Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-01
A STEADY INCREASE.
The Busines. Boom Getting Under w
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 NEW YORK, Sept. I--k, G. Dun X Co. s weekly review of tho trade, out today. says: The activity which camo with ex- hausted stocks and thepressurc of delayed fall demands and was increased by the TO- moyal of uncertainty about tho tariff has continued with hoavy entries of foreign goods since the bill became a law. But the people who know best are saying, ssInlproyement will come" rather than "Improyement has come" The gain is not yet what has been expected, and busi- ness, if good in comparison with last year, is still poor in comparison with years pre- cotling.
 Presumably thero has not been time to feel the full effects of the change. and q gradual gain will be more healthy and encouraging than spnsmodic rise, but the expansion of commercial loans has suddenly ceased, prices of manufactured products show weakssess rather than strength. and there has been a reaction in tho stock market, prices of railway stocks averaging 32 cents ana of trust stocks 2. II per sharo lower than week ago
 August has ended, but tho interior de- maud for money still merely balances the receipts of superfluous currency from eastern points, although crops are moving quite freely. The recent material increase in demand for commercial loans appears to have been due to payments for sugar imports, for whisky taken out of bond and for imported goods taken out of tho cus- tom houses and has dropped oIT sharply. The unavoidable conclusion Is that tho desired incrcaso in domestic distribution has not yot reached such proportions as to influence the loan market. Imports will be large, ft is clear. but for the past month have been per cent less than a year ago ! and meanwhile exports of domestic prod ucts from New York for the month have been $2. 6I9. 5g7, or per cent smaller l than last year.
 The cotton mills arc not running frll, though the stoppage at Fall River looks every day moro like an effort of the opera. tives to force curtailment of production l in order to lift prices and make reducti on of wages seem unnecessary. So far print ! cloths have advanced q quarter, but with l out corresponding advan e in other goods, | and while the demand is encouraging it does not compare with years before the l last. Neither in cotton nor in woolen mills has there appeared this week an in- crease in production. .n woolens orders | for spring goods of certain qualities have been quite largo, buyers concluding that | prices are about as low Rs they will be. The demand for products of iron and steel has increased, but prices tend down ward where any change appears, as therC Is not enough business yet to employ ths | works in operation. An encouraging sale ! of 10, 900 bundles cotton ties in competi ton with foreign ties duty free warrant: hope that current prices in other branches may be low enough to meet tho coming rivalry, and a sale of Messabi ore at Sa. 2; delivered at lower lake ports Is reported. The boot and shoe inanufaoture stil finds highly encouraging orders. thougl almost wholly for low grade goods, so tha sales of leather in all markets arc notabl. of thirds or other qualities below tho hest