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..... - OREGON SUNDAY jdimAt' PORTLAND; SUNDAY MORNING, . MARCH . 20. 1910. THE 8 12NBV0WELUNG iONLY TWO FIRE- I $3,1 HOUSES TO COS apiece PROOF BUILDINGS INALLNEWYORK Much Construction Authorized! This Remarkable Fact Brought During Week Monday's Permits Total $73,940 $40,000 for Residences. ti l.n I li ut. S.1.IV .111 f 11. -W Fermll" were Ink-- i "ii' M " 1 Tuesd.iy of lust week jinn I'linp erection of 1- new dwelling i to con! more tl.nn $"i Tli'- ' Mondny's permits . $ T.t r 1 1). ,in than $4i).infl nf this sum repi. new, residence i-nntitni' tlon Tu permits were a allied ;t YW.'i T.i'. which wiit. In the bunding . homes. McKeen Bnlig I'-ok out permits day for three Inn Holy frame tl.ii Inhi. erected on Kast Hurnslde pel ween East Twenty-sixth nnd Twent y-scv enth. These bullditiRs will all I"" modern in etfery respect ami will rum ItnOH enrl, ,On TlllHniook between Katt Twenty fifth and Kast T enty-si t h. Clnude 1 . Btarr has begun the erection of two resi dences, .one of which will cool $30."i0 a8d the other 13400. Handsome Cottar. One of the handsomest of the cottage type of dwellings In Irvington Is bcitiK erected by tleorge V. Hrackett on F.ast Twenty-first between Itraiee and Knott H 1 to he a one story structure of the bungalow type and will cost $-rioo. Mrs. V H. White took out a permit Monday last for a two stoiy frame flat tJ he erected on Kast Fourteenth be tween Mil In nnd Madison, at a cost of I'ermlts were issued Tuesday to M. .1 Delahtint for two two story frame resi dences, one to he erected on Thompson between Kast Fourteenth and Fast Fif teenth and the other on Kant Fifteenth between Thompson and Hrasee. The first Of these buildings If to cost $4000 and the second Jf.ono. A. P. Donahae has begun the erection of a very handsome two story frame dwelling at the corner of Hast Thirty ninth and Division streets. The house will be one of the finest In that section of the city and will co.it J7f00 Dwelling- to Cost 530OO. "W. R. Oliver has broken around on Height etreet between Kllllngswnrth eijd Jessup for a two story frame dwell ing to cost $3000. On Dunkley avenue between Regis "drive and Glenn avenua. F. Holton Is building; a one story frame cottage to I COBt $3000. L. Sparks has taken out permits for a two story frame, cottage which he will build on Kast Madison between Kast Fortieth and Kast Forty-first streets at 'cot of $2500. ;G. Laltalamacepla took out a permit Iwt. Monday for a two story frame etbre and flat building which he btjlld at the corner of East Forty-third aJ Madison streets, at a cost of $500. - - JM, L. McMinn has begun the erection o$ a one story frame cottage oij Kast Forty-sixth between Krazeo and Wis taria. The building will cost $2000. 4 r. S. Hock n Building. F. H. Hocken is building a one story frkme cottage on East Fiftieth between Tillamook and Hancock ' streets which will cost when completed $2000. 'At the corner of Kast Eightieth and Efirr road the Montavilla dumber com pany is building a one story cottage at ascost of $1900. The Laurelhurst company has begun the erection of a residence of the. Span ish type of architecture "at Kast Thirty Becond and East Gllsan streets. The building is to be finished in stucco and will have a tile roof. It will have ground dimensions of 44x50 feet, fceven or the eight rooms are located on the first floor, the eighth room being in the tower. All of the floors are to be of hardwood and the living room and don are to be panelled and the celling beamed. Old People's Home. Excavating was begun last Monday for the foundation of the Old People's; Home to be erected on the five acre: tract at East Thirty-third street near .. the Sandy road. The building will be .130 feet square, three stories high and of brick construction. . y. N. Moore has let the contract for .handsome new home to be erected at , the corner of East Twenty-seventh and Tillamook streets. The building will have ground dimensions of 26x40 feet, wt)l be 1 V4 stories high and will contain nine rooms. It will be of the English type of architecture and is to be finished In selected fir. The estimated cost is : $5000. I JAt East Fourteenth and Madison j streets excavating was begun hint week i fqr a double flat building to be erected : bjY Mrs. V. H. White. Each of the i flats will contain five rooms and the ! cost or the structure will approximate $5000. In outward appearance the build lng will resemble a colonial residence. Out in Report by Gotham's Fire Chief; They Are Ware houses of Stone, Concrete. !,ei . :l'l ill i. -Iial! ,,f ; st ni' 1 1 v . -.iiln The d i i l-iiil.it.., s I 1 1 m n ; ii 4 fl Fire 111 n :'. I to he but ' " buildings .f New "ik l 'ch meet nienls ..(' .i fireproof . . press Ion "fit .-proof." t s, h. h. r.. ni.'uns a k- hi. h In.- . .inii'-t possibly . i lit i r f r i 1 1 1 within Chief I'ri.kt-I nf N.-w cut repoi t. s ild th.it while there e 1-nmlr. .Is of hulldlnns 1 1 1 that city dch cunt from S !.- ' to $lu.000.- ! otto, there uri- but two which in his opin- ton will not bmn 'Hiw, Krfid Ihi i-hicl, i ate storage war elMusen of stone, vteel and em. r.-t.-. nnd dhlded Into .oinp.irt ments. s.. that when i fire breaks out In one idace. it may he completely shut off. only the materlnl In one compart ment thus being In .lunger. (broker's Opinion. Chief Croker's opinion as to what con stitutes a fireproof building Is eon cut red In by most of the heads of the fire departments In the . larger ' cities throughout the country. It Is the custom of architects atid builders to lable. any building constructed of non-lnf lummable material ns ffreproof, but experience has taught the fire fighters in our linger cities that not one In a hundred so -c.i I led fireproof buildings Is Immune from destruction by great heat It Is extrentfly doubtful If there Is a Kindle fireproof building In Portland, although il'iere are dozens of sn-r.illcd fireproof structures. Hut In reality any building having wooden window frames, doors, or Interior trim Is a long ways from being fireproof. Ity such means i fire can be communicated from one room to another, and wjjen once under good headway such a struTture can be riddled by flames. Pome 20 years ago when the first steel skysrapers were put up In New York and Chicago, the steel columns wcro not encased In concrete, yet they were heralded as fireproof buildings: but nothing was further from the truth, as architects and builders discovered when a huge sixteen story Sixth avenue department store caught fire and was literally melted to the earth. Br Modern Method. However, bv the modern method of encasing all steel In a thick coating of concrete a very near approach is made to fireproof constrution Builders of splendid office structures and hotels have been unable to find a suitable ma terial to take the place of wood for the Interior finish of such , structures. Wooden floors, of course, have long ago been done hwrv with: hilt 'the Window will ' frames, door frame, mouldings, casings and doors of all such structures are. til ! most invariably some class of hardwood, ' which In a very short time becomes as j dry ns tinder and almost as Inflammable i as pine. The cause of Chief Croker's strictures I upon so-called fireproof construction I was a disastrous fire thst recently broke out in the finest apartment house i In New York City, and which destroyed i property to th value of $250,000, before I It ii-an brnnirht under control. This structure, which was called "the finest residential building In the world." was supposed to be as nearly indestructible by fire as It Is possible to construct a building of that class; yet the fire raged fiercely and burned two entire stories before it was put out. Chief Campbell of the Portland fire department, agrees with Chief Croker in the opinion that the fireproof building. In the strictest sense of the word. Is an exceeding rare thing. "If there Is a single building in Prwt , land that will resist Intense .heat it is (the Art Museum, at Fifth and Taylor -streets," said Chief, Campbell, "although I seriously doubt if there Is a single 1 structure In the city that would resist a goneral conflagration. 'Where there Is anv wood' used In the construction of a building the dement of danger from fire i is ever present. "However, it must nbt he understood that Portland Is lacking in fireproof buildings, as that expression Is generally used. There are a number of business j houses and office buildings here that 'are so nearly fireproof that the element I of danger Is greatly reduced." BUILDING LINE W. B. Struble Will Put Up 3 Story Brick Veneered Apart ment House; Will Represent Investment of $23,000. cost vbout W. R Rtruble took out a permit Wed nesday last for a three story brick ve neered apartment house which he Is building on Twentieth street between Washington and Everett the site fnr- ullhout. 1 merly occupied by hitn as a residence toik City, i The permit provides tor an expenditure of $23,000. Each floor of the structure will contain six three room apartments, and each apartment will contain a living room, kitchen and private bath, fiteam will be used In heating the building. -J F Kerrigan has begTtn the erection of a two story brick garage on 1'nlon avenue between East Davis and East Everett street, which wilt $10,000. . ' - ;-" ronrteen Ww DwsUlnjrs. Permits were Issued Wednesday last for 14 new dwellings ranging In cost from $1500 to $3000. On East Davis street between East Fourteenth and East Fifteenth, B. F. Moore has begun the erection of a double frame flat building, which will cost $3000. W. H. Walker lias begun the construe tlon of a 10 room dwelling at the corner of East Twenty-first and Knott streets, which Is being built for tjeorire H. Hraekett of the White Motor Car com pany. The house will be a Iwo story frame affair, and will cost approxi mately $4fi0o. Mr. Walker has recently let contracts for four handsome residences to be erected In Alameda Park. He Is also building an attractive home In Ross City I'ark. Captain Closes DaaL Captain K. U Fredendall of the quar termaster's department. IT. B.- A., has closed a deal with W. L. Hrewster for the purchase of 100 by 100 feet on John son street between Nineteenth and Twen tieth streets, on which he proposes to build a handsome residence. W. 8. Riles has tsken out a permit for s one and one half story cottage, which he will build on East Eighteenth street between Bybee and Clayhourne. The Improvement will cost $2000. Thomas (. Farrell took out permits lat Wednesday for two one story cnt tsgea which are to be erected, m on Tlbbetts street and the other on Brook lyn street, at a cost of $100. Hay has broken ground on East Ban' Rafael for a two stery frame dwell ing which will cost $2000. The permit authorising its erection waa Issued last Wednesday. A permit has been taken out by the Rose City Construction company for a two story frame dwelling to cost $$000 and to be erected on Tillamook street near Kast Thirty-sixth. A.. E. Hera; has begun the erection of a two story frame residence on ICast Twelfth street between Sumner and Emerson streets. The building cost $1800. will SELL AT RATE OF ; $50,000 PER DAY WILLAMETTE HEIGHTS RESIDENCE COMPLETED !E This Record Made on Lots in Laurelhurst Buik in Second Plat. iBALF mm COLUMBIA Kl CO MAKES MANY SALES II) BUILD A MILL I I One Thousand Barrel Flouring Mill to Go Up at Foot of Tenth Street. Tjurlng the past three days the Co lumbia Trust company has made a great many homesite sales in Eastmorcland Wednesday of this week alone reg istered a large number of sales. Two .lot have sold on Alvarado avenue, be tween Rex and Bybee avenues; six lots OlJ Normandy avenue between Knapp arid Bybee; four lots on W'ilisbire avc- " Due between Rex and Knapp; one lot ot- Iroquois avenue between Hex and .Khapp; one lot on Alvarado between Crystal Sprinps boulevard and Lambert "avenue; five lots on Normandy between Bex and Knapp; and the northwest cor ner of Willshire and I.amlj.rt avenues. ' "Thursday seven lot.s all in one block and facing of Iro.puds, Lambert and Alvarado avenues w. re wold: one lot on Iroquois between Knapp and Bybee; one lot on Alvarado at oi ner of Bybee: t0 lots on Alvarado between Hex and Koapp: one lot at corner of Bybee and Alvarado; three lots on Alvarado be tween Rx and , .Knapp; four lots on Iro mrds between Bybcojta nd WilNhin . and three lots cornering on Imhirt and Vailsjiire. jTbe 1m the realm of proposed new manu facturing industries for the Portland district, most interesting news of the ! year is the announcement that Bai ifour. (Juthrie & Co. have let the Initial j contract for the erection of a 1000 bar rel flouring mill and a grain elevator ! with a capacity of 400.001) bushels on 'the site ..f the Centennial dock at the , foot of Tenth street. The new mill, .including elevators luM wharf, will cost ai pi oxima t- ly f L'.'iO.uoii. and will be one ot' the cionpl. test plants of Its kind in the country. F.lcitrl. power will be , lined in driving the machinery, each : separate machine will be provided with an Individual motor. Plans for the mill i plant were prepared by I. eland S. j Kosener, a San Francisco architect and j ' coiis; i u. t ion engineer, who also .1.-- ; sign, d the war. h'itise equipment for handling grain recently Installed Ut thel Ocean;.' do.-l; bv- the BalfotJT-ffuthrie j company. It Is the intention to have the mill completed and in operation by ii. ti.h. l ur November of this year. Th" Balfoui -' iuthrie company is one I of the old. st wheat buying and export -j Ing linns on the I'aelfic coast. Branch hniixen of tills company are located n( I In l.H new dining cars .n the Norther racinc railroad to Ta.-oma and Seatll. tl( finest yet. The light ti.ah.vat, Jjrfcerlor finish and wide widows n.aU ttmtn light in daytime; tlie .onceai.-. . e!e,trle lights, set Into ceiling behind ! r. flfte frosted glass, furnish bright soft I tl J'fju evenings ana in early mornings. The bountiful finish, tile floor entrance -iid roomy arrangements of tables and chairs, make the meal hour the most 'laant of the Ulp. coast points, including I .is Ang.-les. S.a'ttle and Journal Want Ads bring results. S. 1 'i Nil, ;; Th- ..ma Anoi '.r large flouring mill soon to be -i. -ci.il In Pu.tliind is that of the Pacini- M .Ding V Eievai.il . ' . at the foot nf Seventeenth street. This company recent lv piTihased the large mill of W ascj Co.nty Warehouse & Mill ing if - located at 'flu? Iallrs Within flic next few days the new L'diiIi barrel mill of the Portland Flour- log Mills company will begin grinding.. Tins mill was built on the s-ie ,,f the plant which was destroyed by fire last August ' I At the head of Thurma.n street Wil lamette Heights Is the elegant new res idence of Attorney B. H. Huntington, which has Just been completed st a cost of about $000. In architectural design the house Is of the type known as mod ern English. It was designed and built by Architect P. A. Carlandor. The in terior finish Is done In fist grain fir. E'.astern oak was used In all the floors except the kitchen and pantry, where hard .hlte insple was laid. The living room and dining room Hre paneled and beamed in -Stained fir. The Huntington rejildence Is one of the handsomest of the many new homes on Willamette Heights. -' ------ 'V - -- -- - Over $50,000 per day Is the record of Laurelhurst property sales for the four last days of the week. The bulk of these sales were made in the second plat of Laurelhurst, placed on the mar ket March 1. The first plat of Lau relhurst. consisting of 71 lots, has been practically sold out. and now the second and third plats sre being offered the Investing and home seeking public. The third plat of Ijiurelnurst Is con sidered the choicest of the whole ad dition, from every point of view. Here the beautiful I.add Park Is to be sit uated. All Laurelhurst streets adja cent to It have been made to conform to Its driveways. There are three blocks which have a frontage on the south side of the park and these have been subdivided -two with lots 100180 feet in size, and a third 80x180 and" carry a building restriction of $7600 and requiring all residences to be placed 1 MORRISOnf STREET ,v PROPERTY SHOWS I r . IIMIICIIHI AniAMPC UIHUOUML HUVrimib As an Instance of the rapid , rise In values of upper 'Morrison street. property, W. H. Qrlndstaff has been offered an advance of ii per cent, on the price paid for a lot at Morrison and Lownsdale, which he purchased Just 20 days ago. The lot has a frontage of 100 feet on Morrison street and 60 feet on Lownsdale, and Is oc cupied by an old frame dwelling. Mr. Orlndstaff paid $37,000 for the holding March 1, and yester day declined a cash offer of $44. ooo. He holds the property at $50,000. on a uniform building line of 60 feet fronfi the street curbing. The grading In plat No. 1 la almost completed, the wster pipes have been distributed over the grounds, four car loads of asphalt have been delivered. and street making will begin immediate ly following the Installation of water, sewer and gas mains, for which ex cavation is now proceeding. These Im provements will be completed by Aug ust 1. The success of laurelhurst for cibly points to the fact that there la a growing demand on the part of home seekers for a higher class and more re stricted property than In former" years. Journal Wsnt Ads bring results. (iniS( 29531 KEED INSTITUTE PLUS EATM(0)MELAMID Man's sixth sense the sense of "home establishment," has been a part of his very existence from the stone ae down to the present day. From antediluvian periods, man has dug holes in the ground, or cunningly fashioned his tepee from the hides of wild animals, or builded in the branches of. mighty forest giants he has thatched his roof with dry grasses and has built his walls with the sod of he earth. To cover his head to shield himself from Nature's uncer tainties, has been his chiefest object. Home this has been his highest aspiration his greatest ambition. If, then, the impulse and the sustained effort of all humanity is, and, has been, toward the building of a home, the first step must be made in the direction of a proper selection of location. The present day man's sixth sense guides him in the selection of a sightly location. Beauty is the first home-site essential of today. Beauty is found at PATMOPPI AMD j Jiliiisatf iWfri a.,lesL.N tLJ tfiS V taUrf J J LjJ UL Vi Beauty of surroundings and of view. Beauty of contour. At EASTMORELAND the landscape artist's eye is de lighted with a gracefully undulating line extending over the entire tract. Eastmoreland is beautiful in its every feature just enough rise and fall to the land; and just enough foliage to render Eastmoreland the tract of tracts the home site of home-sites. Future Eastmoreland history will disclose the fact that first Eastmoreland home-site buyers wiU continue for all time to be its most enthusiastic supporters. Eastmoreland's attractions are many ; here indeed at last is a more than satisfactory home-site property a property more beautiful in every particular than has yet been intro duced to a discriminating public. Eastmoreland will, in the future, be .at once associated with thoughts of Portland's most exclusive residence section. This will be so because an ungovernable wave of public favor has turned in that direction. . FIFTH) TF Hr TT T HP TTT3 iL Urn iL Furnishes the reason for Eastmoreland's sure development into Portland's elite home district. Don't dodge this fact. Eastmoreland's future is absolutely, unquestionably assured don't doubt it. Talk with people on the street see the property learn of the great things that are planned for the early establishment of Reed Institute. Look cold facts squarely in the face if you want the best, don't temporize, ask for it come to us, let us show you let us prove to you that Eastmoreland is to be vour future home. We Pay for Eastmoreland Improvements Eastmoreland's improvements will be first class in every way. Everything will go in that can be put in to improve the property, and with the exception of hard-surface pavements'and sewers we pay the bills. Isn't that fair and more than fair? Eastmoreland's building restrictions are $3000 and $4000. This is high enough to absolutely guarantee that your neighbor's home will be as good as your own. Let us take you out to the property in one of our automobiles. THOSE WISHING TO LOOK AT THE PROPERTY TODAY MAY TAKE THE SELLWOOD CAR AND GET OFF AT TOLMAN AVENUE. OUR AUTOMOBILE WILL BE THERE TO MEET YOU flMMtonai TRADE BUILDING A