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The city was laid out in 1821, and the first sale of lots toob place the same year. It is beautifully laid off, the streets being from sixty to one hundred feet in width, crossing each other at right angles, except four diagonal, broad avenues which converge to a circular area, and afford easy access to every section of the city. The streets are beautifully embellished with forest and or- namental shade trees.
With the romance of the early settlement of this city, this Di- rectory has nothing to do ; the trials and hardships of our earis settlers are matters of history. It is to present the importance of Indianapolis to-day, that the space allotted to the subject is designed. Our city has superior advantages for becoming a large manufacturing city. From her geographical position-being in the center of the State, and accessible from all points of the con- pass, by railroad-the advantages Indianapolis affords for the profitable investment of capital and labor in every department of industry, will bear favorable comparison with those of any other city in the West. In her manufacturing carcer she has built up 2
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a foundation of remarkable solidity for the future increase of her commercial and manufacturing operations. The Central Canal and Fall Creek afford water power sufficient for all kinds of ma- chinery. Wood is cheap, and the supply abundant. Inexhaus- tible beds of coal, quarries of stone, and mines of iron ore, each of the very best quality, are opened within a convenient distance of the city. Coal is furnished at from ten to eleven cents per bushel. Formerly, the position of the city was completely inland but the completion of the Madison and Indianapolis railroad, in the fall of 1847, marked a new era in its history. The popula- tion at that time was about 4,000, and the town had scarcely any manufactures or trade. Now her inhabitants number fully 30,000, and the hum of machinery in her rapidly increasing manufactures can be heard everywhere. Eight railroads, viz : Madison and In- dianapolis, Jeffersonville and Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Richmond, Lafayette and Indianapolis, Peru and Indianapolis, Bellefontaine, Indiana Central, and Indianapolis and Cincinnati, terminating at Indianapolis, comprising 1600 miles of track, have been finished, and all of them the best paying roads in the West. Other roads are under contract, the most important of which, and that of the greatest magnitude, is the Indiana and Illinois Cen- tral. This, when completed, will open up to Indianapolis an im- mense additional trade and travel from the West and North-west.
These different railways, having 12,000 miles of connections, directly center here, making this point the greatest railroad cen- ter in the world. They bring all parts of this and the neighbor- ing States within a few hours ride of Indianapolis, and connect with all the important routes of trade and travel in the West. To give an idea of the superior railway advantages of this city, it need only be said that the citizens of 80 out of 92 counties in the State can leave their homes in the morning, visit Indianapo- lis, attend to their business, and return the same day. About five thousand persons visit the city every twenty-four hours, and about one hundred trains of every description pass, in and out of the city daily.
The Union Railway Company was organized in 1850, and the magnificent passenger depot was finished for the reception of trains in the fall of 1853. The plan originated with John Brough
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and the late O. H. Smith, and was carried into operation by the Madison, Bellefontaine, and Terre Haute railroad companies. It consists of a common trunk for all the railroads centering at In- dianapolis, with a passenger depot errected upon it, in which the passengers from all the roads enter and leave the cars, and where exchanges of cars are made without cost for the passengers and baggage.
This main trunk is connected with the several freight depots by branch tracks.
Subsequently to the organization of this company, the Indian- apolis and Cincinnati and the Indiana Central companies were admitted as equal partners, and the Union Deport Company, as it now exists is composed of the Madison and Indianapolis, the Bellefontaine, the Terre Haute and Richmond, the Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and the Indiana Central companies, as equal part- ners ; the president of each of these companies being a director of the Union Company, from whom a presiding officer is chosen.
The other companies are now using the Union depot and tracks on rental; and as new roads are made to the city ample provision will be made for their admission to this new indispensable arrange- ment. The entire cost of the Union depot, tracks and right of way has been one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
The different railroads that center here, traverse regions un- surpassed in agricultural and mineral resources ; and while they afford ready facilities for transporting goods and the products of the many workshops and factories of this city to those who need them, they also supply the means of bringing hither the raw ma- terial requisite for their production. No State in the Union, with equal extent of territory, excels Indiana in natural resources. Her rich soil, fine forests of timber, pure streams of water, to- gether with inexhaustible beds of coal, iron, marble, stone, etc., place her in reliable sources of wealth among the first States of the Union. The city is improving with great rapidity. Capital expended in building, invested in real estate and in all classes of manufactures, yield large and sure returns.
The wholesale business is' carried on extensively, and many large wholesale and retail establishments of dry goods, groceries, hardware, drugs, clothing, books and stationery, have day by day
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been added to its already large mercantile interests, and yet all are amply patronized. The demands of the country merchant can be supplied upon terms equal to those offered in eastern cities. Mercantile men throughout the State are becoming aware of these facts, and are making Indianapolis the head quarters of their trade. Persons unacquainted with the extent of its busi- ' ness will be astounded at the amount of exchange done by banks and brokers of this city. The exchange each year will not fall short of fifteen millions of dollars. Knowing this to be a health- ful and prosperous condition of mercantile interest, meu, who would consult their own gains, should look about for the reasons .. The whole secret is embraced in the fact that the merchants of Indianapolis can at all times of the year supply themselves with every article of merchandise direct from the manufactories, and upon very short notice. Rents, clerk hire, and every expense is much reduced comparatively with Eastern' cities, so that prices can be brought to compete with any Eastern market. Freights, insurance and other incidentals are greatly decreased when large stocks are purchased, and therefore its wholesale establishments can furnish the country merchant cheaper than he could pur- chase and forward his stocks from Eastern or Southern cities. These advantages will daily increase as the patronage of country merchants becomes more extended, both parties will be greatly benefitted, country merchants can constantly keep a perfect sup- ply, and make quick turns of their capital; and the wholesale establishments of Indianapolis will increase in number and im- portance. It is for the interest of every merchant in Indiana to make Indianapolis his place of purchase and sale.
The following list of houses do a large wholesale busi- ness in their several branches of trade. There are others whose jobbing, as well as retail transactions, amount to a large sum annually.
BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS.
Bowen, Stewart & Co., No. 18 West Washington street, have, during the past season, rebuilt and enlarged their establishment, and keep stationery and printing papers of every description. Newspaper offices throughout the State can purchase colored pa-
INDIANAPOLIS ADVERTISEMENTS.
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
The Proprietors of this Company have facilities enabling them to forward
MONEY PARCELS, PACKAGES,
GOODS
AND ALSO TO COLLECT
NOTES, DRAFTS & ACCOUNTS.
In all the principal Cities and Towns in the United States, Canadas, California and Europe,
AT LOW RATES AND WITH GREAT DISPATCH.
Order Goods Marked "By the American Express Co.'
WELLS, BUTTERFIELD & CO.,
62 Broadway and 8 Erie Place, N. Y.
LIVINGSTON, FARGO & CO.,
157 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Office, S. E. cor. Washington & Meridian,
INDIANAPOLIS, TIND
J. G. BARNES. Agent.
INDIANAPOLIS ADVERTISEMENTS.
ROBERT BROWNING, DEALER IN
DRUGS & MEDICINES WHOLESALE &RETAIL
CHEMICALS
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DENTAL &SURCICAL INSTRUMENTS FRE
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RABROWNING
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS, Surgical and Dental Instruments, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, Dye-Stuffs, Window Glass, Glassware, BRUSHES, PERFUMERY, SPICES, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ETC., No. 22 West Washington Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
COTTRELL & KNIGHT, GAS FITTERS, COPPERSMITHIS -
AND DEALERS IN TIN PLATE, COPPER, SHEET BRASS, SHEET IRON, RUSSIA IRON, SHEET ZINC, SLAB ZINC, BLOCK TIN, RIVETS AND WIRE.
ALSO, WESTERN AGENTS FOR
THE AMERICAN SEAMLESS COPPER TUBES, Morris, Tasker & Co.'s. Gas Pipes & Lap-welded Iron Flues, No. 94 SOUTH DELAWARE ST., INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
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pers, card board, &c., at this house, equal in quality to that bought at Cincinnati or other Western markets, and at as low figures. Merrill & Co.'s establishment is in Glenn's Block, East Washington street. They are the principal dealers in law books, and have a very large stock of books and stationery of every description. Werden & Co., 26 East Washington, keep the largest stock of medical books in the city, and are extensively engaged in the wall paper business.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
The two establishments exclusively in this trade, are V. K. Hendricks & Co., 76 West Washington, and E. C. Mayhew & Co., 8 Louisiana street, opposite Union Depot. These establishments have every facility by large capitals and connections with East- tern manufacturing houses, of keeping stocks suitable to this market at Eastern prices, adding cost of transportation.
CHIINA, GLASS AND QUEENSWARE.
There are two extensive houses in this branch of business, viz: Hawthorn & Buchanan, 83 East Washington, and Jacob Lind- ley, 16 West Washington street.
CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
There are none exclusively wholesale. The leading houses are, Dessar Brothers, Glaser & Bro., and Moritz, Bro. & Co., who do perhaps all the jobbing in this line of business in the city.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
In this business there are three houses who do a very large wholesale trade, viz: Robert Browning, 22 West Washington ; C. G. Perkins & Co., 14 West Washington, and Wm. Hannaman, 40 East Washington street. These establishments keep drug- gists' glassware, and everything necessary to the fitting up of retail stores.
DRY GOODS.
There is only one exclusive wholesale dry goods house-J. A. Crossland, 75 West Washington street. At this house country
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merchants will find as large and complete an assortment of staple and fancy dry goods, cloths, cassimeres, &c., as cheap and at as low figures as anywhere in the Western country.
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
C. A. Elliott & Co., 34 South Meridian ; M. Fitzgibbon & Co., 77 South Meridian ; John W. Holland, 72 East Washington ; P. Kirland, 73 South Meridian; Alford, Mills & Co., 36 East Wash- ington; Andrew Wallace, corner Delaware and Virginia avenue; Wright, Bates & Maguire, Bates House building, West Washing- ton, and A. & H. Schnull, cor, Washington and Delaware. The above list comprises all first class houses, and do an exclusive wholesale business.
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, AND METALS.
The city is supplied with six hardware stores, viz : A. D. Wood, 12 West and 85 East Washington; B. Pottage, 72 West Wash- ington; J. H. Vajen, 21 West Washington; C. Vonnegut, 142 E. Washington, and J. B. Wilson, West Washington.
LEATHER AND SHOE FINDINGS.
There are five houses doing an immense business in this trade. Four of these establishments manufacture leather, and keep, in the aggregate about 100 men in employment. The names and locations are as follows : John Fishback, 30 South Meridian; Mooneys & Co., 75 South Meridian; J. K. Sharpe, 96 East Washington; C. Vonnegut, 142 East Washington; and Yandes & Co., 38 East Washington.
IRON, STEEL AND CARRIAGE TRIMMINGS.
In this business there are three houses, viz : Murphy & Holli- day, 34 East Washington ; Thomas Buist, 70 West Washington, and B. Pottage, 72 West Washington.
MUSIC, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND PIANOS.
Willard & Stowell, 4 Bates House, are the most extensive dealers in sheet music, musical instruments and pianos, in the State. Pianos from the best makers in the country, are kept at this establishment.
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SPECTALES AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS.
The establishment of L. W. Moses is at 20 East Washington. This is the only wholesale house in the city.
SEED STORES.
In this busines, P. S. Birkenmayer & Co., 74 East Washington, and David Braden, 84 West Washington, are the only estab- lishments.
TEAS.
There are five wholesale tea houses-Donaldson, Maxfield & Prine, 71 West Washington ; P. Kirland, 73 South Meridian, and James Muir, 33 West Market; Ludden & Lee, Bates House Building, and Daggett & Co., South Meridian.
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
In this trade, wholesale, there are three establishments-those of Donaldson, Maxfield & Prine; P. Kirland; Geo. F. Meyer, 35 West Washington; Lichtenhein & Son, - West Washington, and J. A. Heidlinger, 3 Palmer House.
WALL PAPERS.
Werden & Co. and Wm. H. Roll do the principal business in this line.
WINES AND LIQUORS.
There are about ten wholesale liquor houses ; these keep all kinds of liquors, wines, cigars, &c.
YANKEE NOTIONS, TOYS, &C.
In this department of trade there are three houses engaged, viz : Hausmann & Co., 6 East Washington ; Klotz & Pfafflin, 29 West Washington, and S. Bing, jr., 32 and 2 West Washington.
MANUFACTURES.
In manufacturing establishments, the city contains the follow- ing, viz: Agricultural implements, blank book making, boilers and steam engines, boots and shoes, brass and bell founderies,
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breweries, brick making, carriage and wagon making, cigars, clothing, cooperage, coppersmithing, edge tools, file making, Houring mills, iron founderies and machine shops, furniture and robinet ware, gilding and picture frames, gunsmithing, leather, iron railing, lard oil, soap and candles, lasts and pegs, lightning rods, marble works, model building, pianos, paint and color works, paper boxes, pump making, railroad iron rolling mill, " ddles and harness, sash doors and blinds, saw works, lumber, silver plating, stoneware, tinware and stoves, trunk and valise making, umbrellas, vinegar, woolen goods, shingles and lath Machines, and patent machines of every description.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
There are four establishments that manufacture all kinds of farming implements, and five other houses who only keep ware- houses here, and have their wares manufactured elsewhere. The manufacturing firms are Wiggins & Chandler, who have a large machine shop on West Washington street, near White River bridge. Their propelling power is furnished by steam, and also from the canal. They employ on an average about twenty men.
Beard, Starr & Co. have had built for them, during the last summer, a magnificent machine shop, by Valentine Butsch, in rear of Metropolitan Hall, on Tennessee street. The building, with all its machinery complete, will be ready for occupancy early in the spring of 1861.
Dawson, East Washington, near New Jersey street, manufac- mures plows, harrows, &c.
Samuel Binkley, (lately removed from Wayne county,) has built a large factory on the south east corner of Merrill and Ten- nos ee streets, and manufactures all kinds of agricultural imple- ments.
BOOK BINDING AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURING.
There are four book binderies in the city, viz : Bingham & Dunghty, Sentinel Building, who keep employed from 15 to 20 bands. Douglas & Palmer, 363 East Washington, employ from ¿ to 12 hands. Sheets & Braden, 77 West Washington, employ about 20 hands. Campbell & Bro., 37 East Washington street, employ 5 hands.
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BOILER MAKING.
This branch of industry is carried on by Dumont & Sinker, who have the largest boiler works in the State. They employ in this department some fifteen to twenty hands.
STEAM ENGINES.
Portable and stationary engines are manufactured by Hassel- man & Vinton, and Dumont & Sinker. The engines manufactured by these two firms are better (judging from premiums awarded them) in style of finish, durability and power, than any manu- factured in the United States. Dumont & Sinker employ in this department 25 men, and Hasselman & Vinton 30 men.
IRON FOUNDERIES.
Dumont & Sinker employ in their foundery, and every depart- ment of it, 55 men, Hasselman & Vinton, 73 men; Redstone, Bro. & Co., 5 men, and I. Davis & Co., 5 men.
BELL AND BRASS FOUNDERIES.
There are two firms engaged in this business, viz : J. W. Davis & Co., and Cleary & Little, who employ, in the aggregate, 10 men.
MACHINE SHOPS.
Of these there are seven, viz: Hasselman & Vinton, Dumont & Sinker, Redstone, Bro. & Co., I. Davis & Co., Samuel Binkley, Wiggins & Chandler, and Beard, Starr & Co., employing, alto- gether, over three hundred men.
CARRIAGE MAKING.
In this business there are five firms, viz; S. W. Drew, George . Lowe, H. R. Gaston, Harding & Hilt, and Levy Sutherland, en- gaged, turning out carriages, coaches, buggies, &c., equal in work- manship, and much more durable than any Eastern work. These employ a number of workmen, such as blacksmiths, car- riage makers, trimmers and painters.
FURNITURE AND CABINET WARE.
There are eight firms manufacturing furniture and fine cabinet
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ware, employing over two hundred men. Sloan & Ingersoll ; Speigel, Thoms & Co., and Myers & Witthoft, are each doing a . large manufacturing and wholesale business. Furniture of every description can be bought at either of these establishments, at lower rates than at Cincinnati.
IRON RAILING.
This business is extensively carried on by Williamson & Haugh, North Delaware street, above Washington. They employ from 10 to 15 hands.
LARD OIL, SOAP AND CANDLES.
There are only two establishments of this kind now in operation, that kept by H. Tilly & Co., on the Bluff Road; and Smith. The business here is confined to the manufacture of soap and candles.
LASTS, SPOKES, HUBS AND FELLOES.
This business is carried on by Osgood, Smith & Co. They employ a large number of hands, have a heavy capital invested, and are doing an immense business. They have lately discon- tinued the manufacture of pegs, and now only make lasts, car- riage and wagon wood trimmings of every description.
LIGHTNING RODS.
In this branch of busines, Locke & Munson supply about the entire West, and much of the East and South. They manufac- ture the celebrated Copper Tubular Lightning Rod, with spiral flanges, patented in 1856, by David Munson, which is taking the place of the iron rod as fast as its properties become known.
MACHINE WORKS.
An establishment of this kind is carried on by Redstone, Bro. & Co., who are inventors, and munufacture shingle and lath ma- chines, wood sawing, washing, morticing, and other valuable machines of their own invention and construction. Their foun- dery and machine shop is situated on Delaware, opposite Indian- apolis and Cincinnati Railroad freight depot.
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MECHANICAL MUSEUM.
Park & Dennis, 82 Metropolitan Hall, have the general agency for a number of labor saving machines, consisting of Ladd, Web- ster & Co.'s, Holley's Sewing Machines, and Vogle's Button Hole and Embroidering Sewing Machines, Goff's Knitting Ma- chines, Calvin's Milking Machines, French's Conical Washing Machines, Bartlett's Refrigerator and Water Cooler combined, Green's Patent Machinery Belt Clasps, and other useful articles.
MARBLE WORKS.
Of these there are seven, viz: Jason Dame, Michael Downey, W. W. James & Co., Richards & Goddard, J. H. Seybold & Co., Scott, Nicholson & Co., and J. W. Weir & Bro. Two of these, Scott, Nicholson & Co., and Richards & Goddard, are engaged in the dressing and cutting of stone for building purposes.
PAINT AND COLOR WORKS.
This business has been carried on in this city about one year, by the Western Paint Co. They manufacture all kinds of colored paints, either dry or in oil. The colors are manufactured by a new process, which is patented- Paints are sold by this house at a lower price than at Eastern markets, and are equally as good in quality, lustre and durability.
PAPER BOX MAKING.
Charles H. Grobe, 125 East Washington, is the only manufac- turer of paper boxes in this city.
PATENT MEDICINES.
This branch of business is carried on by J. M. Frost & Co., 5 North Meridian. They employ over thirty men as travelling agents, for the sale of their medicines.
PIANO FORTES.
There is one Piano manufactory in this city, Geo. Traeyser, proprietor. The best professors and teachers of the piano pro- nounce his instruments equal in tone and finish to the best made in the country.
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PUMP MAKING.
There are three firms engaged in this business, keeping about 15 men in constant employment.
ROLLING MILL.
This mill was built for the manufacture and renewal of railroad iron, and cost (including machinery) $125,000. It has the ca- pacity of turning out fourteen thousand tuns of new iron annually, and of consuming the same amount of coal. On entering the mill at the east door, will be seen to the left a range of six iron furnaces, set in pairs, to which tin pipes lead a current of air from little "blowers," run by belts overhead. The furnaces are in front of the boilers, and the heat that melts the iron is con- ducted under them and makes the steam, thus saving a double outlay of fuel. The fire chamber is in the front part of the fur- nace, which is highest, inclining towards the boilers, and the heating chamber, dazzling with heat, is where the iron is heated for rolling. The rollers stand on the right on entering the house. They are immense masses of iron, grooved and cut so as to shape the iron as it passes through them, into a rail. There are two sets of rollers. The set next the door is intended only to roll the iron as it comes from the furnace into flat slabs of some few feet long by six inches wide, and an inch in thickness. This set is worked by a huge steam engine of a new construction, made in Covington, in which the power is applied directly to the shaft that turns the rollers, without the interposition of gearing. A very considerable waste of power is thus avoided. An immense "fly wheel," sixteen feet in diameter, and weighing twenty tuns, regulates the motion and gives steadiness to the power of the en- gine. Just beyond this is the other set of rollers, in which the rail is finished. The slabs rolled by the first set are laid together, six at a time, thus making a bar six inches square, by six feet long, which is again put in the furnace and heated, It is then rolled through the second set of rollers, which give it the shape, and finally turn it out a complete rail, lacking only sawing, cooling, and straightening. The second set of rollers, like the first, has its own powerful engine, (about 100 horse power,) and its own
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fly wheel. By this double arrangement great advantages are se- cured, as if any obstruction or accident stops one series of rollers, the other can still go on, instead of bringing thewhole mill to a halt, stopping the hands, and wasting the heat of the furnaces. She whole mill is arranged in the best manner, and with all the improvements that have been made in such work. It is believed to be the best rolling mill in the Union, combining more advan- tages and fewer liabilities to obstruction and loss, than any other.
The bar, after coming from the last roller, is carried upon a little railway to a frame where it is sawed off the proper length for use. This saw, again, has its own engine. After the sawing, the rail is run upon a bed prepared for it, where the cooling goes on in such a manner that the curve of the rail as it comes from the roller, is counteracted by the contractiou in cooling, and the rail is at last left cold and straight. To make sure of its being perfectly straight, however, it is passed under the pressure of a massive iron "straightener," that comes down upon it with a gradual but enormous force.
The shafting and some of the machinery of the mill were made by Hasselman & Vinton, and the boilers by Dumont & Sinker- both firms of this city.
OFFICERS .- J. M. Lord, President and Superintendent; C. B. Parkman, Secretary; W. O. Rockwood, Treasurer ; John Thomas, * manager ; J. R. Blake, Time Keeper.
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