The Indianapolis journal., 1893-10-09
is FRIGHTENING SOME
Local Industrial Situation Better
Than a Month Ago.
What the Various Factories Are Now
Doing-A Sugar Famine
Growing Flowers.

A visit to various manufactures, such as
were visited thirty days ago. in some cases
shows some Improvement in business. The
chair factories, which thirty days ago were
idle are running full-handed and on full
time. The Udell woodenware works. A.
A. Barnes proprietor, are running the
largest force ever employed, and, with the
improved machinery in the new building,
are turning out 100 per cent. more work
than ever before. The Indianapolis Stove
Company, which a month ago started up
with orders to keep it busy for two or
three weeks, has been receiving orders
quite freely, and President Bennett says
it has orders now in which will keep it
busy until the holidays. The Brown-Ketch-
am Company has increased it's force to
about two hundred and fifty men, and has
several large contracts in hand. The Atlas
engine works have increased their force to
160 men, usually employing $50 to 600 men.
These works are putting in two ninety
horsepower engines for the New York
store, and three boilers, each &c feet long
by 16 feet in diameter Chandler & Taylor,
who were idle thirty days ago. and who
usually employ 150 men, have thirty men at
work They have received number of
orders from foreign countries which they
are now filling The Sinker-Davis machine
works are doing little else than repair
work, and are not working full time or
ful-handed. Ellis & Helfenberger, manufac-
turers of iron fence, etc, are pressed with
work, the recent fire having set them back.
These works are building fine iron fence
for the Normal institute Nor Normal al Ill It
They also have a number of orders for
fenfins fb yards Tn OF Santy fSen are worn
few men. Hetherington SS Berner have COM
menced running their foundry three days
in the week, and are working about one
third their usual number of machinists. +.
better than they looked for under the un-
favorable conditions They are employing
250 men. about fifty men short OF their
are working only few men, filling orders
they ccme in and not stocking up any
ahead as in former years. The Parry Cart
Company, which usually employs eight
hundred people, now has two hundred men
at work, about one hundred more than
thirty days ago. The stock it had on hand
is pretty well reduced, and If orders con-
tinue to come in through this month as
during the first week 1t will soon be obliged
to further increase the force. The flour
ing mills are still running full time and ex-
perienclng the most prosperous times they
have enjoyed in some years. Dean Brothers,
steam pump manufacturers, who, thirty
days ago. were shut down. have thirty men
at work, their usual number being 160 men.
Nordyke & Marmon have about two-thirds
thirty days received a number of good
orders, mostly on foreign account The
lounge manufacturers are gradually increas-
ing the number of employees, and are now
working about one-half their usual force.
Otto Stechhan has established a very hand
some store in his block on South Alabama
street in which to sell, exclusively, lounges.
The manufacturers have recently gotten out
n number of new and elegant designs in
lounges; there are now over one hundred
different patterns made by manufacturers