The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
Tndustr,oI aod Trade Nctes.

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The new company which purchased the Sinker
& Davis machine shops and foundry. begins
operation to-day. zzs9
The indianapolis coffin works and the In
dianapolis Glue Company are both heating their
boilers with natural gas.
An extensive crockery manufactorypn now To-
Gated in New Jersey, is considering the estae-
fishing of plant in this city srA
On Thursday of last week the Indianapolis
cabinet-works shipped four carloads Of desks to
New York. to be exported by one housess
The Broad Ripple Natural-gas Company last
week contracted with knight & Jilson for six
miles more pipe. varying in size from four to
eighG inches e
The Pneumatic Company is just Completing
the work of putting in an EXTENSIVE plant at
Pullman. which required in it's manufacture
over 100 tons of iron.
The Indianapolis Stove Company will on
Wednesday sbnt down for few days, 70 make
Improvements which will considerably increase
it's productive capacity. ~ a.
Cones & Son, manufacturers of overalls. have
| got their productive capacity fully up TO that
previous the fire. Their products last
month averaged 1000 garments day. s4s
Sinker 6 Davis last week received an order
from Fond Du Lac for another est of large boil
ers. A few days ago they made shipment OF
four boilers to that point for brewery.Eaa
The Atlas Engine-works last week received
an order from San Francisco, Cal, for Gig hit
complete outfits of engines and boilerssI They
pressed with orders as to be obliged to
| work over time
The indianapolis Novelty Manufacturing Com
pany, among other things, is turning out the
| Cyclone patent churn at the rate of 600 a. week
| and shipp ing them to all parts Of the country
| where butter IL made
A. Minter, stave manufacturer. gives employ
| ment to nearly three hundred men at his estab-
| lishment in the city and branches in the eoun-
| try. Most of the timber is shipped here in the
| rough, and then is dressed and shipped East
Knight & Jillson last week placed in position
| their monster Sanders patent pipe cutting
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any sized pipe up to sixteen inches. 1t has the
largest capacity of any piDe-cutter in West.
At the Eagle machine-works the force slarge-
| ly employ ed on the manufacture of thresbers
| and stackers. The numerous inquiries for both
machines leads the house to believe that the de-
mand this year 10 TO be largely IN excess OF that
| of 1897.
| Parties who own an extensive crayon manu-
| factory in New England were in the city Satur-
| day prospecting for location, and the manager
| says that it is quite probable that they will
locate a branch here If they do not remove their
whole plant TO Indianapolis
As the spring-like weather draws near the
manufacturers Of milk shakes report the OK
dsrs for machines coming in at the rate of 100
| day instead OF 100 week. One house last
| week shipped 300 miik-shakes, many of then
going into the New England States.
| In the year 1887 Otto Stechhan turned out at
| his factory As, $50 lounge frames. OF this num-
| Der over so per cent. were upholstered before
shipped. The cash receipts of the establish
meut last year were s275. 600. and he expects to
| increase the business $50, 900 this year
| C. a. Gillette in the last thirty days, has
| shipped thirty seven car loads of Brentwood
material So great is the demand for this class
| of work that he is largely increasing his pro-
ductive capacity by putting in new machinery
| and increasing the number of his hands 80
FL. B. Smith, manager of the Indianapolis
distributing house of tie Oliver Chilled Plow,
Company, says that strikes are not troubling
the farmers, as their orders for plows the first
quarter of 1883 fully 80 per cent. in excess,
of those in the corresponding three months 1887.
Holiday & Wyon, wholesale manufacturers
of harness, have moved their mandatory into
more commodleus quarters in the rear OF their
leather store, and now have one of the largest
establishments of this character in the Vest
Recently the house received several good orders
from Pacific coast points. -
The Atlas engine works are building q fine
200 no rse-power engine which is TO be used in
running the electric-lieht plant at the 9csnten-
NAL exhibition in Cincinnati It 10 to be one off
the best engines ever turned out at the works
Several new and valuable features will be in
troduced in its construction. $40
o. S. Gillette brentwood manufactures at.
Brightwcod, is several weeks behind in hts
dsrs and is working his force fourteen hours
day. Threatened strikes in tho North west have
caused carriage and wagon manufacturers to
press orders for this class of material lest the
movement of freights should be stopped.
G.. E. Field. who looks after the interestsiof
the Remington type writer in this territory
states that the first quarter of this year double
the number of typs-writers sold ia this
State over the sales of the first three months of
1887 He says that there is great desire
among ladies. especially, to learn to use the
type writer. He estimates that there over
one hundred young ladies in this city employed
as type-writers in offices, and the number Is dali
ly increasing. H T. Condo. who represents the
calgraph IN this city, reports, as well, large IN
crease in sales.