The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-29
HOT SUMMER AT THAT
YET THE ICE CREAM BUSINESS FELL
OFF QUITE sMARTLY.
Ice Cream Soda Was Not a General
FavOrfte-MOnthIy Receipts OF
Grain and Cereals.

The manufacturers Of ice creams and
fancy ices say tina the summer of 1894 will
long be remembered by them. so dull has
their business been, Notwithstanding the
fact that II was the hottest summer in the
last twenty-four years. Ice cream and
ices were lower than usual the last sum-
mer to encourage sales. In domestic use
the falling of has been the most notable.
Families that usually have ice cream daily
only used 1t once or twice a week last
summer, and where they had ice cream
every Sunday cut it down to one Sunday
a month, and then made one quart of ice
cream go as far as two quarts usually do.
The decrease in business was felt fully
as much in the use at soda fountains.
Druggists as a rule have not sold more
than one-half as much ice cream soda as
they did in former years. This decrease
was not felt as much in the summer Of
1893 as this year, as there was quite a boom
in 1892 in this business, which reached
into 1898. In ordering ice cream for parties
or social gatherings the women who usually
manage these things, have been very eco
nomical in their purchases as to quantity
and sometimes as to quality. However"
said the manufacturer, "our establishment
makes but one kind of ice cream, and
that is pure cream, but I have heard Of
certain manufacturers who made cream
to suit the price the purchasers desired.
In summing the whole thing up I do not
base this comment on my w sales, but
on that of competitors as we'll: 1 think 1t
no exaggeration to say that 80 per cent.
less ice cream has been sold in the last
season than in any year since the demand
for the article became so large"
The Shipments of September.
Below is given the shipments of the va
rio is Indianapolis industries for the month
Of September. as reported to the Board of
Trade: Flour, 62,3S7 barrels; wheat, $500
bushels: corn, 16, 200 bushels; oats, 5000
bushels; rye, GOO bushels; bran, 42O tons;
hay. 8 cars; broom corn, 5000 pounds; ce-
ment, 4.GS barrels; coal, rs cars; coke, .135
cars; cooperage, SO cars; corn meal and hon.
my, 1892, $50 pounds; cotton, 8 bales; cat
tie. 5.351 head; hogs, 2O.535 head; horses,
2,414 head; mules, 200 head; sheep. 1856
head: eggs, 12.75O cases; fruit, 1,26s,164
pounds: hair and bristles, 49, 55 pounds;
hides. l,l29!09 pounds; ice, - cars; iron:
lime .a Il oa aai'i logs s@ 2 cars; lumber. 81 cars;
machinery, 143 cars; meats 6ulk), 9, 7o4,25
pounds; oil, 6,7S3 barrels; pork, 1.2S9 bar
rreIs; potatoes, lis bushels: poultry. 2l.2so
pounds; provisions, 1,Ol7, 199 pounds; salt,
1892 barrels; shingles. 2 cars; spirits and
pounds; stone, 70 cars: tallow, 44S, 400
pounds: tobacco, Is, 403 pounds: wool, 30.4OO
pounds; miscellaneous. 3~3,046,064 pounds;
merchandise, 71,335,6S1 pounds.
Busy Times Mt the S~tOckyards.
The week ending Oct. u was one Of the
busiest Of this season at the stockyards.
Home packers bought literally and East
ern buyers were in the field in larger
numbers than usual. AS rates on hogs
to be advanced, the business Of the In
dianapolis yards bids fair to still further
improve as the packing season comes on.
Industrial Notes.
E. Rauh & Son last week in one shipment
to Trenton, n. j., shipped twenty carloads
Of sheep pelts.
corner of Vermont and Meridian streets,
will cost nearly $4,000.
The cerealine mills are troubled In get
ting the quality OF corn they require TOT
their products, and are not pushing busi-
ness much this month.
The Parry Manufacturing Company has
Just put in q tire-setting machine WniSn
actual test. 1t is operated by steam power.
F. M. Bachman, on the Madison road. is
again shipping a good deal OF hard WOOD
lumber TO the East. At this mill timber is
taken in the log and cut up into any de-
sired size.
The Board of Trade is negotiating for a
rapid transit elevator. The one in use now
sns m ahe firs no put faster n opf than an m ealI n stry
freight elevator.
Hetherington & Berner have been award
ed the contract for the iron work in the
new building of the Rumely Manufacturing
Company, in the construction of which six
ty or more tons Of iron work Will be used.
The Parry Manufacturing Company is
arranging to sell it's vehicles in the old
country, and within a few weeks Addison
Bybee will go to Europe to represent the
company, taking his family with him and
locating in Berlin.
Kothe, Wells & Bauer. wholesale grocers,
last week took possession of their new
warehouse on the South Side. The building
ton heavily girded, iS0 feet in length by
sixty-ive in width, and two stories high.
Dean Bros. are receiving the machinery
for their new shops on the Big Four tracks KS
work of moving. as with business, as 1t is
now their old shops furnish ample room.
They usually work lO men, but now have
only los at work.
busy times, so much storage Of goods is
now going on. Last week the Indianapolis
took in thirty carloads of canned goods for
Gamers near home, and twenty carloads OF
California canned goods and dried fruits.
point that a number of other manufacture,
ers of thrashing- machines, engines, reap,
ers, mowers and agricultural implements
have under consideration the erection OF
buildings here similar to the Mccormick
| the oliver chilled-plow works and the
Rumely building.
Indianapolis is becoming noted as a point
for the manufacture of baking powders
There are seven establishments of this
character, that of A. b. Gates being one
Of the largest in the country. 1t is not ar
unusual thing for this establishment TO shit
a carload of baking powder to the Western
States of the Pacific coast.
A South-side manufacturer Saturday last
when asked how business was with his es'
tab,ishment, answered 1T is better" When
questioned as to what he meant by sayine
four days of the week. and for months
previous we have been running but three
days. Our business, however, was we'll uT
with October last year, but far behind thai
OF October, 1892"
One of the South Side manufacturers TIVE
years ago adopted the custom of paying of
on Wednesday of each week for the pre-
ceding week, and has found II profitable L
do so, as when the men were paid Satur
day night often some of them would no
oDDaor for work until AOpdaV noon n