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L t. THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, t PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY- 2, 1313. Jiructure Was for Years Chief Educational Center of City IPHSITSOII Belle Court, Which Cost $80,000, to II;ve3 Duplicates WILL COST j Three Duplicates of Belle "Court Apartment" at' Trin i ity Place and Davis Stree to Be Erected. BLOCK S25G.00D ORMORE I I k.,.v-.wot , 7 s. 'f 4 v k t a ? v .-. ? k i i i i i ' f ... .... , ! I . . t '-""' --J -r." .-.."II mi m.. ' - 1 - , t -, , ... ; L . . j $ v 1 ' 1 ; i : ! ! J; .;,ik-.. U I, I ' ... :;:i.:;1.vs . . fr View of Bishop Scott academy, aa it . , - , ' Passing of Bishop Scott Acad emy Building to Make Room for Modern Apartments, Marks New Epoch. . : In the razing of the Glendora hotel, et Dvi street and Trinity place, whlcb for years waa known as the Bishop Scott academy to make room for a modern ad beautiful' apartment house to be erected by aa subsidiary concern of the fred A. Jacobs company, there pauses a familiar landmark, which has ttoood since 1878, and which was the principal educational center of the city for yetLTB,'i-.". .-L:'';, i'j, ;:,;:',,c.;.l;;::,j: ; The work of razing- this structure Is ebout half completed. Every day, prom inent business men of the city, who lush the dllapltated and fastly dlsaD-! pearlng building: can be heard to say: "Well, I went to school there when . Z was a boy." . . . . . .w , ;. ,v . The present building was erected ' In 178, tollowlng- a fire which destroyed the original building which, housed the Bishop Scott academy, on the site of the old building, p At first, the struc ture was but about half the size of what was to be seen there less than a month ago. i As it became necessary, two wings were added to the building, and in 1887, an armory directly; adjoining the building was erected, and later when the school was closed, this building was moved and remodeled and la now the Trinity Parish house. . - : Organized ta 1870. ' The origlnar BlBhop Scott academy was organized In 1870 by Bishop Mor ns, who named the school Bishop sscows urammar ana Divinity school, in honor of Bishop Scott, pioneer of Oregon, who first established a boys' school In Oregon. .This school was at Oswego. - A girls school was estab lished at tne same time on the pres ent site of the City Hall,, and remained there until recent years, ' when , St Helens hall was established. The old hall now stands at Twelfth and Main streets. ; Ths boys' school was moved from Os wego to the site on Trinity place when Caroline Couch, widow of John 'Couch, on March 3, 1871, deeded a large, sec tion of land to me church for educa tional' purposes. , ; -. , ,., A fine building for that date was erected and tood until 1877, when It was burned, and Immediately after, the other building, (Which has stood until now, was erected. Dr. J. W. Hill was named a head master and was at the hea4 of the school for many years. - . Will Open Haw School. Ia 1887 ; the name was changed to the BIhsop Scott Military academy, and military discipline was inaugurated. The school continued with various suc cess until li,r, when it was thought expedient to discontinue it Soon after it was remodeled Into & family hotel and named the Glendora hotel. Plans-are now under way for the opening of a new school near Gaston, In Yamhill county, and It Is likely that the school will be opened f next fall. Most of the teachers havi already been isolated" and there only remains the -arranging of the final details until an announcement of the complete plans can oe maoe. ' - Among the prominent men of -Portland, whose names appeared on the first record hook'of the school which opeBed in the building now being razed are Thomas Scott Brooks. Valentine Brown.: Henderson P. beady, Edward and Wal ter Dodd. H. M. Falrfowl. the Iat John couch KJapdere, Rodney I Glisan, Da vid and Allen Lewis, ' John F Mo Cnicken, Harry Montgomery, John San (Jcrson Reed, Jaul VanFrldagb and M. it. and Samuel O. Wasserman, sons of the former mayor of Portland. WOULD GiVE CONTRACTS TO IES A bill that has for-its purpose the re nilrlng of city, county and state of f i 'iols to award contracts for all pub u ' buiidlnra to contractors In the state, to employ only resident architects In l i raring the plans and to use Oregon isi.iac materials when the product 'la ! to a foreign product,' Is to be : . ; . ,T u ( 3 -mtir-rtf mw-tr nsrstmr run; the coining week. ,' Backed by t iMllders Exchance, It Is being pre : l by Attorney John F. Logan and HOME COMPAN appeared before school was closed.- ' in attendance at schooU will be given to Senator .Moser, to be' presented in the senate. . ' - Local builders declare that they are not treated fairly 1n matters, of public buildings and that in xases , where con tracts are let to out ot the state, con cerns, It is, that much loss to Oregon and the Oregon builders. Especial grlev. anoe ls expressed over, the publio audi torium which will be erected under the direction of a New; York, firm of archi tects. AT NINTH AND HOYT Through the office of C lu Bam berger, Charles Wackrow, a well known wagon maker, has leased from jr.-H. Huddelson, the : southwest corner of Ninth and Hoy t streets, a tract 100x100 feet, and will erect a two story brick building on it which will cover the en tire lot ... . . ., .;. . . This tuildlnif will be - used by Mr. Wackrow . for automobile and wagon repairing, auto' construction and a spe cial, feature will be made of warnlsh ing. The change of location has been made necessary by the Increased busi ness. 'The work oa this building has already started and Is well under way. air. Bamberger also reports the sale Of a IB-acre improved farm near Van couver, Wash. by J. C. Alnsworth of the United States National bank for a consideration of 83500, to a party whose name Is withheld. T SELL FOR $50,000 Thomas Splllmann. a pioneer Port. land real estate dealer, has purchased through the office of the F. B. Taylor company, tne i-.ee as apartment house on Market street, between First and Front streets, for 850,000, from Frank Mulkey, . The Leeds apartment house, is a mod ern Duuaing, rour stories high, of re- enforced concrete construction. It Is a class "A" building, fire proof, has every modern convenience, Including automa tic elevator and steam heat, and is fur nished throughout The building In cludes 65 rooms, so arranged that It could be used for hotel purposes as well as for apartments. Mrs, Mulkey, who Is a brother of ex senator Fred' W. Mulkey, took as part payment, Mr. Splllmana's 228 acre farm three miles northeast of Eagle Creek. This deal was one of the most Import ant consummated during the week. - More than 10,000, Russians have re cently applied for foreign passports, ac cording to Information received at the ministry of comemrce and trade. The greater portion of the requests come from Russian Poland, where extensive mobilization has created fear of war. , 1 Crews Rushing Work Jobs for the Portland Railway. track ha. already been cbmpleted TO Bill M LEEDS APAR u " ' ! ' ' - - 111 k i . ' i t . a 111 jc , r ' Iu the foreground ia shown cadets DEALS IN FHG LANDS CONTINUE ACTIVE IN STAIE 1 60 Acres BoughT of Henry ' Raymond of Estacada; Wil ' lis Nash Farm Purchased; Brownsville Deal at $4000. A substantial number- of ..big realty deals involving farm lands and city properties In other cities of the state except Portland were made "last week, arid from indications, many large dealr of considerable Importance are pending. The palatial resident, of E. C. Smith at Eugene, was sold last week to Lee Hoselton for 110,000, Mr. Smith tak ing a fine 25 acre farm near Eugene, in payment for the house. It is likely that the house will be rented to a fra ternity. . -, , Charles R. Eagle has sold Ms home In Madras to H. J. Ringo for $3000. This sale was made during the week. Lawrence Bros., of Portland, owners of the - Portland laundry, have pur chased 160 acres of Henry Raymond, of Estacada, which adjoins a ranch of 160 acres that Lawrence Bros, already own. R. W, Tripp of Brownsville, reports the sale of 133 acres near Crawfords ville to Ellen Follett, of Lebanon, for $4000. Virgil Shepard and Nathan Bassett were the owners. W. G. Benton of Lebanon has sold his' 130 acre farm near Tallman. to Hiram Betts, a recent arrival from the east, for $8600. The new owner has already taken possession. One Of the largest deals of the week was the purchase by A. E. Yerek, of Port land, of I860 acres of the Wallis Nash farm at Nashville, in Lincoln county. Mr. Yerex has recently purchased sev eral thousand acres in that vicinity, at a cost of opproximately $40,000. It is the Intention of the new owner to sub divide this section and sell it in smaller tracts. In the Nash ranch, 760 acres consti tuting the home farm, was retained by the Nash family. ' NEW APARTMENTS TO COST $300,000 One of the Important buildings per mits issued during the past week was to F. E. Bowman & Co., who are planning to erect a two story frame affair, cov ering a quarter block at East Seven teenth and Hancock streets, which Is to cost about $30,000. - . . This building will have an Immense open court, in which will be located a bubbling fountain, surrounded by, a beautiful flower garden. There will be eight apartments in- the buildlne. of three and four rooms each. on the Car Line to Lleht A.p, Vn"w and paved on ;4art of Cornell road and Improvements that will total more than $250,000, in addition to the elegant f five story Belle Court apartment, Trln itty and Davis streets, now nearly com i pleted at a cost of $80,000, are to be j made in the block bounded by Trinity Place, Davis and Nineteenth streets, by the Metropolitan Investment & Improve ment company, a subsidiary concern of insured A. Jacobs company. ' The old Bishop Scott Academy Is now being razed to make room for one of these buildings. Three more in addi tion to the Belle .Court are to be erect ed, each at a cost of $80,000 all of which will be duplicates of the Belle Court Excavation for the ' second unit of this -improvement Will be started March 1 and gix months later work on the third unit will be started and so on until the four buildings are completed. - The second building is to be known as the , Elizabeth Court and the other two buildings will have similar names, they being, selected to harmonize with the type of architecture, which is of the .ngusn style. The Belle Court apartment Is one of the most modern apartments in the cltv. The building has been erected In three sections, with fire walls between, and equipped with sliding doors, that swing automatically in case of fir,' thereby cutting off other parts of the building from the one endangered by a blaze mai nwgni oreaa out to any other sec tion. " .. - : . ,:f v , yvw- The walls and floors have been spe cially treated with sand and cement to deaden the sound. In the basement there are all the modern conveniences that could be desired a complete laun dry, with electric drvlnar rooms and other features. ' The servants' rooms are all in the basement connected with private teiepnones to tne apartments of which they are a part Each of the four buildings will be five stories high, containing 38 apart ments each, of from three to flva rooms An "IfihovatloriM-theT finlahinsr of these apartments Is the fact that all the rooms are papered, the living and dlninar roomi being done in the highest (trades of decorative paper. All the apartments win be treated in the same manner. Another improvement that Is to be made In the same section Is ths building of a garage 60x200 feet from Trinity to Nineteenth street, that will be directly In the year of a row of store buildings that face on Washington street This will be one of the most complete garages in the city. - . irtf Li TS J. D. Wharton, owner of the Melcllffe Apartment house at East Eleventh and East Alder streets, is1 having plans pre pared by R. F. Wassell, contractor, for the second unit of his apartmen build ing, which he plan to erect at once. , When the first section of this house was built. It was so designed that an ad dition of a duplicate nuildlng would be possible. The addition will be a four story brick structure, 60x100 feet in size, and when completed, with the other unit will cover the entire quarter block with frontage on both East Elev enth ana East Alder streets. MORROW WHEAT FARM SELLS FOR $28,000 L. K. Moore, of the Board of Trade building, reports the sale of a 960 acre wheat farm, close to the town of lone, Morrow county, Or., for E. I Clark, for $28,800, to eastern buyers. An other sale reported by Mr. Moore Is the general merchandise stock, store Duuaing ana 40 acres of irrigated land at the town of La Pine, Or. The sale was made for Peterson & Sons, and the consiaeration was $28,000. The pur- cnaser was a Unn county man. PHILADELPHIA MEN GUILTY OF GRAFTING (United Prfeti OmmI Wlra Philadelphia, Feb. 1. -Former City Di rector or truxma zsarety Henry Clay and William Wall and ' John Wiggins, con tractors, were found guilty today of conspiracy 10 aeiraua the city in con nection with the construction of munlei pal buildings. Carl Zllenzlger, city archi tect, was acquitted. Westover Terraces PLAN SECOND UN CLIFFE APARTMEN . J"'HzJmJJV7 the -mails and oa Westover road. - - , ' , 'Mill!' - . - ... j . . 'V?- ". : (1 J i, 1 '" " 1 "" teaa. : -..SOtuV ' - " J ; - -.-:: .... r jj; . . p. r t '-i-k.-i i ) v-- -vyx. ,, - i . i sib. w ,. ' " . c 4 'V t 1 ' :rri!iUiCf. r1:! T S m .sftoh a .... . jl , t WXfc.... . fmiiwmf"' i i ir ii i 't- i - n -wfc,i'Miirii g iJirtiiiiiiiiiTi imiwiir -i. ..n " " """'""-' "iwi v m nam mtmmmmmmKmmmemimii'y' . View, of Bell Court Apartment, erected by Metropolitan Investment & Place, near Washington street. ' This place will be ready for occupancy within a few weeks. F RF1IY CENSUS OFF PRESS Publication Deals With Addi tions, the Names of Which -Begin.-With- Letter ."B-- Inequality of Valuations. Much the same results as were shown in the first unit of the Portland realty census, by A. L Street, are found in the second unit of this census, which basJust come off the press. In the second unit,-45 additions to the city, tha names of which begin with tha let ter "B," are dealt with. ; - It is a noticeable feature, however. that the majority of the additions In this unit are more densely settled than the "A" additions. The percentage runs from about 4.4 per cent in Berkeley ad dition to 75 per cent in, Balche's, Bea con Heights and others. The number of expensive dwellings are greater in this unit the average falling below $1000 in only one section. Flats and apartment houses are begin ning to snow up more extensively in the- district dealt with this Urns. The real flat and apartment . move ment of the past six years will appear more decisively in tha next unitv This will include the city of Portland pfoper. A feature that begins to become of special interest Is that relating to the presumed amount of residential , ac commodation in Portland by the new dwellings erected in the last six years. This is the phase of the . census which Is expected to show whether or not suf ficient home facilities exist for the new population that is known to have come into the city ln recent yeafs, especially since the Lewis and Clark exposition. For instance, In Balche's addition there are' accommodations for 68 per sons, in Bartsch Park, for 169: lr Beaumont, which Is In the Rose City fane district, for 630; in Belle Crest which kt In the same section ot the city, for 461; Benedictine Heights, in southeast Portland, ror 127; in Berke ley, for 90. and in Beverly, for 74. As a further Illustration of the in equity of the assessed valuations in Balche's addition, tha valuation is only so per cent of the cost of the new dwellings, and In Bartsch Park it is 65 per cent In Belle Crest, it is 46 per cent; tn Beaumont, 66 per cent; in Belmont Place, 68.6 per cent, but in Benedictine Heights, where the av erage cost of the new buildings runs to the comfortable figure of $3063, it is only 19.4 per cent In Berkeley, it is o.l per cent, and In no addition does It come near 75 per cent as required by law. " ... ;-...,, : ,v ., - . i , In Batches addition 11 new dwellipgs nave-oeen erected in . six years, in Bartsch Park, 82; in Beaumont, 119; In Belle Crest .87; , in Benedictine Heights, 4. Beaumont and Belle Crest indicate, in part, the big building boom that took place along Sandy Road and In the Mt Tabor districts, although the final figures on these sections will only appear in -later sections of the book. In compiling this book, according to A. I. Street the author, there have been 27,000 percentage to calculate, over 26,000 additions, and about 6000 subtractions. In order to complete the figures. There is an addition to the original card record entries which, as The Journal has already stated, aggre gate over 20,000. There are between. 800 and 400 au ditions to the City of Portland, and every one of these ia given a careful study.- These additions,, range from 10 lots to 1500 each, and there have been about 3000 new dwellings a year erected in Portland. . ; . . v... Considerable pressure has - been brought to bear on Mr. Street to make this census a permanent feature and to continue the work from year to year, and the census has already been so weu receivea that the suggestion Is given serious consideration. WOMAN PERSISTENTLY REMAINED IN BED . (By the International Kews Serloe.y London, Feb. 1. How, to deal with a woman who persistently stayed in bed was a problem presented to the Exeter magistrates recently when ' Margaret w nauey appeared on an . adjourned charge of neglecting her two children. The husband said that his wife went to bed on. December 26 and he had not seen ner up until she came to the court It had been suggested that he should leave ner without rood, but h diri n like to see her starve. Am tar a. h. knew, there was; nothing tha matter wnn ner. inemagi8trate sent the worn. an to prison for four months with hard labor. . ' 1 ' serve as a ductiorun3orgroiindwires Plsnned to relieve London's congested SECOND 1 Father Joseph Caruana to Be . Central Figure of Cath olic Jubilee. . - (Special to The Journal.) Spokane, Wash., Feb. 1. Father Jo seph " Caruana;-- ftrst- Catholic-mission ary among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest and recognized aa the found er of that faith in what was then known a Oregon, will be the central figure In the celebration this fall of the fiftieth anniversary of the planting of tha Cath olic faith in this part of the country. nrtyryears ago. on October 10. 1863. Father Caruana baptized 75 Indian chil dren and five adults, all members of the Coeur d'Alene tribe, the baptism being held on the spot where the Northern Pa cific railway's passenger station now stands in Spokana In this connection facta of importance to the .history of, this part of tha coun try have, been learned through an In vestigation by Father George F. Weibel of Gonzaga university. He learned that Father Caruana, at the head of a band of twelve priests, found his way to the ... U. Birdseye View of Portland's Suburbs Srtwdwup?n re9uest Everything is in favor of rV SUBURBAN HOME. Its economy, sejf aupporting resources, pure air. broad, in dependent, free life, brings success and a growing bank account It cannot help it It is the natural result of its every makeup changes the home expense account into one of income. A Delightful Combination-City and Country which only the wealthy were able to enjoy before the coming of the electric cars. Can you imagine an investment so safe, sure and profitable as is reasonably priced, close in acreage? It is bound to grow in value as Portland grows. (W Suburban Homesites on electric line, close to the rapidly growing city of Portland, in con venient sized tracts of 1, 2, 3 and 5 acres at $175 to $450 per acre. Are Exceptional Bargains A purchaser of a $375 per acre tract told us they preferred it to $1000 per acre showed them elsewhere. Investigate and give us your opinion... V:!t;, v.,.;...,,,';.,' - Only Forty-three Tracts to Sell at this Opening Price Compare prices, locations and prospective increase values to be. Result of your investigation will mean you will want one of these 43 tracts. Do it now or you will pay higher prices later. We can make you reasonable terms on ' r Bayiies Close-in. Acreage with good electric car service. " . v .1 ' J. W. HEFFERLIN V ' 307 Railway Exchange Building. Main 2248. I . -.. I ALLEGE OREGON LAN D FRAUD AT MONTESANO !SoliV Jonriul.l Montano. Wauli Vt United'' States Attorney John Mvi'oiirt O'' or gon and Clerk Prank Duck teftirtl ni superior couit here joday m tli cae or' lOeorge Watson, accused nf awmU 1 1 , offering to locato pernor oh land in southern Oreson, ltltlietin. Mftrr man ': viciims yii uUfy asaiiitL 1- watson atercrJ Ai-!Vk. w - , " , "- Our Guaranteed Cer " ' tificate of Title -brings ' ' ' to light any defect in . ' the title BEFORE you 0 , : Pay over ' yuf money. t ; " Investigate. 4 Call -for . ' - : - booklet, TITLE k ' ' , ' TRUST. CO.,' 4th and - Oakf ' " ; '..' Improvement company, on .Trinity Spokane river falls In .the early '60s. Father Weibel Is authority for .' ths statement that the first baptism of In dians ;. in tha Pacific Northwest was conducted at the site of what Is now Spokane in October, 1863. So far as is known here. Father Car uana is the only one of the band of pioneer priests now living. After com pleting his work with the tribes around Spokane, he went ' to Do Smet, Idaho, where he founded the first Cathollo mission in this part of the country. -The mission still stands, and the aged priest, known to the Indians as 8osep and patriarch priest of the tribe, Is stUl the. leading, spirit pf the community. Ho Is 79 years old. "-w . tv. .....a nnl.i. nwy Jk uo yi coiuvu l . nuu tavuii; u, - vw zaga university in Spokane are ' now planning a golden Jubilee to commemorate- the plantlhg'br their" tattir here r and Father Caruana will have a largo part to play in the ceremonies. News of Depravity Cases. -. (Salem Ruroaa of The Journal.) ', Salem, Or Feb. 1, Chief Justice Mc Bride ot the supreme court has refused to' release under habeas corpes proceed ings Dell Meagher, who is being held in tha Multnomah county jail as a witness , in the vice case against . E. 8, - J; Mc Allister. District Attorney Walter IL Evans , was here opposing the habeas corpus and Attorney W. IL Holmes rep resented Meagher. 1 An appeal has been filed in the su preme court in the case of the state against Dr. Harry Start, one of the Port land vice cases in which a conviction was secured. LOCATING I ' lAll l iiim ( jyn laud ' V 9 --the title of f which is not . LUTELY ESTAB-; ' LISHED," .?4s a risky Step which-..1 " A may. make ' j yyn nomeiess v ' some day. ' , . - - a. t. v Oomnlnv. - . -jr , rortiand, Oregon. o3 FleSse send t' .. me your booklet. Name, Address. .