ;
"The largest i deal reported '-was the
quarter block on the southeast corner of
Kast Morrison and East Third streets,
which was purchased by Fred . Hiram
and O. M. Strong from H. H. Prouty for
$46,000. This site is covered by two
t wo-story frame .buildings. one - occu
pied by Calet Brothers' furniture store
and, the other , by the Weatherby. cream
ery. - - :; '"'i - ,-
Corner . Sxlnra Oood Plgure. . ' .
' The southwest corner of Union ave
nue and East Alder streets was pur
chased by Otto Burckhardt and H. W.
Lemcke from M. O. Thorsen and C. J.
Schnable tor $35,000.
Another deal In the same : locality
was closed, with a consideration of $30,
600, but the details are withheld 'for
the present-. : ';'- ' --:-'
-Two. lots at the northeast corner of
Fifteenth and Northrup have been sold
by F. H. Guild to A. L McCully and
D. W. Tllford. for'$lT,600.
- The " Columbia : Investment .company
that purchased a portion of the -Goldsmith
property on the Cornell road, has
purchased from Russell & Blyth 80
acres in the-Batch gulch for $35,000.
The Goldsmith purchase will be graded
down and the surplus earth used . In
filling up the $0 acres In the gulch.
Auction 0ala Sxperlmsat. .
An Interesting Innovation in the Port
land real estate, world was the auction
sale last Tuesday of a number of val
uable realty holdings by X Whyte Ev
ans In the lower corridor of the -chamber
of commerce. About $80,000 worth
of property was knocked down to bid
ders, tome of tt at satisfactory prlces.
The largest piece sold was the' Wash
ington, an apartment house on Nortli-rup-strest,
which went for 939,000.-
JOURNAL", PORTLAND. SUNDAY 'MORNING, JUNE , 9,
SOLID ROW OF
If the Present Plans Carry a
Portionof East Morrison '
Street Will Benefit. '
TWO LAEGE BUILDINGS
; NOW BEING EEECTED
Four, to ; Five-Story Building , Is
Planned ' for Southeast Corner of
ast Third , and ' Bast Morrison
Streets Other Improvements l
,-Th'. south .side ' of East , Morrison
street from East Second to Grand ave
nue' will soon be a solid row of modern
brick business bouses. If plans that , are
now maturing are carried out . Two
large buildings are now under construc
tion on this part of East Morrison and
It is known that construction work will
begin , on' two. others by the middle. of
the summer.
' Fred Hiram and G. M. 8trong have
lust purchased the quarter block on the
southeast corner of East Third and East
Morrison from H. H. Prouty for $45,000,
On which it -is announced they wiL put
up"a four , or. five-story building,' The
olte is now occupied - by Calef Bros.
Furniture- company and . the Weatherly
Creamery company.- It .Is ? understood
that both firms hold leases on the build
ings, but , that temporary quarters will
be secured bv them, oendlncr "the . con
struction of tha. proposed building.; f '.
Negotiations are under, way, for. the
purchase of the quarter block, adjoin
ing the Mitchell, Lewis tc Stayer build
ing at J;asi eecona ana cast Morrison
streets, by a west side wholesale house
with the -view-of putting up a- large
building to be used as a store room and
warehouse.- '-:-'; -- s
At tha .southwest corner Of East Mor
rison street and Union avenue the 'old
frame buildings are soon to be torn out
and replaced by a modern brick business
diock. , . i ne juarxeu structure - across
Union avenue is well' under, way and
will probably be 'ready for. occupancy
by ' the middle of the summer, - while
the' Joe Healv block on Grand -avenue
and East Morrison Is Just bout com
pleted. - . . ... ..
.' With- the completion ' of i these "pro
posed Improvements, the business por
tion of East Morrison street will take
on a genuinely metropolitan appearance.
' The unions of Eureka. California, are
to erect a hospital to be known as the
Labor- hospital. It will - be . a' three
story structure and will cost about ISO,
000, The building is to contain 70 rooms
and two main operating rooms, pat
terned after' those- of the Presbyterian
hospital In New Tork Clty. -There will
be maternity and children's, wards.- .
LODER
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PLANS BEING DEAWN. ,
FOE STONE CHUECH
Work on Proposed Structure . Will
Begin ;When Preliminary Ar
rangements Are Made.
t plans are being prepared by a. local
architect for1 a new Central ; Christian
church, to be erected at .East .Twentieth
and East Salmon streets. The proposed
building rlU. be 80 by 120 feet and will
probably be constructed of stone. When
finished the edifice will have cost about
$45,000, ' although for the present the
congregation .expects to. 'expend but
$30,000 In its construction. Later on
th Intarln win h finished, which Will
entail an expenditure of an additional
T The Christian- church, of fwhlen Rev.
J.rF. Ghormley is pastor, owns a ouar
ter block at East Twentieth and Bast
Salmon streets, which Is now occupied
by a tabernacle wmcn is usea a a
church. Aa soon as the plans are com.
ntAtxt and th nrellmlnarr arrange
ments ' made, work v on . the proposed
structure ; win , pgin.,;.:,, i
OLDEST PAPEE IN OHIO
Thei ,4Scioto "Gajtette" Founded In
r'iwi1bj it'r. WIUls' Grwdfather.!
.The Scloto'Gasette Is the oldest paper,
of . continuous i publication L under the
same' name, west of - the Alleghany
mountalna It was founded; In ;H by
Nathaniel Willis, grandfather of N. P.
WIUls.- the poet The older WUHs was
born in Boston ano iraamon nas ii,
learned the printer's trade under Benjamin-Franklin,-and
was a member of
the famous Boston-tea party. V".r
As nearly as can be ascertained the
Gaxette was Intermitted tor a time, but
on April 25, 1800. Willis began a new
series . with Volume 1. - No. I, and the
old paper haa gone on. continuously
since that ' date. .' - ." :
In addition to being the oldest exist
ing paper ' west of the mountains the
Gazette may fairly lay claim, by col
lateral descent at least to being the
first paper published In the northwest
territory. In 17J, In Cincinnati, Wil
liam Maxwell started the Centlnel of the
Northwest Territory.S the first news-
faper in the territory. In 1784 he sold
t - to Edmund- Freeman, who changed
the name to Freeman's Journal, and in
1800 removed to Chill tcothe, where -he
died In the following year. Willis'
bought the plant and good will of the
fiaper and incorporated the Journal with
he Gazette. -. ' :, AJ-v
., Bhode Island Fisherman's Catch.
, What'-ia regarded as . one of , the' most
remarkable1 catches ever made in this
ylsiolty. wasbrought la by.CspUla J.
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A. Pettey yesterday morning when he
pulled In his seines at Seaconnet point
Included among a nice mess of tautog,
flatfish, ' scup and conger eels L- was ; a
big fish weighing 22 pounds a salmon.
The old fishermen .who have caught all
manner of sea food at Seaconnet- - for
years could scarcely believe -their eyes
when Captain; Pettey showed them the
beauty. ' - r-.--..-.; - -., , ,
The capture of the ' salmon -was ; the
one toplo of conversation among the
fishermen along the waterfront yester
day. It is not uncommon for the men
' On'Montavilla car linev Lota
"50x100. Graded streets, side
,V walks, Bull Run water, build
ing , restrictions. An ideal
v ; -xr homesite.'
SEE JONESMORE TODAY
$350 toSOO
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at -Seaconnet to catch salmon weighing
from two to three pounds, but so far as
known no salmon of this size baa been
caught there in 40 years., f j .
The .fish has a : big gouge near the
mouth as If a fisherman had tried to
hook it and for this reason the dealer
who has the salmon advanced the Idea
that the fish had gone up one of the
Maine rivers to spawn and came baric
after Its encounter with a hook. Sal
mon are very common in Maine, but it
is said .they do not enter fresh water
streams In this vicinity owing to the
lack of clear fresh water.-