The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-07
industrial Notes.


ceipts of grain are so light on account of
bad country roads.
The Sheridan Brick Manufacturing Com
pany has over 8, 0G0, COO brick already sold
to go into new buildings in Indianapolis
this year.
Fiske & Co.. carriage manufacturers.
among other improvements to their estab-
lishment, have put In an elevator and run
it by electric power.
L. c. Atkins 81 Co. will this morning
commence running ten hours. The pay
rolls show that the company now employs
over three hundred men.
Hetherington & Berner are building for
their own establishment monster punch
and sEearer. Its weight is 1900 pounds,
and it will cut through plate Ia inch In
thickness.
Hetherin gton q Berner have added to their
establishments a boiler-shop. The building
is lS9 feet long by twenty-eIght wide. New
machinery has been placed In the old boil
er-sbop building.
The Sensitive governor works Company
is preparing to manufacture dynamOs and
motors Indianapolis IN in fair way to
become a great center for the manufacture
of electrical appliances.
Dean Brothers had one order last week
from an extensive manufacturer in st.
Paul, Mimi. for eight pumps. Business
which for q few weeks with them has been
rather quiet. 10 now active.
The National Starch Manufacturing Com
pany last week contracted for three more
large boilers. When in position the CON-
pany will have in use ten boilers OF an
average of $50 horse power each.
Cassidy. Carter & Co. is the name of a
new manufacturing company which is to
manufacture ornamental glass. Wright IL
&c. are putting in the shaftIng for the
establishment and other needed machinery.
The Terre Haute Carriage and Buggy
a. tAfrNr tn NIL rfna
this market. g. III. Shower IS to represent
the works. Mr.. Shower has increased his
storage room by taking in rooms les and 10
Last Market street.
The Premier steeI-works were obliged TO
suspend operations for part OF last week
owing TO the breakage OF q thirty inch roll.
They are getting things In readiness for the
new bloOming-mill which will be shipped
from Philadelphia this week.
The Indiana Bicycle Company has in
creased its force to 40 men. and is turn
ing ont 80 per cent. more bicycles than at
any time since they commenced operations
and they find it difficult to fill orders as
promptly as they would like tn.
The indianapolis Harness ma nufacturng
Company is settled in Its new building on
men is to be increased by twenty-five. The
company has built up an extensive trade
In Texas and other South western States.
A company which has been organized for
the manufacture OF yeneerings on an extern
sIve scale. has purchased two acres of
ground from the L., n. a. X G. (MOnonl
Railroad Company near the point that the
Monon crosses the Belt road north of the
city.
Fletcher 81 Thomas have in the last two
days received kilograms ordering large
Quaker brick making machines, engines,
ETC.. for plants in Vallejo. Cal. and San
Francisco. and one for Little Rock. Ark.
Such contracts help several manufacturing
interests here.
Another bicycle manufacturing company
has been organized. the Novelty Bicycle
Company, which has leased the three story
building on North Delaware street. just
above Ohio street, to manufacture in. The
Jenny Motor Company is building TWEEN
ty-horse- power motor TO run the plant.
The yaa Camp Canning Company is rap
idly getting things in shape to resume
operations. The new engine house. 32x22
feet, and the boiler house. 5Ox5O will be
completed this week, and the new engine
and boilers Will be- put in place as soon as
possible. as 1t IS the intention of the COM
paay. in 1892 to manufacture more goods
than in any former year.
The Malleable iron-works. Haughville, is
one of the most active industries in this
section. Tho pay-rolls show that 6i3 men
are employed at the establishment. aud the
works are kept 80 busy that there is no
time to work up dissatisfaction among the
hundreds of employees. This company is
credited with paying better wages than
any establishment of like character East
or West. which accounts in large measure
for the harmonious relations between the
management and employees.
An album series of seventeen photo
graphs of scenes and incidents pertaining
IL the late strike were made by Mr.. +. A.
Hetherin gton with one of the magazine cam
eras that the firm OF hetherIngton Il Hib-
ben are inanuf tcturing in this city. These
pictures were the only successful ones
made of these events. on account of the
gloomy light of the past few days which
caused conditions unfavorable TO tho pho
tograpber. Ii is claimed 10y the makers of
this camera thar it VIII make shutter. or
so-calied instantaneous views, III less light
than any other camera made. The lenses are
made by DaTlot. of Paris, expressly for