Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1883 — Page 3

k FAIRBANKS’ STANDARD SCALES. THE HANCOCK INSPIRATOR. • THE ECLIPSE WIND MILL. sHjj|p|j|S Warehouse Trucks, Baggage Barrows, Letter and Manifest Presses, Coffee and Spice Mills, and Grocers’ Fixtures Generally. FAIRBANKS & CO., 26 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. EGAN & TREAT, Bates Block, Indianapolis, Ind. FRANKLIN (FIRE) I3MSURANCE COMPANY. The Franklin [Fire] Insurance Company, of Indianapolis, is building up an excellent and paying business through the liberal patronage of the people of the State. its business Is rapidly increasing, and should continue to increase. It helps to pay our taxes and build up our City and State. It has already loaned, a large sum of money at a low interest to the people of Indiana, and from the present outlook, in a few years it will have a half million dollars invested in our midst. Its officers and directors are well-known business men. /'AMES E. ROBERTSON is President, and GABRIEL SCHMUCK, Secretary. Its policies give as sure indemnity as those of any other company writing insurance in the State, and Its agency corps cannot be excelled. T~ A ¥ f M 4' £ i/ \ MANUFACTURERS AND dealers in • W v_y uttT atj"Tj ft RVATDR flippyy f Successors to LACROIX MIDDLINGS PURIFIER COMPANY, lUI 1J JJ iiilU DDLiYillUll. UUllijlijU, jr * Nos. 79 1-2 to 8B 1-2 South Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. § PATTER, PULLEYS. PAPER PULLEYS.® ABSOLUTELY NO SLIPPING OF BELTS. fffeSnMl We Guarantee 200 per cent, more power transmitted than by other Pulleys. ojIiBS CALL AND SEE US AND WE WILL PROVE IT OR SURRENDER THE CAKE. PAPER PULLEY CO., 114 a/ncL 11G 8. I 3 ennsy Iva nia, KING & ELDER, Furniture, INTos. 43 and. 1 South Mleridian Street, Indianapolis.

bright bantams, first and second on Golden Boabright bantam chicks. 11. C. G. Bals, city: Second on bronse turkeys, old birds; first on bronze tnrkeys, 1883; first and second on Toulouse geese; first on llonen ducks. T. M. Reveal, Clermont: Frst on bronze turkeys, old hatch: second on bronze turkeys, late hatch; fii„t bn Heaviest live turkey. W. A. Ennis, Clermont: First on white Holland turkeys, old birds; second on Eiubden geese. W. A. Cox, Brightwood: First and second on White Holland turkeys, hatched 1883. W. C. Shortridge: First on wild turkeys, old or young: first on heaviest cock or cockerel, first on heaviest hen or pullet. George Kinsley, Shelbyville: First on Pekin ducks. G. A. Danley, city: First on brood of chicks under cne week old; first, special premium, for best pen i>f chickens. J. C. Bridge, Logansport: First on Wyandot chicks J. C. Harter, North Manchester: Second on black Java chicks; second on pair black .lava fowls. Stanton fe Wells, Greenwood: First ou pair black Java fowls. State Fair Notes. After all, the best comes last, and the dainties are kept to the close of the feast. For that reason the best feature of the fair, as we all admire the novel and the beautiful, has been held in reserve until to-day by the Model Clothing House, which certainly has proved to us that its proprietors and manager are the most fetlrring business men and the most ingenious and original advertisers this wide-awake city has ever seen. Those who have attended the fair could not help acknowledge their display there the handsomest array of male wearing apparel ever see in this State or elsewhere, in this country or beyond the seas. Such magnificent dressing-gowns and smoking-jackets would never have been believed to exist but that the eyes of thousands have seen them. Suoh royal Prince Alberts would grace a king, or better, a sovereign American. Finer overcoats could not possibly be put together, and when the linings and trimmings are taken into account it is extremely doubtful, unless the same silkworms can be found again, if these fine fabrics can be reproduced. State fair visitors were treated to another surmise by the Model Clothing House yesterday afternoon, which, to carry out the idea of a holiday, actually bought an entire edition of an afternoon paper, painted It red, and distributed it gratuitously to every one. On the ground-floor of the Exposition building is the handsomest deliverywagon ever built in this country. It was built by Robbins & Garrard, of this city, for the Model Clothing House. It sides are of diamond-shaped plate glass, and the wood and iron work are black as midnight and glossy as the raven’s wing. It is, indeed, a brilliant achievement—a vehicular victory. Only yesterday two magnificent horses were bought at a large price to drive 10 this dazzling car, which is to be put to trade uses, after all. and now tnere is a colored coachman in uniform who is Quite as conspicuous for his style and finish as ihe chariot he is to drive. People ore beginning lo open their eyes very wide over these new business ways, and to wonder if the Model Clothing House, which furnishes as many surprises as the Count of Monte Christo, hasn’t a fold or diamond mine to draw upon. It even landles money taken in exchange for its goods In a wonderful way. sending it to the cashier by railroad, and, presto! back it comes again on another rail (for even here its railroad is double tracked) before one can say Jack Robinson. Today. accompanied by a full brass band, the Model delivery wagon will make its first trip. It will start from the fair-grounds, and, drawn Dy eight of the handsomest horses in the city, parade the streets. What other features are to be added to this pegeant will be developed today. At every State fair for ten years William B. Harford has made a display which was well worth being seen, but this year he has far surpassed all his previous efforts* His Immense b'auk-book, ten feet high, seven feet wide and three feet thick, which is suspended over the pastern stairway, is attractiug considerable attention, as It Is the largest book ever made Ih the State. He also shows an elegant line of fdliCy goods, novelties, etc., belonging to the stationery business, arranged in the most artistic manner, anil all who have visited this display have been well repaid, and pronounce it tme of the very best features in the main buildhg. The specimen a of lithograph work exhibited are proof of the fact that as good work he done in this line m Indianapolis us any slt£ ih ihe (Kuihfty, White tlie piles of fir*t-cla*s aiknk-bdoks show iliat Burforu takes the lead

in them. His establishment la one of the largest in the West, and as It employes 150 workmen, and is full of the most most modern machinery, the visitor will find much to interest him there. Call at 21 Weßt Washington street, and you will receive a cordial welcome. The Eagle Machine Works of this city have a space on the east Bide of the fair grounds, with a frontage of sixty feet and a depth of two hundred feet, upon which has been crowded one of the largest and most valuable and interesting exhibits ever placed in any fair. These works were established over a third of a century ago, and their good name has gone over the entire land. Many of their manufactures are considered almost staple, and In large sections of country are practically without competition. On this ground are shown a ten-horse traction engine, an oscillator, a straw-stacker, a pony C double saw-mill (which is successfully operated by a ten-horse-power portable engine, and with but two men—the engineer and sawer—cuts from 2,500 to3,ooo!feet of lumber in less than ten hours), a plantation saw-mill, a merchant sawmill, and a ten-horse farm engine. Tlie last-named stands unrivaled. It has made Its reparation and its fame is a household word. Os the straw-stacker, it must be said that it is the best and most successful stacker in rhe market, and the demand last season was so large for it that it was impossible to fill all orders for it. With this stacker two men oan do the work or eight or ten, and do it better than It can possibly be done in the old-fashioned way. It is the quickest ami surest stacker iti the market, and has commended itself to every practical, progressive farmer who lias used it or seen it in operation. The Studebaker Wagon Works, of South Bend, Ind., have space immediately east of the Exposition building, and here 11. C. Baird, the State agent, is making an exhibit of these famous wagous. The present enormous business had its beginning in 1818 with the father of the four brothers, who iu 1883, sixty-five years later, carry on this great establishment, which now employes 1,500 men, and has over 5,000 persons dependent upon the works. These are the largest wagon works in the world, the buildings and yards covering over eighty-five acres. They turn out a wagon every five minutes, or 120 each working day in the year. The interest felt in the Btudebaker Wagon Works is national—more than national—for their wheels have not only rolled from the eastern to the western ocean, from the lakes to the. Gulf, but tlmse wagons are to be found all over the world, even In'the remotest corners, where civilization has scarcely set her foot. The capital employed in the business is enormous, and the magnitude of the operations of these wagon works place them beyond competion. It is an industry of which Inuiana is proud and shows what Hoosier pluck comoined with industry aud business sagacity can do. The Barlow Rotary, oil exhibition in Power Hall, shown by R. H. Day, general agent, is attracting great, but deserved attention from the thousands of progressive farmers who are attending the fair. The Rotary has the revolving seed cup which shows the corn, five hills iu advance before depositing in the ground. This is a distinctive feature in the Barlow Rotary and farmers show their appreciation or the seed cup by buying the only planter that has it or oan use it, and which makes it the only perfect dronper in existence. The Barlow last season secured the largest number of sales ever made by any one planter. Another admirable point about the machine is its automatic lever, which locks the planter into any desired position. Fletcher, Holt & Cos., of Indianapolis, exhibit herds of Polled Angus and Hereford cattle, which attract more attention from cattle men than any exhibits at the fair. These are the finest beef cattle known, the flesh, particularly of the Polled Aligns, belug firm, compact and finely grained. They arc small-boned, aud take oh flesh rapidly. These cattle are new in this State. Os the Polled Angus, Fletcher, Holt & Cos * have the only herd in central Indiana. J. W. Stillwell & Cos., of Troy, o.,have on exhibition twenty-two head of Holstein cattle—those famous Dutch milkers aud butter-matters that have the beef requisite also—representing a herd of 400 head, 350 head being recent importations of yearling heifers, all Holsteins. This is the largest herd of Holsteins m the world, none even In Holland being as large. At the head of

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the herd is the Prince of Twlsk, a prize-winning bull, whose dam has a record of 30*s pounds of unsalted butter in thirteeu days, in August, 1883, at teu years old. A handsome display of carriages and buggies is made by Robbins & Garrard, of Nos. 26 to 34 East Georgia street, this city, including the Model delivery wagon, also of their make, which is as pretty as anything ever put upon wheels. Among the fine work Is a lady’s Victoria, a fourpassenger phaeton, a coupe rockaway, a fourpassenger barouche, and a number of buggies of different styles. Two one-man road wagons of admirable workmanship, one weighing one hundred and ten pounds, the other one hundred and twenty-five pounds, attract great attention among horsemen aud gentlemen drivers. The Fleming Manufacturing Company, of Fort Wayne, exhibit the Jonathan Fleming patent road-leveler and grader, which commends itself as the best road tool for grading and leveling in use for these reasons: First, it can be set in different angles; second, it has an easy draft; third, it can do the work of forty or fifty men, teu to twenty teams wirh the ordinary scraper, and leave the road in better condition. Fletcher & Thomas, of this city, are the agents of the Quaker Brick Machine, one of which they have on exhibition and showing it with its working clothes on. For four years this firm have used this brick raaclitne at their yards uoar this city, and duriug that time have made over 15,000,000 bricks with the honest Quaker, which after thorough and continuous trial they pronounce to be the best mud brick machine made, and the only machine that ever worked successfully at Indianapolis. The machine is shown in operation in connection with the hacking pallet system. This year Fletcher & Thomas have made wirh the Quaker Brick Machine 4.000,000 bricks and have not lost in all that number one hundred by rain. They will take pleasure iu giving personal information ou all points regarding this machine, or the same Information with prices, etc., will gladly be furnished by circular. Any practical farmer who has examined it is ready to say that the New Remington Clipper Plow, manufactured at Illon, New York, is the best plow in the market, and will give as reasons, first, the carbou metal of which it is made, being largely composed of cast steel has all the hardness and scouring qualities of chilled iron and is much stronger; second, it is the lightest ami strongest of all oast plows; third, the process of chilling disorganizes the natural < rystaiization of the iron and makes it cross-grained and brittle, therefore, Inferior, as chilled plows have to have their mold hoards heavy and clumsy to prevent frequent breakages; fourth, this plow has the concave land aide, and, therefore, having less surface, has less friction than any plow made. Send for circular to Thornton Darnall, agents, 198 Fort Wayne avenue, Indianapolis R. 11. and C. M. Avery, of Peoria, 111., oy their agent, G. 8. Benawa, have erected a handsome pavilion, iu which they exhibit cultivators, cornplanters and check-rowers, while the Peoria Plow Company show sulky aud walkiug plows and harrows.

Tlie Furst & Bradley Manufacturing Company, at Nos. 177 aud 179 East Washlnton street, this city, have one of the largest establishments iu the country. This manufacturing firm, represented at this point by W. B. Holton, manager, is making a flue exhibit, at the fair, embracing a large line of agricultural implements of their own manufacture and a general line of buggies, wagons, farm implements* Peoria rotary-drop coru-plauter, with wire checkrower, etc. Jefferson Caylor, of Nos. 57 and 59 West Washington street, has a pavilion building filled with a handsome display of agricultural implements, embracing all the latest and best devices and aids to the farmer, whose motto now, if tie is to be a successful man, must be “Progress.” Iu this display ttie Journal reporter noted the world-famous Oliver chilled plows, Casaday’s sulky plows, the admirable Buckeye harvester, the Moline wagou, Brown’s cultivators and double shovels, gram drills of the moat approved mikes, cider-milis, feed cutters, Randall’s celebrated harrows, and, in short, all the first-dans implements pertaining to a farm. Mr. Caylor’s visitors are numerous, but he is at the fair for the entire week, and he is ready to show auy and everything iu the agricultural liue, and iuii part all the Information of which ue may be pos-

sensed. His pavilion is *he third one east of the Exposition, north side, aud the house is thrown wide open to all comers. The famous Excelsior Harvester and Twine binder, as it is improved for 1884, thereby pushing this admirable niacbtne far In advance of its competitors, is here shown by the wide-awake State agent, Milton Daily, of this city. This harvester is now the cynosure of all eyes, observing farmers being quick to note that it is far in the lead, and when it marches into the harvest fields, next June and July, it will go as a proud conqueror. The policy of the Excelsor company is never to forego anything, no matter what the expense, that will add to the service and value of their machine ami so they propose to always add any feature to their machine which will simplify, strengthen, or in any way enhance its popularity. The Excelsior keeps pace with the age, and to-day it enjoys the reputation of being a model machine among the many. Daring the past season its sales throughout the country were enormous, and with its many new improvements no doubt the coming season will be the most brilliant iu its career. 1 lie company has not left undone anything which would produce the best harvester extant, nor has Mr. Daily overlooked anything which would add to the wide popularity of rhe Excelsior. The Esterly Harvester and Twine-biuder attracted great attention yesteiday aud day before, and the courteous general agent, C. H. Cannon, had no lack of visitors and little rest from answering regarding this model harvester. This ma> .p.o is going steadily to the front as its merits ad vet it. and ii*e demand is increasing with a rapidity no Known by any competing machine. As peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, next harvest will show the Esterly winning fresh laurels in the field. The Weir Plow Company, C. G. Root, manager, make a handsome exhibit of their valuable manufactures. Their plows need no recommendation, but commend themselves to the practical farmer who wants the best. Ewald Over, Nos. 82 aud 84 South Pennsylvania street, is making a specialty of road implement machinery tho matter of road-making now receiving, the country over, greater attention thau ever berore. Aside from his large regular exhibit iu Hull No. 2, he has a tine showing of road-matting implements. These consist of Pennock’s machine, Howland’s road machine, which can be adapted to any farm wagon* And a great variety of road scrapers and Road plows. Also Sawyer’s new patent road machine, Which has an adjustable lliuged scraper bar Which admits Os being placed in various positions, Bo as to do a large variety of work. Au illustrated advertisement of tho Bawyer is to be found in this copy of the Jourual. Bend for circulars.

Prizes Presented at the Military Competition. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 27. —The presentation of prizes to competitors in the rifle contest at Fort Omaha occurred to-day at the range. General Howard, General Manager Kimball, and a large number of officers and civilians, with ladies, were present. General Howard made the presentations: United States gold medal to Sergeant Stay, Ninth infantry, best record in the three days* contest for place on the department team. Department staff badge, individual skirmish matcb, to Lieutenant Merriaiu, Fourth infantry. Department command's gold badge, regimental skirmish match, to Sergeant Mayo, of the Seventh infantry. Union Pacific, trophy, regimental teams, to the Seventh infantry. Omaha bar medal, to Sergeant Stay, best record in the preliminary practice. The team to go to Leavenworth is Sergeant Stay, Private Zaokariza, Corporal Weagroff, Sergeant Chaplin, Sergeant Robinson, Lieutenant Merriam, Musician Martin, Musician Dilley, Sergeant Jordan, Corporal Btevens, Sergeants Hornick and Allen, Corporals Cosgrove and Pond. The two weeks’ practice has been eminently profitable aud pleasurable to men and officers. Homer Pennock, a million-lire of New York, who owns the Robert E. Lee mine at Leadvilie, lias for some niontns been quietly at work securing a foothold in Chicago. Agents have purchased for himself and associates about 1,000 acres of land outside the northwestern corner of Chicago, involving au outluy of nearly $1,000,000.

W E Come l)ef'oT i e tlie public to-day not laden with EXCUSES why we have not done this and that, but to thank our many patrons and friends for their hearty congratulations on our State Fair exhibit. "VUe have spared no pains in our eiforts to make this the crowning feature of the Fair, and we are happy to know that we have accomplished our aim. “This is tlie finest display of PIANOS and O 1 1-GrA-JSTS fever saw” was tlie universal saying of the thousands who listened to and admired the Concert, Farlor and Cabinet Grands of the celebrated makers, Decker Bros., Steinway, ffaines Bros, and Fischer PIAXOS. .A.gain thanki ing the public and assuring them that they can see just such instruments in our Piano Booms any day as were in our exhibit, we remain, yours respectfully, D. H. BALDWIN & CO. O. W. WILLIAMS, Manager.

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