Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1911 — HUSTLING FACTORY WORK; LOOKS LIKE A BOOK. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING FACTORY WORK; LOOKS LIKE A BOOK.

Building Sidewalk—Dozen Houses Will Be Erected. i* \ ■ There is a spirit of real hustle at The Republican man visited there Monday and .was shown over the ground by the vice-president, V. R. Meguire. Several men were at work making cement blocks and others were excavating for the east end of the foundation bf the main building. The foundation of the ware room is completed and the base for the foundation for the main building, except the east end, is completed. The ware room is to be 46x110 feet in dimensions and the foundation is about five feet above the level of tbe ground. It will be filled with earth that height, so that the floor will be on a level with the floors in box cars on tbe siding. The ware room will be only a single story in height. It will be divided into compartments and will have a small tramway through tbe center. Each compartment will be large enough for four truck loads of matches and that will be just a car load. Steel doors will be provided .for each compartment so that the building will be fire proof. The ware room will be located between the main building and the track.

The main building will be 187 feet in length and from 76 to 136 feet in width. It will be 39 to 40 feet in height and practically divided into three stories, although the third floor will be In the shape of a balcony extending around the building. The match boxes will be made on that floor and conducted to the floor below by means of chutes. On the second floor the matches will be made and the main floor will be the machine shop. The building will be a very beautiful one In design. It will be constructed entirely of cement and will be painted whits, a cement paint being used. The blocks now being made are of three sizes, 8x10x24 and 8x8x24 and Bxßxl6-. The blocks are proportioned 1 part of cement to 5% parts of sand. The sand is hauled from a pit south of town and several teams are employed hauling it Thq blocks are being turned out at the rate of 750 per day and there are now several thousand on hand. The construction of the building and the installing of the machinery will be pushed as rapidly as possible and the original plan of having the plant ready to begin operation by Jan. Ist will be beaten if possible. The proprietors claim that they are losing money in big figures every day and they will get started just as soon as they can. They will shortly begin the erection of several houses in the factory addition, and expect to build from eight to a dozen before snow flies. The houses will be made with basements and the earth excavated will be used ip filling up the-foundatlon for the ware room. For this purpose about a thousand square yards of earth will be required. The intention is to extend Elm and Cherry streets through from Melville to the east end of the factory addition and to grade the streets and put the addition into fine condition. The houses will be occupied by men employed in the factory and two or three employees are now ready to begin building as soon as the tract can be resurveyed and staked off. Some of the houses will probably be of cement, with stucco finish so popular in the cities. The factory has the appearance of substantiality and it looks like tbe commercial club did a good thing when It landed it for Rensselaer.

J. A. Beane, of Goshen, secretary of the Northern Indiana Editorial association, has made formal annuoncement of the annual midsummer meeting to be held at Mishawaka, August 10 and 11, in a letter sent to every editor and newspaper man in this half of the state. . -

Attorneys for the electrical trust have submitted to Attorney General Wickersham a decree which it is said they are willing to hove entered against the combination in the government’s suit for dissolution. Tbe significance of this move is that the trust is willing to dissolve without a fight

Demuth, of Peru, hfifc resigned as special deputy in charge of the apiary department in the office of B. W. Douglas, state entomologist, to take a place in the United States department of agriculture at Washington, where hq will be assistant "in apiculture under Dr. Phillips. He will assume his new work August 1.