The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-12
Department derive large revenue there


from.
Messrs. Randall & Baker stoves and hol-
low ware, are now occupying the store
house formerly occupied by Walker &
Sengstak, tobacco dealers, on Front street,
near Vine
Messrs. James L. Haven & Co. have en-
tered suit in the Courts against VIM. Miller
d Co. for infringement on the Otis Safety
Device for Elevators, the former being the
owners of the patent.
The Blymyer Manufacturing Company
have received large orders for sugar-mill
machinery and engines, and are conse-
quently very busy. Some of the orders are
from foreign countries.
Simmonds & Co. have made great i'm
provements in the old shop formerly occu-
pied by John Nash, corner Sixth and Har-
riet streets, where they intend to carry on
an extensive carriage and buggy manufac-
tory.
Workmen commenced yesterday putting
in the new hydraulic elevator at the old
Gazette Building, corner Vine and Fourth
streets. 1t is passenger elevator, supplied
with all the latest Improvements for life
saving.
The iron work used in the reconstruction
of Wilson & Sons building on Main street,
which was destroyed by fire last winter,
has been awarded to the enterprisng firm
of ]. P. Walton & Co. of W. Sixth street,
this city.
Mr.. Mike Dennedy is busily engaged in
putting smoke consumers on the boilers of
several large establishments. Cincinnati
can well afford to dispense with the smoke,
and consumers should be used on all the
boilers in the city.
William Thomas, of the firm of Thomas,
Son & Co., is fast recovering from the lnju-
ries he sustained while putting telephone
connections in the Wainut.street House
some time ago. His numerous friends will
be glad to see him about.
An apparatus called dry-house, for the
purpose of drying fruit and invented by
Mr.. Zimmerman, of Mansfield, Ohio, has
proven by numerous tests to be a success
in every respect, and is now being manu-
factured by one of the largest manufacture
ing companies of this city,
The Cincinnati Stove Works Company
are the successors of the old establishments
OF G. W. Ball & Co. and Galway, Semple &
Co. 1t is an Incorporation under the laws
of Ohio. The officers of the Company are:
President, Theo. Cook; Secretary, T. y.
Riley; Superintendent of Manufactures,
W. e. Semple.
A company, with large capital and ample
facilities for the manufacture of glycerine,
is rumored as about to be added to the
manufacturing interests of this city.
Mcssrs. Proctor & Gamble, NJ. Werk and
Emery Brothers are mentioned as among
those contemplating the enterprise. There
are at present but three manufacturers of
this article in the United States.
One of the most valuable inventions in
the line of labor-saving machinery is a ma
chine Tor making sugar evaporating pans.
These pans are now. made by forming to-
gether numerous sheets Of galvanized iron
and require large amount of labor for
crimping, soldering and riveting But this
machine completes the whole pan at one
stroke. Mr.. John Becker is the inventor
and patentee.
Knight & Co., contractors for the trestle-
work running through Milcreek bottoms,
and connecting the Southern Road with
the Short-line for the transfer OF freight,
are pushing the work to completion as
speedily as possible, having two pile dri-
vers at work, one at each end of the track
They contracted to complete the job by the
18th of August, but in consequence of
some necessary delays will be unable to do
so.
Robert Jones & Co., of Pearl street,
have in their workshops four large boilers
for the Exposition Building. These boilers
are sixteen feet long by forty-eight inches
in diameter, supplied with thirty-two four
inch tubes. The longitudinal seams are
double-riveted, making them much stronger
than ordinary boilers, They are made of
the heaviest of boiler-plate iron, braced
with heavy Trods on the head and two
stay-rods riveted to the head and running
back and then riveted TO the shell They
are to be permanently placed in the cellar
of the Exposition Building, upon solid