. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. SANDERSON KIRE ENGINE HOUSE. New Albanys Fire Department is one of the best equipped and most effi-cient in the West, size of city considered. It consists of three first-classsteamers, one hand-engine, one hook and ladder truck, a plentiful supply ofreels and hose, three brick and one frame engine-houses, and a complement ofpaid firemen, under the direction of an experienced chief engineer. One ofthe ferry-boats also is provided with a powerful pump, that affords protectionto the shipping, and to the mills, factories, etc.,
. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. SANDERSON KIRE ENGINE HOUSE. New Albanys Fire Department is one of the best equipped and most effi-cient in the West, size of city considered. It consists of three first-classsteamers, one hand-engine, one hook and ladder truck, a plentiful supply ofreels and hose, three brick and one frame engine-houses, and a complement ofpaid firemen, under the direction of an experienced chief engineer. One ofthe ferry-boats also is provided with a powerful pump, that affords protectionto the shipping, and to the mills, factories, etc., on the river AXl) OF SKW ALBANY, INDIANA, 233 RGprGs^ntatiuG Housss. This coucluding chajjter of our work will be devoted to a faithful preseuta-tion of the claims of New Albanys leadinjr mauufacturiug, couiiuercial andfinancial concerns upon the consideration of the country, to a delineation oftheir advantages and a description of their facilities. This work has been per-formed conscientiously and with entire fairness, and, we l)elieve, gives an outlineof the origin, history, extent and prospects of nearly if not ([uite every houseof more than local fame in the city. A3IER1CAN PLATE GLASS WORKS. DePauws American Plate Glass Works Polished and Obscured Plite Glass. Window Glass. Skylight Glass,Flooririg Glass. Ground Glass. Fruit Jars. , etc.—New Albany and Louisville. The manufacture of plate glas>, though one of the most important of the great indus-tries, is necessarily surrounded with considerable mystery—in Europe because of thatjealousy among men so natural in a calling that
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