The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-25
Kept Active by the Building Boom in
the City and Near Towns.
indianapolis Manufsctu rers Demand Larger
Cars-Electrical Supplies-Neariy All
the Shops Full of Work.


tries. but aside from this there is another
reason for the prosperity. One who has
not made comparisons would hardly be-
lieve that the trade from surrounding coun-
try towns would have so largely increased
At such towns instead of two-room houses
eight and ten-rOom houses of modern style
are going up, which require four times
much lumber and of better quality and
more handsomely prepared than in former
years, all of which goes TO show that the
Towns OF Indiana arc prosperous, and the
citizens are disposed to erect houses which
will give their respective towns an enter
prisng and attractive appearance. Ten
carloads of lumber, dressed material.
doors, sashes and blinds are now shipped
from Indianapolis where one was a few
years ago.
manufacturers Want Large Cars.
There is a great demand among INDIAN
apolis manufacturers for what is known as
elevator cars on account of their capac-
ity. Indiana uses more Of these cars than
any other State In the Union. and they
were first introduced on Indiana roads.
The furniture manufacturers want them,
the carriage builders use them, and they
are great car to ship hay, wool and cot
ton in. The roads will be obliged to build
more of them. unless the shippers, as has
the Parry Manufacturing Company. build
them for their own use. The minimum for
car load of furniture is twelve thousand
pounds and it il difficult to get that
weight of furniture lounges, cts. into one
of these large cars. If the roads 9 houid re-
duce the minimum to ten thousand pou nds,
the Shippers could BIO induced to nsc the
ordinary size cara One of the eleva tor
cars, loaded for New York, pays S76, nd
were the minimum ten thousand poun DIS,
at the proportionate rate. 1t would be bet
ter paying freight than Is grain. Indian :
apols. Connersville and other furniture
manufacturing points in the State would
load hundreds of these big cars monthly il
they were provided, In preference to the
ordinary car The Cincinnati, Hamilton
a. Day ton has made o move in this dlrcc-
ton, and now has one hundred OF the ele-
vator cars. and the company finds no
trouble in loading them as fast as placed on
the sidings. Ets7es
Among Electrical Apparatus Manufacturers.
The Jenney Electric motor Company last
week received an order for an electric plant
for the WOODEN mills at Danville. Ind. The
order covers 275 incandescent lights ana
three arc lights. III .zSasss
H. b. F. Peirce, president of the National
Electric Headlight Company. of this city
says the company is much encouraged. 1t
has over one hundred electric headlights
scattered about on several roads, the Van
dalia using fourteen, the c.. H., Il ID.
twelve, the Queen ~ Crescent six. and
the Chesapeake " Ohio six. Every W here
the light is giving satisfaction, and indica-
tions are that in a year from now It will be
difficult To supply the demand. aI
The test of running tho launches on the
waterways at the worlds fair grounds by
electricity has proven perfect success and
the managers of that department have con-
tracted with the Jenney Eelectrtc-motor
Company for fifty of the tive-horse. pow or
motors for on the launches. which carry
boat has a battery under the seat and q
five-horsa-power motor. and on each boot
is an experienced man in charge. MIR.
Bybee, who rode on one OF the test boats,
experienced. The launches move swiftly
and quietly through tho water.
industrial Notes
Lowe Carey this morning starts mp his
new maizc-mill, on the Michigan road,
north. He will convert 1000 hus hels of
corn daily into the finer class of corn
products.
Bicycle manufacturers report orders COM
ing in slowly, this being the dull time OF
the year. With them the new year begins
Aug l. None of the esta blishments have
dismissed men or reduced hours, but none
are now working overtime.
The Indianapolis Stove Company Is now
employing 100 men. the largest number of
men ever worked in the establishment.
Mr.. Bennett says he Is finding no tronble.
in disposing readily of It's entire product,
mostly in this state and the Northwestern
States.
There is some prospect OF the organiZa-
ton here OF company to manufacture a
| bicycle made with wooden wheel and
pneumatic tire on 1t. There Is one such
mandatory in Massachusetts,, the only
| one in this country, and 1t is doing large
business.
Mr.. Tucker, of the firm of Tucker d
Dorsey. says that their business, which
| was O little quiet in May and June, is be-
| coming active again. The com pany is now
| filling numerous foreign orders, last week
| shipping carload of cash-drawers to
Paris, France.
This has been great year for selling
! Mccormick company. I'VE not only sold
| more than in the year 1891, but Lost the sale
| of fully one thousand machines In our own
territory because we could not get enough
reapers and mowers.
The Parry Manufacturing Company re-
ceive last week quite q number of orders
| from foreign countries. Among them as
one for one hundred piano-b0x buggles
from Ontnr. Albacete. Spain. Mr.. Parry
| states that they eX pect TO run their works
full all fail and winter. giving employment
| to from 800 to 900 men.
] o. r. Olsen, who is among the most active
| directors of the reorganized Indianapolis
| car works company. saws that by the mid
die of August the works will be in opera
| ton. Already they have been offered con-
tracts tor building cars. A Chicago man,
| well informed as regards this industry, will
be made general manager.
The employed of the Sinker-Davis COM
| pany Saturday held their annual picnic
and In the afternoon tho propriet0rs went
| oat and joined them in their pleasure
/ These works have now run ten years with
out shutting down, except to make badly
needed repairs Young men are now al
. the head of the company, and it is expert
encing its most prosperous times
! The American starch-works have their
new building completed and will begin
| putting the machinery in position this
morning. Mr.. Piel states that this improve
ment will cost them $50. 0G0, and makes il
one of the largest and most complete
starch manufactures IN this country.
7 Within sixty days they will be converting
5000 bushels of corn daily into starch.
In commenting on an item which re-
Gently appeared in the Journal, to the
effect that n number of Indiana poli.an.
had purchased fine furn0uts, q. III. Shower
who has been in business here twenty
years, said that more tine carriages had
been sold in Indianapolis this ear than il
any two years since he has been in bns,
ness and IRWIN Robbins ano Their of Indian
apolis's oldest carriage-dealers. says tn.
same.
The Van Camp Canning Compan il get
fsara l. 70 hnU