The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-12
IS NO INCREASE IN ORDERS.
BRADSTREETS GIVES 4 POOR RE-
 PORT FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Are stocking Up--NOt a Few Oruers Are | Received.
 New York, Jan. 11.-Bradstreets to-
 morrow will say: The second week of
 the new year brings few reports of l an increasing volume of orders for seasonable goods Weather conditions 1 in the east have been unfavora5le,
 those west and south the reverse. Chi cagp, St. Louis, Boston, New York and | Philadelphia report relatively greatest | improvement with increased orders for
 dry goods, clothing, rubbers. shoes, hardware and wooden dress goods, At some centers it is too early to judge
 of the outlook for trade. Travellers
 in many instances have not all gone l out. Western furniture manufacturers are stocking up, which had an influence on the hardwood trade and western l dealers In iron and steel expect in- | creased orders by February 1. Pro- | duction of iron and steel is going on in excess of demand, but manufac-
 turers expect that necessary repairs, renewals and additions to plants by | railroad companies, car manufacturers and other industrial enterprises will have a stimulating influence in the near future
 l A feature among jobbers at Philadel- l phia and Boston has been the extent | to which sales of dry goods and shoes have been pushed. Prints and ging- hame have been opened and new or | ders are freely received. Foreign woolen dress goods are active, going to all parts of the country.
 Not few recorders are received. This has had quieting effect on de ! mand for domestic dress woolens Woolen mills, while fairly busy on first orders are in the market for wool only to cover contracts,
 Mercantile collections south and in l the central west are reported fairly | satisfactory or improving to greater extent that for thirty days. Confidence of wholesale dealers in staple lines | that the near future in business prom | ises increased activity with an upward tendency in quotations is pronounced at some cities. Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Boston at the east; Atlanta, Jack sonvilIe, Chattanooga and Galveston, south, and at Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha and St Louis, in the west. Each of these, except Cleveland, re- ports a moderately improved condition of business this week, as does Mill waukee. At other points general trade is quite unchanged and without feature. At St. Paul and Minneapolis jobbers report extremely careful buy ing in the country and that it is too early to judge of the outlook Duluth states that stock taking and readJust- ment incident to the new year are still uncompleted, but the outlook for busi- ness is encouraging.
 On the Pacific coast trade almost larger cities is quiet. At san Fran cisco almost constant rains nave m tensified dullness and the certainty or q large crop of wheat depresses quo tations for that cereal. At Portland, Ore merchants announce an improve ment in business, due to revival Tn demand from the interior
 Total bank clearings throughout the rrnited States for six business days ended January 10, amount to $1,035,- 0oo GOO. an increase of 9.4 per cent. over tba total for the previous week and gain of 43 per cent. over the secohu week in. January, lSS4'
 when compared with the correspond ing week of 1893, four months pelore the panic appeared, the past weeks total shows a decrease of A per cent, ana entrusted with the like total in lSsz' a falling off of 26 per cent. This com paratively favorable showing is rein forced by the course of prices Of staples as quotations for hides have peen working higher, while those for wheat, Indian corn, pork, lard, coffee, cotton, and plate glass have been marked up Prices for shoes, leather. coal lumber, naval stores, rice sugar, tobacco and live cattle have been held hrmly Cruder forms of iron and steel are no lower. but are weak. Neither IS wool lower. but is fiat at the ordinary figure
 Total railroad earnings for 1894 are unfavorable Earnings of 114 leading American lines, with 94Oo0 miles of road. amount to $478 900, 900, Il per cent | less than in 1893, in which year gross earnings fell off 2.1 per cent. from the total in 1892, when there was gain in | gross railway earnings of per cent. as contrasted with 1891.
 Every group of roads showed reduced | earnings as compared with 1893 The |
 most favorable exhibit is that by | southern lines, the decrease for which | was only 2 per cent. Gross earnings | of Mexican railways show gain over | 1893 of per cent.
 The best available data with respect | to the rise of domestic wheat crops in 1893 and 1894 together with supplies in | sight at various dates, quantities plant ed and exported (and consumed by | animals in 1894 together with Brad streets report of stocks out of farmers hands, make it plain that the total wheat supplies in the United States January 1, 1895, were 18000,000 smaller than a year previously, and that the stocks back of available supplies were fully 34,000,000 bushels smaller.
 Exports of flower both coasts, ended