The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-22
Industrial Notes.

Industrial notes.
The Indianapolis cabinet works closed
down, temporarily, Saturday night
The Indiana Cotton Mill Company has con-
tracted with Chandler & Taylor for two
boilers. each of $50 horse power.
An oiden-time activity begins to appear at
the Atlas engine works Weekly the estab-
lshment is shipping ten or twelve carloads
of engines and boilers.
The National Playing Card Company has
resumed operations and has in the neigh
borhood of one hundred people at work. The
outlook for these works has improved of
late
In the year 1894 there were handled by
Indianapolis wholesale grocers 10S 240 bar
rels Of sugar and over SIX hundred Ore. car
products.
The Gardner Abattoir Company has got
ten its twenty-five ton day ya capaeity ar
cooling its own packing houses, sell on the
Indianapolis market.
The Laycock Manufacturing Company has
ninety people at work, running full time.
The company has gotten up, of late, sew
eral new designs in the wire goods it manu-
features. for which there Is good demand
The fine pine flooring and the heavy oak
timber being put into the Rhodus building
on Capitol avenue. is being shipped here
from Arkansas. The flooring is planed and
grooved ready for use before shipped.
At the present time the Dutch, of Holland,
are furnishing the cabbage for the Indian
Montana the Irish potatoes. Canada our
beans, and California our celery, yet Indi-
ana counts itself an agricultural State.
Two of the roads running in here are now
daily running stone trains. the several large
new buildings and the street improvements
having caused the demand. Il Will IL Il IS
for the foundations of the buildings already
under contract.
Through the Cuban revolution. Ellis &
Helfenberger, of this city, lose a $4,000 job
of furnishing the iron fence for national
cemetery, the order having been. counter
manded last week, the excuse being Of
fered that the country was so disturbed that
the scheme has been abandoned
The express companies, it is stated off,
ciaIy are now doing the largest, business
at Indianapolis at any time in the forty
years they have had offices here. Since the
companies lowered their rates there mas mas
scriptions of light articles, such as bicy-
cles fancy goods and notions.
number of business men have taken
hold of the project of securing the Ameri-
can starch works for Indianapolis, the
plant at Columbus having recently been
burned. This is the only antitrust starch
works in the country and it is stated that
the next day after the plant was DESTROYED
the starch companies in the trust advanced
prices of starch.
General Manager Landers, Of the United
States encaustc tile works, says they are
working full-handed and full time. shutting
down at noon on Saturday as for years
past. He says since Congress and the Leg
islature adjourned their business mas sse eal
awarded the contract to furnish sixteen
thousand feet Of thing for the new ; St;
thousand feet for the new Union Station at
ST. Joseph, Mo.
Chandler & Taylor have, for the last two
years been enjoying an excellent foreign
trade shipping engines and boilers to Mexi-
co and south America, but home ne trade n.an
very slow. In the last thirty days they
have received several good orders from
points in this State and PENNSYLVANIA. Last
week they shipped an engine and boiler to
Rushville for a Touring. mill, an engine and
saw mill to waverly, Ind, and from sew
h iC q
States they are receiving more inquiries
than at any time in the last two years.