The herald., 1894-12-29
A YEARS FAILURES.
Bradstreet's Weekly Review and

Bradstreet's Weekly Review and An
nual statistics
| New YORK, Dec 25.-Bradstreets tomorrow
will say General trade presents the usual holi
day characteristics. majority OF wholesale
dealers and manufacturers are beginning to
have finished taking account of stock or ar
ranging settlements for the near year.
| The main activity h As bsen for Christmas spe-
caties in retail lines The practical conclu-
sion OF holiday trade las brought about mod
crate reaction, and this empha'izes the dull
nefs noted in precedin weeks.
Jobbers claim the outlook for trade during
the late winter and early spring is for very con
tservatlve buying; But IN some lines, notably
stimulated prices, and sales reports from
| tailers west and south indicate that stocks are
/ low al most beyond precedent Travelling sales
men, with few executions, are off the road.
| Boston reports 81, 900, 900 pounds of wool in
That city, compared with stock of 43, 100000
| one year ago, the decrease being exclusively in
| domestic varieties
Industries are smut down in many instances
| 10 make repairs or to take stock and owing 10
extremely low prices for industrial staples the
wage movement tends downward. Quotations
for staple merchandise shows more frmness,
| with sugar, cotton, wheat, corn, steel, naval
| stores and copper practically unchanged In
| prices Oats, among cerealF, record Il fractional
| advance, while print cloths and other staple
| cottons are lower In conformity with results of
| recent auctions, and pork and lard with In
| creasing supplies of lower grades OF live stock
| at wertern markets Coffee, too, is depressed,
| anu tneTe are rumOfS OF contracts fOr iron ana
| steel at shade under last weeks quotations..
| although not confirmed.
Reduced stocks of American available sup
| plies OF wheat, Notwithstanding IeporIs iu the
| visible statement of net increase. tend to
| strengthen wheat, but the surprisingly large
total of that cereal tiour included whsat)
| seut abroad last week, is fully Offset by the
| shrfnkage in such exports last week The total
| cf both coasts of the Unitsd States 1,S14,0U0
| bushels, C ON pared with 1884 600 bushels in
| the previous week; 2,036, 900 bushels IN the
| week q year ago; 2,tl7,U0O bushels two wears
| ago; 3, los, 600 bushels three years ago, aud as
| contrasted with 1031 600 bushels for the last
| week in the calendar year Of 1890
Special returns to Bradstreet's show a net
decrease within the year OF about 1000 1ndi-
viduals. firms and corporations established in
business throughout the country, bat owing to
decrease in number Of failures, the CONNER
cial death rate 1s only about 81 ia every one
hundred engaged in business iu the four years
preceding 1893. 1t is also shown that seventy
eight banks are reported suspended this year.
compared with 598 the year before, owing 915-
1000, as contrasted with $4,000, 900 the
year befo-e.
Mercantile failures in the u. 8. for the calen-
dar year (Dec amber 27, 1898. TO December 49,
1S94l aggregate 1921, or 1S per cent less
than in the panic year, 1893, when the total,
15,56o, was 81 per cent heavier than in 1892.
Liabilities of falling traders this year aggre-
gates .$l49 100000. a reduction of 63 per
cent. from 1895, and assets OF $79, 500, 900, o
falling off of 20 per cent.