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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL', PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JJJNE SO, . 1SC7. state; and, bui " EAST SIDE HELD il- t CEfJTEH OF STAGE IS VERY RAPID , Three Large : Transactions FLhNDlD SUMtfM ACT1TO M1EAI COISTRUCTIO Half Dozen j. Steel Framed Buildings Going: Up in Record-Breaking Time. ; DEMAND FOR SPACE CAUSES QUICK WORK - .V f -S 5 ' . ,. ...... - - .r V Delay In Completing Large Strao tnres like Board of Trade or Rothschild Affairs Means Loss to Owners of Several Thousands. Aj Feature of Last Week's : v Realty Market " ? V : : rrr vi' ' :' ; SUBURBAN PROPERTY CASUALLY STRONG1 H' Best Deal. Was Purchase by Former v -' Seattle Capitalists of Charles Fran- l v els 'Adams' Irrington Holdings. .- All Important Happening!.' k East aid realty held the center of the a tan In last waek'a market three! very large transaction having; been closed and all Involved holdlnga on the other; aide of the river. The demand "for both Inside and auburban property U7- active market -throughout the summer. The heaviest slngl transaction jt the week . was the' aale . of the remaining ; holdings of Charles Francis Adams,- the IIB'ilPAfilfJEIlIS Boston millionaire. In Irvlngton. . The . AND "$? - rSET-VrfYNT .U.W..V,. ..SUV..,. V .WW - . all within the district bounded by East " Fourteenth, East Twenty-fourth, Tilla mook and Fremont streets. The prop " erty was purchased by J. C. Costello "and E. ' A.-McQrath, Seattle capitalists. who have onerated extensively Jn Port- . land realty for the past few month and who nave recently cast their lot here.' becoming permanent residents of Portland. The consideration Involved In in purchase was about 1709 per.yt ; . Xmproremeats , manned. ' Messrsr Costello and 1 McQrath an- ., .nntui.). Ill k. lat wl h. .out the district embraced within the purchase. . By the terms of the aale the purchasers are required to-enrorce ine - restrictions ortrlnallv lmnosed utKn the .builders of homes In the addition, guar anteeing that irvlngton will remain aa heretofore a select Dortlon of the city. Acting upon the Instructions of Mr, Adams, the Boston-magnate, J. T. Raley, who has long handled Irvtngton. made radical cuts in the prices of Irvtngton I'll BE BUILT of Six Stories planned for : ,EIeTenth Street Site. , lots. In some Instances 30 and 60 per cent cut were made in the fixed prices of the lota The result waa that in one week the entire remaining holdlnga .of i jur. A.iams were aoia. . Adams la said to have been at one time the second largest owner of Port land realty, but by thia last sale he dl- , vested himself of his entire holdlnga here, except. 400 acres near Rose City Park. . .. . ' "' , . v . ' JMldltloa rnrehaaed. ; ; Another Very large-deal In the same section of the city that waa brought to a close last week waa the purchase bv ' the Jacoba-Stlne company , of the Title Guarantee & Trust . company's Roasmere addition. The sale was nego- tlated directly between Mr, Jacobs and the Title Guarantee company, and In volved a consideration of nearly 1250, flftrt RMimt.t ia a continuation of the elevated ground of which Holladay Park Moltaman Bros.,' ownera of a 60 foot lot on Eleventh 'street, between Alder and' Morrison, are preparing to erect i a modern fireproof apartment-house. A i mall frame building stands on the lot now, the leaae on , which expiree next month.-' The plans of the proposed lm-1 provement' call for a six-story structure i to cost about ' $78,000. --' .v . .. fieveral , ' modern . brlok anartment- houses ' are . going up in . the district i west of Park ' street. Dr. Cornelius Is I building a - alx-atory . building - of this I character at West Park and Alder. Hol- brook and Lain b son are putting up one ! of the handsomest structures, of the kind at Eleventh and Btark streets, and I It la reported that a quarter block on I uDDer Morrison is to be occunled with I a six-story family hotel and apartment house; the erection of which will begin tms iqmmer. 1: - - - WJ r . mm .. . Bal -. V .:,,.-.. - .aflat A f mm W WIT. DONOVAN DFWrP - Ae at, ELABORATE CEREMONIES PLANNED FOR THIS CORNERSTONE LAYING .WrnWaTO PROPERTY SOLD blocks beyona me rirei nmnea aumun. ' Rossmere la one of the best Improved of the new east aids additions. " Blx thousand feet of alx.-foot cement Sldewalklnp has already been laid there and contracta have been let for laying 85.000 feet additional. Streets are be ing graded and water , malna laid throughout the district. Thia la the fourth large suburban addition that the Jacobs-Stin company has handled alncs comlhr to -Portland aix montha ,ago. . Belle Crest, Berkeley, Bella Creat No. J, and now Rossmere. Whilo inside residence and auburban property have been very active recently, .business property ha by no meana re- AT GOOD INCREASE - A Improved Lot on Oak Street Chuseg . Owner Whereby Seller Earns ' Splendid Interest. m ained statnant .:t: Xew lop Xrotch lrloe. The purchase by the Realty Aaaool atea of Portland of the handsome new buclneaa Dioca. Belonging iu w . Healy, at the corner of East Morrlaon street and Grand avenue, marks a new top notch price for east side business ; nronerty. The price paid for this quar ter block was $140,000. It is understood that the building wnicn wu pui up within the oast year cost i6,oou. ieav r 1ng the value of the unimproved cor ner at $76,000, or $760 a front foot ". While this seem to be a good prlea nranertv on the other side of tho river, well informed realty dealers free lv predict that the best business Bites over thers will bring twice that amount ' within tft next iwo year.t On the west side a number of wars- . j.hitnared'v hands. One firm . of a hlf block In North i" Portland for $60,000. The purchaser waa a large mercantile rirm. operating In several western cltiea. tnai ia now seeking an entrance to this rich field. MAKING PLANS FOR , NEW HOSPITAL truetnre on the East side is '' Cover Ilalf a Block and Cost Hundred Thousand. to , . ArchltecU Whldden and Lewis arc en gaged In preparlnr the plans for the proposed Homeopathic hospital, which Is to be bullt on the block bounded by East Second, East Third, Multnomah and Hassalo streets. . It la believed that bida will be asked for aome time in July. The plans -call: for a 4-story, building of brick and cement construc tion to cover one-half the block. About $100,000 ' will be expended In its con struction. i , Dr. G. E. Watts ooaed a deal laat week I with Dr. C. W. Cornellua for a 26x100- foot lot on Oak atreet between Flrat and Front,' A three-story building occupied I by the Olsen-Roe Transfer company cov ers the property. '4 The property was sold for $$7.500, 1 which la an advance of $2,500, or 10 perl cent over the price paid by Dr. Cornelius I for It a little less than two montha mo. Property In that Immediate district has aouoiei in ' value witnin- tne past six months, or Since the Portland Railway. Light at Power company purchased thai " AAGtHVti .u i ran a f, j j PORTLAND LEADS ALL CITIES IN BUILDING fflL : viMi,iS-iiiii imtRk block, on which it la proposed to build a I modern depot and tranaler station. CONTRACT AWARDED Ceremonies attending ; the laying of the new St" Stanialaua Polish Roman Catholic church, under course of con struction at Maryland avenue and Fall ing atreet, will be held at S o'clock thia FOR NE W BUILDING T will be In attendance at: the exeroiaes. Contractors Palmer ' A ' Rlllstnn liava I Addresses will be delivered bv Arch- been awarded the contract for the con-1 bishop Christie. Mayor Lane, and M. G. sirucuon or tne uerunger building, to St. Stanislaus Polish R oman Catholle Church. Munley. Members of the. Ancient Or der of Hibernians, St Joseph's Verein. Polish National Alliance society and other Catholic organisation will be. E resent, marching to the edifice from t. Mary's rectory on William avenue. Rev. Charles Beroskl la paator of the cnurcn, and xunds are in his hands 10 complete the building, which is $2x44 feet, with a seating capacity of 400. It Is the only Polish Cathollo church on me coast. FEW CARIBS LEFT be erected at Second anil AlAnr utrMti. The building Is to be of brick, with an ornamental pressed brick front, four stories In height and will coat about $40,000. Contracts for the heating One Hundred. Maybe, I of Tribe Found IIMhln. .ft IH. V . - . I v.miii v.aiaj, siv,, iJ T O UUl let The general contract includes lant. een the removal of the preaent brick struc ture on- the lot which has for the past a yciuB ueen occupied oy vnineas. VERNON CHURCH IS NEARING COMPLETION Work on' the new Vernon Presbvtarlnn church ' ia progressing satisfactorily. The concrete foundation has been laid, and the frame superstructure la making good headway. - The building will cost about' $5,000, and have a seating ca pacity or 4&0.' une plana were drawn by Architects Travis & Wilson. A. recent report shows that coopera tive farming Is making great headway in uermany. ' ai me ciose ot isu no less than 17,912 cooperative farming associations were In full swing, . with membership or over 1,000,000 farm- era bf Columbus In the Antilles. .Americana will alwaya be Interested in the Carib Indiana because they were the ' Inhabitants of the Antilles ; when Columbus and his succesaors dlacoyered those islands. - The Cariba were mostly exterminated by the Spanish conquerors, and not a vestige of them la left except In the Islands of Dominica and St Vin cent The largest group of Carib islanders la now kept by-the British on a reser vation on the windward coast of Domln lea The group numbers soo persons, of whom only about 100 are cure Carlos. the remainder having . more or - less negro blood. S, Grieve, the Scottish ly visited tne mat he saw In At it n it -J Type " of New ' ReBldences tJnder Construction In . ' , . Twentieth Street ' District ' 'h V the Belmont-JJaflt naturalist has recent 1 reservation and tells w a hook h hu 1uat written. He saya the pure Cariba are proud of weir race ana ming roey come 01 mo same stock as White men. possibly for no other reason than that ' their hair la straight like that of the white raeo. When a Carib woman has a chance to marry a Chinese she usually Improves it and savs she is marrying a man of her own race. Perhaps she is not very far wrong, as the Caribs are closely related to the Indians of the mainland. who are auDnosed to na of Aalatla or- 1 . . - . --. v . r... xne caribs or the islands com on Inally from the South American main land, and their relatives today are quite widely . distributed over northeastern South America. It is hoped to keep them from extinction, but unless they confine their marriasrea to their own race they will become more nearo than tario. The carina on the reservation nave their own king and aueen. who are now i old and blind and live npon a amall pension granted by the British govern ment ; King Ogis, ' though he has ss few subjects, is assisted in his rule by a prime minister and an advisory coun- icii. xne innuence 01 ins pure varies Is controlling in tne tribal arraira Many of the cure Cariba have clean cut and pleaaing features and some of tne cnnaren are quite nanasome. xn mixed race, however,' have pronounced negroid characteriatlca All tne cnuoren, attend acnoois. and education la now confined to the Ensr- Ilsh language. Thia will be to. the ad vantage of the next generation, It Is thought because ne caribs are living In . one of the British colonies. , The adulta sttll speak the French patois and they also have a language of their own. They are fond of hunting, and are more skilled ' than the negroes In some kinda of work, but they ask higher wages and tnereDy orten loss opportuni ties for employment They are splendid boatmen and perform wonderful voy ages in their dugouts across the atretch or sea to Martinique. Gaudelouos and other Islands. Their dugouts, which tney rashion out of a single tree, are In great demand in the other laianda and are exported from Dominica. The only other special industry is the making of baskets, which are atrong ana-ugni, ana some or roem nave pat terns worked into them with colored cane. Many of them are sold at a good round price. . . The other Carib colony on St Vincent la email In numbers and It is doubtful ix uier is a pure diooo among them. The eruption of the Souffriere in 1902 waa moat rilMatrmia tn thia ih iui. , ooiy remnant oz tne (janoa escaped. StV'v: Wizard's Warnlnt;. . ' From Tid-BIta The traditions connected with the his torical residences of- the British arlstoo- rsSy- arar-tnany and varied, but; none perhans is more curious than that m. lated about Tester, tha Snnttlah hnm or lvora ana juaay Tweeddaie, The old castle now a , picturesque ' ruin re ferred to by Sir Walter Scott In "Mar- mion." contained a wonderful vault hall which Hugh Olfford, the maglolan, is said to have erected with. 01 ni wano. . But it was not a case of "easy coma. easy go," and the wlsard . solemnly vowed that any man who attempted to mincer wua - ins xair Diinmnr nnnirt die swiftly and : violently,'. The old tradition was recall whm fh nn.iant Olfford. was crushed to death, by a fall ing tree. A short time hfnr hu none some clearing operations that ln- tenerea wiia iiugn uurora halt v , rices vi Diavea. . From the Louisville Courier-Journal "Slaves." aald the Socialist, amlllnv rrlmly. ''should be lntoreatad In h. price of other slaves Well, then: ' "Before the war a good strong man waa worth 22.500: .. a woman . ti Ion Child $500. 4 - "In Rome, In the golden age, a laborer onlr cost $100. and aometimaa. aftar a fica.i viuiury ona an innux or captives iniv iuo capita it was ponsiDie .10 DUy airuna. capa,Di staves ror -SftapieB, -"Skilled slaves. mn vlthi tram brought higher nrloea CloeVo oald 1.000 for a scribe. Catiline haA a cook that cost him $2,600. - " r ' "A gardener waa worth tSOO. a. black. smith $760, aa actor $5,000, a physician VIA AAA M . 1 . . AW.VVV. ( .- : ; ' - ' - m 1 '' .' The .Now South Wales Railway com missioners have established ' 72 ' "rest houses" on th various lines for the convenienoe and comfort of engtnemen and guards when away from home. Portland's gain In the value of bunding permits for June, 1107 over that of Juno, 110$ was $448,712. equal to about 111 per , cent At tho hour of eloeing the building Inspector's office yester day there had bean lasued during th month Stt permits, valued at $2(1,200. For the month of June, 110$, 22S permits were issued, valued at $291,117.: ' , Bvery month for the past year Portland has led all other Amer- lean cltiea In the per cent of In-' crease In building development and with th Immense amount of building now going on and th unusual activity among the arch itects there Is no reason to sup pose that this city will sot con tinue In tho lead for several months to com. . ' 0 HOSTELRY IS FIRST-CLASS Hotel Lenox Is Latest Addi tion to Portland's Better Class Hotels. The latest addition to Portland's up- to-date, first-class hostelrles is the Ho tel, Lenox, a four-story , pressed brick structure occupying1 a quarter block at the aoutheaat corner of Third and Main treeta. The building waa put up by E. C Jorgenaon at a coat of $125,000 and la under tho management of F. XL Daaaett and C T. W. IIoll later, who have expended about $25,000 In furnish ing It - There are 100 guest rooms on the three" upper floors, 64 of which are connected with a bath. The building la equipped with a pneumatlo com pressed, air cleaning plant rne wane ana ceiling or in ornoe are paneled In Oregon fir,' and the wainscoting and walla of the main ele vator entranoe are dona in Italian mar ble. . ....... Messra Daggett and Hoiuater are both competent and experienced hotel men. Mr. Daggett la also the proprietor of the Seaside house a.t Seaside, Oregon. V-;-. Lost Either Wajr. ' : From the Washington Star.' ' A PhlladelDhlan said of Miss Anna T. Joannes, who has given $1,000,000 for negro education in mm aouin: "Miss Jeanas is a splendid ' nhllan throplst To a good cause she is gen erosity itseir. uivmg promptly ana freely, sh has no sympathy with nlg aarda I once heard her tell a atory about a niggardly rich man oz her child' hood ' v -- "This man visited a school and mad an address. At th end h called a little boy up to him and said: "My lad, have you a purser "No, sir:' Tm ' sorry. aald th rich man. Tf yon had a purse I should have given you a dime to put In It' ., "This man was scheduled to apeak at the echool again the next month and when he came the boys were prepared for him. An empty puree lay hid in every little pair of trouaera " , - f And sure enough, at the end of his speech the man called another boy and aald: .: - . - .':. , ., . ,"Hava you a purse, son? " "- v .. . "Tea, air,' waa the eager answer. 1 am glad of. it' aald the other. If you hadn't I should hav given you a dim to buy one with." A noteworthy f act' conencted with the eonatructlon of the half doson steel frame buildings now going up In Port land Is the speed with which th steel skeleton of these later structure la put together, when compared with tho great length of time that waa required to do th aame work on the flrat three or four buildings of thia character that, went up her. It will be recalled that from the time work began on the foundation of the Welle-Fergo building It was all of six months before th twelfth story of th steel f ram was1 In place. . . Quite a great length of time was con sumed In excavating tho foundation and rutting together the steel and Iron ram of the Corbett office building at Fifth and Morrison, and th Failing . atructure at Fifth and Alder. Change Has Takea Flaoa, . Now, however, quite a ' ohange has taken place. Th' steel frame and a portion -of th brick wall of th new Commercial elub la in place, and it has scarcely been three months since the ' material waa hauled to th alte; while more atartling. If possible, Is th rec ord that was mad In riveting together th ateel akeleton of the Rothschild structure at Fourth and Washington, work on which began only about two. montha ago. Th aamo condition ts seen with re spect to the earlier reenforoed concrete buildings and those now in nrocess of construction In th city. Th Board of Trad building, adjoining tho Chamber of Commerce, and the new Proudfoot hotel st the east approach to th Burn aide brlda are making very rapid pros- reaa, when th enormoua amount of work . required in" structures' 01 this class ia considered..'-' ,.... The extraordinary demand for of nee space and storerooms has largely' to do ltn thai rapidity witn wnicn tne Dig down-town buildlnga . now under eon atructlon are going up. A delay of two or three months In completing such a building a th Board of Trad or Roth schild means a loss of several thoa aand dollara to the owner. CUSTOM COLLECTIONS REACH HIGHEST POINT 4 Th collection at the cuatom ' house during th fiscal year and- 4 lng yesterday were larger than over before In th history of the - port th grand total being $1,- ) 112.252.72. jCashler Merrlman e says that thia amount exoeeda by s about $400,000 the former record ryaar. ,;.,.'. s:. y v.-;V ' 4 - - That ' tho deputy eolleot ora e , hav bean kept buay this year is 4 evident from th fact that no 4 less than 2.000 entries for duty 4 a hav been recorded, Th valu , 4 ' 4 of Imports and exports for th year hav not yet been compiled. 4 Metaphors From Metals. - From th New Orleans Times-Democrat ' "It ia most amuainr." aald a metal. lurglat, "how the world rellea on metals ' for its metaphors and similes. "Thus an orator la stiver tonarued or f olden mouthed. An explorer 1 bronaed y African suns. A resolute chap haa an Iron wlIL A aluggard moves with leaden feet. An ostrich has a conner lined stomach. A millionaire haa tin. A swindler la as slippery as Quicksilver A borrower ha braas." . ' I ' ' Business and : homes combined Portland's, busy suburb, a most delightful building spot We are now building more homes, stores ; and factories, the most notable of which is a beautiful modern two story brick block, the home of our bank, with all the modern con veniences and many up-to-date offices and store space,' which are mostly rented in advance of completion. . ' We are not only situated in one"; of Portland's most prosperous suburbs, but we are on high and sightly ground. .The very best of soil no rocks, stumps, clay or adobe. Beautiful scenery of foothills and the ever grandeur of the Willamette river. ' Snow capped mountains in full view, v so comforting on a midsummer day. Bull Run water, electric lights and a good car service. TAKE SELLV00D CAR i -, I-: