The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-11
NEWS OF THE FACTORIES
What Is Being Done in the Workshops
of Indianapolis and Her Suburbs.
Indianapolis Chair COmpany's Big Works
Cabinet Makers Union-Greatest Lounge
Factory - Industrial Notes.

The Indian apolis Chair Company will
common &c work in its new building on
Wednesday next. most of the new ma
chinery being in posi- tion. The company
Will. in the early spring, tear down the old
building fronting on New York street and
in it's place erect a new building, 40 feet
long by 40 wide and seven stories high.
The main building of the chair-works will
then be 3S5 feet long by 120 wide and seven
stories high, with tower $50 feet high. in
which tower is water tank containing
500 barrels of water, which can be used In
any room in the immense buildings on
moments notice to extInguish fire. The
new building has an electric plant which
furnishes 800 lights. The power of the
works is furnished by $50 horsepower
Brown-Corliss engine. 10O-horse-power
Atlas engine. and a 20-horse and 10-horse-
power Sturdevant engine. The business of
the works for 1891 amounted to 100000.
and it is expec ted that with their increased
capacity it will, this year, reach $1,000 600.
There will be employed at the establish
ment. when the improvements are COM
pleted. 600 men. There is not State or
Territory in tho Union that they do not re-
ceive orders from, and shipments of their
goods are made to foreign markets.
One of the busiest places in the city is
that of the Cabinet-makers' Union. This
plant Is the outgrowth of a strike in the
year 1864. Spiegel. Thoms & Co. had
strike and twelve men who had property
and some money incorporated as COM
pany. with twenty-five years as a limit of
existence. A number of others of the en-
ployes went with them. but took no stock.
The company erected a building two hum
dred feet long and fifty feet wide and four
stories high. But few years passed be-
fore they were obliged to enlarge. At the
end Of the twenty-five years the company
wac reorganIzed. put six of the original in
corporators being with the new concern,
others having died or made plenty of
money and retired. To-day this ranks as
one of the largest furniture manufacturing
eeta blishmentS in the West.
The Indianapolis Frog and Switch Com
pany has been awarded the contract to
furnish all the crossings. cross-overs and
frogs for q cable road twenty-six miles
long v inch Is to be constructed at BaIti-
more within the next twelve months, con-
struction work already having been begun.
Through this contract she frog and switch
company gets $4,000 worth of work. The
company last week made the last shipment
of crossings. frogs. ETC., for the cable road
on broadway. New York. This road was
but twelve miles in length. and from this
contract the company received over $50. 600.
The railroad shops are working full time
and full handed. At the Brightwood shops
nearly five hundred men are employed; at
the Pennsylvanian Company's shops $50
men; ct the Big Four shops in the eastern
part of the city 125 men; the Cincinnati,
Hamilton 81 Dayton shops thirty men; at
the shops of the Peoria Il Eastern road.
West Side ninety men, and at the Indian
apolis. Decatur d Western shops one hun
dred men. General repair work in all de-
partments is now SO heavy as to keep the
shops very busy.
By July /, 1892. Indianapolis will be able
to boast of having the largest lounge fac
tory IN the world. Thomas Madden last
week purchased 100000 brick and other
material for the erection of, his additional
buildings. and when comtleted he will
have 5000 feet of floor room. The new
building is to be of the same dimensions as
the one now occupied, ana he expects TO
employ, when ready to occupy his new
building, 300 men, or 150 more than he now
does.
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