The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-09

it's force to eighty men, and is manufacture
ing $50 to 500 sets of harness n week The
company has large trade in Indiana, Ohio
and the Southwestern States.
Excavation is being made for the Hansen
Block, which fronts on MARYLAND street
and runs back TO Pearl street. q distance
of 210 feet The building Will be four
stories high. and o portion of it will be oc-
cupied by Baker & Randolph.
The Indianapolis Camera Manufacturing
Company IS steadily increasing its produc-
ton. As the camera becomes better known
orders are coming in for it from all direc-
tIons. Last week twelve cameras were
ordered by Philadelphia house.
Twenty-one brick y ards, where brick are
made by hand. will commence operations
In and near Indianapolis this morning.
The demand for brick is SO great that sew
eral yards where nothing was done last
year will be In full operation this season.
L. II. Lapham. general agent Of the In
dianapolls Frog and Switch Company was
called to New York last Friday to bid on
additional work on the cable roads OF New
York city. This establishment has already
done over 500 900 of work for this concern.
The Jenney Motor Company has just per-
feoted twin dynamo. or two dynamos in
in one. which it has shipped to a large plat
ing-works In Cincinnati. Itis claimed that
much better results can be obtained in
electro plating by thus combining two ma
chimes
The Citizens Street-railway Company is
tearing down a portion of tho company .
stables on South Tennessee street, and put.
ting up more substantial building, in
which will be placed additional Gynamos
and motors for doubling the electric power
of the plant.
The Sheridan brick-works are shipping
several hundred thousand brick to Chi
cagO. One of the Chicago contractors
writes to the company that its brick is so
much preferable to the dirty white brick
used so extensively in Chicago that the
company may look for more large orders.
NJ Rumely & Co.. thresher and reaper
manufacturers, have purchased the ground
on the northwest corner of Georgia and
Tennessee streets. formerly occupied as =
building and put up substantial brick
building in its place. 1U0 feet long by 20
wide.
The Indianapolis Cabinet Company re-
port very fine trade in desks quite a sat-
isfactory increase over last years business.
Amongst the carload shipments last week
were cars Tor the following points: Bntfa-
10. ST. LOUIS. San Francisco. Chicago, New
York. London. England, and Caracas. Ven
ezuela.
The Parry Manufacturing Company is
still adding to its force OF w0rkmen. Its
month. It's output for this year will be
about sixty thousand pianO-box buggies
and road wagons. and rs, 600 road carts
This is now by far the largest vehicle plant
in the world.
The Indianapolis terra Gotta works last
week secured the contract to furnish the
terra Gotta for a fine new courthouse to
be erected in MadisOnville. Hopkins coun.
~. Kentucky, and also for fine house
which Dr. Q. L. Matthews is to erect in
Louisville, Ky. In both cases the work
runs up into tho thousands of dollars.
Nearly all the lounge manufactures here
and there are eight of them-either have
enlarged or are preparing to enlarge their
works. In speaking OF this fact Thomas
hundred thoussDd-dollars' worth of work
to make as much profit as we did ten years
ago on fty-thousend-dollars' worth of
work, so sharp has competition become"
The Premier Steel Company has bought
one thousand tons OF new machinery in
Worcester. Mass. Colonel Cone is now In
Worcester attending to loading the ma
chinery. which. when placed in their plant
here, will make it one of the best equipped
In the country. The steel II" beams manu-.
featured by this company are in such de-
mand for bridge and house building that 1t
is almost impossible for 1t to keep up with
its orders.
AS predicted three months ago. private
consumers. as we'll as saloons, meat
markets. etc., are getting their ice cheaper
than in any season in the last ten years.
The competition between artificial ice
manufacturers and the dealers in natural
ice is so sharp that either is being furnished
to families at % cents per 100 pounds. Ice
dealers. however, are RrumbIIng. saying
year. and il need not be q surprise should
q pool of icemen be formed before real
summer weather sets in and prices sd-
vAnced.