The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-07
Of brick-layers will begin laying the walls.
which are the heaviest ever built In this

Of brick-layers viii begin laying the walls.
which are the heaviest ever built in this
city.
In drive through Brightwood last week
Journal reporter counted twenty new
houses going up, and lt Is stated that az
many more will be erected at once. The
several manufacturing establishments To-
Gated there are highly prosperous. and the
Big Four shops are working more men than
ever before.
Knight N Jillson were never more busy
than now since natural gas was introduced
In the state Last week they shipped the
pipe Tor several plants. one going 20 Red
Key, Ind. which required sixteen miles OF
good sized pipe; saying nothing of the pipe
which will be needed to make connections
with the residences and storea
The knickerbooker Regulator Company,
which occupies the lower floor of the Dell
Block. corner OF Georgia and Pennsylvania
streets are pressed with business. This
regulator was the invention of an Indian
apoiis mechanic. and is proving q very
valuable one From employing q year ago
four men. this company has increased it's
force to eighteen men.
The Indianapolis bolt and machine works
are putting In two hve-ton capacity ele-
vators at the new Wright Block, on West
Georgia street, and one into the Everett
Block. Until the last few months business
men who wanted elevators were obliged 10
60 20 Chicago to get them. Now Indian
apoils mas two establishments. which put
in as good an elevator as there 10 construct
ed. twenty-six having been put In within
the last four months.
The Capital City Cloth-casket Company
has leased two rooms In the Lorraine Block
In which TO exhibit its samples. This
industry. which Is but few weeks old.
now has thirty men at work. and most of
them skilled IN the class of work they do,
some OF whom command Sl2 20 SIS per day.
The men composing the firm are all ex perts
IN the manufacture of this class of goods.
Onc OF Tue nrm says IL expects in few
weeks to be working double the present
force.
The indianapolis Char Company il 90
pressed with work that it will go to the ex-
pense OF putting a temporary roof on the
new building which 10 going mp when three
stories are done. 1t Is yet TO 90 three
stories mo-e. but the unfavorable weather
may delay brick laying. consequently they
take this method of utilizing q portion Of
the new building. This company Is now
employing large number more men than
Q year ago, and in few weeks will have
between five hundred and six hundred men
ut work.
T.. Rauh a. Sons have purchased the
ground inst southeast of the Union Station
train sheds. formerly part of the Eagle
machine works ground, on which they will
purposes. The Union Railway Company
has laid side-track 20 the new industry.
A. b. Gates & Co. having failed in getting
good title to the ground northeast corner
OF the Big Four tracks and Georgia street
are anxious to get this ground. and offered
an advance of 81, 500 on what they paid, but
the offer was declined.
Dropping into Chandler g. Taylor's the
industrial reporter asked how business W az
with this establishment. One of the firm
answered that their books of orders were
the best evidence and an examination
showed the following orders received i'm
the last ten days: Fifty horse DO wer
engine and boiler to Middletown.
Ind; fifty horse power engine and boiler
to CINCINNATI. o.; forty horse power
engine to Tucson. ArIz.: forty horse
power engine to Portland. Me-; sixty horse
power engine and one-hundred- horse power
boiler TO Antwerp. o.; forty horse pc wel
engine and boiler to HartsvilIe. Ind;
eighty-horse-power engine to Columbia,
S. c.; eight engines and eight boilers, max.
ing six carloads. to Portland, Ore; two
engines and two boilers TO City of Mexico
branch: = forty-horse- power boiler for 4.
q. UdeIl of this city, for his new plant in
Arkansas.