The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-17
PRICE Is ON ALL CANS,
TO BE GIN UlNE.

business. and Is putting MP o two-story
addition. 1t manufactures the Po~indexter
corn splitter. and is filling orders all over
the West and Northwest.
The Premier steel WORKS are now getting
their coke from points on the Chesapea AXE
q Ohio road, where coke ovens are IN op-
GRAFTON, receiving the first shipment last
week.
The Thomas Norris Block, on South
Meridian street. is undergoing. general re-
pairs, and both rooms will on May / be co.
cupied by the wholesale boot and shoe
house of Hendricks IL Cooper.
The Gillett Brothers. manufacturers of
wagon material, have their force nov M
to 100 men. and are shipping goods to ell
parts of this country. They work only
hickory, oak and ash woods. and use 40, 900
feet q week.
The past week the Premier Steel Works
Company has had q large force of men at
work lowering its tracks on South Ton
nessee street, by which 1t connects with
the Union tracks. to conform to the new
grade of that street.
The encaustic tile works are pressed with
orders. working full force. and In some de.
partments overtime. The works are fur
nishing some fine tileing for q new court
house going up In Richmond, Va, and for
several fine buildings on the Pacific coast.
IN. OConnor is having so much trouble
In getting the right of way from the city
tor o switch to the ground on which he pro-
poses to erect q five-story warehouse that
he has become discouraged In the enter
prise. and thinks be will abandon it for
this year.
The Iske brothers have just completed .
tbree-story brick building on Virginia
avenue. which is q credit to the South Side.
IL Is constructed of pressed brick and in
the most modern style of architecture. and
ture storehouse.
The A. Burdsal Manufacturing Company,
manufacturing paints. lead and varnlshes,
has just put In position q 100 horse power.
four-valve automatic ngine of the I'M
proved Brown type. 1t is claimed to be
power in the city.
Nearly all manufacturer now making
contracts have this clause inserted: "All
agreements as to time depend on exemp-
tion from accidents. breakage of machinery,
strikes OF wOrkmen in large g pei. INT de-
lays of carriers, or other delays beyond the
manufacturers' control.
Hetherip aton Il Berner have made an i'm
pOrtant feature OF their work the manu-
facture of fire-escape ladders, and are put
ting up large numbers OF them in this and
other cities and towns in the State on hotels
and blocks. Until the last rear fre-escape
ladders for this section were all built at
Chicago.
The Parry Manufacturing Company ID
substituting the use of electric motors as q
means OF distributing power throughout Its
buggy works. 1t now has in operation
dynamos of 210 horse power running ten
motors in different parts of the works. saw
ing nearly If not fully one-half the power
formerly required.
j. B. Hey wood. general agent at this
point of the Mccormick Harvesting Ma.
chine Company. states that the outlook has
greatly improved for the manufactured of
this GLASS of implements. Already he has
sold In this State more reapers than at the
corresponding date last year. and the sales
OF mowers are largely In excess of last year.
James Armstrong. president of she In
~dianapoiis Consolidated Ice Company, Is
somewhat disturbed. He has been unable
to convince NJ. Carver that il Is for his in.
terest TO cast his lot with the combination,
and william 5. Budd. who is also outside
the cOm binRtion. it is feared is to have
something to say regarding prices this sea-
son.
+. c. Atkins 81 Co. last week received an
order for a band saw TO be fourteen inches
in width. As late as 1880 Mr.. Atkins states
eminent English authority said that a band
saw of greater than four inches in width
would never be used, yet these works are
turning out fully as many saws ten to
twelve inches IN width as of any other
width. This order for q fourteen.lnch saw
Is the first sent In. but it will be filled.
The Women's Cooperative Union Laun.
dry has become one of the model laundrief
OF the city, and has been obliged to in.
crease its number of employees. 1t started
of with fourteen women. oil stockholders
and at the beginning they tnrned ont S1C(
TO $3.50 a week. Last week they did SIS:
worth of work. and now have twenty
women ut work. The only men about the
establishment are the general manager the
engineer and the wagon drivers. The
plant is run by a Chandler 81 Taylor TWEEN.
ty-tive.hOrse-power engine and q fifty
horsepower boiler. Natural gas is used
not only for fuel. but for heating the irone
OF the various machines. In going through
the establishment, one Is struck with
the cleanliness apparent in all depart
mente. the light and cheerfuIness of thu
rooms, and the convenience of arrange
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