Indianapolis News
December 2, 1873
The Shaw & Lippincott Manufacturing Company has been reorganised, with $200,000 capital stock, by B. C. Shaw, S. K. Lippincott, Thomas C. Redding, James H. S. Tompkins, Irvin Bobbins, and William V. Redding, and will hereafter be known as the Shaw Carriage Company. Notification of this formation was filed to-day with the State Secretary.
April 15, 1874
(Ad for properties to be sold in Beaty’s Addition)
This addition lays between the city and the new “South Park” (Note; Becomes Garfield Park) and between East and Shelby streets. For beauty of location and prospective enhancement in value this property has no equal in the market. The Shaw Carriage Works are constructing immense shops upon the ground, to which they will move the coming summer. The lots on Shelby Street are selling at $600 per lot. The balance at $500 per lot, thirty lots having been sold in the past ten days to parties who are intending to build at once.
May 22, 1874
Colonel Shaw, of the Shaw Carriage Company, started East this morning to purchase such machines as are not manufactured here for their new factory, now nearly completed, in the Beatty addition.
July 10, 1874
The Shaw Carriage Works have commenced moving to the new works in Beaty’s addition
September 23, 1876
Several mechanics who bought lots near the Shaw carriage works are in trouble. They have made several payments and expected to work in the carriage factory to earn the wherewith to pay the rest. The factory has never yet been in full operation, which leaves the owners of the lots in bad shape, financially.
September 5, 1877
RAPID PROGRESS OF THE BELT.
Every Day Making Great Changes Along the Line — Nine Hundred men Now at Work
The rapidity with which the work on The Belt Railroad advances, as it approaches completion, makes such striking changes oven in a single day, that it is hard to keep the public informed of its condition at any given time.
Rails and ties have been scattered for laying nearly all the way from the Pan Handle road to Pleasant Run at the Shaw carriage factory, and the track will be completed between those points by Saturday.
May 19, 1879
SHAW CARRIAGE WORKS FAILURE.
For several days it has been known that the Shaw carriage works company were in serious financial difficulties, but as negotiations looking to their adjustment were pending The News has refrained from giving them greater publicity. The Journal this morning publish a statement of the liabilities and distresses of the concern, full of inaccuracies. The indebtedness of the company which Col. B. C. Shaw is the head are held chiefly in the city by five banks and is all amply secured secured both by personal assets, notes,' stock, etc., which may be realized on easily and real estate. To parties outside the city, Col. Shaw stated to a News reporter the indebtedness of the company will not exceed $100,000 divided up among a considerable number of creditors. The banks to whom this money is owing are: Indiana banking company, $45,000; First national bank, $30,000; Fletcher A Sharpe, $20,000; Woollen, Webb and Co., $10,000; Meridian national bank $11,000; total $116,000.
The Indiana banking company and the First national bank, holding together $75,000 of the claims, are secured not only by personal security but by real estate. These two creditors are anxious that the business of the company shall continue, and hope the efforts now making to adjust the debts- due the other banks will be successful. Mr. Woollen, of Woollen, Webb & Co., says the claim of their bank is fully secured. The Meridian national bank is secured by bank stock hypothecated as collateral at the time the company negotiated the loan. The company has, at a low valuation, $100,000 worth of stock, manufactured and unmanufactured, with buildings, tools and machinery valued at $66,000. In addition to this, there are several thousand dollars in notes and accounts due the firm.
Last Friday Ingram Fletcher was made trustee of Colonel Shaw to take care of all his paper his entire property being conveyed to Mr. Fletcher for that purpose. Col Shaw says that all firm debts with his name on the paper will be paid. He had himself $100,000 in actual money in the concern. In addition to the property of the firm and the individual members of the company, Col. Shaw has a finely stocked farm near Kentland, valued at $40,000. The First national bank has commenced suit for $15,000, but will not continue the sale of the company can make, as is hoped, arrangements to continue the business.
July 25, 1879
Shaw Carriage Company Suits
The First National bank began suit yesterday for $30,000 to foreclose a mortgage which it holds against the Shaw carriage company.
Mr. Morrison, president of the bank, says that this is merely a continuation of the business begun two months ago, when the bank got judgement against the company.
An execution is now wanted, with the intention of appointing a receiver. It is expected the new company will be formed and that Col. B. C. Shaw will be at the head of it. The business of the company is to be continued. The Indiana banking company has brought similar proceedings against the company to the same end. The claim of this bank is $26,700.
April 7, 1880
FOR SALE—Carriages
A full stock of fine Carriages, Phaetons, Hearses, Side-Bar and End-Spring Buggies of every description. (Thirty new vehicles of various styles have just been completed and added to the stock.) Also top and open Spring-Wagons, Including s few extra jobs hung on Shaw’s Patent Double Trust, Circle Track gearing. This invention, though recent, is probably the greatest improvement for delivery or peddling wagons ever made. All the work is made by the well-known Shaw Carriage Company, and will be sold at the present price of production.
William Rowe, Receiver, No. 34 East Georgia Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
August 3, 1887
Federal Court Cases
Judge Woods yesterday gave a decision in the long-continued case of Lippincott vs. Milligan, receivers of the old First National bank, on a claim against the Shaw carriage company, the property of which had been sold tor the benefit of the defendants. He held that they were not liable for the indebtedness.
January 30, 1888
C. H. Gillett, manufacturer of bent-wood supplies, proposes in the early spring to largely increase the capacity of the works. He now occupies what is known as the Shaw Carriage Company buildings entire, but his orders are coming in in such numbers that he has not room to employ men needed to meet the demand for his work. One Cincinnati carriage works has placed orders with him in the last week that will keep them busy for several weeks.
October 26, 1888
Wm. A. Ketcham (A lawyer), trustee, to Harry J, Milligan (A lawyer), lots 5 to 16 and 25 to 36, both inclusive, in square or block 10, in Beatty's heirs addition. (Note; This includes the Shaw Carriage Works in lot 27.)
December 14, 1888
Will Manufacture Fine Cutlery
The Shaw Carriage Works building, on Shelby street, has been sold to Eastern capitalists who are to establish there a manufacture of fine cutlery on an extensive scale. They paid $15,000 for the ground and buildings thereon. The names of the purchasers cannot be given to the public at this time, as there are other matters in connection with the trade which make it desirable to withhold them for a short time. This will be the first manufactory of this character established in the State. The parties who are at the head of the enterprise well understand the business, and have ample capital.
October 29, 1889
To Make Playing Cards and Stationery
Several months ago the plant of the old Shaw Carriage Works was purchased in an unostentatious manner by an Eastern company, and recently a large amount of new machinery has been put into it. The firm is the “National Card Company of Indianapolis and New York,” and here is the point where the goods are to be manufactured. Playing cards and fine stationery will be the products of the establishment. Robert H. McCutcheon, of New York, is President, and A. Crusius, of the same place, Secretary of the company Samuel J. Murray, of Cincinnati, will be Superintendent when, in a few weeks, business begins. About 100 men will be employed.
The American Stationer Trade Magazine
Volume 28 July 31,1890
Page 800
The National Card Company of Indianapolis, Ind. is about to enlarge its buildings and increase its production. (Note; Two stories are added to the building.)
September 19, 1890
Harry J. Milligan to the National Card Company, lots 5 to 16 and lots 25 to 36 in square 10 of Beaty's heirs' addition $15,000.00. George Harvey to the National Card Company, lots 20 to 30 in square 11 of Beaty's addition $375.00 .
March 15, 1893
SOLD IT'S PLANT
National Card Company Absorbed by the United States Printing Company
The National Card Company, whose establishment in this city is one of the largest and best equipped of its, kind in the country, has sold its business to the U S. Printing Company, of Cincinnati. This sale and consolidation of interests make the combined concern the largest of its kind in the country, and probably the largest in the world, embracing, as it now does, three firms, the United States Printing Company. Russell & Morgan Printing Company and the National Card Company.
The card company's factory is located at the corner of the Belt railroad and Gatling street (Note; About to be renamed Barth Street), and they give employment to about four hundred persons, about three hundred of whom are girls, and about seventy-five skilled work men. The plant in this city will be continued and operated in connection with the Cincinnati house.
April 25, 1893
National Card Company to U. S. Printing Company, lots 5 to 16 and 25 to 36, square 10, and lot 26 to 30, block 11. Beatty’s addition. $50,000. (Note; This would be over $1,300,000 today. Also Lots 20-25 in Block 11 are not mentioned)
February 9, 1900
The buildings and grounds occupied by the National Card Company were sold yesterday for a consideration of $37,500 (In 2020 this would be over $1 million dollars) The purchaser is a manufacturer of another city, who will move his industry here and employ about 200 people. The National Card Company will move to Cincinnati about April 1.
May 4, 1900
A force of carpenters and other workmen began Monday to repair and remodel the National Card company building to fit it for flour-bag manufacturing. (Note; This was the Bemis Bag Company)
In the 1970s Bemis Bag slowly ceased operations at the Indianapolis location.
In November 1989 the empty building was destroyed by a fire started by 4 young teenagers. The location is now covered by the Pleasant Springs Apartments.
December 2, 1873
The Shaw & Lippincott Manufacturing Company has been reorganised, with $200,000 capital stock, by B. C. Shaw, S. K. Lippincott, Thomas C. Redding, James H. S. Tompkins, Irvin Bobbins, and William V. Redding, and will hereafter be known as the Shaw Carriage Company. Notification of this formation was filed to-day with the State Secretary.
April 15, 1874
(Ad for properties to be sold in Beaty’s Addition)
This addition lays between the city and the new “South Park” (Note; Becomes Garfield Park) and between East and Shelby streets. For beauty of location and prospective enhancement in value this property has no equal in the market. The Shaw Carriage Works are constructing immense shops upon the ground, to which they will move the coming summer. The lots on Shelby Street are selling at $600 per lot. The balance at $500 per lot, thirty lots having been sold in the past ten days to parties who are intending to build at once.
May 22, 1874
Colonel Shaw, of the Shaw Carriage Company, started East this morning to purchase such machines as are not manufactured here for their new factory, now nearly completed, in the Beatty addition.
July 10, 1874
The Shaw Carriage Works have commenced moving to the new works in Beaty’s addition
September 23, 1876
Several mechanics who bought lots near the Shaw carriage works are in trouble. They have made several payments and expected to work in the carriage factory to earn the wherewith to pay the rest. The factory has never yet been in full operation, which leaves the owners of the lots in bad shape, financially.
September 5, 1877
RAPID PROGRESS OF THE BELT.
Every Day Making Great Changes Along the Line — Nine Hundred men Now at Work
The rapidity with which the work on The Belt Railroad advances, as it approaches completion, makes such striking changes oven in a single day, that it is hard to keep the public informed of its condition at any given time.
Rails and ties have been scattered for laying nearly all the way from the Pan Handle road to Pleasant Run at the Shaw carriage factory, and the track will be completed between those points by Saturday.
May 19, 1879
SHAW CARRIAGE WORKS FAILURE.
For several days it has been known that the Shaw carriage works company were in serious financial difficulties, but as negotiations looking to their adjustment were pending The News has refrained from giving them greater publicity. The Journal this morning publish a statement of the liabilities and distresses of the concern, full of inaccuracies. The indebtedness of the company which Col. B. C. Shaw is the head are held chiefly in the city by five banks and is all amply secured secured both by personal assets, notes,' stock, etc., which may be realized on easily and real estate. To parties outside the city, Col. Shaw stated to a News reporter the indebtedness of the company will not exceed $100,000 divided up among a considerable number of creditors. The banks to whom this money is owing are: Indiana banking company, $45,000; First national bank, $30,000; Fletcher A Sharpe, $20,000; Woollen, Webb and Co., $10,000; Meridian national bank $11,000; total $116,000.
The Indiana banking company and the First national bank, holding together $75,000 of the claims, are secured not only by personal security but by real estate. These two creditors are anxious that the business of the company shall continue, and hope the efforts now making to adjust the debts- due the other banks will be successful. Mr. Woollen, of Woollen, Webb & Co., says the claim of their bank is fully secured. The Meridian national bank is secured by bank stock hypothecated as collateral at the time the company negotiated the loan. The company has, at a low valuation, $100,000 worth of stock, manufactured and unmanufactured, with buildings, tools and machinery valued at $66,000. In addition to this, there are several thousand dollars in notes and accounts due the firm.
Last Friday Ingram Fletcher was made trustee of Colonel Shaw to take care of all his paper his entire property being conveyed to Mr. Fletcher for that purpose. Col Shaw says that all firm debts with his name on the paper will be paid. He had himself $100,000 in actual money in the concern. In addition to the property of the firm and the individual members of the company, Col. Shaw has a finely stocked farm near Kentland, valued at $40,000. The First national bank has commenced suit for $15,000, but will not continue the sale of the company can make, as is hoped, arrangements to continue the business.
July 25, 1879
Shaw Carriage Company Suits
The First National bank began suit yesterday for $30,000 to foreclose a mortgage which it holds against the Shaw carriage company.
Mr. Morrison, president of the bank, says that this is merely a continuation of the business begun two months ago, when the bank got judgement against the company.
An execution is now wanted, with the intention of appointing a receiver. It is expected the new company will be formed and that Col. B. C. Shaw will be at the head of it. The business of the company is to be continued. The Indiana banking company has brought similar proceedings against the company to the same end. The claim of this bank is $26,700.
April 7, 1880
FOR SALE—Carriages
A full stock of fine Carriages, Phaetons, Hearses, Side-Bar and End-Spring Buggies of every description. (Thirty new vehicles of various styles have just been completed and added to the stock.) Also top and open Spring-Wagons, Including s few extra jobs hung on Shaw’s Patent Double Trust, Circle Track gearing. This invention, though recent, is probably the greatest improvement for delivery or peddling wagons ever made. All the work is made by the well-known Shaw Carriage Company, and will be sold at the present price of production.
William Rowe, Receiver, No. 34 East Georgia Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
August 3, 1887
Federal Court Cases
Judge Woods yesterday gave a decision in the long-continued case of Lippincott vs. Milligan, receivers of the old First National bank, on a claim against the Shaw carriage company, the property of which had been sold tor the benefit of the defendants. He held that they were not liable for the indebtedness.
January 30, 1888
C. H. Gillett, manufacturer of bent-wood supplies, proposes in the early spring to largely increase the capacity of the works. He now occupies what is known as the Shaw Carriage Company buildings entire, but his orders are coming in in such numbers that he has not room to employ men needed to meet the demand for his work. One Cincinnati carriage works has placed orders with him in the last week that will keep them busy for several weeks.
October 26, 1888
Wm. A. Ketcham (A lawyer), trustee, to Harry J, Milligan (A lawyer), lots 5 to 16 and 25 to 36, both inclusive, in square or block 10, in Beatty's heirs addition. (Note; This includes the Shaw Carriage Works in lot 27.)
December 14, 1888
Will Manufacture Fine Cutlery
The Shaw Carriage Works building, on Shelby street, has been sold to Eastern capitalists who are to establish there a manufacture of fine cutlery on an extensive scale. They paid $15,000 for the ground and buildings thereon. The names of the purchasers cannot be given to the public at this time, as there are other matters in connection with the trade which make it desirable to withhold them for a short time. This will be the first manufactory of this character established in the State. The parties who are at the head of the enterprise well understand the business, and have ample capital.
October 29, 1889
To Make Playing Cards and Stationery
Several months ago the plant of the old Shaw Carriage Works was purchased in an unostentatious manner by an Eastern company, and recently a large amount of new machinery has been put into it. The firm is the “National Card Company of Indianapolis and New York,” and here is the point where the goods are to be manufactured. Playing cards and fine stationery will be the products of the establishment. Robert H. McCutcheon, of New York, is President, and A. Crusius, of the same place, Secretary of the company Samuel J. Murray, of Cincinnati, will be Superintendent when, in a few weeks, business begins. About 100 men will be employed.
The American Stationer Trade Magazine
Volume 28 July 31,1890
Page 800
The National Card Company of Indianapolis, Ind. is about to enlarge its buildings and increase its production. (Note; Two stories are added to the building.)
September 19, 1890
Harry J. Milligan to the National Card Company, lots 5 to 16 and lots 25 to 36 in square 10 of Beaty's heirs' addition $15,000.00. George Harvey to the National Card Company, lots 20 to 30 in square 11 of Beaty's addition $375.00 .
March 15, 1893
SOLD IT'S PLANT
National Card Company Absorbed by the United States Printing Company
The National Card Company, whose establishment in this city is one of the largest and best equipped of its, kind in the country, has sold its business to the U S. Printing Company, of Cincinnati. This sale and consolidation of interests make the combined concern the largest of its kind in the country, and probably the largest in the world, embracing, as it now does, three firms, the United States Printing Company. Russell & Morgan Printing Company and the National Card Company.
The card company's factory is located at the corner of the Belt railroad and Gatling street (Note; About to be renamed Barth Street), and they give employment to about four hundred persons, about three hundred of whom are girls, and about seventy-five skilled work men. The plant in this city will be continued and operated in connection with the Cincinnati house.
April 25, 1893
National Card Company to U. S. Printing Company, lots 5 to 16 and 25 to 36, square 10, and lot 26 to 30, block 11. Beatty’s addition. $50,000. (Note; This would be over $1,300,000 today. Also Lots 20-25 in Block 11 are not mentioned)
February 9, 1900
The buildings and grounds occupied by the National Card Company were sold yesterday for a consideration of $37,500 (In 2020 this would be over $1 million dollars) The purchaser is a manufacturer of another city, who will move his industry here and employ about 200 people. The National Card Company will move to Cincinnati about April 1.
May 4, 1900
A force of carpenters and other workmen began Monday to repair and remodel the National Card company building to fit it for flour-bag manufacturing. (Note; This was the Bemis Bag Company)
In the 1970s Bemis Bag slowly ceased operations at the Indianapolis location.
In November 1989 the empty building was destroyed by a fire started by 4 young teenagers. The location is now covered by the Pleasant Springs Apartments.