The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-26
FALL TRADE PR0srECrs.
Extraordinary Activity In All Lines of
basiness- Transaction In All staples
Greater Now Than In Many Years Bs.
fore.


Business- Transactions In All STAPLES
Greater Now Than In Many Ysars NJ,
fore.
New York Herald.
The dullest hypocrite could discern tbe
signs Of the times In New York TO-DAY.
Crowded cars and stages, no less crowded
stores and sidewalks, overaowing hotels,
overloaded drays, and oyerfreighted trains
and steamboats,-all attest the activity Of
what Is termed "iall trade" A stranger
walking up Broadway at midnight during
the past four weeks might have thought
that this portion OF New York never went
to rest Scarcely q block between the
Postofice and Union Square but had its
open stores aud piles Of merchandise
upon the sidewalks; busy clerks and
sweating draymen, at hours when ordi.
nary citizens were fast asleep. What IA
true Of the metropolis Is more or Ie,s
true ot the entire country. New York Ia
O barometer OF National trade, and almost
everybody within its limits Is working
hard, and Is being paid for Il. The docks
and storehouses along the river front were
never put to harder service since The busy
days OF the American merchant marine
before the rebellion. The river and coast.
ing steamers come and 90 with overflow.
ing cabins and immense cargOes Of freight
Of every description. The eye that Il na.
tive 70 the harbor and familiar with the
names Of vessels trading here will to-day
find vessels taking In loads OF grain and
cattle that were never before in the Amer
tcan trade and that have been brought
now into requisition TO meet unparalleled
demands.
The total exports from New York alone.
not including specie, for the week ending
Sept. l6 were S7,627,676. This Is an In.
crease over the exports OF the week before
OF 81 ,4l0,4l The previously reported ex-
ports for the present year, added TO the
week above given, makes total showing
Of 1924 ,S06, ,4Sl' The same period in 1877
shows exports amounting only 10 Sl95.-
S44,500. In 1878, however, for cores
ponding period, the total exports, inclusive
ofspecie, from this port exceeded those Of
this year by about Sl2 ,00O, 600; but prom
inent shippers opine that the record @ oftbe
entire year will much more than wipe out
this decline.
Among the exports Of last week were
over 100000 bushel Is OF wheat, more
than 100000 bushels OF corn, nearly
10000 pounds OF cut meats, 100000
pounds OF butter, over 100000 pounds
OF cheese, more than 100000 pounds OF
lard, and over 5000, 900 gallons OF pe.
troleum. OF the $4,000 900 in exports Ior
the week, S749,953 were directed to Lon.
don, Sl,774,2H to Liverpool, S6S0,97S 10
Antwerp, S440,045 TO Glasgow, aud about
$3.50, 900 each to Bremen, Hamburg, Rot
terdam and Havre.
For the eight weeks ending September
10, 1879, the export Glearances Of wheat
for Europe, from the ports OF New York,
Montreal, Boston, Portland, Philadelphia'
Baltimore and New Orleans, were $500.
032 bushels, against 81, ,l90, ,O55 for the cor.
responding eight weeks Of the previous
year.
England will want say 100000 bush.
els OF wheat this year," said Z. H. Walk.
er, the statistician Of the Produce Ex.
change. "In exchange for that we will
get from England very nearly $4,000 600
in gold. The movement of wheat In the
United States for the past six weeks has
been greater than for similar period in
any country OF the world. The amount
OF deliveries from lake ports to New York
for eight weeks has been $4,000, 900 bush.
els. About one.half OF this yet remains
TO be shipped. 1t is one way Of account.
ing for the vast importations OF specie that
have lately come to America. have given
you the figures to account in large de-
gree for the briskness OF trade in New
York this fall"
The railroad depots in and near New
York are q subject worth the study of n
political economist. The number and
character OF the passengers arriving will
convince even the careless observer Of the
prosperous condition OF things in all parts
otthe country. When people have money
to spend they travel, and when people
have money 10 invest they come to such
point as New York TO obtAin their goods
instead Of sending for them. Said a down
town merchant to the reporter: "The ho-
tells OF New York are full because the peo.
pie OF the South and West feel that thew
can afford the trip" The great express
companies will tell the inquirer at their
Offices that their business was new
er better. The reporter was told
by representative OF the Ad.
ans Express Company that their bust.
ness has been increasing steadily for three
years, but more especially in the last sea.
son. "The express traffic." said he, $50
lar as the quantity goes, Is not an iniallible
index ot the condition OF business. The
very fact Of flush times induces people TO
visit central points for the purchase OF
small articles which they might otherwise
send for by express, but the character OF
the goods that we have lately been ship.
ping is plainly evident Of the improve.
ment Of trade. Just now the express com.
panies are carrying an unusual amount OF
goods TO the South and West, We have
had nothing like it in many years"
The hotel business tells the story mora
conyincingly than perhaps any other line
OF observation. All the leading caravan
aries are full 10 overhowing, and have
been 30 Tor six weeks. Five nights out of
seven in that period they have had 10 turn
away guests for whom they could NOT
provide accommodation. The question
naturally occurs, what becomes OF the un.
accommodated, and the only answer ia
that they go to the second and third rate
houses. Inquiries at the Filth Avenue,
St Nicholas, Metropolitan, and the Astor
House, which get a large share OF
merchant patronage, proved that each one
OF them has been habitually turning
guests from Its doors for month
back, and in them all very large aud un,
usual percentage OF their autumn guests
have hailed from the South.