The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-10
OUR BUSY MEN.
Here and There Among Our Hives Of
Industry.

s. B. Wolf has been admitted as a part
ner in the firm of Adolph Meyer g. Co.
Mr.. Hill, one of our prominent citizens,
has erected two fine brick dwellings, three
stories each, on Mt Auburn.
Mr.. Geo. W. Rapp, the architect has just
completed the plans for large two-and-
one-half-story frame house to be erected on
Walnut Hills for Mr.. Strunk.
Three more furnaces have been added to
the Burgess Steel Works at Portsmouth.
This new mill will give employment to
about three hundred persons.
Our rolling mills are all running double
time, which fact goes to prove that pros
perity is once more dawning upon us, as the
iron trade is the criterion by which We can
judge.
z. B. Coffin, the grocer on Fifth street,
has admitted Mr.. A. B. Burton as a part
ner, and the business will be continued at
the old stand under the style of q. b. Cof-
| fin & Co.
The Tyler Hoe and Tool Works at Ironton,
O., have nearly compkted all necessary ar
rangements for business and have turned
out few hoes for samples. Thev expect
to do very good business in this line of
goods.
Howard Adams, an old-time Cincinnati
mechanic. has gone to Jacksonville, Flor
ida, for the purpose of recruiting his heal h,
which has been very bad of late. He will
remain until about the middle of May,
when he will return to his trade.
A good many Of our prominent West
End business firms are heavy losers in
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caused by the flooding of their cellars with
water from the broken sewer. Messrs
Wetterer and Charles Muth are among the
heaviest losers.
The large glass works of Day, Williams &
Co., situated at Kent, o., which have been
idle for nearly two years, are again in full
blast, the fires being kindled under them
for the first time few days ago. Mr.. G. 7.
Williams has brought out thirty expert
enced glass-blowers from Belgium.
Mr. ]. R. Kinsley, the gold and silver
platter on Sixth street, between Walnut
and Vine, has the contracts for plating the
stoves of most all the large manufacturing
houses Of this city and Louisville and Mem
phis. Business is getting brisk with Mr..
K, as fine horse and wagon that can be
seen flying around the streets with J. r.
Kinsley painted on the tail-board in large
letters will fully attest.
John and W. F. Howe & Co., have re-
moved their place of business, and now
occupy the elegant new store, No. 116 West
Second street. The following change was
effected January 1st: The business at the
WOODEN mills at Carrollton, KY, will be
carried on by John and w. f. Howe, re-
siding at CarrOllton, and the dry goods
commission business by John ].
Howe and Robert J. Howe at the new store
on Second street, all nder the firm name
of John and w. F. Howe & Co.
Mr.. G. H. Granger. dealer in painters
materials, and contractor for painting,
whose store and paint-sbop is situated at
No. 1876 Freeman avenue, has the largest
establishment of the kind in the West-end,
and has recently, in consequence of his
fast-increasing business. enlarged his store
and shop for the purpose of having better
facilities for the execution of large con-
tracts. He occupies a large two-story brick
building and glance around the interior
proves to the observer that the stock on
hand Is large and expensive one. Mr..
Granger is one OF our most prominent con-
tractors, and besides the numerous jobs he
is just now completing. he is estimating on
several others Of note.
A corps of scrubbers and sweepers have
been set to work to clean up the new
Eighth-street School-house, 80 that 1t can
soon be occupied. Mr.. Godfrey Ludwig,
the polite and obliging Superintendent OF
School Buildings deserves great credit for
the manner In which he has supervised the
building of this beautiful structure. He is
a man thoroughly known in business cir
cles in our city, having been a prominent
member of the old Volunteer Fire De-
partment, and later, while associated in
the carpenter and building business with
Mr.. Thomas jenkins, was the Captain of
the famous No. 8 Marion" on Cutter
street. No better man, as to honesty and
ability, could have been chosen for the po.
sition Of Superintendent of School Build.
ings than Mr.. Godfrey Ludwig.
Among the hives of industry with which
the Champion City, Springfield, Ohio,
abounds the establishment of Foos q Co.
stands out in prominence. At this estab-
| lshment what is known across the States
as the champion Tub and Bench Wiring
er" is manufactured. We strolled through
the place on Thursday in company with
prominent member of the firm, and from
him learned the magnitude of the call for
this useful article, the popularity of the
Champion being SO great at present that
ten working hours with their full force of
hands almost fails to keep up with the de-
mand. The frame of the Champion is made
entirely Of malleable iron, in which are in
serted Moulton's patent white rubber rolls,
which alone speaks for itsexcellence. The
Champion we recommend to our readers as
model of durability.