The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-17
IndnsfriaI Notes.

Since the law was passed requiring owners
of high buildings to provide fire escapes,
have complied with the ordinance.
Coffin, Fletcher & Co. will to-day let the
contract for artificial ice plant of sew
enty-five tons capacity a day, and are ar
ranging to put in modern electric lighting
plant.
The Huntington & Page Seed Company
is remodeling the building they occupy ana
will have two storerooms on the ground
floor converted into one room, running from
Market street back to the Grand opera
House.
Mr. Merritt. of the firm of Merritt & Son,
stated on Saturday that the outlook for bus
mess in 1898 fer wooden mills is very favor
able. Just now it is between seasons ana
little quiet, still a good deal more is doing
than in January last year.
The local Touring mills, which in ,)ecem-
Der turned out only 43,464 barrels OF flour,
this month are. doing more business, ana
while not running to their, full capacity,
about 1000 barrels month, Will prop
ably come nearer to doing an average Dus-
mess this month than for some time past.
The Udell woodenware works are credited
with having one OF the best EXHIBITS al tne
progress some days at @ nd Rapids. The
exhibit as a whole is said 20 be very large
and attractive one, every article JsnoWn TO
the furniture trade being on exhibition
The Pyle National Electric Headlight
Company is giving employment 10 pIteeh
men, and Mr.. Pyle expects to increase the
a number of orders on hand, last week ie-
ceiving one for three electric headlights
from the Rogers, locomotive works. Inc
company, MIR. Pyle states, now mas orders
for thirty headlights.
c. H. Shower, carriage manufacturer, on
Saturday completed new ambula1ee Tor
the Indiana National Guard, IN when a
number of new convenienceS are provided
1t is complete in every detail, has RUBBER
tires, is constructed to ride easy ana IS as
much superior to. the old style OF ambn-
iar fe Dull lima n
emigrant coach. There seems to be place
for everything a conveyance or TINS KIND
would require. Most of the new improve
ments were the suggestion OF AdJutant Cen
eral Richardson.
H. b. Smith, for several years general
manager of the distribution house or the
Oliver chilled plow works at this point, ana
who during the year distributed 2vO TO SUO
carloads of ploWs, says that not Tor many
years has business been so promising as
for the coming spring. Agents who travel
over southern Indiana, southern Illinois,
Kentucky, southern Ohio and West virginia,
report the agricultural houses giving HDeral
orders. The farmers are in good shape 10
purchase new tools, so well have their crops
sold the last year.
A large number of manufactures are re-
ducing the cost of their insurance by the
erection of water tanks to supply with wa
ter the fire sprinklers that drown out fire
when the temperature OF the room reaches
a certain degree of heat. The c. G. Foster
Lumber Company has just completed enc
in its planning mills and by so doing nave
cut down the cost of insurance 90 per cent:
Coburn & Son. the bicycle chain works, and
numerous other concerns are being PROVIDED
with these safety appliances. The tanks
hold from 10000 to 10000 gallons Of water.
The plant of the Indianapolis Stove. Com
pany is now about completed, ana is one
of the largest establishments of this charac-
ter in the West. The company is preparing
to manufacture every article in the way or
furnishings for stoves This will require
considerable increase in force, and when in
full operation the company will give en-
ployment to at least 400 people. Manutac-
turing stove furnishings is new undertake
ing of this company. The company has its
own electric plant, and at night, when the
large foundry and the stock manufacturing
idea of the size of the works, and give that
n IF nf fine citv q thrifty appearance.