The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-11
industrial Notes.

Daggett e. Co., architects. have got set
tied I'D their new and commodlous rooms
In the Marion BLOCK.
The Builders Exchange now holds meet
ings In its rooms on South Pennsylvanla
street daily. at IL A. NJ.
There is hitch in letting the contracts
for the new Burford block. and bids for the
building are to be asked for again.
DR.. Alien. of the Surgical Institute, is in
the market for one million brick, and ex-
poets to close the contract this week.
The Jenney Electric Motor Company is
putting in q plant at the Home brewery.
The outfit for lighting, ETC., will be very
complete one
1t is Quiet times with the woolen-mills.
handed they are stocking up chiefly for
the next fall trade.
The Foster Lumber Company is erecting
an extensive addition to it's planning mill,
door and sash factory. The new building
Is three stories high.
Thomas Morris has contracted with j. f.
Shower TO put up three-stOry block of
modern style Of architecture at No. IS
South Meridian street.
M. X. FatOut has been awarded the con-
tract to erect the buildings for the Ameri-
can Canning Company. Last week $50, 600
brick were purchased for these buildings.
The Att as engine-works will have the
this week and it is expected that the Brew
cry will begin operations In couple of
weeks
Hibben u HetherlngtOn, manufacturers
of Photographic apparatus q new industry
In this city. are already pressed with work.
Their output IS now eighteen detective
cameras per week.
The Premier steel-works have closed
contract with Chicago parties to furnish
large amount of steel II" beams, varying
in length from twenty TO sixty feet The
contract amounts to nearly $4,000.
There is trouble among the florists.
There are now ten large establishments of
on smaller scale. The latter are disturb
ing matters by cutting prices. IL is claimed.
Noble g. Dalton, recently on South Me.
ridian street, have leased the buildings on
Indiana avenue near First street, and will
operate the planingmlll and other wood
scale than have their predecessors.
The water-works company holds its an
nuai meeting on the 10th of this month. at
which time the making of further extensive
improvements to the plant Will be taken
up and acted on. Among other things. il is
proposed to widen and considerably length
Ell the gallery.
works which were In the list operated by
the American Wheel Company when it
went under a financial cloud, but seven are
now in operation. 1t is stated. however.
they are turning ont as many wheels as did
the sixteen when they went into the hands
of O receiver
Frank S. Fishback and F. V. Chislett
have purchased fifty feet Just south Of
Mr.. Fishback's warehouse on South Penn
sylvania street. 1t will be covered with
house. thus giving building 100xl40 feet,
which will be devoted to general ware
house business.
A large force Of men is tearing down the
old buildings IN the rear of the Browning
& Sloan drug store. which IS to be extended
man. Schlelcher Il Lee. When the I'M
provement is completed the building will
be five stories high; each floor l95 feet long
by SO feet wide.
Coffin. Fletcher a. Co. have in contem-
plation improvements to their pork house
the building Of additional smoking houses
with a capacity to smoke 100000 pounds of
meat. Their jobbing trade has SO increased
of late that they Will put on two addition
al heavy wagons.
The plans for the new pork build
be 145 feet square; the kIlIing-house 96 feet
long by 20 wide. The jobbing and the
smoke-house will he under the same roof
and l04 feet long by CO wide. The engine
house will be 80 feet wide and 10 in length;
average height of buildings. 80 feet.
J.,E. Shower. q contractor. last Saturday
got the burned portion of the Female Re
formatOry under roof, raising IL one story
higher than the former main building. For
three weeks past he has been working one
hundred men on this building. ana the
rapIdity with which the work has pro-
gressed is spoken of by the management in
very complimentary terms
The Sheridan brick works. which are
operated by Indianapolis parties. are man.
ufacturing 100000 brick week. Under
their brick kilns. drying sheds and boilers
they are running over six hundred natural
gas fires. taking the gas from what is sup
posed to be the strongest we'll in the State.
When oil these fires are burning the we'll
shows pressure of $50 pounds
w. III. Coleman. manufactures of heading
and slaves. says that this has been one OF
the most prosperous years for this industry
he has ever experienced. Orders have been
numerous md prices unusually we'll main
tanned. At his works. which are located on