The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-11

Southern manufacturing establishments.
The Palmsrton Wrecking.frog Company, OF
this city. has recently received from the Penn
sylvania Company several orders for frogs.
The Eagle Machine-works Company on Satur-
day last shipped q johnson haine press to
Seattle, w. T., and another to San Francisco.
The Jenuey Electric-light Company last week
shipped plant TO Stockton, CAL, and also ma
terial to enlarge plant put in operation at San
Bernardino, Cal. recertiy.
b. Schwartz has purchased the ground re-
Gently occupied by the Hildebrand coal-yards.
and will erect thereon . large building in which
70 manufacture excelsior.
mandatory of broom handles is one of the
needs Of Indianapolis Fully 5000 brooms are
made here daily, and the handles are shipped
from Wisconsin by the carload.
Business with the hominy mills has improved
greatly Of late. and orders are now coming In
more freely than at any time for many months,
especially from New En- gland points.
The old paper-dish factory. corner Of Sixth
street and the c.. L, st. l.. & G. tracks, has
been converted into an excelsior mandatory.
where several tons of the material are turned
out daily.
The boilers, machinery. and in fact all the
remnants of the old Merchant iron rolline-mill
have been shipped to New Albany, to the De-
Pauw Brothers, who own the ground on which
the mill stood.
The United States Encaustic Tile Company
has been awarded the contract 20 furnish the
tile flooring for the new State-house that is be-
ing erected at Denver. Col. 1t win require some
$4,000 square feet
good deal In the way of improvements of late,
and now have ono of the largest varnish factor
les west of the mountains. This company ships
to nearly every State in the Union.
A. Burdsall. manufacturer of paints. has re-
Gently largely increased his productive capacity
He has recently made arrangements with several
Of the leading railroads of this and adjoining
States to furnish them with paints and oils.
Most of the Indianapolis furniture manufact-
urers will shut down for general repairs the
first two weeks of next month. Formerly this
was done in January, but they find that it 10
much better to do such work in the warmer sea-
boy Apprentices Wanted is posted in con-
spcuous letters on the door Of certain foundry.
So unusual il it nowadays for notice OF that
character to appear on the door Of manufact-
urine establishment that it excites considerable
comment
The bottom has dropped out of the manufact-
urine of r,ilk shakers. Establishments which
have been manufacturing and selling from 100
to $50 shakers per day are now selling less than
twenty five, and have about quit manufacturing
them.
Fifteen years ago Indian apolis was hardly
known IS point where raw furs were handled.
Galloway & Co began that business in 1876 and
the first year handled but $4,000 worth of
furs The last season they handled $57. 900
worth
Nordyds & Marmcn last week closed contract
for three complete roller Touring mills Of lar.s
capacity. One is to 60 TO Moscow. l. t.. seq
ond to Milford. Mich, and the third to Hooks
town. Pa In two cases they furnish engines to
run tho mills
Eight million Of new brick were thrown on the
market last week by the twenty yards in
md hon rif I'd 80 tha ly,lv,
dropped down to 81 per thousand. The demand
is so great that all the yards are kept busy de-
livering brick.
Last week hundreds Of cases of eggs were
shipped from here TO such points as Cleveland.
Pittsburg and Buffalo. In years past most Of
the shipments from this city have been made
direct to New York. Shipping to interior mar
kets promises better results.
It is quite evident that the times are hard
with the farmers. Agents of the moot improved
machinery In The wav of reapers. mowers and
threshers say Ii 10 difficult to sell implements of
this character One establishment does not ex-
pect to sell as many threshers by one-half as it
did last year.
One of the 'eypsiss encamped north of the city
is quite genius. Last week he visited several
of the machine-shops in effort to get one of
them to take hold of device for turning right
angle with shaftine without a mitre gearing.
1t is said to be quite an ingenious affair and pos
sibly practical.
The Parry Cart Company has decided not to
begin the manufacture Of bugeies extern
sive scale until next year. It will then have
plenty of room, the company will occupy
most OF the buildings which the Wood burn-Sar-
ven Wheel Company will vacate when its new
shops west OF the river are completed
The Indianapolis packers are shipping East
daily from five to seven tons OF poultry. The
shipments will increase from this time but
packers do not look for as large q business this
year as last. as under the interstate-com-
merce act shipments are being made from points
OF less Importance than Indianapolis.
Judging from the quantity of wool which has
already come on 70 the market dealers are of
the opinion that there will not be more than
two-thirds crop from this clipping. Up 10 the
present date the receipts. as compared with last
year, are so cent. lighter. but something
should be allowed for the lateuess of the season
Baltimore parties who were here last week
and looked over the Van Camp canning estab
lishment pronounced IL the largest and most
complete establishment Of this character they
had ever visited One of the visitors RI &C
there were canning companies which 90 a larger
business but not at a single house. Some of
the machinery the Van Camp company mas re-
Gently put in will accomplish as much in a day
in the way Of canning goods as would twenty
FIVE nen.
This Weeks Amusements
The Bennett & Moulton Opera Company have
been specially engaged for this. the last week Of