The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25
Industrial Notes.

DIR. o. S. Runnels is building ten-room
addition to his sdnitarium on North Illinois
street
The planning mills are now the busiest at
any time not only in this year but in the
last three years.
The cerealine. mills last week averaged
shipments of twenty-three carloads or their
production from corn a day.
The furniture manufacturers report their
business at high tide, and in some cases the
manufactures are running overtime.
st. Johns Academy. on West Georgia
street is being ren1odeled and will, when
completed, be much more handsome
! building
The Indianapolis bolt and~machine works
last week received orders for several of
their elevators TO go to Atlanta, Nashville
and other Southern cities.
Anthony Wiagand & Son will within a
few days receive some choice varieties OF
greenhouse plants from the most celebrated
greenhouses he visited when abroad this
summer.
The Touring mills are doing but little
Both Acme mills were idle all of last week
Wheat Is difficult to secure and the prices
of flour will not justify paying the price
asked for wheat
The cerealine mills, the hominy mills and
starch works are now running at about
their full capacity.c converting ABOUT l4VO0
bushels Of corn a. day into the slines OF
goods they manufacture.
The National Starch Manufacturing Com
Dany, OF which the Piel & Sons starch
a quarterly dividend of per cent. on its
preferred stock, payable Nov. /.
The Indianapolis Stove Company has set
tied in its new plant the former n n1r faD
dry is completed. This, president Bennett
says, is the largest and most complete
stove foundry in the West.
The pay roll of the Sinker-Dayis Com
pany has now reached the same hgures Oh
1892, the best business year IN the history
Of the plant and this od aa t bI
derloralized business in several OF the
Southern States
President Mendenhall, Of the Hoosier
Sweat Pad COMPANY states that he has
orders for all the goods he can manufac-
ture in the next four months ana Is work
ing overtime. Last week ne received
large export order being the first he ever
filed for two hundred gross OF sweat PADS.
The Pabst Brewing Company of MitWau-
kee, Wis, has ordered OF the j. -. AllIrees
Manufacturing Company Oh TINS city, one :. 81
its self-oiling direct connected automatic
electric engines The Star store OF TINS
city has also ordered two similar englnSeis les
together with two of the Alhfee INTERNALLY
fired steel boilers.
The effect of yellow fever in the Southern
States has been felt somewhat py local
manufa cturers. The Atlas engine Works
We're furnishing a good deal of machinery
for PORTS in the Southern States where
the cotton crop was good, ana TINS Tempo
rarily has checked the tbep ine have feIt
the scourge in that territory more OF 1855
Henry Fraser, general agent OF the Big
Four, in charge of the company clIy
freight depots says one cannot help a being g
impressed with the decided improvement IN
business The shipments or the turnluIe
and lounge manufactures, the iron works,
the cerealine mills the commission houses hes
az least 20 per cent. in excess OF the cor
responding period last year.
D. M. Parry, president of the Parry Com Com
pany, states that its business IS sen tn ne
surprise In the nine years the works nave
there has usually been = br Gd dng c sP9l
in July and August. . put u that senfem
f Der and october would bring the breathing
spell but it has not come Al no time t,IE,,d IN
o,,f 80 MANY vehicles. and at no time have
the works been so far behind in orders as