The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18
MINOR CITY MATTERS.
To-DaY,a DoiugA.

FREENATURAL GAs-Citizens' meeting, Board
of Trade Hall, evening.
GRAND OPERA-HOUsE-The Wife," evening.
PARK THEATER-"Bunch of Keys" afternoon
and evening,
BATTLE OF ATLANTA CYCLORLMA-Market
street, between Illinois and Tennessee. day and
evening.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Y. W. G. T.U.-
True Friend Hall, When Block, 7:30 o'clock,
evening.
Industrial and Trade Notes.
Notwithstanding the dizziness of the -four
market the millers are increasing their pro-
ductiOn.
Geisendorff g. Co., are so pressed with or
ders that they are running their mill five
nights in the week until 10 o'clock.
The Indianapolis Cabinet Company will
this week break ground for the putting in
of foundations for it's two buildings.
Several of the machine shops which have
been working only nine hours during the
winter months, to-day begin on full time of
ten hours day.
ii. Hermann. manufacturer of dimension
stuff, is charging his works on South Penn
sylvania street and putting up handsome
front to his factory.
The Mccormick Binder Company has
rented the Adams & Sherman block as
storage house. 1t was formerly occupied
by packing house.
A. A. Barnes, proprietor of the Udell
WoOdenware-w works. is now working night
as we'll as day force, having fitted up his
factory with electric lights.
Shot never before sold as low in this
country as at present. One indianapolis
hardware house has taken advantage of the
market and laid in 1900 bags.
o. S. Gillette manufacturer of wagon ma
terials has contracted to furnish one estab-
llshment 800 pairs of shafts and the same
number of single-trees and crOss-barS daily
for one year.
The Cleaveland Fence Company has run
Its foundry and machine shop with full
force every day since it went into the new
factory Sept II, 1888. Last week this conf
pany largely increased its force.
The Indiana Cotton-warp Mill Company
is making extensive improvements to its
mill, and when the work is completed the
company will give employment to one
hundred or more men and women.
Dean Bros. are making the largest YER
tical pump that they have yet manufact-
ured. 1t will have capacity for pumping
1000 gallons per minute, and goes to an iron
manufacturing company at Savannah, Ga.
There is scarcity in the wool market
and one-fOurth and three-eighth grades are
exhausted A small order could hardly be
filled. The dealers would have done much
better if they had held the wool until this
| time.
Parties conversant with the situation
| state that with what has been shipped in
month there is nearly as much ice housed
| in indianapolis as in any March of previous
| years.
| The Indianapolis car-works are turning
| out eighteen box-cars a day for the Chesa-
| peake 81 Ohio road. The payroll of the
works shows nearly six hundred men at
| work In the main shops and repairing de-
| partment
| The Oliver chilled plOw-works have
| nearly four hundred carloads of plOws in
their indianapolis distributing house which
loads day. x little later the shipments
will be largely increased.
| The trade in raw furs, for this season. is
nearing its close. 1t amounts to about S75-
| 600 for the winters dealings Fewer pieces
have been handled than in 1888, but prices
| have ruled so much higher that the bust
ness about equals that of last year.
The Nordyke a. harmon Company has
1 lately completed two large mills in Ten
4 nessee, one for the Merritt Milling COmpa-
| ny, at MOrristOwn, of 300 barrels capacity,
and and one for sct the American Company, Nash
i four hours. This last named is the larg-
| est hOuring-mill south of the Ohio river.
| The weather has been so mild of late that
new brick will be on the market month
earlier than usual. The brick.makers will
ing prices dollaI3a thousand, or more, just
before new brick come on the market.
Last years stock, however, is nearly ex-
| hausted.
/ Indianapolis elevators, Saturday, con-
tanned but 2S5, AL bushels of grain. against
4S9,515 one year ago on the same date. Of
| this amount there are 5,251 bushels of corn.
against 202,5 bushels for the correspond
ing date in 1883; 1884 bushels of oats,
against 200, 795 bushels, and of wheat, 241, :
| 963 bushels, against 56, 100 bushels.
The Hon. Will Cumback delivered, in
Cincinnati, Thursday evening. at st. Paurs
Church. his very popular lecture on "The
| Model Husband" The audience was large,
| the number of young ladies present being
such as TO be noticeable. A keen apprecia-
| ton of the lecturer and his matter was ex-
pressed both by his hearers and the news
papers of Cincinnati.
The Parry Cart Company is putting in
an electric-iight plant, and in doing SO will
arrange for welding the tire for their
wheels by electricity, which is said to make
a weld superior to any other; This com,
pany, this morning, will add another
| large room to its buildings on South Illinois
street. which the WoOdburn-SarvernW Wheel
Company is vacating.
1t is stated that over two hundred cot
tages are being built with the money com.
ing from building and loan associations
| and in the near future, it is thought, dOu-
BILE that number will be under construction
| in the eastern as well as the western part OF
the city. There is large amount of build
ing going on just east of Woodruff Place
where fOrty-tve houses are in course OF
| cOmpletiOu