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THE 0REG6N SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, ', SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1910. W DAYSOF i910FliiDREALtY mm si! I'crchasc by Ambrpse B. Scott of Quarter Block at Union and H avvttiorne . One of . the - Best Sales of the Week,,-.. Based upon the week's transfers and butldlug permits, the realty market of Portland was nuver in' a" more salsfac lory condition than It Is during the clos ing days of 1910." ' . ' ; There have been many weeks In the past tew years In which the volume of real estate changing hands here quad rupled last week's total. . Likewise the building permit record has many times exceeded ' that of last "week, but when It is known hat the trading In property covered a very wide range and embraced almost all clauses of realty and that the building permit record for the week gives promise of an unusual expansion In new construction, there is abundant reason for the assertion ;that an excel lent condition prevails in both realty and building lines. s, , One of the best sales of the week was the purchase by Ambrose 8cott of the quarter block at the northwest cor ner of Union and Hawthorne avenues. Mr. Scott bought v the property from the Zimmerman estate and paid $35,000 lor it It is the intention' of the new owner to improve the site with a one-story brick store building, work on which will begin early in the new year; ' The deal was negotiated by the H. P. Palmer Jones company and,W, B.Honeyman, Jr. ;- feargest Single Seal. 'J The transfer last Wednesday 'by Charles IC Henry and associates to the Portland Terminal Investment company, a subsidiary corporation of the Harri man roads, of the tier of blocks be tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets and extending from Hoy t to Qulmby, marked the final stages of the largest single deal In Portland real estate, that has ever been carried to a successful conclusion. The purchase of this prop erty two years ago by Mr. Henry cre ated at the time no end of comment and speculation. It was variously sup posed that he was acting in the interest of the Milwaukee, the North Coasft the Hill and the Harrlman lines. However, the bulk of the opinion credited Mr. Henry with being the agent of the Har rlman system. It was only within the last few months that J. P. O'Brien, head of the Harrlman lines in Oregon, - an nounced that it was a Harrlman deal. ; Shortly thereafter, Mr. Henry acquired blocks V, V, U and Y. which lie be tween Fourth and Seventh streets and are north of Hoyt street This ,. was also a Harrlman deaU and ta a part of the IS blocks transferred by Mr. Henry, J. W. Grelg and W. C Bards ley to the Portland Terminal Invest ment company. Unable to Acquire Property. In buying the blocks between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets Mr. Henry was unable to acquire four quarters and a single lot, the owners refusing to fix a price which he thought reasonable; also the northeast quarter of block U he was unable to secure. As all of this prop erty ft to be used presumably for ter minal purposes the unpurchased parcels cannot be condemned in the courts, and If the railroad company ever acquires them it will have to be done by private negotiations with the 'owners, '-..'.:; v H. B. Adams has purchased' from Mrs. E. R. Glisan two lota In the Nob Hill district for which ho paid $13,000. One of the parcels is located on the east side of Twenty-first street between Overton and Northrup and the other of the north side of Northrop between Twentieth and Twenty-first Mr, Adams is preparing to build a three story brick apartment house on the .Twenty-first street lot ' '. . ' " " " ; ' , ' - - " ' Councilman George B. Cellars has eold to the Cellars, Mnrton company a b& foot lot at 'the southwest corner of Fifteenth and Marshall, the considera tion involved amounting to $19,000.- i Xrft Briafft $7000. , . The best price so far reported for a Union avenue corner, north of Russell street was paid last week by Utto J, Gensner and associates,, who purchased from William Olsner a 26xS0 foot parcel located at the southwest ; corner of Union avenue and Fremont street for $7000. .... ' John G. Edwards has sold to E. W. Mutch a fraction of the 60 foot lot at the southeast corner of Union x avenue and East Burnside street for $5000.? A James R. Douglas has purchased from J. C. MeGrew lots S and 9 and the south half of lot li.in Kern Park for $6000. - V-:- ', .". r -.-.Jv Af, The Security Building company has. sold -to Mrs. Mary B. Ripley a modern .'''..7 ftfWf jr. ; i 3 ' J f , i A t A ' 1 t- - J ' i f ? . ,'hi' ' iJL -i. uJ-- " t: ' - 3 ' . ''tit : 1 1 i 1 111. .V''w-AyM''-'v:.v ,4wmfrtfk&iiQlr'''& 3 Hesidcnco of Pvrcy Alien of the Allen Shi ugle Company recently completed at Sixteenth and Brazee streets Irvlnston. The building la of the colonial type and is one of the handsomest homes In that section of. the city. ,The interior arrangement and -finish is unusually attractive", hardwood being lavishly UBed. ; The. bouse at doalgned and built by .Architect C. C. Johnson.- '" " ' x " s - Lot Owners' Association Plans Giving M ''. ': .M$k?y o ' .... - ' ' V: , !' ). i ' - s f . J ... -..v' p , .... .. n,,.. . ; . hJ . - "ZJ -I h-w o ! ' WW MMiaiaaa si si mum ii..wsj ' Beautified Lone Flf cemetery, win have mora of the appearance of a park, than of a burying ground, after the plans of Howard Evarta tVeed, land scape architect have been worked out In response to the desire or the newly organized lot owners' association : of Lone Fir cemetery, Mr. Weed has come from Chicago to make his home perma nently in Portland and to execute the plans of improvement for the neglected cemetery as his first task here. ; Since Mr. ' Weed's arrival, the, asso ciation of lot owners has been perma residence recently "' completed ' at ' the southwest corner of Hendricks avenue and Jarrett street -in Piedmont for $4600. Casper Aplanalp closed a . deal last week with the Western Oregon Trust company for the purchase of tracts 79, 80 and 81 in Men tone, an addition on the Mt Scott carline. The consideration Involved in the deal was $6000. The' north half of lota $ and , 4 In block 14, Glencoe Parity has beefl pur chased by Ethel A. Williams from F. S. Griffith for $4800. The handsome new residence occupy ing a quarter of a block . in Overlook addition) was purchased last week by A J. McDaniel for $8000. ; The property formerly belonged to J, T. Ennls. Blalsdell, Shoup & Daly report ' the sale of three houses and lots, In, block 1,' Kenwood Park, to Thomas and W. E, Stackley of Dufur, Or. At the annual election of the Rose City Park Improvement league the fol lowing officers were chosen to serve during 1911s President T. ,'; T. Geer; vice-president ' C. B. Merrfckf secre tary and treasurer, E. F. Allshaw. The secretary announced 24 names to the membership roll making a total of 150 people belonging to the organization. A report was made by private census enumerator .HughBon that there are 200 rwsyw awWoMesww S i GEER HEAD OF ROSE fflr PARK LEAGUE nently organized Or. Josephl has been made permanent chairman and. J. A. Strowbridge,' permanent, secretary. Mr. Strowbridge, who has been the "motor Impulse" for the betterment of Lone Fir cemetery, desires -very much to re ceive communications from those who own lota or whose relatives are buried in the pioneer burying ground in or der that they may join the movement become members of the association and have a share in the initial expense of improvement whlqh will amount to $10, 000. . His offices ar in the, Commer- children in the ; district between the ages of S and 15 and that many of them are forced to come all the way ? into the city to school because of the fact that the Rose City Park school Is too small y The club will immediately In augurate the erection of a modern fife proof echool house sufficiently large to provide accommodations , for several years to come. . ' . . The school board owns a fine sightly two and one-half acre tract hear .the center of Rose City Park and it is the intention of the residents out there to ask the board to build an S room school house on the property. . , : , , .. Satirfactory progress was reported In the matter of raising funds for the erection of a club building on the fine site facing the Alameda and Bandy Road recently purchated from B. B. Josselyn. It Is hoped to raise $15,000 for this purpose. ., y ".-"v" Now r that the car service to Rose City Park is greatly Improved and with the widening and paving of Sandy Road and ..Improved water , service, the en tire section beyond Laurelburst will ex perience a greater development A. scale on the Interior of a boiler a sixteenth of an inch In thickness will cause a loss of 13 per cent fuel effi ciency and one an eighth of an inch thick will cause 25 per cent loss. The leaves are held beneath the top of' an extension dining table that a Mew Jersey man has" Invented, and when the ends are pulled out the leaves swing into position automatically. Journal Want Ads bring results. . ' I - i V..A;- .;;! i 1 - .: ! 1 1 1. JJH eft 9M l. ' : R Park Aspect to Lone Fir Cemetery enes in Lone Fir Cemetery, and Howard 13, AVeed, 'architect, whose services have been obtained to Improve its beauties. block. Second and Washington streets. " That the people of Portland .may bet ter, understand what modern beautifying and v improvement of hurylng grounds mean. Mr Weed ha promiseij to give two lectures on the "Cemetery , Beauti ful." The first will- be in an East Side church Sunday evening, January 8, and the second in a West Side church, Sun day evening, January 15. I, Mr, Weed says 'that, in proceeding with the improvement of Lone Fir, he will work toward the beauty and econ omy of simplicity. The natural oppor tunity for evolving a park-like ceme tery of distinctive beauty, he says,' is very great Among other things, he has had this to say concerning the gen eral improvement of cemeteries and the reasons therefor; . UNCLE JOE Work in Congress Will. Go On in the Same Old Way After j the First Flurry ; oftRefor? mation." - . - By Ralph M. "vVhltesIde, (pDbliahen' nm teaMd Wira.t Washington. Dec. ' 24. Congress has done -remarkably ' well ' for the pr- hollday session. Several of the appro priation bills have been ' gotten out of the way of the house and It seems not impossible that some general legislation may be accomplished. It must be said In all frankness that the Indications are very much against the supposition that they do want to do anything ex cept of course the Insurgents on both Sides. ; '. . . , Wl Two things In connection with - the next congress seem to be pretty well settled. If he lives Champ Clark will be speaker and unless there is a radical change in feeling the committees If the house will be chosen by the house Itself instead Of by the speaker. There; has been a good deal of fool ish talk about this committee business. Those who want ihe old system main tained have been crying aloud that this committee'' on committees " business means chaos in the house with no pos sibility of the proper-dispatch of busi ness. They say nothing of the fact that the system has . always obtained tn the senate and that body seems to be able to get through with Its share of the business. ., On the ' other hand the advocates of the new system seem to ' think its adoption means the destruction of the power of the leaders, the emancipation of the common or garden variety of members and the cure of all legislative evils. Again going to the senate we find . the grip of Aldrich as firm on that . body, as that of . Cannon on the house and the . legislative program of the group of . leaders is generally put throsgh as easily in one wing of the capltol as. the other. It Is -fair to assume therefore that under the new rules, those fitted by national ability and experience for leadership will lead just about as they have done. , &ayner Snows $5' Bill. Senator Rayner, -unconsciously caused merriment on the Democratic side the other day. He had called a page to send for cigars and had taken a $5 bill from his pocket when Senator Overman engaged . hjm J in .conversation. Hs leaned forward, elbows on his desk, listening and idly . holding - the bill stretched; tightly In, full view of the galleries. " 1 ' "Does the senator from . Maryland wish to introduce that bllir Queried ae"atpi:j3acon.8Uinft srala away. It would be well received." Senator Clark of Arkansas suggested, . "but I don't think it would pass." . ' "More work, then, for Chief Wilkle," was the comment of Senator Overman. Mr. Rayner ended the quips by thrusting the note into the hands of the HOUSE vILL MAKE OWN RULES lEN "Along with general progress in eivl- Ilzation common-sense methods in ceme tery construction and management are Burely, although Slowly, being intro duced. ,i4The newer cemeteries are park like in their aspect and bear little re semulanca to the old fashioned burying grounda As times goes on our ceme teries will grow' more and more like parks with green grass, -shrubs f and trees taking the place of useless stones. "In the cemeteries of the future there will be no alleyways at alL In the cemetery of the future the headstones will not appear above the surface of the ground. Copings around lota .are no longer allowed In up-to-date ceme teries, and when only the monuments are een and these against background of trees and shrubs a cemetery becomes pleasing to tho: eye and suggests quiet and undisturbed repose." ' waiting boy. He didn't know 'tmtll afterward the cause for his colleagues' discreet laughter. f ,-Mast Watch Silverware. Lynx eyed waiters are especially de sfcred about the senate restaurant now adays, for - the new silverware and china has been put in use, and Its at tractiveness Is such aa to greatly-tempt the souvenir fiend. . The words "United States Senate" now stand out In bold relief upon every piece of cutlery and chlnaware used on the restaurant tables, and the new china has. In add!- lion, a crest painted upon every piece, together with the picture of the United States capltoL It is something new in the way of table furnishings at the capitol, where statesmen eat their hur ried lunches, and where tourists from all parte of the United States drop in to sit near the tables of the mighty. . The average run of souvenir hunters has little conscience when It comes to carrying away a small article which be r A J:V;T ' V-' '-C vV-v'V-Vr;,'!-? i-'tj S-'f ;'- Christmas ; '.' Present Do you want self a valuable Christmas present?1:. , - ne that you life and that value.- - . your in , - , You will buy costly gems and fts that will be worn-out and t aside ; but here is an opportunity lake yourself a present, one that is an essential, a place a home. Or; one that will return you a handsome profit. . 1 , . Today and Monday, are holidays. You could ''not spend the day to any , better advantage than by going out to Morm'ngside and seeing this garden spot' of the east side, if only for the magnificent view. . , ' Morm'ngside lays on the heights of trie east side, equally as ly as rortiana Heights Darlinan & Thompson HJEAJ. ESTATE DEPATStElTT , ' CKAZSBSB Private Ex. 30 longs to .the government and which they figrure Uncle Sara may readily spare, considering the amount of taxes he, the souvenir hunter, has paid In the past Chlnaware and pieces of cutlery from the senate restaurant therefore, will be especially prized by those who want to take something back as a memento of a Washington tour. ; It behooves senate restaurant visitors to be on the alert ,Not that those who drop in upon the senate restaurant are bad folks, but simply because it is hu man to gather souvenirs, and the words "United States Senate" are quite tempt ing when- engraved upon a spoon,' a but ter knife, or some" other articles re quired by solons and Just plain visitors when they eat i . . . - , . ; Changes In Belogatlon. 'Good morning, dean,'; said Repre sentative Tftylor Of Ohio, as he shook hands-with Nicholas Lon&vorth,, Just before the house got down to business the other day. ' . ; "Dean what? Til bite," cordially re torted Mr. Longworth. ' , . "Why, dean of the. Ohio delegation.' explained Mr, Taylor. "Do you think I'm trying to spring a minstrel Joket" ' "Well, then, what, are you V queried Mr. Longworth, apparently eager for information, ' ' .' ' . "If we Included only the Members of my first session here, the Fifty-ninth congress I suppose ! would be the dele gation," modestly, explained the Colum bus representative. ' ; , ,' ;,; ' A bdef retrospective glance bver the roll was Indulged In by the two mem bers neither of -them i yet arrived at middle age, -and Mr. Taylor's statement found confirmation. Representative Longworth is the dean of the Republi can delegation of "which Mr. Taylor is the only other Ohio inember, Republi can or Democrat , of the Fifty-ninth congress, elected six years ago, who will be a member of the next congress. :,, ' J XtfoUnff After Joba. : Uncle "Lon" Livingston, feela pretty sore over hU turn-down In the pri maries, and doesn't hesitate to say sot lie says he remained on his Job as ranking Demoorat on the appropriations committee and in the meantime his op ponent was making a house-to-house canvass in the district with the result that when Uncle "Lon" did go home there' was nothing to it but defeat: Rep resentative Livingston ; has v been in Washington for 20 years, and has made himself popular with his colleagues, lie knows a thing or two about 'the ways of the legislators, and' for' that reason his Democratic friends want him. to remain here, tie la a candidate for either the clerkship or sergeant-at-annstf. the noxt house, with a prefer euce for the latter. '-i'fif'" BcaU .CTeveland. ' Even' if" Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio, is 'looked upon as ' eager for a White nouse' residence in Washington he never visits this city without re calling the first tjme he came for qf ttclai .duties. That 'was during the ad ministration , of - President Cleveland, who apparently discovered" ; Harmon as a good man for attorney general, Harmon had not dreamed of any ap pointment; in 'fact, did not wish for one, '" He was becoming rich as a law yer in "Cincinnati, and bad' really de cided to keep out of politics. ; One morning he arrived at his offices In the St Paul building, Cincinnati, and found a marked "personal" envelope on his desk an envelope that looked a little different than any he had recently re ceived. Also, the handwriting was un lamUlar; of a fine, copper plate script sort and he wondered as he opened It who could have sent It Harmon read the letter four times; looked out the window six tunes; failed to open any other of the mahy letters on his desk; put on his hat and said he would not be back that day, and went : home to show the letter to his wife.-.. That letter was from Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, asking "My dear Judge Harmon" to become attorney general In the cabinet The invitation was la words very complimentary, and the Judge went over each word, with his wife with the result that "they" de cided to accept It was a turning point In the Harmon career, a and from that day on he has been a figure in Demo cratic affairs. , . That President Cleveland letter is treasured In the Harmon household as a memento of a dear friend, who was also president and who knows but that same' letter may have started the re cipient toward a White House career T - If the overflowed and swamp lands of the United States were drained It U said that 70,000,000 acres of productive soil would be regained, Great quantities of potatoes are being shipped from Eugrte : . J CHAPTER 17 to make your side. But with this difference, you get an unobstructed view of the -entire panorama spread out "around the city of Portland, l , . . ; i "It liesalongside of the new Mount" Tabor City Park., ' t It is the cream of an already built up neighborhood. " Sidewalks, curbs and water, and' ' graded streets go with the price of -the property. ; will have . all will increase for you to build Prices from $650 to $1500 on easy terms. u ' ' - Remember that jt was only ';1 in 1904 that the best lots on ' Portland Heights could be , bought for $600. . Is there a chance to make a profit? Well you can answer ins question alt er, you return from the high and sight little visit we ask on. the west to make. OX WKXES.cn A-2050 and A-7040. .lEfHlTS' VILL BE ERECTED Plans for Number of Larga -Buildings Are Filed in In- spector's Office. Architects' drawings for an immense amount of new construction were filed with the building inspector In the past week, and Indications are that from now to -January j 1 that department of the city government will be overrun With prospective builders and architects de--mandlng the immediate - issuance of permits.- ''-.' J v '. "' ' ' ! The .largest , building' proposition brought to the attention of Inspector Plummer last week was the detailed drawing for the 13 story Wilcox build ing that is to go up at the southeast corner of Sixth and Washington streets. Architects Whidden and Lewis ; esti mate that this building will cost be tween $400,000 and $500,000. Construe, tlon work will begin on It Immediately after March 1 by the Stone & Webster Engineering company, . ' . - , .'wi..piana rive Story Structure. - Another big building 1 proposition that came to light in the office of the building Inspector last week Is a pre- posed five-story brick apartment house to be erected by Fred Frits . at the southwest corner of j Twelfth and Tay lor streets. Construction work on this building will also begin March 1. It is to beva red pressed brick exterior with an entrance on Twelfth street through an open court There are to be 60 two and three: room apartments. Its estimated cost is $75,000. Providing for the erection of a four story ,; brick apartment , house on the quarter block at the northeast corner of , Twenty-second and Glisan street permit was issued last Friday to M. and B. Pal lay. This building is t have a total of 33 apartments of three, four and five rooms and will cost approxi mately $90,000. Entrance to It will be through an open court facing Twenty second street ' - ' ' E. J.; Froham took out a permit Fri day last, for a four story brick apart ment house which he is to build on St Clair street, between Washington and Main, at a cost of $80,000. -..i , A permit was also issued on that date to G Ft Shepherd for a two story brick apartment building to be erected on ' the quarter block at the northeast cor ner of Russell street and Union avenue, '' Another Apartment. ' I. A. Peters Is preparing to build another apartment house, ! Mr. Peters having .built a number of these struc tures in the new apartment house sec tion .south of Morrison street. This is to be a 35 by 100 foot structure, two stories in height and it will go up on the north side of Hair street between Tenth and Eleventh. Its, estimated cost is. $30,000. ',, s . ; ; Facing Glisan street between Fourth and Fifth., is to go up a four story brick addition to the present Storehouse of theJUnion Meat company, a permit for the building having been ' issued' last week,.-' 'M'ijr .,;.&"' y.-"rS-1 ; f-;v;-; . F. M. Moore took out a permit last week, for a ttt story frame residence Which he Is to build on East Twenty seventh street, between Tillamook and Thompson, to cost $4000. . v The old frame building occupied as a Chinese laundry at the corner of Sec ond and' Madison streets. Is to be torn ; down to. make way for a four story brick store knd apartment -house to be erected on the site by Mrs. Jsam White. This structure will cover a40xl00 par eel and will cost approximately $40,000. , v Medal for Winner., . " (Cnlted Preu, Lte Wire.) St. Louis, Dec $4.-Mayor Frederick H. Kriesman this afternoon announced that he would award a diamond medal to th winner of the National Bowling, meet to be rolled next week at the Nat.; tonal Tournament of the Bowling con gresa. - It Is expected that 300 individual ten pin rollers will qualify for the cham pionship contests. . , Journal Want Ada bring results. HOV7 TO OXT TSX KB Take a Ml Tabor ear on Morrison it. They run every TM xnin titea, Or eali a our office and we will be glad to take yon out. you t T