THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11. 1D08.
A MARKED RSSI ; IN ' VALUATION Df MDJE' BUSINESS VPROPHWY
LARGEST SALE OF WfeEK
MADE ON WASHINGTON
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On of the moat effective and tan
glble evidences of the confidence of
' business man and capltallats . In th
' early return of good tiroes' was th
purchasa last Friday by T. 8cott Brooke
of tba quarter-block at the : southwest
.corner of Twelfth and ', ' Washington
- streets for 1135.001. This corner li
: practically unimproved and tha v prlca
. paid for It represents tha value of tha
naked Jot. -
Mr. Brooke la already heard y Inter
. ested In Washington street property and
' Is In a position to properly guage vel
wee In tuat district, and while the fir
, ura paid by him . for this "corner Is
t considerably above tha prlca asked for
upper Washington street corners, 12
and It months ago. It Is none too high.
considering the guneral advance in val
uea all over the cttv and the exten-
i sive, Improvements that haye been made
n inm DuainoR aisinci bduv. dcv-
' entevqth street in two years' time.
Contract for. 81 Hotel. ;
' Another transaction of tha past week
.which Is of far-reaching importance 14
1 Portland, was tb letting- of the con
junct by Theodora B. Wilcox for the
'erection of the nine-story annex to the
'Imperial hotel. When completed this
will be on of the finest buildings on
;the Pactflo coast and will cost not far
!from $300,000. .
i The so-called annex to the hotel is
In reality to become the Imperial. Tho
main entrance will be on Seventh a tree:,
while the present Imperial will become
the annex. This arrangement, will be
or immeasurable Denerit to Btarx street
. and Seventh street oroDertr and will
add to the value of realty on those
streets' for several blocks from tha ait
of the Wilcox structure.
Tet another. realty sale of nor than
'ordinary Interest was that of ths quarter-block
at the northeast corner of
Ninth and Davis streets. This property
Is known ss the cement foundation cor-
ner, and was sold by J. A. Bherneia,
representing the receiver of the Ore
gon Trust 4 Savlnara bank, for $27,500.
While the name of the purchaser was
not made nubile It is believed to have
been taken over by Crane Co., either
, ror the us or tne company, or lor a
Ai inn ea pons capitalist.
a i 'j ttaborbaa, f loptty Moving.
, ' in outside and suburban realty the
' movement daring; the past week has
r been quite as heavy as . for any like
period , sine the beginning of the re
action from the dullness of last sum
mer. Lota In Irvington and Holladay
. additions are especially active, several
. Bales of choice residence sites in the
district having changed hands during
.'the week. In the Piedmont and' Wal
nut Park district the 'demand keeps
tip, while lower down on 'the peninsula
as far west " as Bt. Johns, numerous
deals were reported dally.
On. the west side, while not. so ao
"tlve,. "yet many choice residence lots
changed hands, ' especially in the dis
trict west 'of Twenty-fourth atreat and
In the Willamette Height addition.
In th outlvina realdencc districts ac
tivity is all jnat could be aeanru. J ne
IhtlftV auKinir the wagr-earnera and of
flee mm aeem all toat'sed' of a de
termination to- own their homes, in
stead of depositing In navlngs banks to
be loaned to . others, which fully ex
platns the Urgent home building move
ment that I'ortland hae ever known.
Homes for th Worker.
Considerably more than half the new
building going on In Portland at this
time Is what might be railed work
(nrm.n'i homes, that la. coltaaea worth
less than ' 11,600. Nowhere In the
United States are wage-earners any bet
ter oir than In this city, and tne very
best -evidence of It Is the unusually
large number of worklngmen's homes
going up.
The Uammeter Investment company
closed a deal lsst week for the prop
erty at the southwest corner of Kaat
Kvvrett and Kaat Seventy-sixth streets,
Montavlila. The property formerly bo
longed to W. P. Schullur and was sold
for K, 000. County Clerk F. S. Fields
has sold an Improved holding at the
southeast corner of Kaat Nineteenth
and Weldler streets to Mrs. Minnie
Winters for $8,000.
. Bom Other Bales.
.William L. Wood has eurohaaed from
Terex Brothers 10 lots in Council Crest
Park. Total consideration, $6,000.
Joseph Parker has sold to Fox at Co.,
a half dosen lota In Klectrlo Heights
addition, fori $8,260.
W. F. 6(lne and assoclatea have pur
chased from Percy If. filith, four Jota
in. wuiamett Heights audition lor
$5,000. -
William C; Van Glahn has purchased
rrom jr. jKosenstein an improved quarter-block
In City View Park for $4,000.
Samuel S. 81 gel has purchased from
Harry I Hamblet tracts 10 and 11, In
Fairport; consideration, $4,000.
Robert T. Osborne has purchssed
from K. M. McKown a house and lot
at the southeast corner of East Main
and East Thirty-first streets for $4,200.
Louis Ooldsmlth has sold to A. L.
Levy a 60-foot lot on the southeast
corner of Twenty-fifth and Overton
streets for. $4,600.
lire. Mary A. Cretghton has pur
chased from the Ladd estate two lots
on Ladd street near Hawthorne avenue,
for $3,600.
E. B. Wood has purchased from B.
H. Grant a house and lot on East Thir
teenth street between Tillamook and
Thompson streets; consideration, $3,600.
f red AiarK' nag -purcnasea a nouso
and . lot at the northwest corner of
Thompson and East Forty-third streets,
Kossmere, ror la.zuu.
N. W. Ouatermaa has sold to H. M.
Abbett a house and lot on the north
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Mortan Apartment!, Twrnty-flmt
and Kearney Streets. -
(MBRIES PAY
1825 PERM
Coos Ck)imty Man Thinks
Ilis Crop One of tho Most
Lucrative in Section.
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west oorner of Maryland and Killings
worth avenues; consideration. $2,760.
w. (J. Aivora tias sold to xnomas
Mulr a quarter-block at the northwest
corner of Thompson and .East xweiitn
streets lor 3,uou.
BUILDING ORDINANCE
MEETS WITH APPROVAL
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f Measure Presented to Council by Architect Williams Said
to Be a Copy of the Ordinance Used in Chicago-
Present Requirements Are Too Drastic.
Architects and building engineers al
most without exception approve In the
main of the Williams building; ordl
? nance iadopted at yesterday'sneeUng of
- the council and unanimously recom
mended for passage . by the council at
the next regular meeting. The serious
objection, to the present building ordl
nances of th city, as pointed out by
several -well known arcltects and con
; ittruction engineers. Is that the masonry
; or concrete walls of apartment bouses,
hotels, residences and other buildings
of that character, erected outside the
- fire limits, have the same specifications
- and requirements of those of a ware
house or business block..
A builder may put up a four-story
frame lodging-house, hotel or residence,
with wooden partitions, wooden stairs
,' and elevator shaft, shingle roof and if
he sticks a fire escape on it,: he has
complied with the city ordinances. But
be may not build this style of build
ing with masonry or concrete exterior
waits, umess ne maxes tne waiis iiuck
v enough to support a warehouse or busi
ness block, a requirement altogether in
. excess of the needs of this type of
structure.
Bemedy for ZvU.
- The proposed Williams ordinance, say
.tne arcnuecis, is inienaea 10 remeay
this by permitting four-story buildings
i of this character to be erected with ex
terior walla of 12 Inches for the-first
and 8 Inches for th superimposed sto
nes. .
. It seems that the present ordinance In
foro here is a verbatim copy of the
ban Francisco ordinance, which with
. its ambiguous clauses did such notor
ious service under the administration of
the Keuf supervisors. It is said that
the Ban Francisco building ordinance
was drawn or ue agents or representa
tives of the insurance combine and was
.unconditionally accepted by the coun
cil of that city. The consensus of opin
ion is that ths Ban Franclsoo ordinance
Is entirely unsuited to Portland; that
Its adoption by the Portland council
has seriously retarded the growth of
this city and that it ought to be re
pealed and one adopted in It stead
suitable to the needs of this people.
'As expressed by a well known archi
tect ""the development and upbuilding, of
the immense territory outside the fire
limits of Portland has boen held back
long enough by the antiquated building
ordinances in force and It is time that
they be repealed and some such ordl
nance as the Chicago law be adopted.'
Views of an Engineer.
"I see no oblection tn that na.rt nf the
proposed Williams ordinance providing
lor j.z ana B-mcn wans ror rour-story
brick or concrete buildlntrs of the char-
IttM ..-hn " .BM t lt
Bae., "Under the present ordinance, the
wu requirements lor masonry or con
crete apartment houses, residences and
noieis, outsiae tne rire limits are en-
llnt. tun MwaaUr, . -
tard the natural develODment of the
city." ,
Mr. Williams' ordinance Is an exact
copy of th Chicago law governing that
class of construction, and should have
been adODted In this rftv ran mm"
said W. L. Morgan. "In the paat four
rears I have erected here a number of
rame arjartment housa whlnh snnM
have had brick or concrete exterior
walls had the Williams ordinance been
the. law. Gn King street, near Wash
ington, i am now buiidlaa- a rour-storv
apartment house with brick veneered
walls, , which would have been a brick
building If I oould have operated under
nucn an ordinance as is DrODoaea bv
Mr. Williams.
Better Than Wood.
"Few neoolft will rnntenri thut KrlrV
building with 12 and 8-inch walls is
not very much safer than a wooden
structure such ss is now nermlttri "
said Architect Ernest Kroner. "The
brick building will certainly have some
tendency to stOD the progress of a fire.
while the wooden buildings would simply
be more fuel for the flames. While in
some minor particulars, I don't alto
gether agree with the Williams ordi
nance, upon the whole It is Immeasur
ably superior to the present law gov
erning this class of construction In
Portland."
North Bond. Or.. Oct. 10 R. R. Plnk-
erton of North Inlet was in North Bend
this week completing preparations to
market his crop of cranberries which
will be one of the most lucrative crops
ever Droduced In Coos county. He
stated that his cranberry ranch would
yield about 300 bushels per acre and as
the prevailing price is about $2.76 per
bushel, he will derive about $825 per
acre.
The cranberries are among the finest
ever seen In this section' and are said
to be superior to the famous Cane Cod
cranberries, being larger and of even a.
better navor.
Mr. Pinkerton came to Coos bay from
tho cast, wtiere he had considerable ex
perience In cranberry growing. He says
that the marsh land in this section is
better than in the east as the crop here
is free from the dangers and pests that
cause grief for the growers in Massa
chusetts. Here, he believes, the cran
berry crop is practically certain.
jvir. jrinaerton says inn me yieia
from the cranberries will be better after
the fields have been cultivated a few
more seasons and thinks that 400 bush
els per acre Is a conservative estimate
on the nosslble yield.
Cranberries have sold as high as $4
er bushel here, it is saia. so that cran
errv growinar offers such great Induce
ments that there Is bound to be a rapid
development of the Industry in this sec
tion.
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Residence of J. A. Venesa, Twentieth
and Johnaon Streets.
goes n oil
HMEUM COilL
Vlien lie Gets Hi3 $10,000
Legacy He Will Buy
Real Estate.
Residence of J. F. Simpson, Twenty-first and Northrup,
(Otaltad Preaa Laaaed Wire.)
Wllllamsport, Pa., Oct 10. John
Quackonbuch Packard, nephew of John
Q. Packard, the Millionaire, who died
at Santa Crux, Cal., last week, leaving
an estate of $30,000,000, Is shoveling
coal today in the boilers of the
Btuempfle Brick Works, where he has
been employed at $1.50 a day for a year.
He was Informed the other day that he
had fallen heir- to $10,000 of his uncle's
estate, .and calmly went to work again
shoveling coal. He declared that ha
hal exported some money but not bo
much.
"I am going to go right on working,"
ho said, "and When I get the money I
Khnll invest It In real estate."
Packard was Informed of his legacy
by the foreman of the brick works, who
had read It in a newspaper.
PURCHASE HOME
SITE IN IRVINGT0N
P. M. Gray, who purchased a quar
ter-block at Sixteenth and Wasco
streets In the Holladay addition dur
ing the week, Is to build a home which
will cost him between $10,000 and $12,-
600. 41 he house is to be two stones.
frame, and will have all modern con-
WISE JEN BUILDING
WHILE PRICE IS DOWN
A Four-Thousand Dollar House Built Last Year Would
Cost but Three Thousand Now, and Cheaper
Residences Are Proportionately Lower.
"Conditions were never so favorable
to home building as now." Is the con
veniences. Work on the dwelling will elusion reached bv Walter A. Aver in
begin as soon as possible during theLn ."tJ,Z ,tJ7 I r .
wint.r nr riv in fh mrinc. Mr. ,n article In the current number of
Gray bought the property from Larabee I Country Life, which was prepared after
brothers, paying $5,000 for the quar- exhaustive and nnlnstnkin itini.
ter-block.
ANTI-PICKETING
DECISION MODIFIED
tion. Mr. Aver pursued his Investlea
tions in all parts of the country, and
hence his conclusion is not based upon
mere guesswork or! hearaav. hut la
Substantiated bv f frt-clnnq avIHonna
and ample facts and! figures that will
drive away all doubt from the minds
of prospective home builders.
ir. Ayer says that the savin ir ot.r
Chicago, Oct 10. The sweeping In
junction against picketing recently
1 nBrn V... v1..a1 Ti.H fianhnm l&St V OHT Is not lean than 10 npr i,nt
in the Allls-Chalmers moulders case was a"d in some localities, under especially
sustained bv tho United States circuit f018 conditions, it Is as high as
court of appeals today. The decision V?f.-c lVu
iitalns the former ruling. with iLtM Ab? majority of the readers of
.h,m BmPiKtmnnt The new rulln ? " article it would not he unreason-
makes the injunction read that atrik- Sie 00I' avi1fJ ?f ?? r 2
ers "shall not picket, persuade or coax h0 built a 14 000 houVe in th .Z.
workmen from, entering the employ of ? Sf ' 1907. 'mighteonahlv 'exTci
or to duplicate the same build in ir now for
the company in an intimidating
threatening manner.
LYNN SHOE STRIKE
TO fil TO A TPrNTSTT and 'ndlrectfy, from all' parts of tha
1 v JJ Iv AT Ail XOJ1 country from architects, real estate
Duuaers, contractors and dealers
$3,000.
auKeruu iower in Fries
'The facta which iustifv this state.
ment have been obtained, both directly
(United Press Leaaed Wire.)
Lynn, Mas.., Oct. 10,
dustry of this city will be tied up for
men,
In and manufacturers of building ma
Th. hn. In-1 '-L'-T"" "fVy:r com-
. uirriL ana invesiigaiion.
The most Important factor in the
an indefinite time as a reault of the de- ?"ua"n ' ,"ie Iauc.ea Pf'06 1T Du.,11
manufacturers to . a iirnuui i.umoer-
of the
termination
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out their differences with their I , ' ru"uJ V'!!J.ri ira(,6.V,r;
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dav after a conference with other em-1 ..ri ' 1, I? , ....
ployers. refusing to submit the matter building materials now are five t.i
to arbitration. I 0 Dr cent below the erhedula of nrl
In effect tn 1307. In many Instances
they are below the 1805 and 190 prices.
In some districts prices have not re
ceded materially. In others nominally
the same prices are being axked, par
ticularly for small lots of stock. How
ever, where the dealer Is asked to fig
ure on a large bill, ordinarily he is
willing to make a lump price materially
lower than that for which the same
goods could nave bebea furnished lsst
yr- . V
xnereaaa commf aooa.
In a letter. James K. Defebaugh, the
editor ol tne American Juum be r man.
aaya:
it la a aeir-evioeni ract mat pncea
are from 20 to it per cent leas en
nearly all building material in the west
and soutn, at least, tnnn tney wui De
In a month or two rrom now. wnen
the election Is over and our troubles
are orettv much behind u
One or two jsew J one rontraciors
go aa far as to say that the general
annnkage on pncea or ouiiding ma
tertala exceda . tier cent.
George V. ..otchklas secretary of the
Tlllnola lumber dealers association, said
recently:
Candldlr. I look cron tha ereeent
depressed condition or the lumber oaa
Ineaa as but tbe rrelude to an era of
pncea mgner man naa ever Been anew a
to prevail.
Brick la dnwn 21 Ter cent er more.
Gradea that sold la New Tork a year
in ror i to 1 1 per toouea are aew
selling at 1 4 it and 1 1. Common brick
sold in Chicago for $t.l to ti it per
thonaand In 107; It now roata Ilit to
i.. a. Two or three years ui prices
were aometlm twice aa high.
Ifntlc Portland remetit. arcordlng
te contractora can be bought la Chicago
14. per o-ft cheaper than ia 1 Mi.
and In New Tork about per cent.
possibly 20 per cent cheaper than It
was a year ago at this time. It Is not
cheaper, however, than It was three
years aaro.
Price for roofing slate, according to
tne wenuine ifangor Slate company,
Easton, t'a., are from 5 to 10 per
cent lower man last year, according
to tne grade, and size wanted.
Can Get Money arow.
Many people perhaps most neoDle
ao not pay tne iuii price ror tneir
homes. Thev prefer to build a better
house than could be had for their avail
able cash. So they borrow on mortgage,
which experience has shown to be a
not unwise thing to do. But during
the last year money has been tight.
It has been hard to borrow on mort
gage, and that Is one reason why there
..aa been so little building.
The market Is easing up perceptibly,
Fartlcularly the mortgage loan market
t is no longer difficult to get money
on a first class mortgHge on a new
home. This situation makes the present
the best time to build. As It becomes
easier and easier to -vet mnnov thare
will be more and more general building
undertaken by railroads and big cor
porations, as wen as individuals, and
then up will go the price again and the
golden opportunity will have paaned.
The present situation Is strictly in favor
or tne noma Dunaer.
By way of showing the big reduc
tions mat nave Deen maae in the prices
of all clauses of building materials and
in la nor rrom that or two years aa-o.
the following table, complied by the
San Francisco Call, of prices in that
city, is given:
Present Price.
Common red brick . . $7.60 per 1,000 on Job
uomesuc cement iz.oa
Imported cement $2.76 to 13. 25
Lime $1.16 per barrel
riaater is to no Der ton
Crushed rock 76c to $1 per yard
Lumber .$11 to $16 ner l.OOo
Skilled labor .$$.60 to tt per day
Two ears Am.
common ren onca;
Domestic cement
Imported cement
Lime
Plaster
Crushed rock
Lumber
Skilled labor
BEACH LAND BEING
RAPIDLY TAKEN UP
One of the most notable, features of
the general upward movement in all
classes -of real property in this state In
the laat two years is the extraordinary
actMty In Oregon beach land. ' Nearly
all of the Oregon beach available for
summer residence purposes, extending
from the mouth of the Columbia river
tn Coos Rftv. has nassed into the hands
of wealthy Individuals or under the
control of strong corporations.
In miny cases, especially where
owned by Individuals, this property Is
not for sale, but is being held for the
fancy prices that It will command In
the next few years. Immense areas
of ocean front, particularly In Clatsop
county, have been subdivided In the
past year or two and are being rapidly
disposed of -to prospective builders of
summer homes.
North of Oearhart Park the Delaura
Beach company has platted about 100
acres of ocean front and during the
beach season just closed sold lots to
tne value oi over no.ouu. irver l.ouu
people camped on the Delaura Beach
property during the past summer.
While this property was put on tha
market only last summer, already a
number of cottages have been com
pleted and others are under construc
tion. The company completed during
the late summer a cottage hotel and
by the opening of the next beach season
will have completed one of the largest
and handsomest hotels on the Oregon
beach.
Plans are under way for establishing
a high-class military school at Delaura
Beacn, the company having donated 20
acres as a site. '
Extending from Astoria to the ocean
and running through the Delaura Beach
property. Is a plank automobile road.
Over this road Is the only way that au
tomobiles can reach the hard sand
beach, on the Oregon coast. This
stretch of bench road Is 18 miles lonir.
extending from the mouth of the Ne
canicum river to the mouth of the Co
lumbia, and is one of the finest nat
ural speedways for automobiles In the
world.
DIDN'T MIND INVADING CAPITOL
$12.60perl.003
$2.15 to $1.76
$3.60 to $4.60
$2.60 per barrel
,.$12 to $16 per ton
12 ner vard
$2$ to $40 per 1.600
IT to $ per day
The reductions In thla table are aoua
to about 40 per cent and are not far
from the reduction that have tiken
place in tneae articlea in tne Portland
marxcL
BURGLAR BARGAINED.
ITow an Cyd Ranker Got Rid of an
Unwelcome Visitor.
rrom tha Kansae City Star.
A rroun Of hla friends were dtamaa
Ing William Wlnalow Sherman, the old
Dan iter who aiei not long ago.
l-ia, ha4 the IWlUaf nan
know," aald ona 'Throe or four
years ago, when Sbennan waa an aid
man and partially criDDled bv nw.
of a fall from a boree. be entered his
bodrooni late at night to find a m..w4
burglar ransacking It.
-Tha thief had a big gun trained oa
Sherman in a minute. The banker tuat
wared It aalde with a fired hand
that away.' be eaid irrt tiklr tt . ;
diaonaa thla matter like gaoUetnen.' The
oorgiar waa so aurpnaetj be laughed.
Now. yon rwnld hart, ma if mm. r...
to, and might get away with aofne Uttle
kak-k-knttka,' aald Sherman. "But yoa
might he caught, aad there's a alight
probability that row eon Id dlaooee of
my itniet articles prontaMv. Wbat
Sargent Ca. New Tork. nay: wotild yen conidder a fair nii prent.).
'iiardware for plamblcg parpoae Is 1 tion to go awayf Tbcy talked t over
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Tha Hen Which Entered the Mis-1 I f'p-':""'". " ","J ' ''" "'TTlj
onVl State House. II If S 1
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Peggy la In a class by herself. She
la the only hen wba waa ever known to
enter a autehouae for an honorable po
sition among Its gorcrnora.
But be It known that Peggy la bo or
dlnarr hen. She if the Mrs. TanderbUt
of the chicken of tha United Etatea.
Born and raised In Kaaaaa City, Peggy
la now valued at $S.Ma, and flva of her
children were recently eold t afadame
Paderewskl for $7.6t. Sna belongs to
the Crystal White Orpington claen, and
la 171-1 perfect.
Because of tba tinqneatlonable su-
preaoaay which Peggy enjoys la the hen
world, a magnificent portrait of ber ha
been painted by a celebrated western
artist, and. aa shewn abova. Peggy la to
ref 1" tha Mlasoarl aUtehonBe at Jef
ferson City, among the ptcturee ef other
Individual wha aif helped ta snake
allseourt faasoua
l aTl
The burglar thought be earM ta
bav 111. but Sherman, after Hqairteg
into tba man's bablta. eald II wae
enoagb. tw oea,' ha aala. "yoafre a
tnn tt1ef. If thla ware ymir flrat
wffcaaa I 4 pr rwa r price, but ew
th police- bar yonr rlctare yon aoght
t be glad ta accept any fair cwiapr
B i and ran no rt.a '
Tb barglar finally agreed a take
$. Sbertnaa palled out a $1 fcui.
i&lTa me tf rhaage.' aald be. And h
gat It before be paid."
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