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THESE ARE THE MEN WHO WILL PUT UP A FINE
; BUSINESS STRUCTURE ON THE PENNOYER BLOCK
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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
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niir
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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
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(Special Dlnpateh to Th JoamaL)
Salem, Or., March 18. 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.
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STCDENJ-FAEMEES
GINNEVER & WHITTLESEY MEG. CO.
64 Sixth Street, Betan Oak arid Pine, Portland, Ore.;
MAIN 6275.
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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
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most dramatic circumstances.
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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
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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