The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-14
YOUNG MEN ARE ON TOP
LARGE PER CENT. OF LOCAL MANU-
FACTURERs OF THAT CLASS.
All Have Made Their Way in the
World from Small Be-
ginnfngs.

| Business men from other cities who visit
| Indianapolis and meet the local manufac-
| turers, are impressed with two things-first,
that large per cent OF the manufacturers
are comparatively young men; second, that
! almost the entire number are men who COM
menced poor, and with their own skill and
prudence reached their present prosperity
or that number are the Dean Brothers, who
| left an Eastern manufacturing town. where
| they had learned the machinist trade, and
came to Indianapolis, and, being good de-
slgners, they soon invented a pump which
has made the firm famous, not only in this
country, but in foreign countries, on ac-
count of the superiority of the pump The
five brothers, on arriving in Indianapolis,
quilt frame shop. A year later they had
thirteen men at work, and for a time had
quite struggle to keep business moving.
NOW they have the largest pump plant in
| the country and over 200 men employed,
and the name of either of the partners would
be honored for very handsome sum at any
OF the Indianapolis banks. The Piel Broth
ers is another firm that commenced at the
bottom, and from converting few hundred
bushels OF corn into starch per day they
now require 5000 bushels a day, and they
have the largest plant and largest home
and foreign trade of any starch works in
this country. The Parry Brothers are an
other excellent example of thrift A dozen
years ago the four brothers began business
on limited scale, employing eighteen men,
ana have steadily increased their business,
until they operate the largest carriage and
buggy works in the world, and their bust
ness is now limited by their capacity to
turn out work, with over 1000 men en-
ployed.
me Love Brothers, owners and operators
of the Indiana cotton mill, in 1884 walked
out of cotton mill at Rome, N. y, and
came to Indianapolis to establish a cotton
mill, purchasing an old mill which had been
practically destroyed and rebuilding it and
starting up with twenty employees Both
were practical men, and at once commenced
to enlarge the plant, having some help from
a friend in the East in a financial way.
Ihey now have the largest cotton mill west
OF the Allegheny mountains and give en-
pioyment TO over 400 men and women. The
ShoVer Brothers are another excellent eX
ample OF what energy and determination
10 win VIII accomplish, although each en-
gagged in different Vocations The three
brothers have made success in business
and financial way The young men now OPP
Grating the Sinker-Davis works all COM
menced as boys in the works. and in the
few years they have had control have given
the plant an enviable reputation for the
work 1t turns out. Most of the furniture
and chair manufactures are operated by
young men who commenced as employees
III the respective works, and, by saving, ac-
Gumulated enough to become owners with
the retirement of the older men. The At
lIlns saw-works plant, which gives employ
ment to over 4OO men, is now managed
chiefly by young men who commenced in
their respective departments at the works.
The Atlas engine works is practically
young mems enterprise. While IL. II. Hanna
and j. +. Pratt are the financial hackers
OF the large plant, which gives employment
to over zoo men, the designers of the engines,
DOlIeTS, Glc,s are men VINO commenced at
the bottom as machinists and mechanics.
The Touring mills. which are experiencing
their most prosperous days, are operated by
young men who have by diligence built
themselves moral and financial standing
which gives them influence and enables
them to transact business on large scale,
the three mills turning out over 1000 barrels
OF flour day. Young men are now success
fully operating the hominy and the WOODEN
mills.
PARROT & Taggart, who own and operate
one of the largest bakeries in the West,
rank among the weathiest of the city's bust
ness men. Many will remember when Mr..
Taggart made his bread and crackers and
then peddled them over the city. Now the
firm gives employment to over $50 people
and converts 100 barrels of flour daily into
bread, crackers and cakes. I. Is. I4aycock,
still young man, from giving employment
to a dozen people now furnishes employment
to nearly 200 men and women, or did prior
to the fire, When in his new building, Mr..
Laycock proposes to branch cut on still
larger scale; The indianapolis Bicycle
IMAM anu 0ldllP N-pAlpdIJ ID ~ ANlAS u
young mans institution. One of the mem
bers of the firm designed and invented all
the completed machinery used in making
chains. 1t was the first chain-manufactur-
ing plant in the country and is the largest
now.
Dozens of manufacturing interests might
be named where the founders We're young
men and are still not far advanced in years,
and numerous others where the older MEM
bers of the firms have retired and turned
their business over to skilled employees who
have made a business success There is
manufacturing business as in the cases
cited and some are availing themselves Of
the openings Three young men have re-
Gently withdrawn from the business depart
ment of the Parry Brothers, with the in
tention of starting up buggy factory on a
large scale here or at some other point in
the State and three or four other companies,
made up largely of young men, are consid-
erng propositions to engage in business on
extensive scales.