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Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
CHESTER BUILDING
IS LATEST BLOCK
Modern Structure at Spring. and
Fifth Streets to Cost
$1,O00,O0O

A. @. Bilicke, president; ]. S. Tor
rance, vice president; ]. r Sartori, E.
j. Marshall, James H. Adams, r. A.
Rowan and M. S. Hellman. officers, di-
rectors and stockholders of the Chester
F1reproof Building company, state that
during the present summer a 12-story
modern business and office building will
be erected on the northeast corner of
Spring and Fifth streets. the improve
ment to cost $1,0O0,000. Tenants of the
old building will vacate early in Aug
ust, when the lot will be cleared for
the erection of the new structure,
which will he known as the Chester
building. The structure will have more
than 500 offices on the upper floors. The
first floor ceiling will be twenty five
feet in height. The manner of dividing
the first floor space has not been deter
mined.
The building will have a frontage of
100 feet on Spring and 100 on Fifth.
In the rear will be a wing, 60 feet wide
and 240 long. with an alley on the east
side The principal elevator entrance
will be on Spring street. The building
will be of steel, and will be a class A
structure of course The exterior will
resemble that of the Security building.
Construction will be completed in
about eighteen months after August 1.
The site of the building was leased
for fifty years from the Jones estate.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15

~ ORGEOUS almost beyond expression
a. will be the new Orpheum theater to
VI be erected at once on the east side
of Broadway between Sixth and
Seventh streets for the Orpheum Circuit
corporation, of which Martin Beck is pres
ident.
More than $S75,OOO will be expended in
the construction of the ornate struc-
ture, which was designed by G. Albert
Lansburgh of San Francisco, who is
represented in Los Angeles by X. b.
Young &c Son.
1t is the aim of the management to
have the building completed and FUR
nished throughout ready for occupancy
about Christmas time, when the grand
opening will occur.
BUILDING FOUR STORIES HIGH
The new Orpheum will cover all the
lot, which is 122x150 feet in size, ex-
tending from Broadway to a wide alley
at the rear. The front of the structure
will be subdivided into stores and Of
fees. The building will be four stories
high, with four stores on the ground
floor, a ten-foot lobby to the office
building at the south end and ten
foot passageway to the gallery and
stage entrance on the north side. The
stage also has two entrances from the
alley. where all trunks and scenery Will
be received.
The stage is 3S feet deep and 112 feet
wide, the opening being 40 feet wide.
There will be fourteen dressing rooms,
shower baths, huge tub for animals
and a large animal room, together with
extensive property rooms. scene dock.
orchestra room, etc, the most complete
in America. The orchestra pit will ac-
commodate twenty-five, and the orches-
ira will be increased when the new
house is occupied.
The building will be steel frame re-
tnforced concrete. absolutely tireproof
and with every modern appliance
known to date for the comfort and con-
venience of the theater-going public.
The lot itself it so admirably situated
with an alley at the rear that the exits
and courts will run from street to
street, and thus make the edifice one
of the safest in America. 1t will have
thirty exists The seating capacity will
be over 2O0O 900 of which will be on the
first floor, 600 in the balcony, 500 in the
gallery There will be thirteen loges and
twenty six boxes, the loges occupying
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
RANGE OF LOT VALUES
IN EAGLE ROCK VALLEY

r. Becker reports the following sales
in Eagle Rock valley In Florista
Heights tract: To c. A. Dix. lot 5ox
15o feet on Colorado street near Town
send, for $1,000; to P. w. Bernhard a
lot 5ox15O feet on waldran. avenue near
Townsend, for $500; to p. Heller, lot,
$1,000; to A. A. Richardson. a lot 5Ox
15O feet on Colorado street. for $1,000;
to 2. A. Humphrey, lot 5Oxl5O rect on
colorado street near Townsend, Tor
$1,000; to B. B. Blair, a lot bOxl40 on
Fairview avenue near Townsend. for
$500; to NJ. Bannon, two lots 5Oxl5O rect
each on waldran avenue near Town
send, for $1,000; to M. r. McBurney, a
lot 90xf65 feet on Paloma avenue near
Hill street, for $1,000. bought for imme-
diate Improvement: to T. Larson, lots
81 and %, Myers & Kulli Eagle Rock
tract, improved with a four-room
bungalow, for $1,000; to J. Bryan, lot
9sx165 feet on Paloma avenue near
Hill street, for $1400.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15

No posts-cantilever plan. Retiring
rooms and toilets lead off each floor.
The entrance to the main floor and
balcony will be through 20-foot lobby
in the center of the building into an
elaborate foyer, and thence by easy
stairs to the balcony, and by easy
grades to the seats on the main floor.
The entire house can be emptied in less
than two minutes. No danger of panic
under any circumstances. The house
will be completely carpeted, and the
seats will be unusually wide and roomy,
with plenty of leg space between rows.
PERFECT ELECTRIC. EQUIPMENT
The electric equipment of both stage
and theater proper will be the very
latest The "dimmers' will be in a
separate fireproof room and will oper-
ate from the huge marble switchboard
on the stage right. Every light in the
building will be controlled from this
one point. and variations now out of
the question in any less modern house.
The same applies to the arrangements
for the moving picture machine, which
will be in a fireproof box, absolutely
isolated. so that no matter what hap
pened no one would be in the least
endangered thereby.
A complete house and exterior tele-
phone system, with switchboards and
a central station. will be installed in
connection with the theater proper, so
that all parts of it may be reached
from the general and press offices,
which will be on the second floor, and
also from the outside. Vacuum clean
ing plant in the building will care for a
thorough cleaning up of the theater
after every performance, and the Splen-
did ventilating system will permit the
temperature, winter or summer, to be
kept within one degreeN of a set tenn
perature, automatically. Thus the
house will always be cool in the hottest
weather and warm in the coldest. AS
the entire air is constantly undergoing
change automatically there can be no
stale air in the place.
The new general offices will be
thoroughly equipped in every detail for
the business in hand. The press de-
partment will be particularly we'll
equipped for the dispensation of news
and the handling of publicity. The box
office system will be perfect. so that
any information as to tickets will be at
hand for patrons with the least possible
discomfort or delay.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
BIG INCREASE IN BUILDING
ACTIVITY AT LONG BEACH

LONG BEACH, May 14.-Building
permits issued in this city since jan
uary 1 have authorized improvements
valued at $352, 1852, as against $197, ,651
for the first five months of last year.
Most of the buildings erected this year
have been homes. All parts of the city
are represented in the permits issued.
Among last weeks permits were: G.
S. Halse five-room house on Anser
street, $500; r. Reynolds. five-room
cottage, 1910 Locust avenue, $1,000;
S. c. Buck move and repair house at
$50 Lime avenue, 5000: J. w Sparks,
six-room house, Tenth street and Pa
cific avenue, $2500; Mrs. Cora Heart
well, story -and-a-half house in Ala
mitos Beach townsite. $500; w A. An
drews. f1ve-room house, Kennebec ave-
nue., $500: L. Saite, 27 Cerritos avenue,
six room house. $4,000; Richard Loynes.
move and repair house. Ohio street and
Washington avenue, $500; j. F. Gro
gan. repairs. III Elm avenue, $500; w.
d. Walthall addition, 925 Temple ave-
nue., SS5: Mrs. C. H. Morehouse. dwell
ing, Eighth street and Coronado ave-
nue., $780,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15

improvements started since January l,
1910, and completed wholly or in part:
Los Angeles Trust and Savings bank,
Spring and Sixth, eleven stories, $780,
900.
William Garland. 1926 South Broad
way seven stories. 100000.
Birkel Music company, 448 South
Broadway, six stories, 100000.
I. w. Hellman, 116 West Fourth
street, six stories, 100000
Orpheum theater, 626-36 South Broad
way, five stories. 100000.
Co-Tenant building, 627-33 South
Broadway, five stories. $105,00O.
Consolidated Realty company, Sol
South Hill, two additional stories, $685.
O0e.
T. Il. Tally, S31 South Broadway, two
stories, $4,000.
Martz estate, Seventh and Hope
streets, one story, $4,000.
E. +. & E. II. Skinner, 247 South Los
Angeles, four stories, $4,000. -.
New Method Laundry company, 40l
East Sixth, three stories, $4,000.
F. w. Braun, 724 South Main, three
stories. $4,000. .,,
v;gnes street. three stories, $4,000.
+ N. Van Nuys, 1887 South Olive
street, $25,000.
Alexandra hotel annex. Fifth and
spring streets, fourteen stories, $1,000,
900. =,
Althus Hotel company, Fifth ana Oi-
i've streets, six stories. $145,O00.
]. C. II. WINS, 948 South t1gureroa
street, six stories. $4,000.
]. II. Edmonds. 249 South Oilve
street, six stories, $4,000.
Sabachi estate. 759 South Maln' four
stories. $S5.000.
Sabachi estate. 1853 South Los An
eeIes. two stories, $4,000.
Kaspare Cohn, 113 East Second street.
three stories, $4,000
avenue. two stories, $4,000.
Hughes & Chaffey 424 South Main
street three stories, $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
WASHINGTON ACRES TRACT
is FOUR MILES FROM VENICE

Mr. Werner, with Strong & Dickin-
son, reports numerous inquiries and
sales at washington Acres. where the
company is making first-elass improve
ments in the way of laying out streets,
curbs and sidewalks. This superb prop
erty is located just south of Washing
ton boulevard about. mile and a. half
west of the Palms, and four miles from
Venice. The Playa del Rey car passes
through the property, with a station
called Bundy thereon. Already lots
valued at $4,000 have been sold The
soil is a rich. sandy loan, will grow
anything and give good returns. As
the property is being sold on very easy
terms-at 10 per cent down and per
cent month-it appeals to the general
public
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15

the front of the first balcony. The
theater proper will be to the rear of
the office building, with a broad en-
trance vestibule passing through the
front portion and exit courts at either
end of front elevation. The facade will
be of polychrome terra Gotta, with de-
tails characteristic of the theater To-
Gated behind it. with balconies of
bronze and handsome bronze
marquise surmounting the entrance
to the theater, on either side of
which there will be two stores. The
entrance to the office building will be
on Seventh street.
The lobbies will be finished in colored
imported marble, and the color scheme
of the interior will be gendarme-blue,
old rose and FURNISHED gold. The light
ing, will be diffused from concealed
lamps and the ventilation will be the
plenum system. or an air chamber
under the orchestra floor, the fresh air
being forced through the standards of
the chairs and exhausted by fans above
the ceiling. The air will be washed and
filtered by means of coke filters, over
which a cataract of water Is constantly
passing, thus making it absolutely sani-
tary. This is similar to the system so
successfully used in the San Francisco
Orpheum.
PROVISIONS FOR WOMEN
One of the novel features Of the plan
is the women's parlor on the mezzanine,
overlooking the entrance lobby and ac-
seccible to the patrons of the orchestra
and balcony floors. A handsome smok-
ing room for men will be installed in
the basement, Immediately under the
entrance vestibule, with wide marble
staircases leading thereto. Both the
stage and front portion of the edifice
will be protected by the installation of
complete sprinkler system. No ex-
pense is to be spared by the manage
ment to fit UP this house most luxur-
iously. both for the comfort and enter
tanment of it's patrons.
The "sight lines or ranges of vision
in the house have been so very care
fully studied out that there is not a
seat in the place that has not an un-
obstructed and complete view of every
part of the something exceed
ingly rare. The great width of the
house permits it to be correspondingly
shallow, and the farthest seat from the
ste ge is within sixty feet of the cur
tain line-another feature rarely found
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
eRAINERp,s PORTABLE HOUSES

H. ]. Brainerd & Co, manufacturers
and builders of sectional and ready
made portable houses. report a number
of callers during the week. Several
contracts are about to be closed with
oil companies, ranch owners, etc. Cali
ers from the seashore and beach re-
sorts are coming in daily. There is a
big demand for the Brainerd houses.
The company has contracted for a
bungalow to go to Barstow. where
several Brainerd houses have been
erected. Carl j. Schader of Parker,
Ariz., is interesting many in these
houses there. In the oil fields Hugh
Bell has an Office for the sale of the
Brainerd houses
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
PELT0N BLOCK ON HILL
TO COST ABOUT $4,000

A three-story building. to cost about
$4,000, will be erected at 636-38 South
Hill street by DIR. A. M. Pelton. There
will be stores on the first floor and lofts
or living apartments above, The build
ing will be so constructed that addi-
tional stories can be erected. 1t will
cover a lot 3Sx13S feet to st. Vincent
place. A. A. Allen, Wilcox building, is
agent for the property.
DIR. Pelton has just finished the erec-
tion on the west side of Olive, between
Sixth and Seventh, of a three-story
store and apartment building, the first
floor of which has been leased by Uhl
Bros, wall paper dealers of Los Ange-
les and san Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
BOUGHT $4,000 ACRES

Deeds have been filed in San Luis
Obispo county whereby Baron ]. H. Won
Schroeder transfers to Isaias w. He'll
man the Nacimiento rancho, consisting
of $4,000 acres of land bordering on San
Luis Obispo and Monterey counties. It
is understood that the Hellman inter-
ests paid $350,000 in hard coin for the
ranch.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15

beautiful artificial stone of great du-
rability and strength. making the
structure as near fire and earthquake
proof as is possible. The Columbia
hospital will thus become one of the
most modern, safest and best equipped
of any in the United States. and will
help in keeping Los Angeles in the
forefront of all American cities in the
modern character of its public i'm
provements.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
BUNGALOWS ARE POPULAR

Another handsome new bugnalow is
being erected in the Mccarthy compa
ny's Normandie Avenue Square tract.
Plans are being drawn for several
others. The cement work and street
work are fast nearing completion, and
many are taking advantage of these
bargains, selecting one or more lots and
building, fine bungalows on them. In
creased inquiry and many sales are re-
norted
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
MAY BUILDING
DATA MOUNT TO
HIGH FIGURES
Valuation of Fewer Than Fifteen
Days Is in Excess of
100000
LOOK FOR OVER TWO MILLIONS
List of Principal Improvement In
augurated Since January
Last-a Booming Period

m HE month of May promises to be
one of the record breakers in the
\ building history of Los Angeles.
With less than fifteen working days
of the month eliminated. total build
ing permits issued as reported by the
chief inspector is 453. as against 296
for the same period ia May, 1909 The
total valuation of authorized improve
ments thus far this month is $1,033.-
621, as compared with $3S6,245 for the
same period in May a year ago.
In the tabulation for the present
month appear two reinforced concrete
structures, one of five stories and one
of seven stories. total valuation $780,
600: also permits for fifteen Glass c
structures, six one-story buildings,
seven two stories. one three-story and
one four-story, total valuation $202.-
145 OF the total permits 1872 were for
new homes, valued at $379,163.
Before the end of the month it is
expected that the permits issued by
the building department will exceed
ZOO and that the total valuation will be
in excess of $2,000.000
OFFICIAL BUILDING TABULATIoN
Following is the official classified
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
verduqO Canyon Land Go.

Has Just Issued the Most Beautiful and Al.
tistic Illustrated Booklet ever published n
Los Angeles. Call or send for one.
JNO. A. PIRTLE
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
TABULATION

Following is, the official classified
tabulation OF authorized improvements
from May to May 13, 1910;
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15

RECORD FOR 1910 MONTHS
Following is a partial list of the new
Iditarod pioneer., 1910-09-11
OTTER GREEK IS
 CHOKED WITH LOGS

Two thousand logs ill transit and Otter creek the past few days has more closely resembled a wild and turbulent lumber stream oi Wisconsin than quiet and sedate placer creek in Alaska.
 There were logs on every bar and logs at every turn. Now and again, for convenience sake they were piled in indiscriminate jams, where men pulled and hauled with pike pola and peavy, while bridges were threatened and river freighters filled the air with large chunks oI profanity.
 Hank Martin and crew were bringing down the greater portion of the drive which is destined fol Slippern $ mlll i'll tbis city.
Iditarod pioneer., 1910-09-11
SAM SAADERSON
 HIKES BACK AGAIN

At the head of a considerable party of stampeders, Sam Sander tsou formerly laymen on IA bench Otter, left again for the Kusko- kwim about the middle of last week intending to remain there for some time.
 Tie party was headed for Donlon creek in the neighborhood of the Smeaton and Larson strike, where some very good prospects have been shown up. Ill spite of the iact that many report the ground staked from H-- to Discovery. i! is now stated that there are many fine looking creeks where one may stick pins down at random and as many as he likes.
Iditarod pioneer., 1910-09-11
WILL SOON KNOW HOW
 LONG THE RIVER IS

Commissioned with the responsi- bllity of tracing the crooks and turns of the Iditarod river from this city to it's mouth and from thence to Holy Cross, part of the Maddren geological survey party departed down river III small boats last week under charge of C. C. Anderson, topographer. P. A. Stover went as his assistant ill the work while the camp helpers were C.. A. Ander- son and Dan Nelson.
 This party was sent OH by Mir Maddren to take traverse survey of the river, tracing its course and distances with tue locations of towns along the way and the topo- graphy of the adjacent country. By triangulation they will also secure the geographical location of impor- tant mountains or elevations near the course of the valley.
 The material thus gathered will not be ready for some time, since it must be incorporated in the report of Maddren, and the maps that will be prepared upon the arrival of the party at Washington. According to MT. Maddren' $ statements it will be well not to expect these data until late ill coming winter, or per haps not until next April.
Iditarod pioneer., 1910-09-11
D|KEMAN WAS
 CLEANED OUT

Practically stripped Of all kinds of freight but lumber, Dikeman City presented forlorn appearance early last week when the Reliance left on her last trip to this city bringing about no tons of oats and feed which was landed at the N. c. Co. dock Thursday forenoon.
 According to the statement of John Duncan, tue Campbell and the Delta were both expected ill at the lower town with full cargoes of the 6rst outside tall shipments, 1t be ing his opinion that perhaps 4ooo tons of N. C. Co, and independent freight would be brought there be fore the freezeup. The Reliance, which has been found very we'll fitted fer work on this river, will continue to run between Dikeman and this point, and if the water maintains its present stage great quantity of the late freight will be brought here.
 On her last trip she left 300 cases of coal oil and gasoline at Rich mond, which will be brought in by smaller boats.
Iditarod pioneer., 1910-09-11
GEORGE. ..FRIEND CAN'T .a243
 HELP BUT FIND IT

Thinking to sink hole just for tu,i before selecting his dumping ground tor tailings, George Friend, ot Friend, Lawson & James, di, .rected his foreman 10 look into the gravel on the right limit of Flat .on the Bonanza claim, and unex pectedly ran into something that either looks like a ich right limit paystreak on Flat or else means a continuation of the left limit streak that will make 1t 300 feet wide on that claim. ,...., ..
 The new hole was sunk about 10 days ago and disclosed six feet of 3o-cent dirt. all the gold being i'll bedrock, The gravel above bed rock banned nothing, and the gold seems to be slightly different iu color from what they have been finding on the left limit. This hole was put down over 100 feet from the old holes in portion of the claim Friend believed worthless. Since that time another hole has gone down 40 feet further toward the right limit where they have found about four feet, of 10 cent dirt.
 The discovery is one of the most important made on Flat this sum
Iditarod pioneer., 1910-09-11
WILL RECOMMEND SEPARATE SURVEY

Impressed with the future prospects of this country and believing firmly that new placer district of great i'm portance is about to open here and on the Kuskokwim,s A. G. Maddren, in charge of the interior work for the United States geological survey, has stated that he will recommend in his report to the department that the ser vice pay especial attention to this sec tion next year. and give the Iditarod and Kuskokwim watersheds d separate survey.
 e Mir Maddren arrived here last week having finished an all-summer journey from the Yukon through the Innoko, the Takotna valley and across country to this point. He and his party are en- gagged in connecting up few loose lines left after the survey of two years ago, but he finds conditions here and on the Kuskok " i'm such that he cannot do justice before another season, espe- cially in view of the fact that every day adds new creeks to the placer area and new discoveries enlarge the possibli- ties of the country. .s
 H. E. Birkner, one member of the party, has been sent to make hurried survey of the new strikes on the Kus- kokwim at Julian creek and Crook cd river, while tho balance of the party have departed down river to make a survey of the Iditarod.
 Mr. Maddren himself will remain here few days in order to investigate the famous dyke theory at the head of Flat creek. He will be joined by Birk- ner here and the two will then pro- ceed down river to go out by way of St. Michael.
 It is hoped that the researches to be conducted here may shed some light upon the geological formation that has been the birthplace of the Flat and Otter creek placers, and it is probable that Mir. Maddren may have something to say on the subject before he goes away
Iditarod pioneer., 1910-09-11
PRINCIPAL WILL ~
 SOON BE PAID

Laden with some 10O7 ounces of golc dust, taken frsm the last cleanup, Doc Mading, layman on the upper end oi the Wildcat association on Flat creek came into town last Thursday and de posited the good stuff in the bank where it is warranted to keep without danger for months. .s. This is a weekly cleanup and repre- sents the threshing of gravel that is even richer than the best reports given out about it. Taken with the cieanups on the Marietta above, and the various other claims on Flat and Otter creeks that are at the producing stage, there will be no difficulty in bringing the output of the camp to the s60O,OOo mark before the cold winter descends to put an end to sluicing.
Iditarod pioneer., 1910-09-11
Mrs. Swanson Invades Flat

With g two-story log building that will long be a land mark in Flat City, Mrs. Selma Swanson, the popular cafe proprietor of Otter City, has invaded the new creek metropolis intending 10 open up fine hotel within a few days. Be sides well appointed restaurant, the upper story is to be comfortably furnished, while Nels GlaEtz, bro- ther and partner of Mrs. Swanson will look after the poolrooms that are to be run i'll connection.