The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-20
Industrial Notes.

Heatherington q Berner are building
number of artificial ice plants. One is of
novel design, 20 go to BellefOntaine. o.
Business with the Atlas engine works is
improving. Between Aug. and Saturday
last twenty-eight carloads of engines were
shipped from these works.
Officials of the Belt road state that indus
tries on that line are now receiving and
shipping more loaded cars than at any
time i'm the last eighteen months.
The Pintsch Lighting Company has the
building on South Delaware street. In
which their plant is to be located. COM
pleted, and VIII this week begin putting in
the machinery.
The United States Encaustic tile works
works have recently received orders for
thing from a number of points where
public buildings are going up.
The horse and mule auction barn at the
stock yards, now in course of construction
about the middle of September Ii is 40
feet long by siXty-two feet wide. with a ca
paclty Of upwards of three hundred horses
Some visitors to the city who are shown
the new industrial school buildings on the
South Side think the city should purchase
the storerOom building on the Madison ave-
nue. and Meridian street point and remove
it, as il completely hides from the north
the fine buildings now being erected.
Bartel Brothers have placed in their meat
market a refrigerator which keeps the cold
storage house at a freezing point without
making ice. The apparatus takes up less
room than the ordinary cooling depart
ments of meat markets and costs less
money, cool air doing the work instead of
ice.
The canning establishments have started
up with small forces canning tomatoes.
While tomatoes may seem plenty and
cheap, were the indianapolis canning
houses to run two days with their usual
canning force the supply I'm this market
would be exhausted and tomatoes would
bound back to 81 n bushel. The fact is,
says one of the Gamers, the tomato crop
in this section is failure.
The building formerly occupied as the
TurnVereln hall, on East Mary land street,
is being converted into q business block.
on the lower door will be two rooms, with
twenty-five feet front, each extending from
Maryland Back TO Pearl street. This
square bids fair to be one of the busiest
ones in the city. 1t is especially adapted
TO the commission business. as the side
walks are wide. the street is wide and there
are no electric lines or tracks OF any kind
To interfere with handling business.
The Indianapolis cabinet works are being
operated on a limited scale, about eighty
people being at work. In speaking of this
q large manufacturer Of cabinet ware says
il is a shame to have this valuable plant
so nearly closed down. He says there is
not as complete a plant OF this character in
which is used in the manufacture of desks
that the works cannot produce out OF the
raw material He says there are no desk
works in the world well known, there
is hardly a government in the world which
has not in its offices desks manufactured
at the Indianapolis cabinet works. This
alone is worth "a large sum of money. 10
any enterprising company which would pur-
chase the plant and put II in full opera
again