The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-28
OUR BUSY MEN.
Here and There Among the Cincinnati
Hives Of Industry.

Here and There Among the Cincinnati
Hives Of Industry.
Mr.. William ]. Jones, the architect is
busily engaged in drawing plans for few
houses to be erected in the suburbs.
Mr.. Fred. Beaverton is now engaged in
selling tobacco for Mr.. Sam. Craighton.
dealerin leaf tobacco, on West Front street.
Mr.. Louis C. Bardes. the tanner and cur
rier, of McMicken avenue, has enlarged his
works and increased his facilities for tan
ming hides.
Mr. Gibbs, the polite and efficient space
clerk in Machinery Hall during the Exposi-
tion, is now canvassing for the sale Of
scientific work.
Messrs. Lane & Bodley are having another
story added to their large establishment,
the construction.
The employees OF w. c. Davis e. Co are
"bard at it" again, and Mr.. Davis is enabled
to start out his agents, whom he had to call
in during the late strike.
There are four patterns Of the turbine
water-wheel manufactured. the Eclipse"
the "Ieffel," the Houston and the Lit
tie Giant" each OF which have very slight
variation.
A very useful and economical apparatus,
called heater and filter, which is some
thing new in the line of heaters, is manu-
featured by the Stilwell e. Bierce Manufac-
turing Company, Of Dayton, 0.
Mr. Megrue is the contractor for the brick
work Of the new Eighth-street School-house
now being erected. The building is ex-
pected to be finished and ready for occupa-
ton about the 1st of January next.
The fine new block of buildings on the
corner of Richmond street and Freeman ave-
nue. has been completed and being rented
out for stores in the first fl or and for
housekeeping rooms on the upper floors.
Mr. Thomas s. Smith. formerly of the
Cincinnati Bridge Company, has embarked
in the business of manufacturing malt
kilns and perforated sheet iron and Steel
also large lot of other articles of hard
, metals.
| Mr., George Walsh, an old mechanic, has
invented and patented macnine for
punching and cutting out cyelets 1t is
very neat device, and its operation is easy
and smooth. The capacity is not fully de-
| termined as yet as he has not put it to
good test.
Messrs. Re1way & Burton, the manufac-
turers of the celebrated EARLY Breakfast"
brand Of stoves, are again happy. They
have almost filled the sidewalk in front of
their foundry, on Ninth street. with pig
iron, and the men are all at work turning
out stoves in fast order.
Mr.. John V. Nicolai has now in addi-
ton to his main Office OH corner OF Walnut
and Water streets established two branch
utfices and yards for the sale OF sewer pipe,
friedrich, ETC., one of which is at the cor
ner of Broadway and Ninth streets and the
other at 1872 Central avenue.
S. A. Grant & Co., of Home street, are
doing good business with their novel en-.
velope machine, which manufactures hun
dreds of complete envelopes in all astonlsh-
insly short time. This wonderful piece If
machinery is operated by steam, and only
requires the attention OF lady to remove
the envelopes.
Pearce, Atkins g. Co. have embarked in
business together, at No. 100 Smith street,
in portion of the rear building formerly
used as the old cotton factory on the corner
of Smith and Third streets, now w. G.
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patent cotton betting weddings and mar
row goods, and fancy twines.
| W.N. Siebern & Co., manufacturers of
sausage machines and butchers tools. have
invented, and are makinga new meat chop
per. 1t is provided with four cutters. and
these are placed on short shafts or spindles,
so as to be regulated 70 suit either large
or small space. 1t is very neat device,
and is made strong and durable.
The proprietors of the Summit Tobacco
Works of this city are giving away fine
pair of $S scales with every six pales of to-
bacco purchased from them. These scale.
are very ornamental and useful to any
business. The pan and scoop are of solic
. brass, The works are nickel plated, also, {
nickel plated weight stand. which can b.
instantly annexed 10 The scales or used in
+ dependentfy.
. Messrs Howell and Clendening, of Gov
: ington, KY, are the patentees OF one OF th'
, neatest and handest devices in the way o
| a cutoff that it las ever been our lot t.
! witness. 1t is for the purpose of turnin;
. on or off the flow of water from the roofs o
S buildings to the cisterns during rain. B.
r the contrivance you are saved the annoy
s ance of slipping on joints, loose elbows
n getting wet, &c.
The two young and enterprising mer
Messrs. Cordesman and Egan, who som
o time ago established business FIR the mar
y ufacture of Woodworking machinery, ar
l. shipping to all parts of the United State
and to some portions of Sonth Amerlct
$ MIR. Egan was formerly bOok-keeper for til
/ firm OF Steptoe, McFarlan n Company o
IS second street, where he acquired thol
Tough knowledge of his present business
and Mr.. Cordesman is son Of the seliiC
e partner of the firm of Cordesnian
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