THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY; MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21. 191?.
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ACTIVITY
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IN SUBURBAN REALTY
Movement Is Apparently Re
stricted Largejy to Pur
chases of Residence Sites,,
September' real eatate market, for
the first 20 daya of the month, haa been
resincieu 10 irnuu noiamga. in mis
cla of property a sharp increase In
movement Is noted. One firm reports
the sale of tl email parcels of suburban
holdings durlngr the past 90 days, more
than one-third of which was taken In
sion. r.nd lot 4 In block 9, Rossmere, for
a totul consideration of i,ioo. jsacn
of the four lots la Improved with a new
dweltlna;. -
Arthur T. Ledwlch has" purchased
from W. X Carkeek a fractional lot and
houa in Fark view Annex; consideration
$S0O. . .
A newly built dwelling In Ed re wood
was sold last week by Fred Powell to
Jj. B. Btelnmeta for $5000.
Mrs: Ida A. Hess has sold to Harry
Bawtell a fractional quarter-block In
Cbrlstannen'a addition for 15700.
The west half of, lots 11 and .11 In
block 88. Seilwood, haa been sold to J.
W. Horan by J. J, Myers for a consider
ation of iteoo.
IMPLEMENT COMPANY
ftUYS ADDITIONAL LAND
Not satisfied with Its purchsis of a
fraction of a block in the new Sullivan
irulch warehouse district, the firm of
Mitchell, Lewis & Btavnr has closed a
deal for the purchase of additional area,
which Rives the firm control of the
September. block bounded by East Eighth, East
A marked revival in the demand for. Ninth. East Flanders ana Ji-ast unsan
vacant lota In the northeastern rest-. atreeta. It 18 not tnaintention or
AUtcneu, iewis eiaver, according 10
a member of the firm, to improve Its
new holding at once, as it has a lease
on the premises on Eaat Morrison
street which has several"1 years yet to
run.
dence section la reported by brokers and
subdivide operating In that district
There is alao a considerable movement
In new dwelling; houses in that portion
of the city, one builder reporting the
sale of four houses last week for an ag
gregate consideration of 115,000.
Atchison Allen, representing the
Oswego Lake properties, reports the
sale of acre tracts In that suburb dur
ing the past week aggregating In value
about $13,000.
Acre tracts and a lake shore lots at
Oswego were taken by the following
buyers: A. Islu, $1000; J. F. 8tern,
$875; E. J. Warnock. $875; H. P. Reese,
$1000; R. E. Ruffachmldt. $700; J. H.
Johnson, $S00; Blanch Luclcey, $1000; E.
Gaynoy, $S75; Mrs. Harry Telford.
$600; Simon Oadawa, $850; W. Si. Flood,
$500; Ruth McKellar, $500; D. A. Fits
Patrick, $700; Mrs. Mary Fitapatrlck,
$900.
G. w. Priest hRs hold to Guy W.
Neeclhain, lot 5, in block 3, lot 5 In block
and lot in block 8. Aroma subdlvi-
RESIDENCE IS SOLD IN
JIQBTHEAST PORTLAND
.&ol( Beesley, Who operates exten
sively in the north-west residence sec
tion, has sold to Mrs. Grace Binnlngton
a new house, located Ht the Intersec
tion of East Forty-third and Tillamook
streets, for $4500. The property . for
merly belonged to M. J. Mahoney.
Mr, Beesley has taken title to two
lots la Rossmere on which be plans to
build modern dwellings to cost about
$8000 each.
HIS DUTIES NOT AS
L
IGHT AS
DESIRED
London Boy Seeks Job That
Carries Little Else Save' -Work.
City debt of Haverhill, Mass., in seven
years haa Increased 187 per cent and
valuations 35 per cent.
London, Sept. SO A south London
boy with golden draams of the future,
recently answered an advertisement for
the post of hall-boy at a school for the
"sons of gentlemen" at a resort near
Brighton. '
He saw himself standing at his post
with head erect and shoulders squared,
dressed In a tight-fitting livery trim
med with' many brass buttons, but, his
ardor Was somewhat dampened, when
ha received the fallowing list of duties
wlrfch ha would hava to perform:
You will be -required (says ths re
ply.) '
To be an early riser, strong, aotlve
and willing. '
To polish ths shoes of thirty-five
boys, head-master and his wife, three
masters, a mistress and housekeeper.
to clean an winaojrs regularly.
To clean all basement passages and
outside steps.
To answer the front door belL
To keep the . classrooms swept and
polished.
To clean all the knives, forks, and
spoons.
To help with the lift at meals, and
to make yourself generally useful.
He may not smoke on the premises,
and his religion must be church of
England. He will have one evening each
week free from 5 till 10 and every
second Sunday from S;S0 to It p. m.
He will sleep on ths premises, and re
ceive for his services, In addition to
his food, $1.00 a week.
NEW IDEA IS EVOLVED
IN APARIE1H0US
ES
Row of Bungalows Is Placed
on Roof of Block of
Stores.
A colony of one-story bungalows built
about a eourt on ths roof Of a block of
stores Is a new Idea in apartment houses
which Is described, with illustrations, in
ths October Popular Mechanics' Maga
ilna. From ths street the bungalow
apartment building looks ilk an or
dinary brick business block with shops
below and flats on the second floor.
But the stairway from the street, In
stead of leading to a second story, takes
one to a broad, sunny court on ths roof
of the shops.
town the center of the court is a
pergola with flower boxes beneath It,
an around the four sides are the low
gables of 17 one-story Swiss-chalet bun
galows. In all there are two two-room,
four S-room and 11 four-room bungalow
apartmencs about the court Each pair
Of bungalows has a common sheltered
porch, recessed so that the entrance
doors open Into the ilvlng rooms. Their
kitchens and dining rooms face the
oourt, and their living and sleeping
rooms overlook the street.
' Each has Its own bathroom and plen
ty of oloset room. The common laundry
is not In the basement, but on ths roof
of one of the bungalows, and clothes are
hung out on the roofs of ths kitchens,
unseen from ths street below. The floor
of ths oourt Is covered with heavy deck
roofing, drained by a gutter in the cen
ter, and garbage Is taken .care of in
boxes with ventilating pipes leading
through tho roof.
Journal Want Ads bring results.
AarorwRpiMt lOQnnQOU mm riparian
Exterior and Interior arrangements of Ideal residence.
Fireplaces are ornamental, useful and
1 healthful. There la probably not a sin
! (Is feature in the home more ornamental
i or attractive, if properly and harmoni-
oualy designed, than a fireplace.
Some fireplaces sfre for ornamental
purposes only; but when so designed
they are less attractive than the usual
-' fuel-burning fireplaces, for they are
. then meaningless and unnecessary. I
once saw a very elaborate fireplace of
' Italian renaissance designed with a bev
elled French mirror in the upper part
and elaborate gold plated electric light
. brackets on each side, Pavanlticlo mar
ble facing around the fireplace opening,
and the interior lined with pink satin
and decorated with band-painted roses.
While It probably represented a cost
of mors than' $100, It was nothing but
a huge, useless ornament, and did not
give any suggestion of a homelike feel
ing, or give to me an impression of old
fashioned bone spirit It was a sham
. a mere useless, extravagant expenditure
of money.
Buskin haa truthfully said: "Slmpll-
r city Is ths terminal point of all prog-
. ress."
Ornamentation Unsatisfactory.
The truly artistic ones simply depend
upon the grace of line and form supple
mented with the evidence of quality for
attractlvenesa The attempt to make
beautiful by application of much orna
mentation Is the eaay, but not the most
' satisfactory way.
The adornment In architecture is like
feminine apparel; simple grace is by far
the most attractive, and you never tire
of it The introduction of the crafts-
. man style Into much of our American
: architecture Is bringing us gradually
back to the days of Puritan simplicity.
.. Architecture in America has gone
through the extreme tendencies of its
youthf ulness. Figuratively speaking.
. Asaerican architecture has sown its
oats, and Is now fulfilling the Ruskln
. prophecy, and progressing toward slm
'" plicltv. To be truly attractive, fire
places should suggest their real pur-pose-i-thst
of burning fuel and they do
this best by ' using simple and almost
common materials, such as brick and
stone, instead of the more elaborate ma
terials, like ornamental tile or polished
marble. There was a time during the
Infancy of brick manufacture when what
is known as firebrick would stand heat
better than any material then known.
Vitrified brick is now commonly used
for fireplace facing, especially the mat
face or tapestry brick, and will stand
more fire than the firebrick obtainable
today. Here Is good advice: When the
brick facing is of a vitrified nature, and
the same brick Is used to line the fire
place opening, it is more practical and
gives a better appearance.
Tlreplaces Useful.
The usefulness of the fireplace is well
known in the southern states, where it
is depended upon almost entirely for
furnishing heat on chilly days, while in
the northern states It serves the same
purpose at certain times of the year; but
it is not economical enough, however, in
the consumption of fuel, nor sufficient
for the purpose of providing heat to be
depended upon the year round. Its use
fulness, of course, depends entirely upon
its proper construction.
. A fireplace that smokes is useless, ror
a very little smoke will soon render the
atmosphere of the room unbreathable.
The problem of obtaining beat while
still allowing the smoke to escape is not
a difficult one If a few simple rules are
observed.
Tho difficulty Ilea in the failure to
make many masons follow these rules
during construction. Why it is that so
many masons think they have soivea
the art os fireplace making when it was
discovered -more than a thousand years
ago is difficult to comprehend. The
main thing is a flue of sufficient size,
which can be easily computed by mul
tiplying the width of the fireplace open
ing by Its height and divide the total by
10, for example: The fireplace opening
2V4 feet high by 4 feet wide and 10 reet
square, tnen dividing by 10, would give
you a square flue 1 foot by 1 foot, or a
round flue 16 Inches in diameter.
While it la true that with a tall chim
ney and no deflecting currents of air
from adjoining roofs, that a flue 8
HIGHLAND SCHOOLCHILDREN
GROW SOME FINE POTATOES
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inches would do under some conditions,
still there are many times when it would
not be sufficient The fact that certain
fireplaces have small flues and work j
satisfactorily should ont be accepted as
a general rule. It simply Indicates that
conditions surrounding their construc
tion are ideal in every respect which Is
an Infrequent circumstance.
The throat should be made the full
width of the fireplace opening and grad
ually reduce toward the top until it la
of the same size and shape of the flue. 1
A flue should never go up directly from
one side, since under some conditions it
would then surely smoke from the other
side. To deflect heat Into the room the
back should slant toward the front
starting at about one foot from the
floor. Simple, isn't it? Still about two
fireplaces out of three smoke because
these simple rules have not been fol
lowed. The fireplace Is obviously a good ven
tilator, provided that the damper la left
open. There are dampers made with a
cast Iron frme that makes a perfect
throat, making It impossible for the
mason to err on this point and easily
controlled at any time, regardless of
how hot the fire is. This damper can
bo adjusted to reduce the draught when
the fire is burning, which obviously in
creases the amount of heat that comes
Into the room, for the volume of smoke
Is ten times greater when the fire Is
first kindled than it is later, when much
of the fuel has become glowing coals;
and since most of the heat escapes with
the smoke, then it is time to reduce the
draught a little. j
. &oom Zs Ventilated.
When the damper is left open and the
fireplace is not in use It makes a splen
did ventilator. It takes heavy air, made
foul by the breathing process, away
from the room, and has a tendency to
diaw the heated air down from the cell
ing. Still it necessarily exhausts some
heat. On the other hand, it increases
the efficiency of the heating plant by
circulating the air.
Still nothing has been said of the
pleasurn of sitting around a burning
fire, with the lights turned out, telling
storlos of the olden days and roasting
green corn and marshmellows. "With
the apples sputtering In a row." It
seems easy to bp confidential around an ,
open fireplace.
There Is something about the glow of '
the dying embers that brings out the
h-art of a man, and especially a woman.
Fireplaces for this reason assume a sort
of -personality, some time to the extent
that they aie given names. One known
to the writer Is called "Old Romeo," an
other "Bill Taff suggested by the
hugeness of Its size, and another "Old (
Stone Sides."
Samples of school garden products.
Planted somewhat later than many
Other school gardens, the vegetable
from Highland school did not figure as
- prominently as a large number of
youthful garden contestants had hoped,
laat season. The planting was delayed
and ths soil was new. Now the children
believe that the best results are not al
ways from ths quickest growth.
They want to dig their potatoes, last
week and found a surprisingly large
production. One hill. It was found, had
' produoed. tea' potatoes, three of which
weighed a pound or over. The largest
was eight Inches long and substantially
thick; two others were a little mora
than eight inches long. There wasn't
an Imperfect potato in the hill, whlrh
would furnish several meals to the ordi
nary family. ,
Musical Studies
100 Czeruy studies, 10c.
100 Plaldy studies, 16c.
(0 atudUs, all kinds, 6c,
Bale on now. Graves Music Co., Re
moval, ill Fourth street. (Adv.)
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Since the purchase a corps of engineers has been engaged in replatting the
manufacturing and warehouse property located along the O.-W. R. & N.
right of way for grading to track level
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway has purchased right of way
along the south side of the present railroad and are now grading and lay
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