The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-26
OUR BUSY MEN
Here aud There Among the Cincinnati
Hives of Industry.
Next MONDAYS boiler dav.

Next Mondays boiler day.
The eight-hour system would cause slim
pay.
Molders are very strict in regard to (caste)
cast.
"Circular work" is generally executed on
drill press.
There is an abundance of dogs" kept in
a machine shop.
There is nothing more powerful than the
wedge and the lever.
Straw-color would be good color to bet
on. 1t always "draws'-in tempering
steel.
Pigs are indispensable to operating
foundry, especially when the greater por-
tion is melt"
Mr.. Dick Riley is still on the bachelor
list, but his former friend and companion
has dropped out OF the ranks, Brace up,
Dick.
Joseph r. PEBBLES Sons grocers, on the
corner of Fifth and Race Streets will re-
move their store to Pixies Opera-house
Building.
Dealers in cattle are making good profits,
and the stock-yards around the city are
scenes of lively trade about O. clock every
| morning.
Mechanics are paid higher wages in the
East than they are here, and yet the East
ern manufacturers can afford to undersell
the Western.
Mr., Charles Epply, son of J. P. Epply,
the undertaken, has opened an undertaking
establishment in the new Gazette Building,
on Sixth street.
The stove molders and their employees
have adjusted the prices to be paid for
making stove plates, and all is quiet in the
numerous foundries of the city.
The heavy rains this season have been
very detrimental to the building interests,
delaying and damaging houses to great
extent. The contractors are the losers
Mr. John Stroble is doing quiet business
in his hat store, on Freeman street. His
large new building is well stocked with
a good lot Of hats of all kinds and colors.
Tradesmen of all kinds are coming to the
city every day, The cause is they are be-
ing discharged from the large factories of
other cities and come here with the expec-
tation of getting work.
A gentleman, whose name is unknown,
but who owns draws, was the holder of a
number i'll a rattle that drew for him a fine
gold watch worth 500. 1t was drawn on
last Saturday evening.
A large number of workingmen have sub
urban houses, some of them very fine resi-
dences. These men are of the steadier
class, and most of them secured their homes
through the building associations of the
city.
The Bromwell manufacturing Company,
on Walnut street, make fine assortment
OF wire goods OF all descriptions and are
about the largest manufacturers of the
goods in the city. They will have large
display at the Exposition.
Mr.. Godfrey Ludwig, the Superintendent
of Public School buildings saws he expects
to have the Eighth-street School-house
completed by the middle of November, and
the Browne-street School is not expected tc
be finished before the 1st of January, 1890
Some years ago Mr.. James Murray left
his bench in shop in this city, and swort
he would work no more at his trade, as the
wages were reduced too much. Jim has
lately been heard from, and he writes that
he is doing well out in Iowa. where he has
a farm.
Mr.. Dan'l Blymyer, of the Blymyel
Manufacturing Company, is one Of the
most thorough and experienced practica
mechanics in this country. He has charg,
/ of the general management of the firm, il
courteous agreeable and general favorit,
among the employees.
The Cincinnati Coffin Factory situate,
G on the corner of Richmond and Carr streets
I is about as lively as any of the manufac
turing places in the West End. They EN-
ploy large number Of hands, mostly al
Germans, and do very good business i
:. the line OF wooden cofns.
v Mr.. Thomas McFarlan, who worked 70
! the Meader Furniture Company for goo
= many years, is now doing a good bushes
for himself in'the line of secondhand fun
niture and repairing He has the bes
patronage of the West End, and his shop
on the corner of Ninth and Cutter streets