The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30
OUR BUSY MEN.
Here and There Among Our Hives OF
Industry.

Workmen are busy laying new curves in
the Elm-street Railroad track at the cor
ner of Fifth street.
G. Cowie & Co., the boot and shoe
makers, are occupying one OF the hand
some new stores on Vine street, in the Wig
gins block.
Glen's block, on the southwest corner OF
Fifth and Race streets. is nearing compile
tion. 1t will be when finished handsome
six-story building.
Messrs Hrschine 4 Wilson, the steam
engine buyers, have gone to Florence, Ind.
where they expect to purchase the ma
chinery of couple of large grist mills
Swift's iron and steel works started up
lively yesterday morning, after having laid
idle for some days. Their mill is situated
in Newport, KY, on the Licking River.
The Louisville Short Line office at the
corner of Fifth and Walnut streets, will,
wheii furnished, be handsome one, and
will be described in our Busy Men Depart
ment.
Messrs Woodside & Baldwin are the only
house in West Liberty, o.. who deal in mar
BILE and granite. This they make speciality,
and are putting up some extremely ele-
CANT work. 'y
Mr.. Geo. Hemler, the polite and efficient
foreman for Messrs. Hoeffinghoff q Laue,
has been laid up for five weeks with rheum-
atism, and will probably not be able to re-
turn to his duties all winter.
J. s. Packer, of West Liberty, o.. who
claims to have the finest stock OF furniture
in the place, reports Christmas sales in his
line unprece IDENTITY large. West Liberty is
a live place somehow of late.
The Blymyer Manufacturing Company
have closed down until after the holidays
and are taking account Of stock. Mr..
Blymyer gave each emyloye large tur-
key on the day before Christmas. 49,
Messrs. Bettman. Bloom & Co., the whole
sale cloth dealers, of No. 30 East Pearl
street, will soon move into No. 81 East
Pearl street, where there is being new
hydraulic elevator erected for their accom-
mediation.
J. D. Samelson & Co., merchant tailors
and M. Bauer, gents furnishing goods,
will occupy stores in the Virgins building
and the Louisville Short-lne have rented
the corner store. The entire first floor has
now been rented.
Mr.. c. w. Bowles has opened new in
dustry in Urbana o., that bids fair to be-
come one of the most extensive of its kind
in any of the interior cities of the State
He has established a soap factory on a large
scale, and proposes to make medicated soap
leading feature of the business.
One of the new stores in the fine build.
ing erected on the corner of Fifth and
Vine streets, will be occupied as hair
dressing and shaving parlor by the promi-
nent barber, Fountain Lewis. He is fit
ting it up in first-class style, with large mir.
rors, dresslng-cases, and permanent wash
basins.
The large bolt and nut works of l.. M.
Da, ton, in Newport. KY, are rushed with
business, and Mr. Dayton has again been
compelled to build new addition. This is
one of the largest establishments of the
kind in the Western country and runs full
time the whole year round. 1t is only
short time since the factory removed from
this side of the river.
Fossler, Green & Co., manufacturers of
carriages at Bellefontaine, o., report the
holiday trade so thick that they sold them
selves out of stock completely before Christ
mas. and Tapped over into the new year
with some fresh orders. Mr.. Green is also
Chief of the Fire Department of that city,
but retained stock enough in that to sit
down on any possible fire that may make
its appearance there.
Joseph Hoonhorst & Co., the sheet-iron
workers, have contract for the building
of three beer coolers for prominent brew
cry firm of this city. They are lS feet by
6 feet and 1917 inches deep, having parti-
tions and spaces. They also made three
CHARTERS for firm at St. Paul, MINI. Mr..
Connolly, the junior par ner of the firm, in
one of the most experienced sheet-iro
workers in this city.
The enterprising firm of Hoeffinghoff 4
Laue, whose large establishment is situated
on the corner of Lawrence and Front
streets, is doing brisker business than
f"undries generally do at this season of the
year. Among the many large contracts
they have on hand is one from Charles T.
Dumont for two steamboat cylinders eight
feet six inches long and twenty inches d.
ameter, and another for three hydraulic
rams for Kreiger, Burkhardt 4 Co. This
firm also has the permanent contract for
the castings used by Theodore J. MCGOWAN
g. Co. in the manufacture of tobacco presses,
columns for Mt A dams Inclined Plane, J.