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THE OREGON DAlLV JOURNAL; PORTLAND, t FRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER 28, 1913.:
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orougly than ths mbat gifted orator.
They teach the every day things of life.,
show howv different people live, teach
history, ; geography; in fact, are icon
veyors of general knowledge, -Wnst is
learned through ths rt mmiiv
welfare of the business, 40 local man
agers of mdtldn picture-theatres formed
ths "Motion Picture Exhibitors' League
of Portland" last month and . elected
Meivitt O. Wlnstock- as president. Ths
local organisation, according to Its pres
ident Is simply a nucleus for a national
orgaTilratloov whteh- th roeal eiv wih -to
organise to ths end that the, "movies"
may hsve ths representation and achieve '
a proper place In the national business
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SOME STRIKING FEATURES OF PORTLAND'S MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE YEAR
JjARGERJPLACE INJHE j
forgotten . . than ? knowledge f a-ained
throughtltsrears-and- for-this r easou
the, movies ars exerting a great Influ
enos on our national life and ars doing
a tremendous amount of good." -' '
With a view of furthering ths general
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Seventy-five; Licensed ' Motion
Picture Houses In Portland
Cater to Thousands. '
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FIGURES
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Review "of . Year's Achieve-
t ' ments fs "Pleasant Story 0
i- Progress and Prosperity,!
INETEEN; THIRTEEN has been
bUt year for Portland. 1
V Not only bag it brought material
development, but aoclal proareaa a well.
Atnple eVidende of the former Is seen In
the records for building permits, bank
clearings, postofflce receipts and ship
ments of lumber, wheat and flour. For
the first 11 months of the year mors
than I1I.oqo.009 worth of bulMlnr was
- done. This Includes $4,000,000 worth of
residenos construction, $4,000,000 worth
of business, office construction and
14.000,000 worth of apartment houses,
liotelg, public bulldlnis, factories, warehouses,-
mills, ete. , Only one other city
in me united states under 500,000 popu
latlon enjoys such a record.
The posui receipts for the first 11
. u months of the year exceed 11,000,000
new-record; bank clearings for ths
same period total tS74,878,(lS, while
. -goods to the value of $11,819,694 were
exported to lands beyond the sea. These
Indications of pronounced business
activity promts muoh for the new
I.- year..'
!! ine.net returns rrom the season's
I crops, harvested In the great Inland -eni.
i plrs for . which Portland is the dls
t't trlbutlnr' point, have in most cases ex-
rt ceeded those of last year. Oregon's
JT- grain crops produced $43,488,000; dairy
h t products yielded Jfl.44O.0OO more; vege-
ti ; tables added $11,130,000 to the state's
wealth; the fruit , crop was worth
$9,070,230; while the returas from llve-
.siock, lumner ana otner products rsn
well Into the millions. Thes rim p..
se of greatest importance in showing
now me agricultural development of the
state coordinates the business activities
: or tns city.
iHor hs commercial needs of tomor
row, are being anticipated is shown In
ths comprehensive plan for the develop-
. mem m ine ommma river; the. comple
tion of ths south Jetty and the work on
the Celllo canal; and the construction
or me nrst unit of an Interurban elec
trie system of such vital significance to
, Portland and the entire Willamette
, vaney. ; ,
v iAt th same time an advancement has
been mads along civic and social lines
of perhaps greater Importance than the
material ; progress. The commission
form of government has been given a
'.six months' trial and Is proving a suc
cess; active work has been begun on the
establishment of a system of public
docks; the good roads movement in all
parts of the. state has been furthered by
.ctual , construction work In accordance
witn ft program that Is of more than
4tat wld scope; an Interstate bridge
across ths Columbia river has been
authorised; ;a state industrial welfare
commission hss biased the way for
slater commonwealths to follow in es
tablish a minimum wage and pre
scribing maximum working hours for
women employed In factories, offices,
mercantile establishments,- etc.; expert
surveys of the city, county and school
administrations have shown how these
affairs can b conducted more efficient
ly! a renewed Impetus 'has been given
jmbllo playground and school garden j
activities; the Ross Festival - associa
tion has been reorganissd on a broader
basis to provide a mors comprehensive
annual clvlo pageant In future such
ar soma of the more Important achieve
ments that a wide awaks citizenship has
accomplished during 11 In ths Interest
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t Vebruary 14; 1859, at which time the
PORTLAND'S BILL FOR DOWNTOWN OFRCE
BUILDINGS IN 1913 IS NEARLY $4,000,000
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Business, Section Transformed During Twelvemonth by the
Construction of 1 1 Office Structures Built to Supply
Increasing Demand of Business, ' v
BUILDING PERMITS FOR 1913
Here are the official figures on building In Portland for the first
11 months of 1818: .
Month. Number.
January 800
February 536
March 616
April 703
May 604
June ... 4. , 472
July B15 .
August 626
September. ti,,..N667
October 631
November 484
Valuation.
91,168,870
724,090
902,740
2,03T,335
880,075
1,001,415
000,890
1,236,110.
1,670,045
784,220
602,080
Total . ,
6244 $12,060,070
PORTLAND'S BUILDING RECORD. v
. Portland's expenditure for new buildings in the past decade ap
proximates one third of tlie cost of the Panama canal.
Portland has Invested more than $83,000,000 In new buildings In
the past five years.
There was one building permit issued every 20 minutes during
every working day of 1013.
There were six residences built every 'working day of the present
year. .
Three quarters of a million dollars were Invested In apartment
houses In 1013.
Eleven office buildings were completed or begun during the year,
representing an approximate Investment of $4,000,000.
Of all the cities of the United States under 500,000 population,
Portland stands second in the amount of building done in 1018.
ppullia was 9,09.
O MEET ths ever growing demands
of exDandlns business, 1913 has
seen 11 large office buildings com
pietea or pegun in tne downtown sec
tion of the west side. These struatures
range In height to IS stories and repre
sent investments in construction that
run aa high as $1,000,000 each.
When all are oompleted. the sky line
or tne city wm te materially changed,
the heart of the business district will
hsve moved another step westward.
direction It has been trending strongly
ror tne last rour years, and approxl
mately $4,000,000, the amount of money
being spent on ths buildings, will have
been added to ths permanent Investment
values of the city. In addition several
hundred thouaands of dollars will bs
expended In equipment and furnishings
ror tnem.
The chief building 'activities as far
as office buildings are concerned have
centered this year on Washington be
tween Broadway and Tenth street.
On Washington and Broadway has
risen the Morgan building, eight stories
height and occupying an entire halt
block. Exclusive of furnishings It cost
to build $5(0,000. This building wss
erected In record time. Work of demol
ishing the frame structures which for
merly occupied the site was begun" Jan
uary $1; tenants were ready for business
In the new building October L Just
beyond the Morgan building, on Wash
ington and Hark, stands ths six story
Piatt building, a $100,000 structure,
which was only completed this fall. On
the square bounded -by West Park and
Tenth streets scores of men are working
daily, erecting ths $900,000 Pittock
block, , an eight story building which.
when completed, will occupy ths entire
quere and In addition to housing sev
eral hundred offices and a doien stores
will be ths home of the Northwestern
Electric company's central heating plant
system, and 1U auxiliary steam electric
lighting plant. This building Is par
ticularly marked tor the depth of It
basements, which extend far beneath
the surface of ths strJets to give plenty
L room 'op W boners and ma
chinery that will be Installed later
tsvsas Building Well trader Way.
The Piatt building, on Washington
street, adjoinlg ths Stsvens building,
which mounts skyward 13 atotiea and
will cost $880.000. is well under way. ,lt
Is the tallest building on upper Wash
ington street and will be given over to
offices. It will be practically a replica
of the Wilcox building.
Down Park to Oak, another skyscraper
Is nearing completion. It will bs the
home of the Pacific Telephone St Tele
graph company, and completed will rep'
rssent an expenditure of $ Sou, 000.
In point of height, the Northwestern
National Bank building on ' Morrison
street is the tallest building erected In
Portland this year. Fifteen stories In
height, occupying the full frontage of
tne block between Sixth and Broadway,
It Is one of the most magnificent ever
constructed in this city and is costing
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Another big building, which has added
to the attractiveness of Broadway, is
tne 10 story Broadway buildings stand
ing at the corner of the thorourhfnre
after which it was named and Morrison
street It was completed early in the
summer and cost $150,000. Among the
smaller office buildings constructed dur
ing ths year is a two story concrete
building on Oak and Park streets oppo
site the new Pacific Telephone building.
This structure, which cost $37,000, Is
owned - by the Trimble estate and la
leased to the Balfour, Outhrle company
for offices.
In ths lower downtown section below
Fifth street there has been considerable
building activity also.
Buildings Below Fif th Street.
Not including tens of thousands of
dollars that have gona into slterattons
and repairs of older buildings, three
new office buildings have been erected
during the year. They are the Title A
Trust company's building, on Fourth
street near Stark; the Panama building,
at Third and Alder, and the Stock Ex
change, at Third and Yamhill.
vThe Title & Trust company's building
viB"t viuuw in iieiBui and cull txuu,-
000. The Panama building represents an
expenditure of $100,000. It is a seven
story structure. The Stock Exchange
cost $75,000 and is six stories high. Re
cently announcement was made of a new
theatre to occupy the old library site
at Broadway and Stark street
As ths year closes other plans for
further big building operations are
under consideration.
All In all, Portland's demand for
office room has been met, and well met,
by construction of buildings fitted for
the classes of tensnts sought At the
same time, the value of downtown prop.
ertlea has been enhanced considerably
through the construction of modern and
substantial buildings, designed to fill
the needs of a discriminating public
and aid In the upbuilding of a great city.
And He Drove On.
From Judge.
"Say," calls the bright youth to the
honest agriculturist who Is working In
his garden, "why don't you set a hen on
your egg punts T"
"Ma set one on 'em Isst year, an
swers the agriculturist, barely looking
up. '
"Did She hatch anything?"
"Yep. Hatohod out that bed of cocks
combs uy the fence."
FIVE years ago any man with a reel
of film, a plug hat and not mors
than $18.66 could pass for a motion
picture magnate In Portland,:''
, Today there are real magnates In the
field. They do not wear, ths time hon
orsd "stove pipe" sky pieces. There Is
no need to because the business has
passed the stage. whergmoks and lots
of It compromised the chief stock In
trade. Now there is $600,000 invested In
ths local motion business, and $1,500,000
is represented in the. film productions,
properties, etc., of the film exchanges of
ths city, which are the nrlneln&l atinnlv
depots of the entire Pacific . northwest
Gone are the old. uneomfortabl.
stuffy, HI ventilated "moving picture
theatres." They have been replaced by
architectural piles which cost anywhere
irom su,ooo to $100,000 and upward
whsn ths last bit of equipment Is consid
ered. In short, the "movies" hsve come
to be a great factor In the life of the
community, not only from ths stand
point or amusement but from the fi
nancial viewpoint as well..
An Idea of their popularity may bs
gained from the statement that an aver,
age of 176.000 Portland people each
week Visit the "movies." Thousands of
dollars In nickels snd dimes ara spent
each year for this class of entertain
ment
At the present time there ere 75
licensed motion picture houses in Port
land. Half a dozen of them represent
Investments ranging from $25,000 to
$125,000 each. Othera occupy rented
quarters and the overwhelming majority
are fitted up and conducted on ths same
nigh plane demanded In houses for
legitimate" drama.
Portland Is known In the moving clo
ture world as a "town of highest
standard." The local censorship board
has done much to event a this utatna
The board does not have any legal power
to prohibit the exhibition of any picture
which It does not approve. However,
members of the board and the moving
picture managers have worked In har
mony and few indeed are the cases
where a film has' Deen ' run publicly
after the board had passed upon It
unfavorably.' . .
The present tendency of moving pic
ture men Is to make their exhibitions
such that they will be not only enter
taining but educational as well.
Edaoatloaal restores of Movies.
In this regard, one of the leading men
In the business said:
"Motion pictures do more toward edu
cating the people as a whole than any
other single agency. The pictures on
the screen convey sermons and lessons
of real life far more forcibly and vlg-
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