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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, " OliTLAlID, SUNDAY MORNING; OC. 1 Oil wnvrr iiiiu tp :;otei; FOiiiiPlEf, SAYS REALTY BOARD Commissioners Asked to Pro vide Place So Farmers May Be Independent. Local fealty men art much concerned ever the action- of the city commissloa era In appropriating only $11,004 for publlo market 1 This sum Is character , laad by leading men of the realty pro fesaion.as pitifully amaU for a project o mucn neeaea in foruana ana wua such wide pablla concern. ' j At the meeting of tha Realty Board last Friday at tha Commercial club, , the public market queatlon and the pro posed f 11.000 appropriation cam up un der a resolution Introduced by the Pub lic Market committee, memorialising the commission to rescind its action and make an adequate appropriation for . large publlo market building-, la presenting their resolution. Chair man Atchison of tha Publlo v Market committee, called attention to the fact that there la now no Mace where the farmers of tne territory adjacent to "'Portland can bring their produce. and imeet. the retailers and consumers and thereby get a fair price for their pro duct. He said as the situation is now the fanners are forced to take any price the wholesalers and commission .merchants see fit to pay and that In . : many Instances;' the producer - barely tsets enough' for his produce to cover jtfte' eost cr cringing 4t, to town. , . Good Tegetables Xrtolaerated, 1 C C. Craig- reminded the' beard that It was common knowledge last summer jtnat thousands of dollars worth of per fectly good farm produce was aent to tne incinerator by the wholesalers la ' order to reduce the supply and hold up - ;the price to tha consumer. :; :..'.. K Charges were made by other members of the board that there was some out side Influence at work against the pub lie market and that, unless the people Were aroused to the Importance of the Situation, that this city Is likely to drag along another year with no adequate ...publlo market facilities. cr.-v.r.-., , The following is a oopy of the reso lution passed by Abe board memorlalls , rng the commissioners to make an ade Quata appropriation for a publlo mark et ouuoing. t $13,000 Mot Asea.iu.ta, . '. To the Honorable Mayor H. B. Albee and the commissioners of the city of Portland, Or. , v. a 1 :. v.7, 1 Gentlemen: Whereas your honorable fcody la about to pass the city budget for tha ensuing year,-. In which Is In' eluded $11,000 for a publlo market, and - Whereas, a commodious publlo market wm hare to be built to. the near future t to relieve present market conditions and :we feel that the 111,000 will not ade quately .handle the proposition, and ' Whereas, the Portland Realty Board feejs that the farmers adjacent to this city should have soma central place to market their produce direct to the "re tailer and consumer and not ba forced to take any old price arbitrarily estab lished '"by tha wholesaler or leave the crop hnharvested aa, hundreds of tha valley farmers did last year, and wnereas, we reel that the publlo market will' do more than anything else to give the producer a better price for his products and the purchaser a lower price on ail farm produce, and ' ; Whereas, tha city of Portland has a market block which la available for such purpose, therefore . Be It resolved. Chat the " Portland Realty Board, In regular meeting as sembled on Friday, October 10, 1911; does hereby petition your honorable bodv , to reconsider the item of Jll.tOO for . puDiio market and make an approprla una urge enougn to nulla, if not a per tnataent, at least a temporary market OB the market block, krn- uianrh ia accommodate all farmers and gardeners iwba can conveniently be assembled la I that place. -,w, ' v ",v... ' COQflTTEB ON PUBLIC MARKET 8. gj::cagoans purchase a cods bay tract PERTINENT HlNTS;TOHOMEBUlLDERSil : . i ' , ON TRICKS .OF SCHEMING BUI LDERS RQ f - I , rrr rr ... ... SSlALL READY SALES :1 GOOD SIGN " YtT r1 TIT TOT -r: 'i I I 11 It .. ? I ' u Fr-m ; ; "-bw .-..'.,.' ..awT i r-i if in i i sr a Market So far as Bjg- Trans- " actions, Are Concerned Af- , fected by Stringency, 7 ' "That -the local- realty market. peclally lnvrstment propositions, la ar. lously affected by the general financial I stringency Is admitted bv the leadinB- operators in jrortiana. Eioept In the residence construction line, building op era t Ions are limited to property owners with sufficient cash to carry on their operations or to tnose wno . made their I financial arrangements long before the present stringency set In. . .'.v ''". '.-fr .. f If It were not for the unusual amount I of residence oonstruotlon under way and ime consequent ouying or home sites, the market for Portland reait wnuM I be at a low abb. This condition, bow ever, saved tha day, and holds un the general average of realty salaa and I building construction. K , , Savings banks and Individual lenders continue to suj-piy tn a large measure the cemnnd ior money for residence construction, purposes. The daily needs for the considerable building progress In, the suburban residence dlstrlots Is met largely by individual capitalists or br brounrs operating through, the large savings biuilis, t' .. . - It Is the opinion nf thnncrhtful realty brokers that. the market so far as un improved resilience property Is r Con cerned will continue fairly ' active throughout the fall and winter Several of the most prominent sub-dlvlsioa op erators report their weekly . sales as being within a fraction of tha totals of last year. , ...... 4. Something has hannened in the last week that Imparted a natter tone to the trading than baa prevailed for the past $0 day a 5 Not that there were any tran sactions of very great magnitude, save the sale of -the-Blake-McFall building and-the purchase by a firm of sub-dl vision operators of a blook of east Side acreage, but there was a volume of small business of a widespread nature and it served to restore confidence In the ranks of a large number of dealers who were ' becoming restless. . This slightly - better market condition may not bejnore than a mere passing epi sode,' but brokers generally believe that It Indicates a return to some extent of tbo old time confidence manifested hy buyers of realty., Wnlte) Elavtr .C. " i r 1 Davenport, Iowa, Oct, 11 . te Corompa, who says he it ; . trlan count, was sentenced to 1 j j Imprisonment for white sin-. r.-r. v Ned be but $10 cash and $9 won See Graves Music Co. removal sule page 12.seotlon 8, .. ', (AS The strike of the granite cuttsrs of Greater New York, which began on May 1, -has ended, the strikers returning t jrnrb? with . vin lnirMH ftf KA iunf. a day. f " '. Mow is the Tlmo To Install ITew and Kodera Lighting Jxtures i The home Will be more eheer ;ful thls Wlnter If you have the 'proper lighting fixtures and plenty of Uahtl - - . Our "lighting- specialists - will be pleased to offer suggestions, make plans and give estimate on fitting out the new home or re modeling tures. the .old r lighting, fl- AimntOHsi, "gtatb, ; M.J.WalshCd. TBverythlng Sleotrioal XiiataUadV. x:ogocr A : - 4.e" :.m 4Awfwr Exterior and interior arrangement of Ideal residence. A syndicate , of : Chicago Investors headed ; by. Joseph Krela, a oonstruo tlon engineer, has closed a deal for tha purchase of the properties of the Coos Bay : Townstte company, located across the-bay from Marshfleld and consisting of about 100 acres of plat ted land. - Involved In tha deal . was -...-, - By Arthur C Clausen. . In a previous . article . tha writer briefly mentioned some of tha most frequently met defecta la building con struction. , in this article attention will ba called to several more tricks of the trade commonly used by builders as a means of Increasing their profits. A little trick occasionally met with tn the Installing of eleotrlo work is to omit some of the lights add switches, which fact la usually overlooked by the homo builder, la the confusion of wires, pipes, and scaffolding during the first stages of construction, and is seldom nouoea until after the : mastering Is dona and tha- Ught fixtures are to be DOUgnt, (-:'"; v;tf ;)..o-n;.vt The builder then Informs him it is too lata to put them In as shown upon the drawings without tearing up a great deal of plaster wbidt would leave a per maneat mar upon, the wall, because plaster can seldom be patched without showings especially If the walls are of sand float finish. And In allowing the owners a rebate he allows him but very small part of the actual saving by the omission. f&. .?..!.;";," v..f"' While this might mean a saving to tha builder of only $10 or tit, this amount added to other similar amounts soon makes f 100, and In this way he gets ais prom ana mates up for the fact that his bid was very much lower than other contractors who, figured on aomg nonest ' work. . t .- Putting la plumbing fixtures of ouel lty Inferior to thowe a peel fled Is a very common trlok. When this Is done tha contractor will nsually remove Jabels on- the fixtures either, before or after delivery, and than claim they are the goods speouieo. .Tha only way, when the architect Is not superintending to detect tne airrerenoa, is to call a dlsln tares ted party, preferably some work. man In tha plumbing trade, or what Is still better. Insist on all fixtures being a eonsldtratlon of approximately fXSOV Tha purchasing company nas adopted a novel plan for encouraging the set tlement and. building up of its prop erties. A considerable portion of tha moneys reoelved from the sale of Iota will be set aside and offered as boa uses for tha establishment of manu factoring concerns on its water front. Negotiatlona are under way looking to establishing a stove rectory, piano fac tory, broom, factory and other Plants. William I Graham A Company are us local representatives or tne newly organises . corporation. . v.-i -' ? kM r Affidavits From Satisfied Buyers 1 j ; ' V. ' j c " The Suburli , Superb Fct$ tr aiordcondaslva thn theories. Statements of those In t position to KNOW, tno coaclusire than PROMISES of enthu. n siastic realty itleimenl. -j;.;?;. --rt f , ; pgrkross horao-ownert thou Who' have nved RIGHT In the property those who have eon through the experience of ' building 1 a home nd fardealnfattesi IM" wTUTINQ to the" economy and wisdom of living tXUatOSEt; The men whose si rnatnres attach ' to th Mr tatamma h wwl. ' DWCEO; WV1NO KXPJSWIsa PARKROsa " araiveleadS 1 -. S2f i LlM " talk it -rer-.lt costs -wuiuig, jab uivura evusoiuteiy no ODUgauoa. '- , , HAirnirN QlAllinZIl; Op ;CO FIERCE BUILDING ''Mk delivered to the Job with, the proper labels on, and" refuse -fo accept any without them." "V' "" " Bath tubs ost from fit to fits, a ISO tub being used In moderate Priced homes. The. lowest priced tub-has no matters guarantee on 'the enamel, when the contractor can save S10 or more on each plumbing fixture by tha simple process of soaking off tha labels he receives a gooa return for tha small ef fort, and probably consolea himself with some such mental statement as "this fellow Is i getting a whola lot mora In his house, for the price, than ha ought to have, . anyway." and no doubt really feels Justified many times In getting his profit by suca Unfair ' ' Seating nana Also, . ;. . -Reducing the radiation of the heat. lng plant , la , also a great temptation with some contractors. . Tha - writer knows one contractor who makes a reg ular practice of Informing the pros pective noma builder that In his opinion the architect has not specified anough raaiauon ana that he bad his beating man figure on a greater amount When Mr. Homebullder thinks that ha is get ting more than Is called for at a lower price than anybody also has figured on in the first place, he naturally feels In clined toward this man, ..)-.i :.r.;,...:;M.v,--This little trick, however, is merely a blind to mislead tha homebullder, and when It comes to really putting in the heating plant he Invariably puts In less than the amountasneoifled. : thia bains really what he figured on la tha first place. On one occasion at least this lit tle game did not work, and tha heating man bad to put la aa entire new plant The way to check up the amount of ra diation la to send either to your archi tect or to a reliable heating conoern the exact height the number of tha colls In , each radiator, and the catalogue number on the boiler, together with the also of the pipes used, and have It de termlned whether or not the radiation is up 10 ma amount specified. . rata mould Bo TnoncaeoV t When It Comes to salntlnar tnatapUla shingle stains, varnish, etc.,' the only way to be sure that the right Quality is being useu Is to insist tha.r tv. M. v delivered to the job unopened and care- ruiiy waton tne workmen to see that 9 they do not adulterate them with turpentine.- -, ' ,.. , . . - flhellae Is frequently substituted for varnish, nut this can be detected by a strong acid odor in the house soon after it has been applied. One shellac coat on woodwork-does not harm tt and Is a good wood preserver, but no more tpan thin should ba used, and at no time should ahellao be used on any floors for any purpose, because It Is too brit tle. ' A vary common trlok: of tha trade Is for a contractor to put doors and win dows in wrong in various places, where be thinks he can claim they are In the right location, according to tha draw lnga Sometlmea a matter of a few Inches difference in tha location of aa opening will reuulra tha omission of a built-in buffet bookcase, cupboard, aide board or cause tha opening not to Una up with some, opening above it in the second atory. - - About the Hm the lonv!a Maatamrf the contractor will call tha owner's at tention to these ' things and persuade him to consent ta a change at an exor bitant prloe. The only way to detect such things when the architect Is not superintending. Is to earefuiiv atnA th. drawings and demand the changes be mane wniie ins building is In tha "rough, 0r if not observed until later or until the 'contractor calls his atten tion to It then refer tha matter to soma uiHuwwN ouuaer to enecje up. " rv: ::: ...:.'-.:::. : : ' - t .. aj" - i v t i I- K ' -.V ' . .. 1 . ' 1 . ..V - - This most nnusnal and attractivo home is now offered for sale. There are many features worthy of note, particularly the tun-room, breakfast-room in - Grcassian ; " Walnut, dlnlng-foom completely paneled In San Domingo Mahogany billiard-room. ft Fourteen rooms, double garage, with cuffettf! quarters abore. r- -S I i r . P '' ' Located at 24th and Hancock, in the heart' of, one of Portland's finest residence ;'. sections. ..f : t ' . ;.m, ' - . ' r t- Open for Inspection vbyv appointment - - " ' - H. P. PALMER-JONES CO. I J f t . A-2853 V ' N 404-0 Wilcox Bldg. .7 Main 8699 'J ; , . , i . i . - v v t ' " . . r j- " "17 Mtta-aaaaaaaaaaiaaaaasaf.aaaaaaaata-aaaas-aaa , N 1 BUILDERS' AND FINISHERS' wv-1 .V ; DIRECTORY:: f t ; SEJI1 fi?0.""- t0 Mala Tea. I ""vnsii yrminsli luKMTU&H npalndrrepeltabea, Si.huUUr: lat elaaa wort, Cll foTwlj. jut? "SSg I OIA8S AVD OLAZIKO XIMlils. CUKtlli CO., lM-lM 2d at, rrMBDt errlce. Ring Miln or A-SOJS. xxsunAnca H'OABOaa, Bates Unlr, SOI Xaaa kM. -ary torn f Inroranr. eoaea, J0 WOBKI 'T. "rACiirin i rui WfioS ,-'-t!-''i .V.: .11 , 1 . ... . 1 ., muwGiwi Area ' 'Ur4::i';f Hoi ,At Thlrty-third.'Street and4Wasco ; fl Tr5i US'IRS t '" ' CaeUaga, Channels. Angles, LAMMOttm aasKsrurs) Laadecaiie UatvjaUiK eauiwv. t ,V See rtth"(fioiis.foHae's-t6i - - rauiaio KQtHeHIld old. Pbope Manball saos. OBWAKEMTAI, WI AHD IROS gOBTilMD WJBB AND IKON WOJUUl M Sd Blltt1MAIl.tU..ik.ul.. cleaning, bmiooi prliwa, Mac, iUea: aUyIi 1 1 - - . 1 - A. Oatwura, eae M, WUOO ' work SUr Cwtto. Wblnrtoo. B-214T. tOH. twat work, prima .riant, call V 1 ma V Warblnatoa. S-IIwuimI 110S. Dr ruooi. Folnlln mnA I y-tpornn, yrirw in proportion, s-mia, JournL PfllfT, OIL AVD OLASS BA8MUBBEN A CO.. rAer M and Tykr, Ulf h tandarO" etlat. N. B. coi tlONKKi tAJUil CO," U 1st' su Uala iaiT iTAJ?K.&VI3Ca xntOiaaALS.eiTMI. Cijwoj tfrATU TUB B, stake, laVatnriM. . . launflr. UTK 'Pipe, - pipe nt-l una eooura . lobbUig. rbeae iw, ... eootraenna, 1 -ala BATHS. tulUU. baaloa. aoDaeUng, JobMos. K. Corj .Suilers, pipe. CMMrel W ut at, hxxx uxxas. woman StSakaSsassSjaaN JACOB L08U, fhaet metal arorka, kotoL tta. Moroni wars rooting, general Jooftiuf. aula F eta, im. 110 flrat, b-t. OnlonilHa aa4 .WIXSOW CIJUBXBB EXPERT window eleaaarsi enploTlRa anl Rl. Take Rose City "Park" t:ar to 33d street,? . both houses are' but a tone's throw io the north. . ' Based oh cornparisorr-? with other houses being:' offered," these are-worthmorfi------ ' much more than, the price asked for immediate 4 sale 4500 terms $500 cash, balance $50 per ' month, including interest,; if you desire less than rent, and you'll be In your own home. " Materials arid , workrhanship ' guaran- teed.on a time basis backed by the moral and : financial responsibility of our officers. ; 4 " ' X i In Portland's' beautiful j Laurelhurst y " Two of - m V. , . .' : ; ; -Jhe Oregon Home Ruilders homes ready for immiciiate occupancy K . You may have one fpr-less than you . can buy the lot and.build for to say nothing of -the-annoyances of building with the attendant -risks pf "extras" and Aliens." ; l ;t i . - - ' . ; k "y -' tw,i.r r' y ",-' X The individuality and beauty of these' . '4wo, exteriors are indicative only, to the slightest. ' degree of the charm and the convenience of the -.? interior arrangements expressing' the artistic ; -i sense of the designer and most worthily executed ; vy inu&icr nicuidiii . " . aL ' t 1 ,On Multnomah Street at Thirty-third.. The Qrcfton Home Builder 140S Yeon CuSJuif, flTA and AlJer Street., Portland OLIVER K. JEFFERY, Pre, a B. HURTT, Maniger. ic .. . t Si -(iww aaia-(. ( ' ' 1- .I