The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-20

Wise. of Marion. Ind. consisting of a 1875
horsepower engine, two boilers. pumps.
etc.
South Pennsylvania street is developing
rapidly as wholesale street. There are
now seventeen wholesale honses located
on the square between Maryland anu
Georgia streets. west side.
The Hunt Soap Manufacturing Company
10 making extensive Improvements 10 It's
plant, putting In new boiiers, watts. etc.
The business Of this establishment has In
creased four fold In the last three years.
The Interior Hard Manufacturing
Company q new industry. is proving good
investment TO the parties interested. The
work turned out is meeting with favor ana
the company is kept busy In hlling Its or
ders.
The Sheridan Brick Company has leased
ground IN the northern part OF the city,
alongside the Monon tracks. and ls ship
ping In here from its brick works hundreds
of thousands of brick for this years de-
mand.
Ittenbach x Co., stone workers. are max
ing improvements to their plant In the
eastern part of the city. among other thin Is
replacing their seventy-fve-horse-p pow er
engine with Sinker-Davis 125-horse- power
engine.
few months ago the ID. +. Stone Furni-
ture Company established allarge sales room
at Grand Rapids in the heart of the terri
tory where are the largest furniture manu-
factories, and the new venture Is proving a
success.
1t begins TO look like business again at
the Indiana car and foundry works. Ma
terial is being delivered at the works at
the rate of ten to twelve carloads per day,
and new cars are beginning to move out as
In Olden times
The White River Paper Mill Company las
resumed operations. Back water from the
river the last few days has gwen them some
trouble. The capacity of the mill IS now
five tons day, and Its entire product Is
sold at Cincinnati.
The Lewis-Porter Cabinet Company last
week made Its first shipment of goods to
the other side, and so desirable are the
goods the works m manufacture that 1t is like
ly to result in establishing O good export
trade for their production.
The Touring mills are running TO about
their full winter capacity. and, in fact.
since the 1st of January. turned out $4,000
more barrels of flour than in the CORE
spending seven weeks in 1892
Merchants who handle iron kettles
buckets and jugs have experienced a gre at
trade the last two weeks. Farmers, antioi-
paJing good season for catching sap and
making maple molasses and sugar. are
making great preparations to take care OF it,
Murphy 81 HIbben have leased the build
ing adjoining their wholesale dry goods
house on South Meridian street. now occu-
pied by Mckee ~ Co., and will, with their
present buildings and the new rooms, have
one of the largest dry goods houses In the
West
The business that some of the wholesale
grocers do Is shown in the fact that in two
cases the houses, although within three
squares Of every city freight depot, each
keep five drays and three two-horse wag-
ons busy from one weeks end to the other
In hauling goods.
G. A. Potts q Co., manufacturers of clay.
working machinery, report that so severe
has been the winter all over the country
that it has affected unfavorably their bust
ness. but. from inquiries coming In, the
company looks for great Improvement in
business when the weather becomes more
springlike in Its character.
Never in the history of Indianapolis have
the railroad shops given employment to as
many men and worked as full time the
last twelve months. At the Big Four shops
some CSC men are employed, at The Pan
handle. 520 at the Indianapolis Decatur
q Western, 100 men, and at the BELT shops
are employed some fifty men.
Indianapolis is known all over this conn
try, and IN fact In foreign countries, as the
point whore more yeneering is prOduc
than ct any other point In the world. The
product of last year reached 20, coo. 600 feet,
and will this year exceed that, while there
is no other point in this country where
over 6. 900, 900 feet is produced year. The
largest furniture manufactures and organ
manufactures III this country purchase
their veneerings from Indianapolis estab-
lishments.
An INDIANAPOLIS man has the credit of in
venting the most perfect device for the
woodwork of bellows used in organs of all
descrI ptioDs. and the Indianapolis Cabinet
Works are now furnishing mOst of the lead
ing organ manufac tories with thewood W ork
forrheir bellows. 1t is constructed of poplar
wood cut thin like veEeering and then
placed in three layers crosswIse. thus over
coming the great difficulty which has been
experienced by organ builders from the
woodwork OF bellows becoming che ked or
warped, and leaking air.
The waterworks company how has the
original plant, on Washington street, in
fine working order, and has very seldom to
call on the outer plant for greater pressure
or volume of water. The four eighty horse
power boilers which had been in there
since the works were built. have been
taken out. and four new one-hundred- horse
power boilers substituted. Except when
fire pressure needed the watersw hich
passes through the pipes comes from the
three ten-inch wells recently sunk to q
depth of four hundred feet. just north of
Washington street, the water from which
flows into the gallery.