The Irish standard., 1894-06-16
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Sleveral Lines OF Trade Report .
Livelier Feeling.
Higher Prices for Farm Products-Intar-
ests Affected by the Strikes-The Most
UnfhvoEoblo Symptoms Arc Found
S st EasterD Centers.
puH's Rr;Yi1rR.

NEW York, June 11.-R. g. Dun a
g weekly review Of trade says:
The outlook for business seems little bet.
Ter on tho whole, though tho Improvement Il
not great, Moreover Il 10 impossible 70 dis.
anguish between mere replacement OF ordefl
cancelled for want Of fuel or other causes
and the new business for which works
agtng that the decrease in payments through
clearing houses in comparison with 1922 ID
about 80 per cent Railroad tonnage is larger
than year ago in live stock and moderate In
cereals, but considerably smaller in coal and
Iron products and In other manufactured goods
west-bound.
with only 1887 coke ovens working and H.
076 idle, with the Cambria dischargtng half tta
force, and seven out Of nine OF the Carnegie
furnaces at Bessemer out OF blast the pro.
ductton and manufacture Of iron and steel are
smaller than ct any. other time for years
While 1t Is believed deferred work will cause
heavy production after the strike termi-
mates the demand for products is at presen
much below general expectations even at the
east. Other industries have been less affected
but many OF the textile mills even In New Eng.
land have now been closed for lack Of fuel or Of
orders, besides other concerns in great num-
her between the Atlantic and the Mississippi
river"
'The returns OF failures are still encourag-
Ing, 216 In the United States for the week,
against a22 last year, and 40 In Canada against
~ last year. The liabilities in oil failures re-
ported In the mouth Of May were a13, s06 $50.
about o. 10000 at the east a, 5O0,0OO at the
south and q, 40O,0 900 at the west. OF the aggre-
gate 6 sos was Of manufacturing and &, o83,
40 Of trading concerns"
What Bradstreet Says.
Bradstreet's says:
Nearly all the unfavorable business cond1-
ftous Of the last three weeks continue to exer-
etss an influence. The few exceptions where
Improvement Is noted are OF practically local
Importance. Retail trade at many centers has
been interfeEed with by unfavorsble weather
and BY further restriction OF the purchasing
power OF thousands OF wage-earners, by fur.
Thar Industrial trouble, or by shrinkage In
Deodnction.
Tho see-saw prices tip in the opposite direc-
tton this week, most strik1ngly in cereals, oats
having advanced SIC, wheat $3.50 and corn lKc
Potatoes are zoo higher bushel at the west,
bar iron and pig iron are up sharply at st.
Louis and live stock at Kansas City, Lard Is
31actionally higher. Conspicuous decreases in
prices OF staples reported are In leather and
wool, due to heavy receipts of new crop Cohee
ID OF 10.
"At larger eastern centers there is no i'm
provement in general business New England
cotton mills continue to produce IN excess Of
demands. Southern and Rhode Island cotton
mills are shutting down for want of fuel as
we'll as orders. Philadelphia jobbers In dry
goods report better spot demand and the pe-
troleum market there Is more active, but Bal
timore jobbers in clothing as well as In some
other lines have not sent out drummerS as for
merly.
Among southern cities covered Richmond,
Savannah, Jacksonville and Augusta report
the more favorable conditions. At the first
there is better demand for groceries and pro-
visions, for agricultural implements and leaf
tobacco, which Is quite active.
There is little far-reaching attending evil
,dence of improvement reported from the west
AT Louisville there Is more demand for grocer
les, and the leaf tobacco market is quite active
and business being reported. There is more
doing among jobbers in hardware at Chicago
although interior merchants tributary to that
market have not begun to buy In advance Of
actual needs, and, on the other hand, the
spread Of the coal strike is checking business
there