The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-07
TRADE HURT By The TIE.UP
The Number Of Men Made Idle Larger
Than in ANY Other Strike.

All Perishable Produce Materially
Advanced in Price-General Trade in
the South Unfavorably Affected by
the Labor Troubles--No Material I'm
provement in the Situation at Any
of the Large Eastern Centers.
Chew York, July 6.-Bradstreet's will
say tomorrow: aside from the inter
vention of holiday, there is a sharp re-
striction of general trade and industrial
product, due to railway troubles west of
the Alleghenies and north of the
Ohio river, which make their
influence felt in all other di-
rections. The combined railroad
strike and boycott has had a
steadily increasing damaging influence
upon the general industrial situation.
Calculations as to the number of men out
are necessarily incomplete, but there is
little doubt that the total number idle, as
the result of the railroad tie-up, far eX-
ceeds the outcome of any previous labor
trouble in this country.
''All cereals, except wheat, have shown
a decided advance, pork and lard are up
sharply, as are fruits, vegetables, meats
and other perishable products
"Pig iron west is commanding % cents
more per ton, and cattle, hogs and sheep
are noticeably higher even a far western
markets, where receipts are restricted.
TRADE IN THE SOUTH.
General trade at New Orleans, Mo
bile. Savannah. Nashville and Memphis
has been uufavorably affected by the rail
way tie-up, melon producers and others
interested IN shipping vegetables and
fruit having already suffered from the
great loss. Charleston reports trade dull
and weak.
Augusta says trade is good for the
season. with the results of June's bust
ness more favorable than in June a year
ago, while at Birmingham trade is very
quiet in all lines. Favorable crop reports
from Texas stimulate merchants to ex-
pect good fall trade.
AT the larger eastern centers there is
noImaterial gam in the situation beyond
speculative squirt in wool.
Baltimore reports quiet and unsatis-
factory trade, wholesale dry goods deal
ers being the more favorably situated.
Reports from Philadelphia are that the
volume and the results of business in
nearly all lines are very unsatisfactory.
DUN's REVIEW.
r G. Dun & Co s weekly review of
trade will say tomorrow: "'The inter
ruption of business by the railroad strikes
has been such that the usual signs,
whether bright or gloomy, have little
value.
''The clearing house returns for the
first week of July are 1872 per cent less
than last year and 25 per cent less than
in 1892, but these record half-yearly set
Elements rather than the volume of cur
rent business.
"The iron industry had not vet recov-
cred from the coal miners strike, when it
was seriously interrupted by the block
ade of the railroads at the west.
AN obvious effect will be restriction of
repairs and car building and of track
laying, and the track laid during the first
half of 1894 has been only 495 miles, the
smallest addition for many years, against
1925 in the first half Of 1898.
SLIM DEMAND FOR IRON.
ga long and somewhat lasting reduc-
ton in the demand for iron is the natural
conseq uence of the disturbances affecting
railway earnings. The demand for iron
products does not appear better, and
prices are again tending downward, in
spite of the general feeling that an adj
vance must follow the termination of the
miners strike.
Textile manufactures do not show i'm
preventative important cotton mills
manufacturing colored goods having
stopped indefinitely, while the unsold
stock of print cloths at Fall River and
Providence has reached ! 1854. 900 pieces
and downward revision in prices of
bleached sheetings is expected Quite a
a large number of wooden mills have filled
all the orders in hand and closed for the
present, and in most branches orders for
the future fall lar below expectations.
The failures during the week have
been Isl in the United States against 334
last year and "a in Canada against % last
year, with no important disaster as yet
since the new half year began