The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-01

rescued such proportions thatIit could not
be done in It's present limited quarters, and
an opportunity opened at Springfield to &c.
cure buildings suitable to extend it's MANU-
facture, and they were purchased.
The Reliance Ak factory has been 30
pressed with orders this summer that it
has not yet taken its usual summer shut.
down of two or three weeks. 1t seems
strange to go into this establishment and
notice shipments of the AK manufactured
to New England, as was the case on
Wednesday last. Shipments were made
the same day to Montana, Colorado and
New Mexico. and also to Philadelphia.
Thomas Chandler, of the firm of Chand-
Ter 81 Taylor has returned from a trip
through Mexico. which was valuable one
to the company through the introduction
OF engines this establishment builds. These
works. last week, shipped two carloads of
machinery to Seattle. Wash, one to Port
land, Ore, one to Slater. Mo-. and one to
Chicago and the outlook, Mr.. Chandler
states. could not we'll be more promising.
Parrott g. Taggart have completed the
improvements to their bakery, and now
give employ ment to 135 people, thirty of
whom are girls. and the number OF the lat
ter employed is to be increased. So great
has been the improvement In the quality
of bread and cakes made by Indianapolis
bakeries the last few years that the num-
Der of families who depend largely on the
baker to furnish their product ia greatly
increasing.
The Parry Manufacturing Company this
morning commences the erection of another
building, two stories high, 265 feet in
length By 100 In width, running south from
Garden street to Pogue's run. The i'm
provement is but a temporary one, but is
made necessary from the fact that should
they purchase the ground spoken of last
week 1t will be midsummer. 1893, before
they could get the new buildingsup, which
will be built on an extensive scale and as
nearly as possible tire-prOof.
1t has been q gseat year for the ice men,
had ali he could do. Most of the ice cut in
this immediate territory Ia exhausted, and
shipments of both natural and artificial
ice In here are larger than ever before
known. Ice is low. and more families than
ever before use it. The last three weeks
ice wagons have been In use eighteen out
of twenty-four hours. and shipments of ice
through here south are heavy beyond prece-
. dent. Although there was an excellent and
unprecedentedly heavy crop secured last
winter. it will be well cleared out if the
weather the remainder of the season
should be no warmer than ordinarily.
Among the orders received last week by
Nordyke 81 Marmon Company were in
Cluded orders for complete Hour and corn
mill plants at Austin. Mimi, Cloverdale,
Ind. Newton. Kan, Grapevine, Woodlawn
and Sulphur Springs, Tex, Henderson
Vile, n. C., Warrick. Ca. Memphis Tenn.
and large orders for roller mills and BRAN
packers from Litohfeld. ILL.,. Cedar Falls.
Ia. ST. Louis, Mo-. and Salubris. Ida. A
study of the geographical loca tions of the
points from which these orders como 10
suggestive of the amount of territory COW
cred TO secure business In this line. and also
that the orders must of necessity be of no
mean proportions to warrant the outlay in
Cured in sending representatives to points
so widely diverRing.
The new laundry op West. Maryland
street will doubtless be one of the best
equipped in the West. The Atlas engine
works are now putting in one hundred
horsepower engine and q l5O-horse- DO wer
boiler, and the Indianapolis bolt and ma
chime works are putting in one of their i'm
proved freight elevators. which is pro-
nouneed by those who have examined it to
be the most com plete and reliable elevator
yet constructed. It's capacity 10 six thou
sand pounds. 1t can be utilized for q pas
senger as we'll as freight elevator. All of
it's appliances are of an automatic charac-
ter. which makes the elevator safer and
move more promptly. While it has so great
a carrying capacity, it is not clumsy OF
awkward In lite movement In the Laundry
it starts on the lower floor. going to the
fourth story, tho height of the building.