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V) -V i' , . ! THESE ARE THE MEN WHO WILL PUT UP A FINE ; BUSINESS STRUCTURE ON THE PENNOYER BLOCK ' " ' .' V . ' .' ' ' , mm W. P. Oldi. B. C. Wort in an. C. W. King. Jamee B.- Melkle, President of Tnuh tea Company. HUGE BUILDING WILL BE COMPLETED WITHIN YEAR Olds, Wortman & King Sign Fifty-Year Lease on Mag nificent Department Store Which Will Be Erected on Pennoyer Block at Once. occupy at the corner of Fifth and Wuh In r ton streets. During their stay here they hare twice been obliged to enlarge, and each time a commodious building was added to their plant, the laat addition being a A CO-year leaae waa signed by Olda wortman ic King yeaterday on a mag; ntflcent department atore building to be erected by the Truetee company and to cover the entire Pennoyer block. The building: will be of ateel, concrete and plate glass, with five atorlea and a full basement for retail purposes, and .will have main entrances on Morrison,' Alder, Tenth and West Park streets. When completed the property will represent an investment or tttuu.uoo. Construction work will be commenced as soon as the Trusteo company a archi tecta work out the details of the plat with the department store firm. The 1 f round has been cleared and the genera eaturea and dimensions of the build' lng have been agreed upon. Olds. Wort man & Klnt, will ultimately become owners of tne property. They have flnced a clause In the lease provl hat they will buv the buHdlna-. The foundation and steel columns of tne nrst six floors win De nut in to bear 10 stories and the building; will eventually reach that height when the growth of Portland warrants the en largement of the structure. Work on Plana. C. R. Aldrich of Seattle, who Is at the he ay of the Trustee company a rorce or arcnitecie. win arrive in vorv land the first of this week to begin the . drafting of every detail desired by the : rnercnants, wno win unoenaae to maxe ' this the model department atore of the Pacific coast. The dimensions of the building wiu be JOOxZOO feet. James B. Melkle, president of the .Trustee company of Portland, who has carried on (he negotiations that were Closed yesterday, said: "No expense will be spared to make this building all that It ahould be for the purposes of the firm of Olds, Wort tnan ft King. The general plan now ' agreed upon will make It the most mod ern and complete department atore west of Chicago. "The structure will be the double unit system, of construction, which Is gen erally uaed by the Trustee company Id Its buildings, and was designed and perfected by Its architects. It will be a ateel frame of strength sufflclerj for an carrying purposes, ana the columns will be encased In solid concrete, which not only Insulates for fire protection but doubles the strength of the frame. "The floors will be steel girders laid Seven feet apart and filled in with con crete moulded into place. The sldea of the building will be very largely.- plate glass. The exterior will be finished with light pressed brick of terra cotta. All Modern Improvements. "There will be six modern passenger levators In the building. We recognize city flve-atory annex extending clear through to Sixth street. Notwithstanding these enormous additions to their floor space, the business has again forced them to seeK a larger home tor the store, wnicn Is living uo to the motto of "keeping psce witn the Pacirio Northwest. The Trustee company of Portland, wnicn win erect the new building, is concera comparatively new to this city but has been for years operating ex. tenslvely in realty on the. coast The prevent company, with headquarters at seatue, nas large buildings at Seattle, Los Angeles and Spokane. Its Seattle propertjes number seven, and It has two at Los Angeles and one at Spokane, the aggregate laVestment In the three cities amounting to I4.77,000, yielding gross revenue of over 1179,000. eoured Yaloabla leases The Trustee oomnanir u tnnnAA In 1808 by A. L. Hawfey ana W. D. Wood. w iuar former mayor or Seattle. They worked out a plan of unit owner- snip or large business bu ldlns-a. and piacea investments of this character witnin tne reach or nm natn imuui using uie corporate method. iue oiricers or tne parent com nan are: W. Tx Wood, president; A. L. Haw. ley, Frank T. Iunfer, James B. Melkle, vi nirnmenij; eiamuna Mowden, treas uror. inrn men ana ih fA inin form the directory: John Schram, N. H. rr ,rrv.'- -nnrf. j. m. Frink, Harold Preston, Blake T. Mills. V. H Smith. T. I. Furber. WllUnrr. v is trust orncer and W. T. DeOraaf Is secretary. The Trustee company of Portland la floor It would cover B0 ordinary building lota The Olds, Wortman King store of the year 1151 was con ducted In a little building on Third street, and had 1,760 feet of floor apace. ana one rioor. Seei ob Paolfio Coast. C. W. King of the department atore rirm said: We hope to make this the largest ana best equipped department store in the Paciric northwest, and equal to any west of Chicago. We look, for large growth . In Portland within the next few years. This step by our firm Is taken to meet the requirements of Increasing business." The store will be completed In time to make the move from present quar ters in August. 1909. It is the Duroose or tne nrm to ultimately put in de partments for groceries, men s clothing, the large number of department. ul-?ia?irtT&B&?r 3"gf& ready carried. Flanders secretary. Th a eomnanv w. The restaurant now so popular In Incorporated In 190. and secured Wmah the Olds, Woeman & King store will 9" tne valuable .properties Known as the be made a feature. The basement floor fjennoyer block and Plttock block, but will aocommodate a department of un- company am not organize for build- der-prlced goods, similar to the plan of 'u,VUHO" un.ul recently, its settled the Marshall Field store. It Is Intended P"cy tne. buying or building of by Olds, Wortman King to make their DU,BJnes8 atructurea on the unit owner new atore to the Portland eommunlty JA1?. system, but in Portland it has what the Marshall Field store is to Si"?. Ji eAceRtl" "n(1 building the Chicago. ui;iuri oo me i-ennoyer block as an Olda wortman A Kin maintain of- flees In New York. Paris and Chemnitz. vail System Popular. ... . 1 r. . " "t" un" ownersnip or large will enable them to buy and sell mer-1 business bu ldin -i -. ai i . ,1.1- . i. , : " . i vi;u i;iiiiu0q vuw wwooi iivhiui priuD, i m vig ciiy is. growing in ravor aji it as tneir eastern ana European agents I aa vantages are becoming understood xeep tnera in constant toucnwitn the l ana mat tnern will be mora of then worms tosi mercnanaise maraets. i uuuumga in i-ortiana within the next Boaa From Banks. I rew vear- On this plan the Trustee TTtl "ol y e history of tock block In the near future. the Olds. Wortman & King store. The Rimlne.H int. in th- ...f.. . i men now at its head were native-born commercial cities have grown so valii- wicBun a. y in in C oohio I Buie uiBl uui lew men nave ranltal sunrise aurricient to place adequate Imnrnn. incuia vii iiicin. mwiy a man wno vun OLD HORSE DRAGS CHIIDIBDETH Proud Little Nine-Year-Old Dies on His First Day of "Man's Work." (Special Dlipttck te Tbe loeraaL) Flora, Or., March 28 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller near this piaoe was made desolate Tuesday even ing by a terrible bereavement. Mr. Miller and two sons were farming a lace away from home down on the Irand Konde river. William, the vou nit er boy. 9 years old. waa handling- a team at farm work for the first time and was very proud of his success. On unhitching his team Just before noon, being on the farther side of the fluid from the houae. he climbed on ona horse, which was old and gentle, and rode across the field. , On his undertak ing to dismount the horse became frightened and threw him. One foot slipped through the cross check, which had been snapped to the name, and In the fall a half hitch was formed around the boy's ankle. He waa dragged about 260 yards, a part of the way between two logs which were close together and on which were left fragments of his flesh. The horse then lumped a wire fence. whloh Jerked the shoe from the boy's loot and iioeraiea mm. Dr. Gllmore of this place waa sum moned, but the child's brain waa crushed and all efforts to save his life were of no avail. He died at 10 o'clock that night. With all BOYS' SUITS we G AWAY Base Ball Suits. Gloves, Catchers Mitts, Base Balls, Bats 8 TUDOnS niir I IT HAAl II hughes id run atreams and saw the same across Mount Hood's snow-laden crest. we were born up here in the woods." ago purchased such a lot t .m.n mr. xv.iiiH iciiini kcu wiicn aafnou wnere i hub utcuino woaiiny bv f b . trrr-n V. the firm originated. W. P. Olds first the city but still is without th r.Q,w of that the building will have to accommo date large crowds or people, ana that He lighting, ventilation and sanitation must be of the most modern improved raethod. Mr. Wortman, while In the 'east recently, visited the best depart- saw aayugnt on a rarm near Moore s capital to erect a lar?. mndorn k,.ii Mill, on the classic Tualatin, In Wash- Ing, unless he mortgages the property he came down to Portland to begin a Unit ownership is a method by which business career, and gradually roae to a central business property la perman- be a dry goods elerk, then merchant eniiy dmaed into a definite number uf it. wortman was born at canemah, i mans n avauanie ror general then a Clackamas county wilderness. Investment without using the "corpor- C. W. King hailed from Butteville, Ma- ?te method ' now employed to divide rlon county. At the age of 12 years he ,nt lia.e tha ownership of railroads emigrated to Portland and became a ,,u clerk In the little dry goods store of Albany College Scene of High Jinks National Re publican Convention. John Wilson, on First street up with that store. He grew Tha Wilson atftrA m thA havtnnln of the present big department store o Olds, Wortman & King. Wheh Olds & "of ment stores in New York, Chicago and other large cities, also Los Angeles and San Francisco, to secure tbe most deslr- kgble Ideas and features, which will be I Jjflcorporated in the Portland atore, .with improvements wnerever possible. it will be such a atore aa will command the attention of the traveling, public, and no woman visiting Portland will have seen Portland until aha has aeen . the Olds, Wortman & King department . gtore." j The Plenum aystem of exhaust ven ; tilation and sanitation has been adopted : and an elaborate scheme of electric lighting la being designed. An automatic . sprinkler aystem on every floor will give fire protection. Tne new store wiu nave jto.ouv 5 square feet of floor space. This mean over six acres, or If spread out Over one King took over the store from Pioneer John Wilson there were four men and boys working In It. Mr. Wortman came tn later. Today there are 625 people on the payroll. The new store to hn cam. pieted and occupied a year from next August will have upward of 2,000 em ployes. , i Bnalaeaa Has Xapid Orowtn. The store when founded by John Wil son waa in a small building on Front street and was afterward taken by Mr. Wilson to 147 Third street where in 1866 Mr. Wilson waa succeeded by the firm of Olda & King. In 1900 the firm became Olds, Wortman & King. They quickly outgrew these quarters, and moved . to 186 First street. More room again becoming necessary, thev removed to the corner of First and Taylor streets. Constantly Increasing business aoon crowded them out aarain. and IT, I years ago they caused to be built for I their occupancy the building thev now I other properties involving amounts of capital. It enables invest ors to become Individual nmnri n properties so divided, and iuud uimm iu mo general puDIlO a large field for profitable investment hereto fore closed except to tboae possessed of large fortunes. (Special Dtipatca te Th Journal.) Albany, Or., March 28. Charles E. Hughes of New Tork for president, and William IL Taft of Ohio for vice-president, waa the result of a mock nomina ting convention held by the students of Albany college last evening. The or ganisation was modeled after tbe great conventions and each state waa repre sented by a full delegation. The platform was a serio-comic docu ment wnicn included among its wildly sportive demands the following: For a congressional appropriation of 11,000,000 ror Albany college as an endowment opposing basketball for girls, "for the reason that It Is degrading to their finer natures , for abolishing the United mates navy; ror a salary or a million a year for the president of the United States, and cabinet officers In propor tion, and, wildest of all, demanding "that a law be passed under the next administration compelling all college I nrldAnta. irmv orrlpers and ulnnn. For apank- keepers to annually engage In a cross es: aiso princi pals of commercial departments. Nominations for president were as follows: Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Joseph O. Cannon of Illinois, Charles E. Hughes of New York, Wil liam H. Taft of Ohio, Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana, Jrnathan Bourne of Oregon, Hon. Reed Smoot of Utah, Hon. Robert M. La ouette or Wiscon sin. The first ballot resulted in no choice. although Taft was far In the lead. The second resulted in tne convention beina stampeded to Hughes and his nomina tion waa maae sure amia tne wildest enthusiasm. On motion, the nomination I was made unanimous and Taft was chosen by acclamation for second place. MQYm 3rd & Oak 1st & Yamhill leaned ever the man In the abort period before he became unconscious and asked mm .several important questions. , "Did you drop Schmlttberger. res, gasped the the bomb 7" asked any particular of- Drostrata man. "I dropped the bomb, but I did not In tend any lnturv to anvona in the nark It was the police I wanted to kill, and me ponce onjy. "Did you aim at ficlair "No. sir. but I wanted to wine out tha line of mounted policemen who were standing on the Broadway side." Sllversteln spoke alternately in rnnd English and Russian. Just before laps ing Into unconsciousness he suddenly cried In ausslan: "Let fha die, let me die." . An ambulance surgeon from the hos pital waa bandaging Sllverateln's wounds when he fainted. He waa Im mediately nurriea to the hospital. 811 versiein toid tne ponce that he was a cloak operator working on Delancey street and residing at No. 21 Van Tyne street Brooklyn. He told the police umi n naa a wire ana two enndren 11 v lng In Warsaw, Russia. Sllversteln Is a young man of dark comDiexion. . fie is nun aha von a n has jet black curly hair. At the time of tne explosion, he was attired in an nM coat and an old pair of trousers held up by his leather belt Hie shirt however, was fresh from the laundrv. He had on patent leather shoes. A number of letters in Kusslan and Yldd ah vara found In his pockets. Several of the letters found In Silver- stein's room, aooordlsg to Captain Knehna, of the Brooklyn police, war I written by Alexander Seekman, the an. anhiat, who shot Henry a rrlok, tfcf rittsburr millionaire, and served m panl tentlaxy term for attempted n smalm Uon. "Some of the papers we found con tained evidence of extraordinary pints against high financiers and moneyed lntereats," said Captain Kuehne tonight A atatement was a-lven nut at cvu vue nospiiai tonignt saying Sllversteln In a lucid interval had declared ha had been hounded by the police ever since he reached this country six years ago and had determined to "get ven," .He laid he was all alene In his attempt and had foaU nitro- maae me oorao mmseir. using nl iTi.ciiii mm mo QXDIOIin. - urn v- pressed res-ret that he hmA an mi any of his arch-enemies, the police. HELD FOR SPANKING niS STEPDAUGHTER Kll ai r..i aa minora, tei.. juarcn is. rot apank- keepers to annually eng: lng hla pretty '25-year-old stendaurhrer country run of 200 mfii as ir she were a baby, Henry Clay Jones, a prominent and well-to-do farmer, liv ing near Miirord, waa held under 1,000 ball for his appearance at the April The trouble grew out of a dispute over the sale of butter and eggs be- iKcvu juneo ana miss Mary Bennett muss jsennett tesiiried that her step- miuer gave ner an oici-raanioned spank ing such aa "mother used tn maba Miss Bennett waa nrnilnla h v . Duunoi tea tin Ad n J I i 8 s mWWLnW1&WWfWBW&WIWImmfW!VWtWfBVmTfWB'Wr9m1 "aala'e"a'e'"waaiai iMa . . . auMMMHaaH.aWMaa mm U I Tk-aeXM tllT-VTyT ATTT f A TTi ZIPla 1T tt TJ" H NNUT MElilliVUl VAX ine reflect ifuss rax o. BE SUPERINTENDENT STTAVEE02 BOJOdDOES ARB BUIUT RIOHT - STAY RIOHT ' PRICED RIQHT Buy One and B Right Wilted seam tops, stitching not ex posed to the weather; will not rot, allowing top to rip. 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Attorney Gen eral Crawford has rendered an opinion stating that all nomlneea for tha office of county school superintendent throughout the state must hold either life diplomas or unexpired diplomas of tne nrst grade. - This decision was rendered at the suggestion of State School Superintend ent Ackerman, who Is dally In receipt 01 inauines or mis nature, ana on a airect inquiry rrom eonooi ouperintena ent Oeorge w. Denamn or Benton coun to Attorney General Crawford. Is possible that this decision will It prove news to some candidates for this I position and will necessitate their wlth- arawai from tne race. PEIZESUPF0E STCDENJ-FAEMEES GINNEVER & WHITTLESEY MEG. CO. 64 Sixth Street, Betan Oak arid Pine, Portland, Ore.; MAIN 6275. J' A-3915 (kWiI Dlroatca ta Tbe Vooraalt Albany. Or.. March 28. The nuclla of the Albany public schools will receive instruction in tha rudimentary atudlea of agriculture, and to encourage this Una of study the management has ef fered prises for the best showing of Sgricuiturai products, proved to have een grown by the student who enter aa a competitor. The distribution of prises win take piacs after tha schools open next year. NEW :Y0RK POLICE ' (Continued from Page One.) ' 4 most dramatic circumstances. Lvlna- on the ground-where he had fallen, ha .V-w-i-s?ww5r ill told in broken accents hi; part in the a mmMmmt m aaaiiaaaiajaaNa a. wa.tM1aaMiaatai.aMiai.i.aaa,jajuMa M 1 Uagea..: .3 , inspector- tiCDmlttberger I mm. M M 1 .- rf; baolate-gaarantee. Prieeg-reasonahlg-TrwitrT tt M . M. -n n . - .... . " . v w t an visn. Kooea ana uuRtera, narnesi ana wnips. QOOD GOODS AND A SQUARE DEAL 2 STORES Hlcount for" East Morrison and E. Second j First $ Taylo: 2 STORES East Morriccn and E. Seccr.J Firct
