The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, August 21, 1909, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL.' PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENING, 'AUGUST 21. if") "'' I -...'.. I. ' . ' " ''."" I' '.' . , ' 11 .. '.' II .HIM.. I, I I. , I I .1 . .1 I. , ..II , sflsMtafc - A k -J a : S-eV 7 ' VaXii.-lL'i MM HIDING Oil FOUIiJEEIITII George S..Keeler Takes, Out Termit for $50,000, . Apartments. ! . One of the latest of the big brick apartments, tor which permit has just been Issued,, Is to be erected by George 8. Keeler on Fourteenth street, be twon Clay and Market. . . The building Is to be four stories, BO by 100 feet in ground dimensions, and will contain it tnree ana tour room apartments. ' wniie me ptrmu issueu lor the structure crovldea lor an in vestment of 145,000, ' the completed building will come near costing f 50,000. Plans for the Wheeler hotel and room ing house, to be erected on the triangle at Twelfth And, Burnside streets, have "boen tiled with the building inspector, The building is to be a, thrje story brick and will have a frontage of about 80 feet? each on Twelfth,- Couch, and iiurnsuie streets. The Swiss association, which is com posed of many of the most prominent Swiss residents or tne city, la contem plating the erection of t 70 by 100 thre story brick building at Third and Jefferson streets.' Plans-of the pro jected structure have been prepared and are now la the hands of the build ing Inspector. Although a permit has not been applied for, all of the details connected with the building of the structure have not been arranged, but it is not doubted that the improvement will be made In the next few months. J. ' M. Berry has taken out a permit for the erection of a $5000 frame resi dence) on Clackamas, between Twenty-: wraa ana a wemy-rourm streets, in rtoiladay Park addition, , . OLD STYLE BRICK SAFEST III FIRE Government Geological Sur vey, Develops Data of . , Interest. . rnvrrssmv an a Trn?T STREETCAR COMPANY Hereafter the Portland Railway, Light & Power company will be per mitted to lay brick on the outer edges of its tracks where these run through a paved street The space between rails will be paved with the same material as the rest of the street Instead of with Belgian blocks- as- heretofore. Permis sion to make improvements in this man ner was granted to the company by the street committee: on the recommenda tion of the city engineer. The railway company's request for an extension of time in which to complete its underground electric system was also favorably acted upon by the com mittee, which recommended that not only this company but others affected be allowed a two year extension. FAYIXG MICROBE , BUSY AT ALBANY Albany, Or.. Aug. 21. Preparations for paving Iyon street began this morn ing when a gang of men began raising the streetcar line four, inches to the proper grade. The company has asked the Southern Pacific company for per mission to extend the ; track several hundred yards nearer the union depot. am " 1 .'. i ii i;i Tests recently made by the United States geological survey of the firs re sistive qualities of the various , build ing materials showed that the old re liable brick, tha material out of which houses have been oonstructed since the Egyptians and Chaldeans first learned to bake mud bricks In the heat of the sun. Is still the safest and best build lng material known to man. , These tests were made under circum stances most favorable to developing Just what amount of heat, brick, natu ral stone and ooncrete will stand, and the result was a complete surprise to the trained minds at the , head of the United States geological survey. The report filed with the chief or The geological survey stated that the condi tions of the tests were unusually se vere and that none of the materials pressed perfectly, the temperature used being much greater than that expected In an ordinary fire. The one thing most clearly demonstrated by the tests is the low heat transmission rate of Portland cement mortars and concretes, this be ing one of the essential Qualities in materials Intended for fireproof con struction. Brick withstood 'the severe tests bet ter than the other materials. 50 per cent of new brick being split by. while 60 to 70 per cent of the old brick came out without damage. . The Kydraullo pressed brick stood the test better than the sand-Urn brick. Natural building stone of several va rieties was tested and all were so se riously damaged that no comparison of their firs resistive qualities was made in the report.1 : The results on hollow concrete blocks showed that while the strength of the webs Is sufficient to withstand the heat of any ordinary firs and the eubse quent quenching with water, when put through tne severest tests there is danger of the webs splitting. SELLW00D CLUB AT WORK FOR OWN HOME If the dans of the ' 8el wood Com merclal club materialize as now seems assured, . that ' organisation will . be housed In its own home before ths end of the year. -Bids for the construction of ths club house have been made by a number of contractors and are now In the bands of the board of governors. ! One bal'f or the stock from which the building fund , Is being raised has been placed among the residents, of Sellwoodv and the committee-, having charge of "this feature of the club's work report that no trouble will be had In placing; the remainaer or Tree stock, ... ( , The contractors bids for the erection of the clubhouse have been examined by the building committee of the club. and It Is probable that the contract will os formally awarded early next week 1 x vriJr.l -;-f I C? "vT k f I j V " ; -' A r- " z&''m S-y ' i ' 0RE60II TinOER I'.'Ell GUARDED Government and Owners Employ Large Force of Men. ' , v Store and Apartments, Eleventh, Street, Between Alder and Washington r"'V ELECTRIC v fiitei The Most Economical Incan descent Electric Lamp Made 40 watt 32 candle power .......... .85 60 watt 48 candle power !. r .... .$1.00 100 watt 80 candle'power . . , ; ?1.30 250 watt 200 candle power ?2.50 These Prices are the Lowest in the City IT GIVES TWICE THE LIGHT OF THE ORDINARY, INCANDESCENT LAMP FOR 'THE SAME COST. PES HOUR 9 PCRTLMD RAILWAY LIGHT "fi POWER CO.' 147. SEVENTH STREET,- " COTTAGES FOR H0f,1E BUYERS Dr. Hutchinson Will Build on Tract on Peninsula. 'partmept for girls In ths trades hool, which had ben recommended Contracts for th erection ; of three attractive : cottage homes on Portland Heights have been awarded In the past few days. , Sanford Smith, is building s two story, 7 I'oora, house near 'the Pat ton road .In Oreenway addition, which la to cost about 14000. - , -1 On Terrace Road. K. n.. nardner hua begun ths erection of an 8 jroom frame dwelling, of modern design, which, will cost in the neighborhood of $4600. i The third of these new Heights names is. ins bwiss cnaiet, wmcn u being . erected ' on Cornell oad at (ht head of Overton street tar- Vmftttmnr H H. Herdman,, principal of ths Uncoln High school. This bulldlnar will int I'll nor iiiE SCHOOL OFFICES Board-of Education -Decides to Kent Out district Building. - ' ' The board of education at . Its mnt. lng yesterday abandoned Its Intention of moving the offices of the school ciem and tne superintendent to a build lng owned by the district near Seven- teentn ana couch streets. This build lng wil be rented out instead. The establishment of an Industrial OP sc at a former meeting by the head of the department ofr-domestio science was de- Q.a.A"w w wjf lui uwoi u. a. rwm in the Atkinson school building will be uuuzeu ana ie is exDeetea uut &a a-iria will enroll .next month.' ! ' ismming Insoector Jones renort nn the condition of proposed new struct ures and additions shows that all ot mess , DUl two - Will be readv Tor -the opening of schood September U. . The lavls school will not be completed by ths opening day but It will be finished within a few weeks after. The Ockley Green school will not be entirely com pleted but a few of the rooms will be used at tne start. Alblna Homestead. Creston, Eliot. 'Vernon and Irvlngton schools will be turned over to the board before the opening day. - . A communication from the Portland Fair and -Livestock association asking ths board to set aside Mondav. Sentnm. ber 20, as a holiday so the school chil dren can attend the fair was referred to a committee. The committee will en deavor to have the fair management postpone children's day until Saturday of fair week. - INTERESTING BOOKLET OX WELL IRRIGATION Well Irrigation, which in India. Es-vnt and Italy, and other countries of large and frequent, crops,' has Increased the productive value of land to a remark able extent, is advocated for ths Wil lamette, valley in a new brochure issued by the passenger department of the O. R. & N. and the Southern Pacific,, and written by R. M. Brereton, ths well known authority on Irrigation. The DOOKlet was issued In tine for distribution ' at the irrigation congress in Spokane, but permission was refused Mr. Brereton. to pass It among the dele gates, the reason . for this action not being vouchsafed. In the book Mr. Brereton advocates the driving of wells and the using of the bountiful subsoil waters of the Willamette basin for Irri gation during the months of June, July, August and September when the rain fall can not be depended upon. It makes the farmer sure of maturina- his croos. and the expense is said to be slight Horse and bullock power, steam power or cheap gasoline engines are advocated for use In pumping the water. .Tin close similarity between the Willamette vallev ana the Lomhardv' vallev in northern Italy, where "well Irrigation Is used with great success Is bliv.H 1a augur well for the practicability of the system. -..:.... .-.v, ..... -. i ne rauroaa company nas ordered that 10.000 of these books he sent arenta In Oregon for free distribution among the farmers.- . ,.. . , . i i W OU III Woman Bnyg Proptrty.' -.. V.prdsl DIstwtcB-to Tb Joflmd.t Athena. Or.. Aug. 21. Mrs. Watts has bought a house- and two lots on the corner of Third and College streets. In the center of the town, where she will llVS-, ; , , , .; , r . SOUTH FOItTLJIIID Mason - Ehrman' Company Will Soon Have New , Quarters. ; Ths Mason-Ehrman company has be gun :. the construction of a two story frame. warehouse on, the block recently acquired by this company at Harrison and Water streets. South Portland.-Ths structure Is to f cover a ' quarter block and will - be of - the slow burning mill construction type. , With a- frontage on the west Bids Southern- Pacific and the .Oregon Elec tric railway, the site Is considered Ideal for warehouse purposes.' A part of the building will, be eaulDDed as an un .ta janie prune panning pianc, wun a Ca pacity or 1Z3 cars per season. The con tract calls for the completion -of the building by October 1. which will' be in time for handling this season's prune crop. r . ( , , THINK MACJjEAY PABK SHOULD BE IMPE0VED , mimmmmm J . V Ths city nark board held a short sea. sion yesterday afternoon, at which only Mayor Simon. Dr. Wetherhea and Ton Lewis attended. Commissioners Clarke and Lanar are out of the cltv. so no Dullness or importance was transacted. Tne mayor instructed Dr. wetherbee to maxe a report, as to what he thinks nouio De done to improve Macleay park so that It can be used by the gen eral puDiio witn convenience. The park Is, though one of the most beauti ful of its kind in the world, entirely in accessible at present, not even a road way ha vine- been bullt'through It. Dr. wetherbee will also Tenort as to tne leasiDiiity or constructing a great spiral boulevard .up to and .around the top of Council Crest. It is planned by Dr. Wetherbee to use the county road now winding around the Crest as a nu cleus for a 100 foot way. . : , , . Oregon need fear nn hlo ir.t this season, - according ; to one of the prominent tlmbermen In Portland. . The forest rangers are a' thoroughly ' dis ciplined and skillful body of men, and ' aauuion to mm government protec tion, the big timber Interests have en gaged and sent out-from Portland crews of several hundred ,men to watch the various forests of the state. These men make it practically certain that no fires can get' sufficient headway to do material damage - to the . state's great resource. , "Fire Is the ' greatest ' enemy of the tlmbermen," was the . statement made this moring. "It- has ahnuallly des troyed an amount of timber beyond cal culation, and Oregon has suffered bil lions of dollars loss . from this cause aione. now that the timber has been oougni up at nign - prices and 4s be lng held for the mills, the tlmbermen and mlllmen have to carry tremendous risks, especially at this season of the year. But there need be no alarm among me smaii noiders, 'who tear having their earnings wiped out by fire. Hun dreds of active, carefully instructed men are In the forests of Oregon, equipped vt iigm any lire tnat may start vrews or mem nave been gathered here and all over the state and for th three months of - July. August and September they wlu remain at their posts. "The way they stoi fires Is with spade. . Water Is needless. Every forest fire - starts from some spark or small blase. - With . the present number of iorest rangers ana mm employes scat tered through the woods it is prac tically impossible for such a fire to gain any headway before the watchers would find it and put it out by pll earth on it. - . Some may wonder that the timber- men should, spend so much money In prevention. But It must be understood that the Investment in Oregon timber is immense, insurance cannot oe got except at prohibitive rates, and yet th owners cannot afford to run risk of loss. So they have adopted thls-system of adding to, the force of forest rangers by a number of men sufficient to assure speedy extinguishing of any fire what ever. Th homesteader and small owner iroflts in this way by the interest or he big companies. Oregon will likely save over a million dollars this year alone through the work of the mucti ahuaed hlar men." Other mlllmen call attention to the fact that all dangerous nres start not in the forest, but In slashing. Owing to the dampness of the climate It Is prac tically Imnossihle to start a fire In any of the big forests and the f ire fighting crews have thus -only to surround the larger - bodies of timber and keep any slashing blazes from creeping In. In the eastern forests, however, the heart nf th. tlmher mav raich fir. , i, ,:Jf . "The system Is to have one man- to every 6000 acres," It Is explained by one of the heavy holders. "This land is worth from $75 to 200 an acre. We pay the man 17$ a month and he is expected to keep on the trail along the ridges and watch his section with the greatest care.' it is cneap; insurance. We are not all doing this, but the most nt na are and bnfnrs Inns' all the big companies will Join In this right against fire.' You can easily see the loss If even one auuv itrw nuiucu uu, - FISDEn, TflOnSEM :& CO. Th Biff Paint Storo" , FRONT AND MORRISON TREJQTS llasufsclsrers snd Jobbers - Everytilsg la Pals NEW ENGINE HOUSE 3IEETS . WITH DELAY Pending the action of the city coun- clL in the matter of an additional im propriation for the proposed fire ' en gine station at , JJ irteenth and Mont gomery streets.1 construction of -- the new engine house will probably be de- layeo. xor raiinin or more. ' The-lowest bid submitted was SIS.- 000 which was 13000 above the orig inal appropriation, but well within the estimates made by Architects Travis and Wilson, who prepared the plans for the structure; The building Is to be a two story structure. 43 and 16 feet. - PREPARES PLANS FOR WAREHOUSE Architect at Work on Hand some New Home for .' " Eilers Plans - for the new Ellera warehouse and salesrooms to be erected at Fif teenth and Pettygrove streets are being prepared In the offices of a local archi tect The building, which will be used as a piano warehouse and factory, is to be a five - story , structure, SB by 90 feet In dimensions, and will rest on m full' cement basement. ., s The structure is to be as nearly fire proof as It -Is possible to make of the slow burning mill oonstructed type. The wans' are to De or dnck. unusually heavy, and it is the Intention to use metal window sashes and. frames, while tho glazing la to be done In wire glass throughout the building. - One of the unusual . features of the construction will be the -floors, which are to be 3 by 6 timbers on edge, with a top layer of hard maple. . . excavating ror the foundation and basement Is already under way and bids have been received for the ma sonry work. ; When ; completed v the building will cost about 140,000 ' and will be the best appointed and 'most In the Long Run J It DSTI to bliv hlMaiM WhaM mialltv , . ' Is the first consideration. - Bargain -.; prices are not bargains when acoom ; panted by Indifferent qualities. Why not : get wise to this right now and oome ; here for your needs? We study Quality first and prices afterward. If a to your interest to do the same. -' AVERY&CO. 4S Third St, Bet. Pine & Ash HOLLADAY'S ADDITION The one best placs In Portland to b uy. Geographical (enter and- moat do slrabls residence property In the city. - .v Seeing la believing. Better go an d see the many choice residence under , construction and the improvements going on. . THE OREQON REAL ESTATE COMPANY BB4 OBim ATB. K. POBTIuUTB. DSEOOV. . ' FOR MACHINE AND STRUCTURAL WORK The Independent Foundry Co. TWENTY-THIRD AND YQRK STS. PhonesMain' 2323. A424I John A. Melton - K - , Curamn-AXB avtuj Factory and Offlec" ISB Second,'' v street, near Main. ; Phones: Main 17IT; A-lTSf Office and 8tore FUturea built ' . and remodeled. Altering and repairing . bouses. '. thev Jti and Counters bunt Repair Work Given 'Prompt Attentions-Founders. MachlnlsU and Boilermakers. ' . . , Building and Structural Work, PHOENIX IRON -WORKS . ,' Offlea and Works ' JSavthorne Avenue and last .. Third Street. EMCIMtBRS .Phone last 8. POBTXA1TD, OUSOOlf. up to date piano warehouse and fac tory In the northwest. The Kilers plan to make It their principal distributing house for ' Oregon; Washington : and Idaho. , , - WHEAT GK0WER WILL LOCATE IN PORTLAND C W. Brasee. an eastern Oregon wheat grower, has purchased a lot on Bast Thirteenth street, between Oak and Stark, and has begun the erection of a six room, two i story residence to cost about $3000. . , Miss Elizabeth Caldwell has let the contract for the erection of a two and a - half story, 18 room brick and con crete residence1 on Ravensvlew Drive, Portland Heights. -The house will cost between 000 and 110,000 and will be one of the handsomest of - the new Heights homes.' . Last Trip Steamer Potter The O. R. & steamer T. J. Potter from North Beach will make her last trip, leaving Megler 9 o'clock p. m., Monday, September . Labor Day. , Artistic Fixtures rCTK,C C l III work ou ' y wvH lEKR'Tiona tflZj '. T iniNOEDT SZfi A ' ' I B. O. Jagrr - J. B. MastOB Morrison ElcctricCo. 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