The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
OUR BUSY MEN
Here and There Among the Cincinnati
Hives Of Industry.

Mr.. Charles Bles will soon resume work
for Mr. Snodgrass. the contractor.
The old Arlington Hotel, OH Fifth street,
is to be rented out in suites of rooms to law
yers and brokers.
A new daily market and fruit store has
been opened in the Empire Building, on
Sixth street, below Smith.
Mr.. Christian Stager, Secretary Of the
Paper Hangers, has almost fully recovered
from the effect of his broken leg.
Corrugated iron is becoming very popu-
lar among the builders as roof material
that is both fire-proof and durable.
The Blymyer Manufacturing Company
discharged all but seven of their moulders
Saturday, not having work for them.
The fine, new building now under course
of erection on Vine street below Fourth
will soon be completed and ready for occu-
patton.
Mr.. Armstrong formerly of London,
Ohio, and for some time resident of Gin
cnnati, is now practicing law at Chicago,
illinois.
Captain Hiram DePeck is in the East
looking after the interest of the patent
dash company, situated on Broadway and
Hunt streets
Messrs. l. and E. Greenwald are at pres
ent receiving very heavy orders from diff
ferent parts of the country for large sta
tionary engines.
Messrs. Waters & Co., of this city, have
just received reissue of their patent on a
neat little requisite to machinery, styled
THE Self-oler."
The Robinson Wagon Company have in
vented and patented new style of one
horse farm wagon. 1t is neat, compact,
strong and light.
The strikes among the coopers and
cabinetmakers have had tendency to agi-
tate the question of wages among some of
our machine shops.
The building, corner of Stone and Fifth
streets, formerly occupied by Williams &
kistner, is now used as a galvanized iron
and cornice works.
The Eureka Furnace Attachment was re-
Gently placed on the boilers at Messrs Lane
& Bodlel's large establishment. 1t is for
the purpose of consuming smoke.
Mr.. AL. Boatman for many years en-
ployed by the G., H. & D. Railroad in this
city, is conductor of Pullman car and
running from Chicago to New York. His
home is in Chicago.
At Samuel Wunder, Jr.'s sslaughter-house
yesterday afternoon there were killed some
of the finest and fattest looking sheep and
beeves that have been brought to this city
within the past four years.
Mr.. Charles Carnahan, son of Professor G.
A. Carnahan, is now working for s. A.
Grant, of Home street. He looks after the
envelope machine at the Exposition and
keeps it in running order.
Harry Goodman, an old Cincinnati boy
and timer by trade, arrived in the city
on last Saturday evening, and will remain
till after the Exposition closes. He intends
to pay all his old comrades visit
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad Com
pany are receiving instaments on their
contract for cars. There are two or three
hundred to be built in all, and they prob
ably will have received them before win
ter.
The large new building being erected by
Neihaus & Klinkhamer, the brewers, ad-
joining their old place. on the corner of
Race and Thirteenth streets, will have one
of the deepest beer cellars of any brewery
in the city.
All the large rolling mills of the city and
vicinity are still doing an unusual amount
of work. Some of them, whose facilities
are not so great, being compelled to oper-
ate two SETS of handsome at day time, the
other at night.
Charlie Reynolds, who was formerly a
bookkeeper for one of our large grocery
houses, but now a resident of New York
City, is in our city, where he will remain
for one week, and desires all his friends to
call on him at the Gibson House.
The old rckety buildings on Bank street,
, near Bayniller, are being razed, and a
, block of stone-front dwellings will be
, erected on the same site. 1t has been four
or five years since they were last occupied,
and they were an eye-sore to the people of
the neighborhood.
The work on the new Eighth-street School
house is progressing rather slowly, and ii
is feared that the drying out of the walls
will not be completed in time to install the
. children by the first OF January next. Il
would be rather risky for the children to
. sit in those damp rooms.
Tilden, Gray & Co. have recently estab
lished an agency at Room S4 Johnston
Buildings, where they represent the follow
c ing firms: Fitchburg Steam Engine Com
+ pany, Ashcroft's Steam and Hydraulic
: Gauges, Valley Machine Company anc
S other manufacturers. Mr.. Gray was for
D merly connected with the Niles Too