The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-24
Industrial Notes.

The Indianapolis bolt and machine
works furnished for the worlds fair build
ings nineteen carloads of bolts.
Some Of the gardeners in the suburbs Of
business this summer in shipping garden
stuff to Chicago.
The Standard Wheel Company moved its
headquarters from Indianapolis to Terre
Haute on Saturday. 1t takes eli teen men
and women from Indianapolis who were
hrst-class citizens.
Wright q Wright are bnilding up quite
an extensive business In elevators. They
are now building several elevators to GO TO
natural-gas territory. shipping one last
wesk to 20 to Kempton. Ind.
The Indianapolis Light aud Power Com
pany now has its buildings well under
roof. and work on the plant is now pro.
are in position on the stone beds and the
dynamos are In.
Weber 81 johnson. manufacturers of
STRAW hats. who commenced operations on
limited scale two years ago, have now
built M such q trade that they have to en-
ploy thirty girls and twelve men to keep
mp with their orders.
The old hotel on West Georgia street, In
the rear of the former Weddell House, W hi b
for years went under the name Of the Tenn.
perancs Hotel, has been converted into q
printing and publishing house. frightened
ND with paint and made TO look very re-
spectacle.
Last week capitalists have been looking
over ground between the north line of the
city and the new State Fair grounds on
the line of the MOnon ROAD. They are seri.
ously considering the location of manu-.
factories on such ground while 1t can be
purchased at low figures.
The pay rolls of the Parry Manufactur-
ing Company on Saturday last showed
these works gave employment TO S72 peO-
pie. Last week there were shipped from
the establishment sixty-four carloads of
two and four wheeled vehicles, going to
twenty-five different States.
The Indianapolis Cabinet Company is
putting In a nest of three new boilers, each
six feet in diameter by twenty-five feet
long. purchased from the Atlas engine
works. This makes ten boilers that are in
boilers being used for heating purposes
only.
MrO. N. Murphy, the former shipping clerk
of the Indianapolis Cabinet Company ana
we'll known to all local railway men, has
been promoted TO the Office OF assistant SUI
perintendeDt Of the factory. He has
served this company in various capacities
for over fifteen years, and has worked his
way mp from offbearer TO o sawyer to his
present position.
j. Guedelhoefer has Just completed a
large building on Kentucky avenue. which
it was supposed he would occupy entirely
with his wagon works. but he has changed
his mind and leased the room on the point
TO saloon keeper. and the several manu-
facturers in that vicinity are very indig-
nant over the matter. as that section has
been quite free from saloons.
Murphy * Hibben have let the contract
to extend the building on the north of the
one they now occupy the same length as
their present quarters. requiring an addi-
ton of ninety feet In length by twenty six
In width. four stories high, which will in
crease their present capacity four floors.
two hundred feet in length by twenty -six
In width. making, it is etated, the largest
floor room of any business house in the
State.