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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18. 1009. i ilPMIfJEIUS . ABE THE STYLE Many' Fine New Buildings Are Now in Course of Construction.! FOREST FIRES COIISTRUCTIOC IESS Report Shows Little Damage Will Be Four Stories -'High and Represent an Expen ,Vdltnre of $10,000. Three Xefr.Homc on Ovrr . ton Street at a Cost , of $20,000. . Done Jn Washington : This Year. v BIG DUILDIUB f OR SECOND SI. . - r 1 ib ii i i I l i i. r . ' .J-,-- "V. f j IJOIII! ML vj ? i - t v i i ' i Among th larger building permits Issued this week waa on for a four tory ' brick apartment house, to b erected by I and D. Buck on Twenty. first atreet,' between QlUan tad Flandera. The building will cost about S0.000. and will be one of the best appointed : apartment building a fai the city. - .. Excavating for the foundation and basement of the four story brick pert inent under construction In the Nob Jim district by the Lucretla Investment com pany, waa begun this week. W. L. Morgan, one of the large stockholders In the company.' Is preparing the plans and will bave charge of the construc tion. The building will oost approxl- 'mately 140.000, and Is specially designed Waahlngton, according to a report prepared Jointly by the state fire war den and T. P. Simons of the Wash ington State Fire Association, suffered much lees less from forest fire this, year than ever before. While no ao- curat report bat ever been compiled before, stilly It Is thought that a de- creese of at least one third will be the result of the years fight against fires. Ths reason for the larg decrease ts the faot that efficient patrols are be ing stationed on all the forests ( that these patrolmen , find the f Irea before , they get a chance to 'destroy much i property; that efficient fire fighting; too. j tnr t.r,.nt. A..trl iarmmr in.rtmMlt. 1 ioois are. now 10 os nio. ana, Uhan'are nauaiiv to be had In Portland th th" patrolmen have been taught apartment houses. the proper methods of fighting such fires-. The year 1S09 waa the driest year In 40 yeara, yet the fir destruc tion waa less and the number of flrea fewer '. ,. . . -, - . - -'' According to the report turned la to the national forest service, 11,17 acres were destroyed In' the state of Wash ington , during the fiscal year, which closed December 1. Of this amount1 17,027 acres war merchantable ' Um ber, 9H were covered by unmerchant able timber, while 16.145 acres were of cut over lands. -A total of 119.Uf.00O board feet of timber were destroyed. Their value was II per 1000 feet Be sides this. 141,171 worth of livestock and ' Improvements were ' destroyed. These figures are all loww than the last year's estimates. in so materially cutting down the forest fir losses an expena of ISO. 011.71 waa Incurred by the state, county. uiamaua!s ana in rarest service. The Washington lumbermen -them' selves have taken a band Jn watching Egteoslv alterations and improve- I this year and as a result of their Two stories of the Sllverfleld apart . ments. going up on l-ucretla street, pear Washington, nav neen completed, ana . laying the brick walla of the third floor la . under way. The building was , designed for four stories, but It is prob able that the fifth will be added. It will contain either II or 40, three, four and five room apartments, and will b completed In about 10 days. The estl mated coat of the structure when com- pleted and furnished will be about f 100. 000. , , - - Concrete work for the foundation, of the Kwart apartment house has be ' gun. 1 Thle Is to be a four atory struc ture. BO by 10 feet, and will cost $28. 00. ' It will contain II apartments of r thr and four rooms ,. , HIBERNIAN BANK TO - MAKE ALTERATIONS ments are to ba mad to the quarter of the Hlbernla bank at Second and Washington streets aa soon aa the plan . are prepared by the bank's architects, and the contract for the work can be " let-' :::.. The ' bank has , secured an addition 25x50 feet east of It present quarters, and will remove the partition and Install a new fir and burglar proof vault The estimated cost of the enlargement and alterations will be about 16000, and to this will b added 16000 for the cost of the new vault BREAK GROUND FOR ; NjW CAR BARNSJ The Portland Railway, Iiight A Pow er company baa broken ground at East Twenty-eighth and East Ankeny streets for the new oar barns which are to be erected to adjoin th present East Twenty-eigntn street ear barn' at an 'approximate coat, of 180,000. , Ths" building will have ground di mensions of 200 by 100 feet and Will ba constructed of brick and steel. Ad joining th new car barns la the site of the proposed clubhouse for the, rail way company's employes, i This Is to be a two story reen forced concrete structure and will cost 110,000. .. j vigilance In th 1,000,000 acres owned Individually in Washington last year Dutisoo acres, or one twentieth of one per cent of th total, were destroyed. This is In land owned by th Wash ington lumbermen. As a result of tb. great aavlng which th Waahlngton men have made this year it la thought likely that a meet ing of Oregon lumbermen will be held soon - after the first of th year at which tha matter of forming a state association and fighting against fire will probably ba taken up. Th mat ter Has already "been antated by a num ber of prominent lumbermen and under tneir guidance will probably b taken up soon. I 'X: lis'; i:; - :1 3 ; m m f i i i . i i 1 ' I I t ' si t I. ' 1 i r . 4 r I i : " i; ;:.H. , )pj - ii ii iii ii t i mi 1 1 i i iii iii iihh'.iim iiiiimi i r ii hi B - i,", -'T.fci')iifciiim FS .' 'iMIWtamawi atorVand rooming houso built byW. L. Morgan for Timothy Kinney on Washington Trinity Place. This building together with new apartment house facing Trinity Place and just off Wash ington street represents an investment of about $8(.000. . - . IVESTf.lORELAND GETS fJEtV HOMES . -- J" They Are to Be Two Story Frame Structures of Handsome Design.- . ' Native pMghterDiesv (Soecial Dlipetcb to Tb JonrnaLt " Albany, Or., Dec 18. -The funeral of Mrs. Naomi Parrlsh Webster took place rrom in rarm residence or her brother. to. s. farrisn, near this city, this morn Ing at 11:10 o'clock. The body was In terred In the city cemetery. Mrs. Webster died yesterday at th home of her brother after a long Illness. She was 0 years of age. Deceased 'was born on th Parrlsh farm near where she died, and there she spent th greater part of her life. Sbe belonged to one of th best known pioneer families of Linn county. . , " The' Oregon Building A Trust com pany is preparing to erect five band- aome residences in Westmoreland. The buildings are to , be two story frame structures of attractive design and will cost from 13000 to 15000 each. John Bingham has taken out a per mit for , the erection of a two story brick store building on Derby street. between Kilpatrlck and McPherson, Th building will cost about 18000. - 8. N. Thornton has begun the erec tion of a one story frame cottage ton East Fifty-seventh street between East Flanders and East Ollsan streets, at a cost of 11750. " On East ' Twentieth street between Sumner and Emerson, J. O. Marrs has broken ground, for ' a one i story frame cottage, which will cost when com pleted, about 12000. Lh W. Frailer has taken out a per mit ' for the erection of' a one . story cottage . on Missouri , avenue between Simpson and Jersey streets. The build ing will-cost 11600. i -, ..j ...I. -i -. 1 ... . APART3IENT SITES ON PORTLAND HEIGHTS Ira t. Ray, a Tacoma capitalist who j recently established his Thome in Port land, baa purchased two quarter blocks on Portland Heights, both of which be is planning' to Improve as soon as building, weather opens up In the spring. One .of the parcela is at the northeast corner of Seventeenth and Spring streets ; and was purchased by Mr. Ray from C". U. uoit, president or the union Meat company, for IS000. The other piece la at Seventeenth and Elm streets. Both quarters will probably become the sites of apartment houses or flats. COTTAGES USE Oil EAST SIDE SBSSBasassswjssasBSaa-ssiWaasM ' Permits Given for Suburban Homes to Be Erected Immediately. ! Permits were Issued Thursday of this week authorising the erection of five one story frame cottages In various east side suburban districts. The fol lowing are th details of proposed im provements: Mrs. R. Bowman. Vernon avenue, be tween Albetrta and Ivy: C. O. Benson, East Fifty-sixth, between Ollsan and Flanders; II. A. Scheraerhorn, North Eighty-second,- near Olney; W. R. Stevens,' Brooklyn, between East Thirty' third and East Thirty-fourth; J. H. Kiatler, East Tenth, between Rhine and Rhone. ' On the same date Mrs. Rose Osburn took out a permit for a two story- frame dwelling, to be erected on Elone street. between East Forty-first and East Forty-second. - If y ou wish to give consideration to others and add to -your own com fort, do your Christmils shop ping early and take cars for home early, in order to avoid the. evening rush;. PORTLAND RAILWAY. LIGHT & POWER CO. Will Eat Dinner Here. ; William H. Crane, who comes to the Bungalow theatre' the last Mire dajj of next ' weeK"" In" "oorgedi's"' comedy ' "Father and Boya," will not be called unpn to spond Christmas alone, for Mrs. j Crane will join him here, and they will nav their Christmas dinner at th TVrtlnA . . Mrs. Crane Is now In Chicago, but will come to Portland purposely to b with ""ITVI". .I'!- repairs.. will be about 11000 G LISAN BUILDS BRICK BUILDIlie New , Business Houses Are Being Planned for Dif ferent Sections. Rodney L. Ollsan has commissioned a local architect to draw plana ror a 60 by 100 foot two story brick build ing to be erected on the west side of Fourth street, near Glisan. It Is to be a plain brick structure and has al ready been leased for us' as a black smith and paint shop.. . W. Chrlstensen bas taken out a per mit for- the erection of a on story f rattle -furniture-store to-br erected on East Thirteenth street -between Miller and Nehalem avenues In Sellwood. at coat of 13000. Russell & Blytb have taken out a permit for the alteration and Vepalr of a on story frame store building on Washington street . between. Chapman and 'Stout streets. Th cost of the NEW BRICK IS TO REPLACE OLD ORE Thompson Estate to Make Improvement to Second Street Property. Flans are being prepared for a four story brick building 50x100 feet to be erected on th west side of Second street between Alder and Washington by the D. P. Thompson estate. . Tha oia two story dhck structure now on th sit Is being removed to make room for th proposed new building. Th side walls of the two story building will be left standing until th remaining walls and tbs partitions are torn out And If upon, examination they are found to be strong enough they will become a part of the walla of th new structure. Plans ar being drawn by Arohltect Joseph Jaeobberger for a four story brick buslnes block to be erected on the lot at. th northeast corner of Sec ond .and Main. Th building will cost 140.000,. and will have a pressed brick front. , The lower floor will be divided Int tor rooms and th three upper floors will contain (0 rooms. This is th sec ond large brick building to be -an nounced for that Immediate vicinity sine It became known that th Baker Theatre company would erect a modern playhouse on th northeast corner of Third and Main. - Th other structures Will occcupy the northwest corner of Second anl Main Irn mediately.. In rear of th proposed new theatre, and will be erected by I Oer linger, who recently purchased th prop rty,-, ;- . . HANDS031E COTTAGES IN NEW IRVINGTON F. A. Hummel has contracted to- have erected a modern two story cottage on East Eighteenth between Knott and Btanton streets. The bouse is to cost 14000 and will be on of th most at tractive of th many new home now going up In what ts known as New irvtngton, . Excavating Is under way for a two story and attic dwelling to be erected by J. D. Hunt - on East Eighteenth street f between Tillamook and Thomp son at a cost of 14000. The house will be provided with all of the modern Im provements and when completed will be one of, the most desirable of the smaller Irvtngton homes. ... Another 14000 residence under con struction In Irvlngton Is going up on East Seventeenth street near Thomp son for Mrs. T. C. Horn. Among the attractive features of the house is the shingled exterior, ipaneled dining room beamed celling, - hardwood floors and built in furniture. i , Journal want ads brlns; results." On Overton street, from ,Trn!y fourth to Twenty-eighth stt ein,- con struction work has Just begun- n thr. elegant new residences, th combine! cost of which will reach t.'O.ouo. At Twenty-fourth and Overton. Henry Or son, a cigar manufacturer, la bull ling a dwelling, which when completed, wiu be on of the most complete homea in th Nob Hill district . Th buil.lin Is to be a two story structure, 16 by 11 feet, and will contain nine largo rooms. It will cost 17000. At Twenty-sixth, and ' Overton, Mrs. C. Barnard has commenced the erection of a 10 room, two story frame dwell ing to cost 170f0. ,. '.' At Twenty-eighth and Overton, Mrs. L. Stickler ia building an attarctiva seven room bungslow at a cost of about 15000. The building will be ! by 2H feet. ."' L. Saulb ha let th contract for Iwn cottag to be erected at Twentieth and Thurman streets at a-total coat of 14600...., -. .. ,. SENTIMENTAL1 PLAY , FOR LOCAL- GERMANS Next Sunday - ths Germans will be treated with a aentlmental play, the first of Its class during this season. The stock company has been very suc cessful, and gave good satisfaction in farce and comedy. Th play given next Sunday at the Bungalow theatre la 'Eva." by th noted author, Richard Voss, and baa created quiet a sensation in English as well as In its original, the German language. Th title role will b played by Mis Marguerite Ortman, who was a favorite in equal parts during last win ter's season. Stage Manager Otto Reuter will pay most careful attention to reallstlo surroundings and scenic ef fects. :',': .' . Automobile tires that have outlived their usefulness make mora satisfactory floats for bather than ordinary Ufa pre servers or swimming wings. . . Foley K Pills !9 FISBER, TBORSEPJ & CO. ThBIfir Falnt Store" fV, ,:.-., ... . '.'..,. ...m; . V . ,j;.......v. ...... . FRONT AND MORRISON STREETS " :v. ; learned Mr. Gran was to visit the OLD DEEDS CLEAR i ciues on me r-acmo coast sne couia not I resist the temptation, ' and beginning i wltb th Portland engagement she will be on of th happy family. WAY FOR BUILDING Eyeglasses Not Necessary Zyealf at Can Be ItreBa-thaaed ni Host forms j ef Olseaaed Eyes BuooenfuUy TNatod With- at Cutting or Dragging. That Ike eye eaa be strecrtlieDed eo that ta la nbt t bo pu that tbelr erealrbt bit ereglaaMe eaa be dlvpenaed wl m Deen proven oeyona a Four old deeds, dating back to the time when Portland was in Washington county, and Oregon was a territory, were placed on record In the county clerk'a office Wednesday in rder to clear the title to the lot at. the north east corner of Fifth an Alder streets, formerly th home of the Portland club. Johns. Toon, the owner, contemplate the erection of a skyscraper on the prop erty, and his attorneys, Investlgatln the title, discovered a gap In the ab stract on lot 6. The misalng convey' INOT AS GOOD AS EXPBCTED Is a verdict never rendered In regard to our hardw'emBetter than-yotferpected and lower In price, as well will be your decision concerning goods bought here. h we aiva more. Come and you will depart with finer tools, kitchen ware, etc., than you expected to see, witn a saving in your purse you had not expected to make. moojr of hundred of i-fwple who publicly claim y tbat their emtrht h.a 1") tb Ham B. Partlow, who bought th lot IrH 1154 for 1160. The lot la now worth $200,000. The first of the old-deeds was from D. B. Brennan to Ulel Barnes, who bought tb lot for 1100. He sold It for th same price th following year to Tlinm.. TrinYirA and tha 1 Attr i.M t a droVra" 6w t;;. Robert Arthur for 1100 th same year. nr. tuoaaana "Artla." I Annur aoia c b lumm 19 rruw two years later. been restored by . that 1 woaoerroi nttia Imtra I meat called "Aettna." AetlBa" aloe, reller ore and Oraaalatsd Uda, mat, etc., on fuwm Cataracta without Amino; I baa bea sold; therefore Aetlna traatmeat la ao aa .irxrlnMot. bat hi rol labia. Tb following iottera ar bat I samplos of ksadreda we raoelvei . J. ropa, F. O. Bo He. 4S. nnnl Well, j Tx. writ: I ki.o apent tboouad of ool- ! Ira oa By ar. eoaaoJtrd tha' beat dorton la in. inrtca Biataa, ampped aedinno la bxj are ' for yaar, and 'Aetlna' la tha only thing that ba ever oa at any good. Bo fore n.lnr 'Ae tlna I rara op all bom of tw hrtat able to re. a aa.io, j-tia not read a anrapapev tm Km roana. fw I eaa read alt . day with litu c no laeoavemleaea." Katbrya Bird, -111 Llaoola St.. UUwanke. Wia. writ: "I wa tfvnblod wlta aatliaia- tktm and bad won (lane- front 10 yeara of ire. 1 eooia aot reaa r wnt wllbont tb. I a anrprtauiair ahart tlma, after aaJnf 'Ac- nna- ua mrntam mr giaeaea aaa 1 wiu than agaia." B. It. Bofbfooft. retty Oaoaty rVrtr. tatr fas. Va wrltve: 'Aettna' aaa cared my evaa o (bat I ran da without a-laaaoa. 1 rory aeldoai PERMITS OUT FOR - EAST SIDE HOMES ka aaanariwa orw, and eaa, ' dock after a Sard dar'a work at ArMna" earn be oaad br eld Bad aarfi't oafety. gw aaemhea W tt eaa aaw tb at "A'laa for aar f-v pp. of tb km. Ear. JTiiMt er Bead. On wlU kaat far yar aad la ararar ready tnr an. "AeUaa' will b -mmt aa ami, aresaid. If raa win aad Mar aawa ad ada tb Artla ArUanr Co.. t V. All Wab aot St-, I -a titr. Ma, ym win rwatv .k ! rata a "IhM. ba IT.raaaw ViU- ao o Teneo mm P. 0. Reed has taken out permits for the erection of two on story frame cottages on Kaat Thirty-seventh atreet between Grant and Avon street. The building will cost about 11000 each Mrs. W. M. Getty baa began th erec tion of a on and at half atory frame cottage on Williams avenu between Killingsworth and Jesaap. Th con tract price of.tha.bous IS 13000. L. Domlnesat bas takes oat a permit for a on story frame dwelling ta bt rected oa , Mllwaukka ' Streot between Inaley and Harold, at a eoat of lll. r. IX Henticl has let a contract for tb erection of a on story frame rest- 1. ciu.wva mww r . a..uii-iir. atady on 11 tb arnca,' yoaag tb T atreata, at a eoat of tlOv. Creajp Is t pr-lnt dlartag tb dry cold waatber ef tb early wlnTar rnemtha Parents of yaasg ehlHraa bocd ba T red for It Ail that la reeled. Is a bottle ef Chambarlaln' Orcfb Reaaody. Many mothera ar revar without It in tbetr bama and It ta r,Ter d:arp!nted tr-ern. - Lo as a atlscsu fkalM Shir a of Tb fcamatf Ralam, cr Lns. 1 1. Knott C Kg bert, la eharga ef tha ladiaa ageacy em tha Sllets rex n a Hon. has naked for as opinio from Attorney 0rJ Cvaw ford relative to th rtata ef tb CUvta Indiana. Tboagb th - Indians pay taies and vote th pre editor for that dlatrk-t bolda Utat it Is aot bis daty la rnmmr-mtm T mA !.ra fnP -inl.tlM. m. the state !. It I th -wetent ' of the ae-Bt that t m atata law- ah-M fnl'T. to th Ind'ana a-td ant I AVERY&CO. IS Third St. Bet. Pine & Ash What They Will Do for Men and Women in Failing Health The "kidneys are the strainers of the blood. 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See that you get the genuine Foley's Kidney Pill. SOLO AND RKCCMMINOIO BY : Hals HIT; A-ITtT Offlc and Star fizturas bull l sod remodeled. Altering and repairing gnarw -aee sad Couotr b rt. TIMGS FOR MACHINE AND STRUCTURAL WOKS The Independent Foundry Co. CAS TWENTY-THIRD AND YORK STS. rbenea -l.fi i MOLLADAY'G ADDITIO C ftT a I y r 1 f " 1 r-kr, 2i ea. 1:0 ma aaal 1 1,99 aa ba Tb e.wt - rr-e-t ."4 ta bsy. aarar11 eaalgawa TTTrtr 'fc ei ' - ts b-!,rt; p.it.r r t.f a v, acr k aBtr-t e,4 th t.T. ptwirwniaeta f ' THE OREGON -RUAUZSTATfl CO f m a tt.. sr. at-rlr f'.rt a' .. If H la t J a; r t at alt t4