The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
OUR BUSY MEN
Here and There Among the Cincinnati
Hives of Industry.

The Melodeon Building is receiving new
coat of paint.
Thomas Son & Co. will exhibit new
patent cornice break at the Exposition this
season.
Bishop Bros. of Walnut street, have just
received 1000 sacks OF peanuts from the
Tennessee River.
The Raymond Bag Company turn out
from 15, 900 to 1S 600 bags per day. This is
the only firm in that line in the city who
use machinery.
J. F. Walton & CO, are putting in some
large girders and columns at the store oc-
cupied by PEBBLES & Sons, who are enlarg-
ing their store.
Mr.. William H. Stewart, Jr., having been
taken into partnership by his father, the
firm will hereafter be known as VIM. II.
Stewart & Son, builders.
Mr.. Bart, of this city, while fishing with
dip net in the Ohio River, at the foot of
Central avenue, caught large Buffalo fish
weighing twenty pounds.
The produce business is very dull, and
the commission merchants complain of not
being able to get good butter this warm
weather, which is greatly decreasing the de-
mand.
William A. Setter & Co., tobacco dealers,
are again doing business at their old stand,
on Front street, between Vine and Walnut,
at which place they were burned out last
winter.
| NJ. Bare & Co., of Walnut street, are hav-
ing heavy rush in the seamless bag trade,
in consequence of the heavy grain yield.
One day this week they shipped 160 bales
between and o'clock.
Mr.. A. w. Francis, book-keeper for
| Thomas, Son & Co., and Secretary of Wash
ington Lodge, No 2, |. o. o. f., is lying
very i'll at his residence on Liberty street,
and is not expected to live.
The George Fox Starch Company, of Sec
ond street, have two large mills at Lock,
land, O., and one running full time with
one hundred hands. The demand for their
goods is far in excess of the supply.
Hunt & Co., printers, on Home street
have just purchased, in the East machine
for making envelopes, folding, pasting and
finishing at one operation. Each machine
will turn out three thousand envelopes pei
hour.
Bruce, Shinkle & Lnfoot, whose tobacco
| factory is on Front street. are all young
men and have established pretty gooc
business. Mr.. Linfoot states that business
is very brisk in his line of goods, ''tine-cut
being the only article manufactured by hi
firm.
Messrs. Allen & Ellis state that the TO-
bacco trade is lively, but leaf tobacco ha'
advanced so much in price that the mar
gins on manufactured goods are in conse
Quence very small, and the retail dealers
compelled to purchase an inferior article
They manufacture both "fne-cut" and
plug"
Messrs. Simrall & Crawford say the ad
vanced price of leaf tobacco has been caused
by the Spectators, and it is a detriment tc
their business, as the orders are not quite sc
large as usual, and great many of them
are for an inferior quality of goods. lr
1860 there were only about dozen fine
cut factories In the United States, bu
there are at the present time about seventy
five, which shows large increase in manu-
facture and consumption OF this article.
A new tobacco firm under the name o.
Ford, Lee & Smith has just been established
in Covington. The junior partner, Mr.
Robt McF. Smith, was formerly the ownel
of the Anchor Tobacco Works in this city
This new firm is now known as the Anchor
Tobacco Works of Covington, Ky. They
are all very energetic men, and Mr.. Lei
states that the business prospects for thu
future as represented by the present rusf
of business, is very tiattering. They alst
Icomplain, however, about the advanced
price in leaf tobacco.