The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-21
OUR BUSY MEN.
Here and There Among the Cincinnati
Hives of Industry.

| Aoih III 10 oNoy . VA sNS SNNp~'
Pat. Mllligan knows how to handle the
bellies.
There are no .''sleeker" fellows than
moriders
You can not find "planer" man than
Ben. Thompson.
Ii you associate with Dick Riley he will
surely "chisel" you.
Keep away from John Morris or he will
make tool" of you.
Johnny McManus pays great deal of at
tention to his shape(rl
Alex. Cunny is a good man to pattern"
after, as he is a perfect model(erl
Jack Dodds would make a good bar
keeper, for he knows how to tap cupola.
James Regan was in the city yesterday
on visit to his old friends with whom he
used to work. Jim is a good molder, but
he saws he likes to keep grocery store bet
ter than the trade.
Mr.. Thiman, of the Telephone Exchange,
having recently married the eldest daugh-
ter of Mr.. Newton B. Collord, the Commits
sion Merchant on Walnut street, has set
tied at Redbank, Ohio.
Mr.. Cunny, the pattern maker, has at his
shop on Front street, the model OF ma
chine for making brass head tacks. 1t is
curious looking machine, and the inventor
OF it is a Catholic priest.
Mr.. A. w. Francis the well-known Odd
fellow. and Secretary of Washington
Lodge, No. 2, and an old-time blacksmith
but of late one of the firm of Thomas, Son
& Co., is failing very much in health.
Mr.. Fred. Doppes has moved from Clark
street into a house at the foot of Oehler
street. which his father, Mr.. J. P. Doppes,
the lumber merchant at the corner OF
Eighth and Baymiller streets, recently pur-
chased
The high price of coal is affecting the
manufacture of iron, and there is some
talk among the rolling-mill proprietors of
ceasing work, If the prices raise much
higher. The expense of transportation by
rail is too great.
Peter Nader, an old boiler-maker, who
formerly worked for Mc1lvain, Speigel 4
Co., is now Superintendent of Charles T.
Dumont's boiler yard. Pete is one of the
best boiler hands in this city, and Mr.. Du-
mont was fortunate in securing his services.
Mr.. Beverly Musselman is contemplating
the convenience and inconvenience of a
residence at Cumminsville. We will ven
ture to say that should he decide to live
there he will miss the evening traii about
five nights out of six. You had better re-
main in the city, Bev.
Mr.. Walter Manning, prominent Odd
fellow and member of Washington Lodge
No. z, who was so unfortunate at the time
of the burning of Mr. Louis Cooks factory
as to lose his box of tools and some valua-
BILE works on mechanics, is now working
with Mr.. VIM. Donaldson.
Messrs. Ross Davis & Company are man.
ufacturing a new machine for the purpose
of hammering out and forming the soles Of
shoes. He recently sold one to Philadel-
phia shoe factory that is turning one thou.
sand pair each day. This speaks we'll foI
Cincnnati's Eastern trade.
Mr.. Billy Thomas, of the firm of Thomas,
Son & Company of Second street, has beau
tilted his home at Carthage, Ohio, by i'm
proving the walks and laying out beds o
choice flowers around it. 1t presents quite
a different appearance now from what it did
when he first moved into 1t.
Mr.. BENJAMIN Jenifer, formerly an old
liyerystable man of this city, and lately q
resident of Springdale, is now residing q
short distance out on the Little Miami
Railroad. He is following the business ol
contractor for making roads and grading
and making streets for new villages.
Messrs. /. & E. Greenwald have contracts
for some very large stationary engines
that one to 20 South, when finished, and a.
Charlie Franzman has recovered from hi.
sickness and resumed the work of boring
the cylinders he will have to be lively t.
get ahead. Charles the boy can do it.
Mr.. H. Brickford, who keeps a genera
machine shop on Front street. has invented
and is now making speciality of a mucl
needed improved drill press. They are pro
yided with a movement called the quicl
return feed. The tables can be adjusted t,
: proper height by rack and pinion
2 When desired they can be made to fee'
. themselves.
Mr.. James D. Welsh, the General Agen
! of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, has rente
and moved into new office just aroun,
! the corner from where he was formerly, bu
still in the Burnet House. He has fxe,
up portion of the display he had at ,h
Exposition and intends to let it stand a
an inducement to those desiring to &
!, west, to settle in the State Of Kansas.
At Mr.. Dumont's machine shop, on Eas
Front street, can be seen large kettle {
cast iron, which is nsed at the Work-hous
, for boiling soup. The soup is boiled
u steam, and there is chamber all aroun
the kettle formed by placing another one {
: larger size over it, and the steam entel
u through an opening in this covering. Til
, hanges of the kettles are riveted stean
u tight with ground joint. The apparatus
large enough to make soup for several hui
;; dred men.