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CENTRAL CYCLE MFG. CO. PLANT.
Central Cyele Manufacturing Company, makers of the famous "Ben Hur " Bicycles, was organized in i891, and the business was established in EN-HUR a very modest way in a small struct- ure employing about fifty hands. To- day the plant is one of the most im- portant of the many industrial insti- tutions of our city. The plant is situ- ated at Nos. 16 to 22 Garden street, which include a series of fine factory buildings in which are employed more than two hundred and tifty skilled mechanics. The sale of the "Ben Hur" Bicycles is increasing with their growing popularity and TRADEMARK .. these famous wheels find a market al: BICYCLE over the world. The officers of the company are Lucius M. Wainwright, president ; Drikus Snitjer, vice-president ; Albert D. Johnson, secretary and treasurer, and Louis J. Keck, second vice-president.
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Indianapolis Veneer Works, Adams & Williamson proprietors, manu- facturers of and dealers in veneers, burls and fancy woods, terminus of Massa- chusetts avenue. The central position of Indianapolis with reference to the most important regions of production in domestic hardwoods has led to the establishing here of several important industrial enterprises which utilize this prolific hardwood supply as their raw material. One of the most important establishments of this character is that conducted by the firm of Adams & Williamson, under the style of the Indianapolis Veneer Works, which was founded in 1879. Mr. M. D. Williamson died August 2, 1896, and Mr. G. F. Adams, the surviving member, is conducting the business under the firm name. The works now occupied cover three acres of ground, including a lofty, well-lighted brick workshop, 80 x 125 feet in dimensions, and a three- story and basement brick building, 70 x 150 feet, of which the ground floor is used as a stock room and the two upper floors as drying rooms. The equip- ment of the works includes every convenience and accessory calculated to aid or expedite the operations of the business, embracing a 100-horse power Cor- liss engine, fed by three tubular boilers 472 x 16 feet, and all the most modern
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and improved machinery for the manufacture of veneers. The veneer cut- ting is done by machines of the latest improved make, which cut from the log solid sheets seven feet wide, and these are sent to the sizing power knife ma- chines, by which the veneers are cut into the desired sizes, including all thick - nesses up to one-fourth of an inch, the latter being used for drawer bottoms. The drying is effectively done with the aid of two Sturvesant blowers, and eight large steaming vats provide the facilities for steaming logs before pass- ing to the veneer cutting machines. Much of the machinery used is of a special character, invented for these works, and used by no other establish- ment. Ample light is provided by incandescent lamps supplied by the firm's own electric lighting plant. Railroad switches at the front and side of the works afford the most superior facilities for the receipt of materials and ship-
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ment of the manufactured product. Logs are received from the north, and veneers are manufactured from walnut, oak, ash, cherry and all kinds of hardwood. A force of one hundred workmen is employed, and an extensive trade is done, principally with furniture manufacturers in the east and in sup- plying manufacturers of sewing machines and other large consumers of vell- eers. The trade of the works is so firmly established as to require no can- vassing, and consequently no traveling salesmen are employed. The firm owes it success to the maintenance in its product of the highest standard of quality, to close supervision of every detail of manufacture, and to uniform re- liability in all its dealings with the trade.
The H. C. Bauer Engraving Company, 23 West Washington street, designers, engravers, electrotypers and printing plate manufacturers, established in ISS9, is the most extensive con- cern of its kind in the state, where printing plates by every known process are manufactured with rare skill and excellence. Nearly all of the engravings used in Hyman's Handbook of In- dianapolis and the Indianapolis Index are the products of this institution. A large force of skilled and experienced artists are employed in the various departments. Designs are furnished for catalogues and all kinds of book illustrations requiring wood, zinc or half-tone engraving, which is a leading specialty of this house, and the ample facilities which it commands enables it to handle the largest contracts with promptness and at prices as low as is consistent with high grade workmanship. The wax process is employed in the production of map work, charts, diagrams, etc., which produce results not attainable in any other method. The trade of this firm extends throughout this state and adjoining territory, where it enjoys an established reputation for first-class workmanship.
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HI. C. BAUER ENGRAVING COMPANY .
Indiana School Book Company, of Indianapolis, was incorporated in :559. by Josephus Collett, William Heilman, D. J. Mackey, E. P. Huston, James Murdock, William Fleming, R. C. Bell and Edward Hawkins. The com- pany manufactures and supplies text-books for the common schools of Indi ana, as authorized by the school-book law passed by the Indiana legislature of ISS9. The entire list of books furnished under state adoption consists of twenty-three different text-books. This company furnishes nineteen of the adopted series and they are now used in all the common schools of Indiana. The officers of the company are James Murdock, president ; Edward Haw . kins, general manager and treasurer, and E. P. Huston, secretary.
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Eli Lilly & Company, Pharmaceutical Chemists, whose laboratory is located in East McCarty street, is one of the most important concerns in this city and one of the largest of its class in the country. The buildings occupied, and which were especially designed for the purposes for which they are employed, are models of convenience, and for beauty of architecture, completeness of detail and finish, are not approached by any similar institution in the world.
The history of this house began in 1876, in which year Mr. Eli Lilly, the present head of the concern, began the manufacture of pharma- ceutical preparations in a very un- pretentious way in a small building in Pearl street on the sight now oc- cupied by the rear of the Commer- LILLY'S LABORATORY, IS75. cial Club building. The business developed early and in IS79 Mr. Lilly moved to 36 South Meridian street, and in 1879, more space being demanded by the growing business, the adjoining room, 3S South Meridian street, was added. The business was conducted in these rooms until ISSI
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when the business was incorporated, the present site on East McCarty street purchased and the laboratory moved to its present location Since that time the advancement has been rapid, followed by many improvements and addi- tions, that has resulted in the establishment of this great laboratory.
The preparations of Eli Lilly & Company are recognized throughout the medical and pharmaceutical world for their high standard of quality and purity, and its reputation is jealously guarded by the firm. The productions of the laboratory embrace Fluid Extracts, Powdered Extracts, Solid Extracts, Concentrations, Gelatine-coated Pills, Sugar-coated Pills, Elixirs, Lozenges, Syrups, Wines, Tablets, Hypodermic Tablets, Tablet Triturates and all Phar- maceuticals demanded by the medical profession.
Their famous blood remedy Succus Alterans, for over 12 years used and endorsed by the foremost physicians of America and England, heads their lists of specialties and together with Pil. Aphrodisiaca, Elixir Purgans and Glycones, completes their line of preparations which are accessible to the retail drug trade and physicians through the wholesale druggists of every jobbing center of the United States and Canada. Their agent for England and the Colonies is John M. Richards, 46 Holburn Viaduct, London, E. C. The company consists of Eli Lilly, president; James E. Lilly, vice-president. Evan F. Lilly, secretary and treasurer; Josiah K. Lilly, superintendent.
John U. Frietzsche Homeopathic Pharmacy, located at 62 East Ohio street, was established in 1875 by John U. Frietzsche who came here from Philadelphia, in that year. Ile was a physician of 58 years active practice, having graduated in Paris, France. This is the only pharmacy of its class in the state and does a business throughout the country. Occasional foreign shipments are made, a notable instance being an order recently received from Korea, Japan. Dr. J. U. Frietzsche died in 1892. The business is under the management of Ernest F. Frietzsche, who controls it for the estate. The firm manufactures homeopathic tinctures, dilutions and other homeopathic preparations, and carry a complete stock of homeopathie remedies.
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Sloan Drug Company, organized January 1, 1896, is the outgrowth of the firm of George W. Sloan, originally established in 1887. Mr. Sloan has had a longer continued identification with the drug business in Indianapolis than any other person now living in the city. In 1850 he entered the service of his uncle, David Craig- head, who was then operating a drug store in the same room that is now occupied by the present company, also with Craighead & Browning, and after the death of Mr. Craig- head, with Mr. Browning, who became the successor. In 1862 he took an interest in the SLOAN'S DRUG STORE business and the firm became known as Browning & Sloan, and were recognized as the leading pharmacists of Indianapolis. The business having outgrown the capacity of the room then occupied, they moved to 7 and 9 East Washington street, where the business ATI was conducted under this firm name until SLOAN DRUG CO. 1887, when Mr. Sloan retired and embarked for himself in the present location-the place occupied by the old house in 1850.
Through the long term of years that Mr. Sloan has been identified with the business interests of the city-longer than that of any business man now engaged in Washington street,-he has at all times been held in the highest esteem by his fellow citizens. He has been honored with the degree of SLOAN DRUG COMPANY. "Doctor in Medicine" by the Medical College of Indiana, and with the degree of "Doctor of Pharmacy," Purdue University. He is ex-president of the American Pharmaceutical Association and is also a charter member of the Board of Trade, being a member of its governing committee; he is also a member of the Commercial Club, and a member of the Board of School Commissioners, being its treasurer.
The Sloan Drug Company are extensive inanufacturers of various Phar- maceuticals, also Sloan's Carbolated Dentifrice, that has a large sale through- out the country, and many other preparations that bear their well known brand. Associated in the business with Mr. Sloan is his son Geo. B. Sloan, a graduate of Purdue University Pharmacy School, who has been reared in business under his father,
McCoy-Howe Company, manufacturing chemists, began business Febru- " ary 3, 1892. Their first establishment was located at 92 South Illinois street, where they began business with four employes. In January, 1893, the labor- atory was moved to McCrea street near the Union Station, and in 1894 the
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company purchased the present site and erected the laboratory now occupied. While it is not the largest in the country, it is equal in the character of equip- ment and facilities to any other laboratory in the United States. It is fur- nished with machinery especially designed for the purposes to which it is used, and all departments are arranged with a view to facilitate the business. The building is a solid red brick structure, consisting of three floors and basement, covering an area 44x200 feet. It is supplied with a cold storage department for the care of green drugs and essential oils, etc. Power is furnished from a 50-horse power engine. A deep driven well supplies the tank at the top of the building, from which pure water is supplied to all parts of the laboratory. The product of the laboratory consists of a large line of
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pharmaceutical specialties, fluid extracts, elixirs, medicinal wines and syrups, tinctures, triturates and tablets, hypodermic table's and their well known specialties, Boro-Salicylicum, Chloro-Ferrine, Golden Liquid Hydrastis and Succus Solani, which are dispensed by the medical profession everywhere. They also manufacture a full line of strictly pure powdered drugs and handle a large line of chemicals made by the standard manufacturers throughout the country, also physicians' and surgeons' supplies.
The laboratory now furnishes employment to twenty-six persons. The trade extends throughout all the central and western states.
The members of the firm are J. B. McCoy. A. B. Howe, James M. Mowrer and W. A. Walker. Messrs. McCoy and Howe. prior to establishing this business represented a large chemical company of Cincinnati and Messrs. Mowrer and Walker were engaged in the drug business in New Castle, Ind.
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Daniel Stewart Company, wholesale dealers and importers of drugs, widely known as the "Old Gibraltar Drug House" can trace a continuous business existence as far back as 1832, when it was originally established by Scudder & Hanneman. During IS50-S the firm was known as Hanneman & Duzan ; from 1858-63 it was conducted by William Hanneman, who was succeded by Stewart & Morgan. From IS78 until ISS3 the business was con- ducted by Stewart & Barry, and from the latter period until January 1, 1896,
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DANIEL STEWART COMPANY.
under the title of Daniel Stewart, when it was changed to the Daniel Stewart Company. Mr. Stewart's death occurred February 25, 1892.
The present members of the firmare John N. Carey, William Scott, Mary S. Carey and Martha S. Scott.
The Daniel Stewart Company are extensive manufacturers of pharma- ceutical preparations, handkerchief extracts, etc., known to the trade under the "Old Gibraltar" brands. They carry the largest and most complete stock of plate glass in the state and are the only ones who carry plate glass in stock sheets which enables them to fill orders for irregular or odd sizes at all times. They are also extensive dealers in beveled plate, leaded art and window glass.
Their cigar department is an important branch of their business and many brands have reached an enormous sale and acquired great popularity through the "push " of this concern. The firm employs ten traveling salesmen who cover the territory of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, and sixty-five persons are
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employed in the house. The firm occupies the large building, four scories and basement, at the corner of Meridian and Maryland streets and the large building in the rear on Maryland street that is employed to carry the large stock of glass and reserve stock.
Indianapolis Drug Company was established in December. 1590, and began business January 1, IS91. The firm deals extensively in crude, pressed and powdered botanical drugs, chemicals, essential oils, imported and domes- tic wines and whiskies, paints, oils and window glass : also have a large and growing cigar trade.
Not the least important branch of the business is the manufacture of phar- maceutical preparations, fluid extracts, wines, tinctures and syrups and several specialties that have found an extensive sale and great popularity throughout the country among which are the following-"Melol," a tasteless preparation of castor oil : "Caffacein." a new anti-pyretic ; " Mul- lein Balsam," cough and consumption cure ; "Brunker's Carminative Balsam," cure for dysen- INDIANAPOLIS DRUC CO. tery and bowel troubles ; and " R. I. D .. " Magnetic Roach Exterminator. They are the manufact- urers of the well known "Japanese" brand of hand- kerchief odors, toilet wa- INDIANAPOLIS DRUG COMPANY. ters and hair tonic, among which are the celebrated " Chrysanthemum Bouquet." The trade of this con- cern extends throughout Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, and is regularly visited by seven travelers. In the house over thirty employes are engaged. The firm occupies the large building consisting of three floors and basement. 63x100 feet, at Nos. 21, 23, 25 East Maryland street.
The members of the firm, who are young and active business men, are J. George Mueller, Dr. Herman Pink and John R. Miller. Mr. J. George Mueller has been identified with the drug trade of this city for twenty-three years and is a graduate of the Cincinnati School of Pharmacy. Dr. Pink has for twenty years, and still enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice as physician and Mr. John R. Miller has been engaged in the drug trade for the past twenty years ; a large part of that period with the wholesale drug busi- ness in this city.
From its beginning the business has been a prosperous one and enjoyed a vigorous growth, and now ranks as one of the largest in the state.
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The Lilly Varnish Company is the oldest and most extensive business of its kind in the State. It was established in 1865, by II. B. Mears. In 1867 J. O. D. Lilly bought an interest in the firm and it was conducted under the title of Mears & Lilly for some time, when Mr. Lilly purchased the inter- est then represented by H. B. Mears and the firm became known as J. O. D. Lilly & Sons, and in ISSS incorporated as the Lilly Varnish Company, with Charles Lilly, president and Jno. M. Lilly, secretary and treasurer.
LILLY VARNISH WORKS-OFFICES.
The business was started in a small building by Dr. Mears, who conceived the idea that gum and turpen- tine could be fused. The re- sult of the ex- periment wasthe burning of the primitive plant. He then erected a factory at the intersection of
Kentucky avenue and Mississippi streets. The business was conducted at this point, through the different changes in the firm until 1875, when a new factory plant was built on the east bank of White river-the present site. None of the old buildings now remain, having given place to the modern structures built especially for the business. During IS95, new warerooms and offices have been built, equipped with the latest im- provements. The buildings are as nearly fire proof as it was LILLY VARNISH WORKS-REAR VIEW. possible to make them. The factory has a capacity of 40 to 50 barrels of varnish per day. The product consists of the finer grades of carriage, wagon, agricultural implement, furniture and house painters' varnishes, embracing in all over 140 different grades. The product is sold all over the United States and the company has begun the introduction of its goods in foreign markets. The present officers of the company are Charles Lilly, president, and Jno. M. Lilly, secretary and treasurer.
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The A. Burdsal Company, manufacturers and jobbers of paints and painters' materials, was incorporated in 1892. The business was originally established by Alfred Burdsal in January. 1875, at 32 South Meridian street. In the spring of 1876 the business was moved to 34 South Meridian street, and in 1555 the room south, No. 36, was added. Mr. Burdsal began to manufacture in a very small way in IS;7. on the third floor of the present location. In IS79 he began building the present large factory, located at 241 to 249 South Pennsylvania street. Besides the factory he built the large HOBPRPEALING warehouses on the adjoining property. one of which, 50 x 140, for the accommo- dation of surplus stock, at 251 and 253 South Pennsylvania street, and another. 25 X 140, at 239 South Pennsylvania, for the storage of glass, of which this firm are the largest dealers in this territory. The factory is equipped with the very latest and improved machinery, with TIIE A. BURDSAL COMPANY. special railroad switches leading to the factory and warehouse, facilitating the handling of the products, which are shipped throughout the central western states.
The company manufacture all kinds of white lead, colored and mixed
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paints, wood stains, coach and car colors, japans, varnishes and a full line of prepared paints for house, sign, carriage and decorative painters' uses. They are the manufacturers of the celebrated " Steamboat " brand of paste colors, the same as white lead, but so tinted that the consumer is enabled to select any desired shade, saving the painter the labor and expense of selecting and mixing.
At the time the firm was incorporated the business was owned and con- trolled by Mr. Burdsal, who took into the company William II. Meier, his bookkeeper; Sydney T. Jordan, chief clerk; Russell G. Allen and Granville G. Allen, traveling salesmen, and Frederick Poehler, foreman of the factory.
Mr. Burdsal was born in Cincinnati in 1839, and began his career in the paint business in IS58 with the Eagle White Lead Company of that city. He served the company in the capacity of bookkeeper and traveling sales- man until 1863. Ile entered the army in the spring of IS64. On his return in 1865 he again re-entered the firm, and was secretary of the company from IS67 to IS70. Owing to ill health he retired from business, and was not again actively engaged until IS75, when he sold his interest in the Eagle White Lead Company and came to Indianapolis, since which time he has built the prosperous and extensive business of which he is the head.
EVANS LINSEED OIL WORKS.
Evans Linseed Oil Company, manufacturers of raw and boiled linseed oi! and oil cake meal, is the outgrowth of the business established by I. P. Evans & Co., who began the manufacture of linseed oil in 1864. The busi- ness was incorporated in 1SS7, and conducted at present by the only surviv- ing member of the old firm, Joseph R. Evans, assisted by Edward D. Evans and Joseph J. Brown. The old mill, which was located at the crossing of the Union railway tracks and South Delaware street, was destroyed by fire De- cember S, ISS5. The present plant, located on the west side of the river near the Michigan street bridge, was built in ISSI.
J. E. Bodine & Company, manufacturers and dealers of dental supplies, were established in this city in 18S3. They are located at Nos. 27 and 29 Monument place, where they carry the largest and most complete stock of
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dental supplies of every character in the state. Before becoming established in this city the firm was located at Toledo, Ohio, and Mr. J. E. Bodine trav - eled throughout this territory for six years prior to locating his firm in this city. J. E. Bodine & Company are recognized as one of the foremost firms in its special line in the west, and the trade extends throughout Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee. Beside the line of dental goods the firm are extensive dealers in and manufacturers of barbers' supplies, and do a thriving business in this branch of trade.
Joseph Haas, V. S., now one of the foremost manufacturers of live stock remedies in the country, began business in Dayton, Ohio, in the fall of 1876. He started in a very small way, and personally sold his entire product in Butler county, Ohio, and vicinity. Finding his field limited. and desiring a location upon which he could more readily extend his operations, he came to Indianapolis in 1877. His first office was located in the Abbott block. in Virginia avenue. His business grew rapidly, and in ISSt he purchased the building at the corner of Pennsylvania and Maryland streets, embracing
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rooms from No. 52 to 60 South Pennsylvania street, moving his laboratory to the rear half of 52 South Pennsylvania. The present offices and laboratory are located in No. 56 of the same building, and occupy three floors and have- ment. The product consists of the celebrated and widely advertised Haas' Hlog and Poultry Remedy, Haas' Alterative (condition powder. Haas' Epizootic Remedy and Haas' Cattle Remedy, which have a large and con- stantly increasing sale in every state and territory, and in Canada and Hawaiian Islands. From the European agency, located in Birmingham, England, British possessions throughout the world are supplied. A special feature in connection with the sale of the hog remedy is the indemnity con-
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tract by which, for a small fee in addition to the price of the remedy, Dr. Haas guarantees to pay for every hog that dies out of. 500 that are treated with it.
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