The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-09
Industrial Notes.

The Citizens Street-railroad Company is
making extensive improvements to its plant
on West Washington street, the. improve
ments to cost $4,000 or more.
The National Starch Manufacturing
Company, of which the Piel Brothers plant
is a member, has declared a 2 per cent
quarterly dividend payable May ~.
The Indiana Cotton Mill Company has it's
electric light plant complete ana TO llgnt
the mills and bleacheries requires Low IN
candescent lights and a considerable num-
Der of arc lights.
Tucker & Dorsey report their business
much more satisfactory. They are now en-
poying seventy men and are illing GOOD
MANY export orders for money drawers and
other articles these works manufacture.
Knight & Jillson on Saturday awarded the
contract for the erection of the front to
their partially completed buildings on south
Pennsylvania street. The addition viii be
one hundred feet long, forty wide and live
stories high.
J. b. Dill. of this city, who has the con-
tract for erecting. the garbage crematory
at Lafayette, which is to cost that city
So 900, has the work we'll advanced. 1t is to
be one of the most complete plants of this
class in the State.
pany, says its business is keeping mp at ITS
usual volume. The Pullman Company and
the manufactures in the East when they
supply with veneering keeping up tnelr fuli
complement of orders
Francke & SCHNEIDER, who leased the
building formerly occupied by William L..
ElueF, OH OOulH MSTluiah StlScl' navy *,
modelled and enlarged the rooms and will
now have five floors 200 feet long by forty
wide to do business in.
The directors of the Indianapolis Belt
Road and Stock Yards Company have a
meeting tomorrow at Secretary Holiday S
office. The last four months have been the
most prosperous that the Stock Yards
Company has ever enjoyed.
The Indianapolis Terra Gotta works are
running twelve hours day-to their full ca
pacity They report three months orders
ahead. with better prices than last year.
Smpmehts are pelhg mace 70 ClSVeldhd
Cincinnati, Toledo, Detroit, Memphis and
Louisville. -r.1s
Business with the. WOODEN mills is now at
high tide. The Model Wooden Company is
now employing more people than a any
former time and working overtime, running
five days of the week until p. m. With its
improved machinery 1t is turning out a
much better class of goods than ever be-
fore
The Indianapolis Saddlery Company has
get well settled in its new quarters. The
Indianapolis Harness Company and Cor
ests make this the largest establishment Of
this character in the country, its sales
room and manufacturing department COW
ering 5000 square feet of floor space
President Bennett of the Indianapolis
Stove Company says the war has not as
ing their full volume of business for May,
and the outlook for a good fall trade is OK
tremely fattering. The company row has
40 men employed on full time. The COM
panys principal trade is in the Central and
Western States, where the prosperous times
first prevailed.
The j. =. Alfree Manufacturing Company
reports the following trade. In the mill
building department complete outfit for a
hfty-Darrel Touring mill and power. TO