The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-30

Reports from their English and cont.
mental warehouses are very favorable and
indicate q revival of trade. They are
making heavy weekly shipments Go these
markets. They are shipping three cars OF
desks this month to San trancteco. and
trade reports from the Pacific coast are
very good. Large orders have been re-
ceived from the government. and thetde-
partments, in their proposals. for once
furniture. specify desks and tables as made
by the indianapolis Cabinet Company. :
The Indianapolis Frog and Switching
Company was OH Saturday last awarded the
contract to furnish all the crossings.
switches. ETC.. for the street railways at
Evansville. The contract calls for $50. 900
worth OF work. and was secured in New
York By q representative Of the company.
New York capitalists being behind the i'm
p~rovements.
A committee of the Indiana Coffee-roast-
ing Company. which is composed of the
wholesale grOcers of this city, last week
visited Dayton TO examine a new coffee
roasting plant recently built there: The
committee was so much pleased with the
plant that the com will probably
duplicate 1t. The exact location tor the
Indianapolis plant has not been decided
on. but probably will be this week.
The Citizens Street-railway Company
has completed its additional building. and
now has under one roof. a building 100
feet in width by 125 in length. The com
pany is putting in another Wheelock en-
CINE. five hundred horse power. a com-
plete duplicate of the one now running. and
two dynamOs of $50 horse power capacity.
1t Is understood that this power will be
utilized in running the State far ground
line.
The Terre Haute Brewing Company Is q
new enterprise In the city. being q branch
of the Terre Hsute Brewery. This COM
pany purchased OH West street. just south
of the Vandalia tracks, three acres of
ground. on which il has erected q cold
storage house. office. stables. etc.. covering
most of the ground. They have seven
wagons In service here. and the agent says
are doing o much better business than they
expected to SO soon after establishing the
branch.
The railroad shops 8re unusually busy.
working full time and fuu-handed. mostly
on repair work. The railroad companies
are now using their new equipment TO snch
an extent. while traffic is light. as to en-
able the general repairing of the older
equipment. At B~rightwO0d nearly 500 men
are at work at the Pennsylvania shops.
over 400 men at tho old Big Four shops. l25
men at the Peoria & Eastern shops. West
Sid siXty-ive men; at the indianapolis *
Decatur shops l0) men. and at the Belt
road shops forty men.
For the first time In two years every
room in the Board of Trade Building is &C.
cupied. and all except five rooms by grain,
produce and provision commission mer-
chants. This Is q more important item
than may seem on the face of ii. as it Is
evidence that as q grain, produce and pro-
vision center Indianapolis IS making some
advance: although 1t cannot reach its old
position as a grain center SO long as the in
terstate-cOmnerce law so dIScrImlDateS
against such points as indianapolis. As q
produce and provision Wholesale market.
however. Indianapolis is making good ad-
vance.