. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. of Hall & Eddy, on Madison street, nearClay, removing, in 1870, to Green street, and, in 1885, to his present location, where, withlargely-increased facilities, he is prepared to execute all orders for either lumber or fin-ished work, pronij)tly. in the best style, and at lowest rates. His yards are roomy andconvenient, the mill feet, three floors, fitted up with improved modern machinery,and employing thirt^-tive to forty men at all seasons, the wages paid averaging $400 aweek, and the output reaching $70,000 to $75
. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. of Hall & Eddy, on Madison street, nearClay, removing, in 1870, to Green street, and, in 1885, to his present location, where, withlargely-increased facilities, he is prepared to execute all orders for either lumber or fin-ished work, pronij)tly. in the best style, and at lowest rates. His yards are roomy andconvenient, the mill feet, three floors, fitted up with improved modern machinery,and employing thirt^-tive to forty men at all seasons, the wages paid averaging $400 aweek, and the output reaching $70,000 to $75,000 a year. Mr. Van Seggern makes aspecialty of stair building, and the many tine samples of his handiwork in and aroundthe city attest his skill and taste. It is gratifying to note the success and prosperity ofsuch men in the face of ditRculties and disasters. AND OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA. 139 HACKETT Jt SMITH, Manufacturers of Hacketts Imperial Improved Self-Sealing Metallic Casket: Cloth Covered Metallic Casketsa Specialty—Nos. 117,119 and 121 Third The burial of the dead is not a pleasant topic to contemplate or discuss, but in its uni-versal relation to the human family the subject of the interment of departed loved onesis full of sorrowful interest. In former years exception was taken to metallic caskets astoo expensive to be within the means of a majority of surviving relatives, and their usewas largely confined to opulent families. But the inventive genius of America provedadequate to the production of a metallic casket of very superior merit, fully within themeans of people in moderate circumstances. Such an article is the Hackett Imperialimproved self-sealing metallic casket, patented in May, 1879, by Hackett & Smith, andsince that year manufactured in large quantities by that firm and sold throughout theSouthern States, in some of the Eastern, and in considerable numbers in Canada. Thesecaskets are offered dealers at such margins as to enable them to supply
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