The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
OUR BUSY MEN
Here and There Among the Cincinnati
Hives of Industry.

Two rows of fine four-room cottages are
being erected on the side of Prices Hill,
near State street.
Mr., Adams, formerly in the kindling-
wood business, is now keeping retail gro
Gerry and daily market on Everett street.
Mr.. Louis Voight dealer IN wall paper,
on Central avenue, has taken his son, VIM.
voight into partnership. 1t is now Voight
& Son.
/ Victor BGruham, the contractor for the
painting of the Exposition, has connected
with his paint shop on Sixth street the pa
per-hanging business.
Mr.. ]. H. silvers, wholesale dealer in leaf
tobacco. purchased, day or two ago, from
a New York house, some of the finest leaf
tobacco ever seen in this city.
The building occupied by John Church
q Co., on Fourth street, is being altered in
front and will be generally repaired
throughout the entire interior.
The old building, used for so many years
as foundry by John Nash, has been refit-
ted and is now well under way as a car
riage factory of the firm of Haydock Il Co.
Mr.. Perry Moore, who keeps paint
store on Central avenue, has erected large
varnish factory in the Twenty-frst Ward,
and is manufacturing that article very ex-
tensively.
Messrs. Sullivan & Co., undertakers, are
putting in new front to their stable on
Central avenue. 1t will be great improve
ment to the building and one that is much
needed.
As the opening day of the Exposition ap-
proaches We see our old friends who are
working in other cities dropping in one by
one. 1t will be kind Of a reunion for the
mechanics.
Mr.. George H. Welton has embarked in
the fruit business on Sixth street. near
Elm. Mr.. Welton is an enterprising man,
and was formerly in the shoe business on
Pearl street.
A large frame building is being erected
by the Robinson Wagon Company, in con-
nection with their factory on Eighth street,
for the purpose of drying the wagons after
they are painted.
The Peale Brothers, on Central avenue,
had the contract for the large plate glass in
the windows in that large building lately
erected on the corner of Central avenue
and Longworth street.
Mr.. Afford, the polite and efficient Su-
perntendent of the Blymyer Manufactur-
ing Company's Works, is getting up very
, fine display of sugar mill machinery and
engines for the Exposition.
, Mr. Perry Lyons, an old railroad engi-
neer, and latterly employed as engineer of a
coffin factory in the Twenty.tirst Ward
near Eighth street, is now private watch
man on duty in the West End.
Mr.. Kreis, formerly in the grocery bust
ness at the corner of Freeman avenue and
Eighth street, has built fine house on
, State street, near Prices Hill, where he Is
: keeping first-class grocery and daily mar
ket
James Denim recently invented hand
punch that works with a screw and lever
and can be made to punch hole through
, plate of iron one-half inch thick, the hole
, not to exceed three eghths of an inch in
diameter.
The building formerly occupied by Messrs
G. F. Neiber d Co., on Eighth street, is now
planning mill. They do all kinds of saving
, and planning for the trade. This firm il
building large addition to their factory.
The owners of distilleres on Gest stree
} have no cause to complain about the poo
| condition of the street now, as the city ha!
paved it well with powders, and hauling
this winter will be on solid road insteac
of through mud up to the hubs of thu
: wagons.
Mr.. R. H. Thornbury, the grocer at Al
West Pearl 43 West Court, and 141 Yves
, Sixth street, has just returned from th
: East, where he has purchased large lot o
teas, coffees ETC., and will be able to sup
ply his customers with first-class goods a
low rates.
Will James left this city some time ag'
to work in the Chicago Type Foundry, a
Chicago, but was disappointed after having
arrived there, on account of another mai
!, occupying the position he had gone to fill
There was some mistake in regard to tn
matter, and Will returned to the city las
evening.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad ha
Just received twelve new freight cars, 81,
fiat and six box. They were made b.
/ Barney & Smith, Dayton, 0. The proprie
! tors of the Fulton Car Shops have a con
g tract from this road for one hundred freigh
). cars, and one hundred are being manufac
tured at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Houses large and small are springing VI
all over the Millcreek bottoms, and it will
: not require many. years with the rapi'
progress of the present, to cover all tn
q available ground beyond the Southern
U Railroad. A large new school-house ha
v been erected recently, also a Catholi
, Church. The church is not large, but it l
tastefully but plainly built
i The Eureka Foundry Association have s
: much work on hand that they are com
> PEELED to run their works at night. Thi
foundry is rapidly ylncreasng in importanc
u among the iron manufacturers. 1t was es
G tabished by eight or ten molders who ha
) saved up considerable money and wer
compelled to be idle a good part of th
!, time in consequence of the strikes tina
: were of SO frequent occurrence some year