The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-21
TRADE IS NOW IMPROVING.
FdVORhBLE REPORTS M6DB Nnon
 MANY BUSINESS ONETKlns.

More IndustriAi Empioymen ens VIII be Fur
 nished Within . Fortnight Than st Any
 Time Since Last Aprn-Enoournxfn
 Statements Made.
 New York. July 20~-Brad adstpeet's~ to- morrow will say:
 The disappearance of the great pail- way strike. the revival of regular freight schedules and the customary movement of produce and merchandise by water and rail have done much to restore something like the preceding volume of trade. The most encouraging ssate- ment is merely that general bustnesDfs only approaching the usual midsummer proportions The return to work of pot ters at Trenton and Wheeling. smpsoyss at Pullman, tube makers at McKses- port. Pa. a further return Of coke oper- ators in the Connelisville region and oi coal miners in western and southern states, and the return of nearly all re- gently striking railway empioyss. will furnish more industrial employment within fortnight than at any pccskOas date since April 1.
 Larger eastern business centara re- port feeling among toobers and othsl wholesale houses favorable to revival fin trade as soon as tarir legislation shall have been definitely settled DeaL CTS west, northwest and southwest at the larger distributing canters ans nounce that country merchants are run- ming with very small stooke-that they continue to buy only for actual wants in sight. No general revival in indus. trial lines is reported or expected soon. Shoe factories are running on bow. priced goods and at lees than fun ca. pacity, which exercises Gn infiuence on leather. Wooden mills are still yunntag on full fabrics and will delay exhibiting spring samples until next mouth
 Stocks of brown and bleached cottans are accumulating. Activity is not1ce- able only among retailers and johhezH of cottpn goods. Improved demand for wool within 8 week Is the result of low- est prices on the clip. The same reports of dullness, no, new feature and no pros- pect of early Improvement come from Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltir more, Pittsburg and Buffalo. Excep- tions are that Baltimore reports & slight increase in southern orders for light fabrics, Pittsburg that iron and steel are selling 50 cents cheaper for future delivery than for spot, and Buf- falo that the price of coal is down. ward.
 Southern cities which have felt the effects of the railway blockade report shipments are now making regularly. Atlanta advices are that fall trade Is opening satisfactorily, and 'manufac7 turers are busy; Chattanooga, that de- mana has improved, and Augusta, that while demand is more active, the crop outlook Is less favorable. The fruit trade at New Orleans Is greatly Inns proved since railroad traffic has beeI resumed, and there is more demand fof building materials. Galveston jobbera report that orders are brisk in all liness particularly dry goods and notions Among western cities, where general trade remains quiet and without mates rial change (except that due to resump~ tion of railway traff1c) are Clevelandt Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St Paul and Duluth. Cincinnati and Louisville re> port some gain in volume of treae, Kansas City jobbers find orders for fa4 delivery fairly numerous and at Omahs country merchants are ordering mora freely.
 The total volume of trade at Chtcaga iorhf hot ing most active; prices for leather ar{ demoralized. and some building projectt are temporarily abandoned, owing to lat bor disturbances. Relatively the most favorable report comes from St. Louis where general trade is said to hav4 much improved. At Portland, Ore, gvns eral trade Is said to have improved, and there Is marked recovery at SA4 Francisco, although the volume is staN below the normal.
 Exports of wheat (four ino1uded)r )rbott coasts, United States and Canada aN gregate this week only 1,S72. 900 hnshal4 compared with 5,o77,00O bushels in thA third week in July, 1898. An averaged current estimates as to the stae 0 wheat yield in the United States should enable us, if called upon. to export SQf- ly as much wheat in the next twelvy months as in the past year. Tho enectk of the recent widespread disturbance t1 transportation and industrial chcls are now making themselves felt tn band clearings returns, the aggregate thu week being only $s2O. 900, 900. deorea14 as compared with the proceeding wssN of about 8 per cent. and as conapars4 with the third week in July, 1898, of K per cent
 There are 212 failures reported in tha United States this week against 61f u the corresponding week year aao, when the effects of the financial pauiA were making themselves severely fal4 A good demand for Manitoba flour AA Montreal Is reported. General trade N quiet.
 Tinslin in the Totls.
 John Timhn of 29 Greenwood strOof was arrested hy Officers K1eiber au3