The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-01
OUR BUSY MEN.
Here and There Among Our Hives Of
Industry.

huultlOu 10 Cnelr carriage IdCCOry. luey
will have the largest and most thoroughly
appointed establishment of the kind in the
city.
Business is brisk at the State Grange
store. Colonel Hill reports that farmers
are buying more literally than ever this
spring of seeds and agricultural imple-
menta
Mr.. Charles H. Jackson has resumed his
connection with w. H. Taylor & Co. This
firm, in their new location, have one of the
finest stores In their line of trade to be
found in the West
Smith. Hewitt & Co., of Chicago, have
established branch Office for their busi-
ness in this city at 81 West Sixth street.
Mr.. w. T. Foy is the manager. He knows
all about lightning rods.
Mr.. Chas. E. Moore, of West Sixth
street, says We may expect full supplies of
strawberries, green peas and beans BY April
18th or Goth. The first shipment to arrive
will be from Mobile, Ala.
The Emery Brothers have advanced the
rents OF their Arcade stores an aver
age of about 20 per cent, under the influ-
ence of the business boom and the in
creased popularity Of these shops for
jewslry and other light trade.
Messrs. Wilkinson & Mcintyre, who are
in the grocery business on Elm street, two
doors below George, are enjoying fine
trade in their line, their goods being all
fresh and of the best quality. They also
supply many families living in our i'm
mediate suburbs.
The latest sensation Is the proposed open
ing, in the neighborhood of Fountain
Square, of harbers saloon to be run on
the five-cent tate. 1t is promised to be
first-class, twelve chairs, with experienced
operators, furniture and all surroundings
equal or superior to anything Of the kind
in the city.
Alfred White, ESQ.,, is about erecting
quite extensive works at Spring Grove,
and will move the manufacturing part of
his Fifth-street establishment to that loca-
ton. The new place is contiguous to the
railroad, which will be of great advantage.
He will also have ample room to operate
his new steam machinery for dressing and
polishing marble and granite.
Messrs. Huntington & Co.'s -four mill on
Webster street is now running to its fullest
| capacity. They have lately made very ex-
| tensive additions, and have added a new
Corliss engine of seventy horse power
During the stoppage of the mill, forseveral
weeks, their celebrated brand of -four,
| "Kohinoor," became very scarce in the mar
ket. House-keepers will be glad to know
that they have resumed its manufacture.
The beautiful new building on George
and Race streets opposite Shillito's, built
| for the Phoenix Insurance Company by the
Emery Brothers, is receiving its finishing
touches, the elegant plate-glass windows
having been just put in. The upper stories
are leased for term of years, we under
stand, to the Phoenix Insurance Company,
that will be elegantly accommodated with
an extensive suite of spacious rooms. The
south store on the ground floor is to be
occupied by ]. M. Davis as a shoe store.
The other two stores are not yet rented.
The Woodlawn House Building Company
have perfected their organization, and the
books are now open to receive subscriptions
for stock. The directors intend to proceed
Immediately to the erection of several
houses upon the Company's grounds
| Woodlawn is one of the pleasantest sub
urbs within half an hours ride of Cincin-
natl, and the plan upon which the Com
pany proposes to operate presents several
features that recommend it strongly to the
attention of those desiring to purchase
pleasant homes on easy terms of payment.
w. w. Bostwick & Co. are very busy, and
working their mandatory to its fullest Ca
| receiving some large orders for their patent
extension folding iron gates and gratings.
These they are furnishing for the new
lunatic asylum at Richmond, Va, and also
| for the new Music Hall at Chicago. These
gates have been adopted by tine New York
Elevated Railroad Companies, and are fast
coming into use in Warehouses, public in
stitutions and private residences. A COM
mittee having the matter in charge of ap-
plying them to our County Courthouse
have examined this device, and we under
stand are very favorably impressed with its
merits.
Attracted by the handsome illustrated
catalogue of the Champion Iron Fence
| Company of Kenton, Ohio. we looked
other day, and were surprised at both its
extent and the beauty Of the wares they
make. The works, owing to increasing
trade, have Just been doubled in extent,
and are pushed to their utmost capacity
| to supply orders from all sections Of the
county. 1t is now the largest manufac-
turing firm in Kenton, and its business
thus far this season is fully twice the
amount ever before done in the same time.
The Company consists Of Ed. 9. Parrott,
President, of Dayton, O.; w. II. Young
Vice President; Henry Price, Secretary.
and James Young, Treasurer, the last three
of Kenton. VIM. Siefert, thorough me-
chanic, is foreman. Among the operatives
who can not do without the STAR we note
the names Of Jacob Born, James Huber,
James Richardson, A. Ault, Charles Rich
ards and John Reagan.
Quite party of gentlemen assembled at
the Ohlsen Wagon Works on Tuesday af-
ternoon to witness the trial of the new cal
Hope, which has Just been completed at
that establishment for Messrs Forepaugh
& Co.'s Circus The calliope itself is the
nne built In Boston for the Centennial Ex-
position, and is considered the best instru-
ment of the kind ever produced. Messrs.
Forepaugh purchased it and shipped it
here, where they have had several
of their wagons built this win
ter. The engine attached to 1t Is
a model of mechanical skill and the wagon
is one OF the handsomest and most thor
oughly built ever put upon the road. The