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4 fr SECTION THREE BUSINESS NEWS ; - PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1922. -. - :. . r-- . . 1 H ; " ' : : : ' " I NEW APARTMENT HOTEL, PLANNED TO COST 350,000, LEADS CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM OF WEEK v RESIDENCE construction continues to Hold first place in the construction activities of the city, with an increasing tendency toward major improvements on business property. No. 1 New parish school building to be dedicated today at Maryland avenue and Blandena street. The school opened for Jhe first time last week with an enrollment of 1 15 pupils. Noj 2 Residence just completed for Henry T. Zilka at the corner of East 3 1st street and Crystal Springs boulevard in Eastmoreland. No. 3 New, home a No. 1200 East Pine street, purchased last week by Helen Louise Casey from L. L. Barrett for $8200. The transaction was handled by Rummell & Rummell. No. 4 Hospital under construction at North Bend at an esti mated tost of $60,000. No. 5-Residence nearing completion at East 3 1st street and Crystal Springs boulevard in Eastmorerand for Elmer Young. No. 6 Apartment hotel planned for the Regent Investment company by Carl Linde, to occupy toe quarter block at the southwest corner of 1 3th and Salmon streets. Construction cost is estimated at $350,000. ' . " T 1 M--.-a;;,.?-ww. - . - - r"""""rnm"M,"M1" l?M"Jgl' ' fln 111 1 i'O ( 1 1I I ' : - f I? 4js . i - i ' 1 r . . REALTY BOARD TO TOUR STATE FOR 1925 EXPOSITION Members of Board United in Efforts to Make the Proposed World's Fair a Success. If the 192o world's exposition at PorUiuul proves as successful an un dertaking as its promoters hope and anticipate, much of the credit must be portioned to the Portland Realty board, according to Harry G. Beck with. president of that organization. The members of, the board are practi cally a unit in their support of the fair. Beokwifh stated, and mor than 50 already have pledged themselves to accompany Mayor George L. Bakar and j and .his party, on a tour of the state! in the interest Of the Sposition, start ing from Portland September 1S ' Preliminary to the organisation of the trip. Mayor Bakr and his cohorts visiting a meeting of the Realty board at the Multnoniah hotel Friday noon and entertained the realtors with a purported duplication of- the entry : of the recent 1925, auto caravan into j the city of Redmond- The principal; peakers were Mayor . Baker. William : P. Merry. -L. .A. Jones' and George I a. Rauch, president of the Portland ; Ad club. j A. R- Ritter. president of the North west Real Kstate association, voiced the indorsement of that organization 1 for the 1925 fair and announced that I plans were being outlined for active! participation in promotion of the event' by the realtors of the five Pacific .Northwest states and Canadian prov-1 tnces. I Association Plans Building Program M!waukie. Sept. 9. If the plan be ing considered by the Milwaukee Real Kstate & Development association ma terialize, work will be started .itnin 30 days on several new homen in Mi'. waukte. The viewing committee is in specting several prospective building , itea in 'the cily and a decision will be reached soon. This announcement was made at the Wednesday night meeting of the association in the high- school building. Attention 6f the organisation was called to the many acts of petty thievery and robberies that are tak ing laee from homes in the district. ands the association will consider plan-s to help overcome the evil. if. A. Leh man, president, presided. KW Mil L CUTS (. TEET . " Spokane. Wash.. Sept. 9. A modern single band savn5ij wjth daily :a jaicity of 60."i0 feet is to be buiit at once by the Sar.dpoint Lumber &. Pole company at Troy. Mont., as part of a SJO0;W0 timber development under taken, some months ago. H. C Culver of Spokane! president of the company, announced the plan yesterday. A lath mill is also to be installed. LOO STORAGE DAS -1-tee,. Sept. 9.-The Oregon Lumber , company has commenced excavating i 'or a storage cam for logs and will avoid danger of Iqjuj of logs as was experienced last November when the noa took cut logs, railroad trestle, fKit bridge,., dam and power site.' FTGENE PROPERTY SOLO Eugene. Sept. 9. Purchase of the quarter block at Tenth and Oak streets for JIS.SOO by C. Frank, cap italist and retired merchant, has been announced. He bought the property, fwhieh jis a stone's throw from the heart "of the: new business district, -as an In vesttne n U - It belonged to the: heir of h iusaa Lon.y Power Project on ! Klamath River to Be Completed Soon Klamath Falls, Sept. P. Kxeellent progress is being' made in construction of a new unit for the California Ore gon Power company dam on the Klam ath river at Copco. near here, and it expected the wofK will be 'completed! i Bayle, division njanag-er for the com ; pany. In addition to the new unyt, 20 j feet is being- added to the top of the j dam, increasing the height to 132 feet : above the original river bed, and the I iover house is tteirg extended. The new unit will rivr. a total water wheel i capacity or 25,000 kilowatts, against the present 12,500 kiiowatt production. It- is estimated the total construction cost will be $500,000. To raise the dam's height 20 feet, 11.000 cubic yards of concrete will have been, poured when the job is com pleted, using 66.000 sacke of cement. A. large part of the cement is an Ore gon product, from the Beaver Cement company's plant at Gold Hill. One hundred and fifty uais of steil goes to reinrorce tne concrete. A quarter t f t million feet of lumber ..ill T .....1 most of it in making forms for the eot;- crete work. To et the material on the Job the power company operates : its orn railroad train the Southern Pa- j cific tnain line at Thrall to the dam. ! a distance of 14 miles. Since the work i started the first of this year, a working force ranginR from 175 to 200 has been employed with a $25,000 monthly payroll. BY" AQXHJJfL BRISBANE MEN from SO to 80, do you want to live longer, more usefulij', with better health, greater comfort, and render a public service at the same time? If so, organize in your neighborhood a branch of the M. A". M. and T. P. C. That means the "Middle Aged Mowers and Tree Planters' club." The motto of the club is "Usefulness and heallh no nonsense." The necessary regalia for eoniplete membership is one brush hook, one scythe, one pickax, one good shovel. Any costume would do, the plainer theetter overalls, and straw hat pre ferred . here are no dues, the club is 100 pfr cent public service. You need not travel miles and wait ur turn at a golf club. Take your scythe and brush hook, go along the public rnad nearby, or if you live in tnwn. motor out to the nearest agri cultural region. Park your car along the roadside, outside and off of . pri vate property, cut down weeds and use less, worthless brushes. If very public spirited, you ean.buy a few pounds of mixed clover': and timothy, and scatter it over the gTOund where you cut down the weeda.,:The next year you may resume your ac tivity there, and cut down real grass, leaving it for those that need it to gather up and take home. In the fall, when the weeds hare been cut down or gone to seed, start your tree planting career. The agri cultural department nearest to yottr state or the national agricultural de partment will supply free information abolrf piant!ns trees and where to- fcuy tKerr, Plant preferably fruit trees. In the I beginning the public would take the fruit green and break the branches. But if there were, aa there ought to be. a hundred thousand miles of pub lic roads in, the United States lined with fruit trees. , the public would respect the trees and the planters. When you have found how a tree should be planted, and have selected your trees, put a little bunch of them ia your car or on your back and set forth to year planting work. - A bunch of fruit or shade trees carried on- yonr ack ts at least as respectable as a bunch of golf 2abs. Construction Work To Begin Soon on Shriners' Hospital L Construction work on the Portland Shriners' hospital for crippled children is scheduled to start this week, pending approval of plans by Bishop Frederick W. Keator of Tacoma, one of the trus tees of the imperial council of the Shrinp. Other trustees already have parsed favorably on the plans cs pre pared by Sutton & Whitney. The hospital is to be located on J site purchased by the Shriners, facing on Sandy boulevard at Hast s2d street. The institution is one ol a number of hospitals for the treatment of crippled children established in the larger cities of the United States by the Shriners. Children are admitted free of charge and no restrictions are made as to race, color or nationality. TO DEDICATE HOME Sandy, Sept. S. Mr. and Mrs. W. Smith, who have just completed a j modern residence near Lusted hill, will ! dedicate their house next Sunday. The i Cottrell community church has been invited to attend in a body. As basket dinner will be served on the porches. SCHOOL CORNERSTONE Sandy. Sept. :. The Union high j school board has potined the exer- i ci'ses tor the cornerstone laying of the new hih school building, and will I have a big dedicatory program when I the bulldmg is completed. . . . . , i i JHL and not as heavy. After you have planted th trees, take care of them. And now, the answer to the American question : "Where do I come in?" You come in as follows : The best exercise in the world," with one single exception, is mowing. The mower, moving slowly, does not tire the1 heart. Swing back and forth, back bent over, he exercises the abdominal muscles, puts life into the intestinal tract, which gets sluggish and poisons you as you get old. Exercising the muscles that stretch across the front of the body eats away the fat that piles up there, making old age slow, ridiculous, ugly. By mowing you get thirsty. Drink water, with fruit Juice, lemon or some thing e8se mixer1, drink plenty of it. Avoid drinking too much pure water. If you have no fruit juice mix a little oatmeal with ihe water. The drinking" of the water and the perspiring will clean your system, make you a better man. improve your think ing, lersgihen your life. Exercise that is even better than mowing, and ten thousand times bet ter than golf or mere walking, is dig ging holes in the ground. We were put here to cultivate this earth, to dig ia it, beautify it. make it productive. Loosening the ground with a pickaxe, throwing out the dirt with a shovel, strengthens all the muscles and the back bone. ' Nature rewards us with better health, better blood and a bet ter temper; enjoy them, when we work, ia her earth. 3 ' - 'V. - . Golf -is good, but stow, for a man who Wants to feel that he is using his hours on earth usefully. Tou could not persuade an intelli gent ebbmpanxee to. play golf. He would say. "Xo, I know where there is a cocoaauL I'll swing from .limb to limb and get that. I couldn't enjoy walking over the earth hitting a little ball that I can't at when I catch up with it." Some human beings can enjoy that. May" they contirra to enjoy it. But if you want w live to be eld and useful in your old age, good natured. cheerful, organize in your neighborhood and be1 a leader of the- M. A. M. and mi Wilshire Addition Placed on Market At Liberal Terms J. Ia. Hartman company is putting on a special sale for Wilshire addition, lying between East 33d and 42d streets, about two blocks north of Fremont and adjoinnig Alameda Park ! and Olmstead Park. Most of the Wilshire lots are exceptionally large, many of them being 80x100 feet, Terms wijll be as low as $3 i"own and $2 per Week, with no assessments to assume. 1 The addition is near both the Beaumont and the new Alameda Park schools, j aim is within easy walking distance to the new proposed high school . an4 park. i Wilshire addition may be reached by taking the Broadway car to Bryce avenue and going four blocks east. During this sale J. L. Hartman com pany will maintain a branch office at the corner of 33d street and Bryce avenue, or it may be reached by; mo toring out Fremont street to 33d street and going north two blocks. Recently the J, I,. Hartman company put on the unsold portion of Rose Citv Park and Heaurr.ont additions on similar j terms, and report that during the 30 i days that the sale was on they :sold 1 over $66,000 worth of property. " They ! aiso report thi-.t in the last three weeks they have sold $40,000 worth of Park rose acreage. These above sales, are exclusive of a number of houses; and lots that nave been sold by them in tne past lew weeks. New Parish School Opened to Public,1 Dedication Today The n-w Blessed Sacrament parish school baildin? recently completed, at Maryland avenue and Blandena street will be dedicated at 3 p. m. today, with ArchbishoD Christ off iei.iiT.o- The public has been invited to 'attend J me oeaication ceremony aivd i the building will be open for visiitors , throughout the afternoon. The school I opened for the first time last week with an enrollment of 115 pupils: and is in charge of five Sisters of St. Fran cis from Dubuque, Iowa. The building covers 60 by 110 i feet of ground space, the main portion being two-stories in height with two ' one story wings. Walls of the -superstructure are of brick and hollow tile, rest ing on a concrete foundation, and are faced with pressed brick trimmed iwith white cement lintels and wjndow sills. The roof is of slate-colored asbestos. Classrcoms. which are all on the irst floor, are of standard size and stand- ard equipment. The second floor Icon tains living rooms for the sisters i who' teach in the school, together with a music room and chapel. The building was planned by Ernst Kroner. i The parish was established about nine years ago under direction of the Rev. B. V. Kel'y. The membership of the church has doubled during the pe riod and a church edifice and parish house have been erected. The block on which the new school is located was recently purchased. The parish comprises Overlook and Patton Addi tions, together with a portion of Pied mont, i Marshfield Plans ' To Build City Hall Marshfield. Or.. Sept. 9. Stepte to ward bonding the city to build al new city hall are being considered by the members of the city council. Monday night the council will meet wltljt the new budget committee to disc use the matter and come to tome decision as to the amount which should be (spent for a city building. The old citj) ball was destroyed by the fire which swept the north end of the city. Temporary city offices are now maintained at the armory, while the fire apparatus is being kept at one of the garages. A temporary city jail: was built recently-. TIBER OWNERS PROTEST TAXES Grays Harbor County Men Say Assessment Valuations Are Unreasonably High. Montcsatio. Wiish., Sept. 9. Timber owners of Grays Harbor county at tended Monday's session of the county board of equalization and voiced a gen eral protest over increased timber val uations. Speakers estimated the In crease over last year's valuation at from 7 to 20 per cent. G. W. Marshal, representing the Weyerhaeuser Tim ber company, stated the valuation of thi3 company's holdings were de creased $300,000 when the board of equalization made a horizontal 10 per cent cut last year, but that this gain was more thaji lost by this year's In crease. He declared no other county in the state has as high timber valuations as Grays Harbor county. Mark Keed of Plirlto:i. president of the Mason County Logging company, charged that the zone system is being abandoned by the assessor, and that the increases in valuation are without excuse. Mr. Reed submitted figures to the board purporting to show that the Noble cruise of some 12 years ago is being substantiated by the records Of timber cut. This cruise has long been a point of contention between timber owners and the county assessor, who is using a cruise that shows considerably more timber. Alex Poison formally protested the increased valuation of the timber owned by the Poison Log ging company. Many written protests are being filed, practically all with reference to timber values. It was stated that August 26 is the last day protests will be received by the board for consideration. Work-Launched on Keizer Hospital at Site in North Bend Xortb Bend, Sept. 9. Construction has been started on Keiser Bros, hos pital, a two-story structure to cost J60.000. It is being built by Drs. Rus sell Keizer and Phil J. Keizer. physi cians and surgeons of Xorth Bend. The first floor iwi'ibe occupied by the physicians' officwL and six pri vate rooms. On the second floor will be the surgery, sterilization room, diet room, kitchen, wards for men and women patients, five private rooms and consultation offices for visiting surgeons. The basement will be ar ranged for a garage, receiving room for patients, nurses' rooms and the heating plant. An automatic elevator will serve all floors. Fred Magnussen of North Bend is architect for the hospital, which will be under cover within 60 days and ready , for occupancy by January 1, 1923. New Hotel Will Be Erected at Kelso Kelso, Wash.. Sept. 9. H., E. Mc Ken'ney. prominent business and pro fessional man of this city, will imme diately erect a modern two-story hotel building, 50x100, at the corner of Sec ond and Church streets, on a lot pur chased last week, from Mrs. Wena Hansickie of - Portland. The building will be of frame and stucco construc tion and will have 20 large rooms, all of which will have bathrooms. One feature f the building will be a beau tiful lobby with a large fireplace. The furnishings will be elaborate and the hotel will be one of the finest in the "Northwest- C. K. Smith baa the con tract for the new building. - c. . . Concrete Building To House Service Departments .Plan Proposed erection of a concrete building on the half block on the north side of Pacific street between East First and Second streets to house the motor truck sales and service depart ments of the Roberts Motor Car com pany was announced last week by O. W. Robertts, president, and H. W. Rob erts, secretary ot the company. Plans for the building are being prepared by Houghtalir.g & TJougan and it was stated that construction work would be completed early in January. "Two compartments, each 60 by 100 feet in area and free from posts, will be pro vided for the shop and display depart ments. The half block formerly was owned by C. A, Lyman and his associates. Transfer of the property to the Roberts Motor Car company was handled through the offices of J. Fred Staver and Chester A- Moores. The site is near the east approach to the railroad bridge and is convenient to the busi ness and industrial districts. The pur chase price was not made public but it was announced that the completed plant would have a value of approxi mately $60,000. , Besides the display and storage space and the shop room, quarters have been provided for busi ness offices and a room will be built in the basement for lockers and shower baths for the shop employes. New Westover Home Is to Cost $10,000 Plans have been completed by F. M. Stokes for the erection of a residence for William D. Stubbs on a site at No. S04 Culpepper drive, Westover Ter races. The house is to be of frame construction. So by 46 feet in ground dimensions, and is estimated to cost $10,000. There is an indescribable lure to the sea. and to the men that go down to the sea in ships. Strange things are chronicled on sea voyages ; some of them true, but unbelievable and some believable but untrue. It is like the. old aunt who told her sailor nephew that she simply wouldn't be fooled by his taJe3 of flying fish, for whoever heard of such things, ex cept mermaids, and everyone knew about these hussies. . In the long voyages across, waters sometimes calm and sometimes wrathy the sailorman thinks up yarns and de lights in spinning them for the edifi cation of his messmates. Then, too, he has weird encounters with things lands.men know nothing of. ' It is the aim of this series to spin yarns for both, the aalt water man and the landlubber. Some of them will be true and most of them not. There will be no attempt to label them, for the ones who know will spot the facts while those who don't will never be lieve them. .' . - , One of the strange customs " that arose -with the navy is that of having side-boys lined at the gangway to meet all distinguished visitors and officers of high rank. The origin of the cus tom is farlack in the days of the high gunwhalea TCthe old ships of the line. In rising to tfinjridus ranks of the nary the officers increased their girth and displacement almost in pro portion to rank they held. -A red cheeked midshipman was slim and ac tive while the ponderous old admiral found the shifting of hi weight in a rolling sea a wee bit uncomfortable. The intervening ranks took care of the sjr&duationa ia . aire according to the rank. - Power Sites Along Deschutes Eiver to Remain With State Salem, Sept. 9. With a view to con serving the power possibilities of the Deschutes river to the people of Ore gon, George L. Cleaver of Portland, secretary of the Hydro-Electric league of Oregon, has filed with State En gineer Cupper preliminary applica tions covering the use of power sites at Metolius, Pelton, Mecca, Coleman and Whitehorse Rapids. The frve sites. Cleaver points out, are capable of de veloping an aggregate of 195,700 horsepower and together with other available power Bites along the Deschutes river," contain possibilities surpassing even - the - Niagara power project in dependability and economy. Cleaver's filing points out that even now there is pending before the fed eral power commission an application from a private Corporation covering the right to these power sites, which he would develop in the interest of the consumers, providing electricity practically at cost either through' a state owned power plant orj a power company organized under the auspices of the Hydro-Electric league. SAWMILL ' SOLD " Eugene', Sept. 9. The Eugene & Western sawmill at Veneta, which baa been in bankruptcy for nearly, two years, has been sold to the Lewis Peters Lumber company, and the new owners announce they will put the plant in operation in a few days. New machinery win be installed to Increase the capacity to about 40,000 feet a day. It is on the Coos Bay branch, of the Southern Pacific railway. j, WORK OS CHUECH Ridgefield, Wash.. Sept.- 9. -A large force of workmen -spent Labor day at work on the new Naxarene church, being constructed on Pioneer avenue, under the 'supervision of the Rev. 'D. P. Henry, local pastor. At noon, the women of the church served a dinner to the carpenters. Now when a burly - old seadog ad miral was 435but to come aboard a ship the butipi&Hi of clambering over the high gufiveale was somewhat of a task. To do away with the discom fort as much as possible it .was cus tomary to rig a boatswain's chair and hoist the old bay over on the run. Being heavy, it often' took as many as eight men to. get "His Nibs" over the' side. The men were guided in their task by . the boatswain, who stood at the side, and by means -ef a pipe gave his signals for pulling or lowering away. This was called piping the side. Of course, when a young ensign or sub-lieutenant came about," the num ber of men required to hoist him was not more thai! two. His rank, Jiterally, did not carry the weight. . When the sailing ship gave way to steam and the ' old' ship of the line gradually evolved into the modern super-dreadhaught this custom of pip ing the side continued on down with modifications. Now when an officer comes aboard on official business he is met by the officer of the deck, the boatswain and the side-boys. The side-boys stand at each, side of the gangway while " the boatswain pipes shriuy as tne officer comes across the gangway and over the side. For an ensign, junior lieutenant, lieu tenant or lieutenant commander navy regulations state that there shall hi two side-boys. For i commander or captain there shall be four, and for a rear admiral six. while for all other dignitaries the number la eight- Eight Is also- the camber that attend the president when he boards a ship. The . erftire performance is termed Line side honors- lt i merely a cour tesy in welcoming him aboard the ship. NEW APARTMENT HOUSE PLANNED; X The Regent Investment , Com pany Proposes to Erect Apart ment Hotel at 13th-Salmon.- Plans were completed last week by Carl Linde for a nine-story apartment hotel to occupy, the quarter block at the southwest corner of 13th and Sal-' mon streets. The new apartment would be named the Regent, ft was, stated, and the enterprise is being promoted by Charles MacReynolds and his associates in the Regent. Invest ment company. i ' According to the plans the building would be of reinforced concrete con struction, w ith .facing of Bufford In--diana limestone. The ground floor arrangement calls for a large lobby ' and, four" retail shops facing on 13th street. Construction cost of the build ing is estimated- at (350,000. Each of the eight upper floors will house 12 two room and . two three suites. Interior finish is to be of Philippine mahogany. - The equipment of the building would offer the last word in service to patrons of the establishment. son Logging Co. Wins Tax Litigation Montesano, Wash., Sept 9. The suit of the Simpson Logging company against Grays- Harbor county for re- -duction of 1921 taxes terminated yes terday with a judgment allowing the plaintiff the full; amount of reduc tion asked in the complaint, approxi mately $3000. The county moved for dismissal -of, the suit for lack of evi- dence of an over-assessment and when .this motion was denied- rested without introducing Levidence. The nw fig ures arrive? at are those determined by the old. Noble cruise pi ; J912. This cruise has been a bone of contention between the Simpson Logging com pany and various assessors ever since. Poor different, times the company has brought' suit to compel' the county to use-the Noble cruise- rather than a later one. At the time the; Noble cruise was made an agreement was reached that K should be tne bails for future assessments., i PBUXE TltACT BOUGHT Eugenfe, Sept. 9. Sale ot a fine 65 acre tract ..near . , Irving, . on which prunes will be planted within the nest two years, has , been, made - by Fred E. Chambers to Jesse 3. Nicolle. at a consideration of J13.500. according to announcement of- the seller today. Walter Shumate , handled the transac tion. The land includes the north end of the Chambers farm and Is improved with a dwelling house and outbuild ings. It also has a - 15-acre apple orchard on it, Just coming into bear ing, but this will i be pulled up. Mr.. Chambers still has 95 acres of his farm left. : -' - j " Alterations Start ' On Broadway Block The Stone Estate building at Broad way and .Flanders street, formerly oc cupied by Fredi Dundee is to be remod eled under direction of the Metiger Parker company. The building will be divided int9 stores facing on Broad way, and a garage opening, on Flan ders street will be 45 by 125 feet in dimensions. Plans for the alterations have been -.prepared- by Charles W. Ertx and cost is estimated at ? 6000. COS 350.000