The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-16
Industrial Notes.

Kingan & Co. are now operating the Moore
packing house, killing only heavy hogs there
for American markets.
The American Press Association has leased
rooms in the new building recently erected
by Messrs. Miller & ELAN on West Georgia
street.
Jay voss is remodeling the McMillin Block.
on South Illinois street, near the tunnel,
putting in an iron front and otherwise i'm
proving the building.
Strobel & Brothers, packers of poultry and
eggs, are erecting on West Pearl street a
brick building for their business forty feet
in width by 100 feet in length.
Ewald Over. founder and manufacturer of
agricultural implements. castings, etc.. last
week shipped two carloads or center-nung
sash weights, a new style Of sash weight,
to Eastern States.
Charles Black, of this city, was given the
contract to build nine passenger brakes for
the Louisville Transfer Company, against a
are among The most expensive vehicles built.
In the year 1895 the National Starch Man.
ufacturing Company, of this city, convert
ed LOSS, 7s6 bushels Isa of corn into starch or
for the year. About 60 per cent Of the
product was shipped abroad.
Mrs. Mary Stewart, widow Of John II.
Stewart. has had plans PREPARED for ex-
enth and Illinois streets, sixty feet further
south. making II an imposing building, con-
structed of brick and three stories high.
Inc Huntington oeeu IoHPahy last wech
ceived an order from Portugal for five bar
reIs of vineless sweet potatoes The. firm
ordering the potatoes states tnat their es-
Establishment annually uses sixty thousand
tons of sweet potatoes in the manufacture
Of alcohol.
f. c.. Atkins & Co. will. as soon as their
loss by fire last week is adjusted, begin
c~rearing the ground burned over and will as
soon as possible erect buildings on a larger
scale than those burned. In the part of the
shops which we're not destroyed about $50
men are at work.
Some of the bicycle manufacturers have
introduced a new idea. that OF allowing Wis
itors TO go through their large concerns on
certain days of the week, selecting two days
of each week. Both men and women are
now visiting such establishments, so great Is
the enthusiasm over the wheel
The indianapolis Excelsior Works Compa-
ny is now quite busy. The ompany has
sixteen machines at work and converts sew
eral cords of lin wood into excelsior daily.
These works supply, an extensive territory
extensively in the packing or goods and for
other purposes.
The indianapolis Manufacturing Com
pany, which, a few months ago, purchased
the old shops of the Dean Bros, on Mad
ison avenue, has now 155 persons at work
i'm the manufacture OF baby carriages, and
is preparing now TO manufacture rattan
goods of all kinds, which will give en-
ployment to a still larger force
John Pierson, contractor. will to-day begin
tearing down the frame building or the
northwest corner OF Illinois and Seventh
ing of the same style as that already erected
by +. w. Chislett. superintendent of Crown
Hill cemetery. Mr.. Chislett VIII then have
on that corner eight good store rooms.
The moro prudent building contractors are
not at all pleased with the turn matters have
take regarding the erection OF new buildings
this season. Competition is so sharp tina
contracts are being taken at lower figures