The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-20

linson Hall seems to have given renewed in
terest in floral displays all occasions where il
is appropriate.
Plans and specifications being prepared
Tor eniarg1nC the Fletcher Bank building. lie is
proposed 10 tear down the building on the east
side and extend the bank building 10 the alley,
the style of architecture to be of the same char
acter as the bank building now occupied by the
banking company.
The mania for milk-shake machines promises
to ex>~ed that of last year with the coming
OF warm weather. Already one establishment
which manufactures milk-shakers has had or
ders sent in for one hundred and sixty shakers.
Ihey expect TO manufacture aud sell oce thou
sand or more between now and May l.
Inc poultry packers have been tightening
their holdings in their cold storage houses at
Heiy rate. The last week heavy shipments
were made 10 Cleveland and Detroit, as we'll as
70 the Eastern markets. A couple of weeks OF
As god demand that of the last week will
Wen clear the cold storage houses OF their stock.
Cones & Son, manufacturers of overalls and
garments OF that character, who were recently
burned out in the fire on South Meridian street,
or the lire as to get 200 women at work. and be-
lofe the close of this week will have 400 en-
ployed, and by the middle of next month will
furnish employment to 500 men and women.
The Hadley Shoe Company is pressed for
room that 1t is seeking new quarters and is ne
gotiating with Mckee & Branham to occupy the
two upper stories of the block which that
firm is to erect at once on the corner of Georgia
and Meridian streets-a building which is to be
four stories high, pol feet in length by 30 in
width The company will then largely increase
it's force.
The United States encaustic tile-works made
q large shipment of thing to Fulton, Mo-. to be
USED In an insane asylum in process of building
at that point. They natural gas at
this estabiishm emit and it is doing admirably.
The superintendent says that thing made by
tEls heating process they find to be decidedly
superior in quality to that made when coal has
been used.
contract for a roller process Touring mill,
costing over So, 900. has been received from Don
Jesus Mancellus, of Puebla. Central America
by the Nordyke g Marmon Company This is
the first roller mill ever erected in Central
America. Much OF the -four now made in that
country is made by pounding the wheat in a sort
OF mortar and sitting it in wire hand Sieve bile
the wheat is threshed under the feet of mares
and oxen and tossed in the air 10 separate the
chat.
Architects are already beginning to feel the
coming boom in building in this city this year.
and almost without exception have more work
on hand than in the latter part of February for
MANY vears, In fact sine 1872 Plans and speci.
ncauons for numerous cottages and several fine
residences are being prepared. and indications
are that more large business blocks to be
erected than in any former year in the history
OF indianapolis. Parties contemplate purchas-
ing ground on Tennessee street, north of the
v MON tracks, on which to erect some business
blocks, and it is predicted that Tennessee street
for two squares north of the Union Depot will,
within the next three years. be lined with whole
sale houses. Pennsylvania street north of the
Union tracks is another street on which great
improvements are anticipated.