The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-17

manufacture harness varying In price from
So to S45.
The Central Chair Company has dlscon-
tInued working men overtime, finding that
but little Roadway is made in working
over ten of the twenty-tour hours. Instead
utilizing a portion of it's store-house for
manufacturing purposes.
Mention was made some weeks ago of
the Howard machine shops started on
South Mississippi street. MI. Howard,
after commencing on a small scale. now
has quite extensive machinery running,
and las been obliged to take additional
room to take care of the business he is get
ting.
Mr.. Hasselman states that business Is
improving with the Eagle machine works.
Last week there. We're shipped from the
works q complete saw-mlIl plant to Ran
dolph county. Indiana. another to the
southern part of Illinois and a third to
southern Indiana.
The briGhteninQ up of manufacturing
interests at Brightwood and the location
of the extensive Parry manufacturing
works near by. has created quite q stir in
real estate in that suburb. George Yandes
last week sold nine lots at $500 each,
another man sold seven lots at that figure,
and a third four lots at $3.50 each. The
| Yandes lots were offered last fall at Sis
I apiece, but no buyer could DO found.
The Reliance Edge-tool Company, an un-
pretentious concern, is becoming one of
lndianapolis's important industries. 1t is
the only Ak mandatory west of Cleve-
land. but ia shipping it's manufacture East,
as we'll as West. Last week il filled M or
der for fifty dozen axes. to 60 To Boston,
and twenty-five dozen to go TO Pittsburg.
Fifty dozen were shipped to st. Louis and
twenty-five dozen to Sioux City last week.
The Evening News of Thursday last
speaks OF q machine having been invented
in Paris. France. by which two persons can
wash one thousand dishes an hour. This
record can be beaten here at home. The
dish which Wright X Wright, OF
this city, manufacture is in use at the
Grand Hotel, and will wash dishes to per-
lection as fast as two men can place them
in the revolving wire baskets which pass
through the tanks.
The canned-goods packing establish
ments, OF which there are four, are closing
down for the season. In fact, two have al
ready shut down. The PRINCIPAL stock
packed by two of the houses was tomatoes,
while the others pack fruits and vegetables,
and are still running half the packing
season force. Mr.. Van Camp estimates that
I 1000 0 cans OF tomatoes have been put up,
when there should have been 600.0J0 cans.
The tomato crop this season was the poorest
of any year In the last five.
The Lilly Varnish Company is swimming
along very prosDerously. so much SO that
the company has decided to consider
adv increase it's productive capacity. The
works now turn ont twenty-five barrels Of
varnish a day. and It is proposed TO In
crease the capacity to fOrty-ivo barrels a
|. day. Last week the company was awarded
the contract 10 furnish the varnish for the
Walter A.. Wood Harvester Com pany. Nat
ural gas. Mr.. Lilly says. is proving a great
aid TO them; there Is no more burning of
stock. the heat being so even. The works
use two carloads of raw llnseed oil per
week, and large quantities of gums from
Africa, New Zealand and East India.