The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-05
SLIGHT CHANGES IN TRADE.
4 FEW WHOLESALERS IRE ABOUT
 TO SEND OUT TRAVELLERS.

There Are Not Much Specially Hopeful
 Views From the Trade Centers-- One Sil- yer Lining is Found-Moderate Business Found in Eastern Cities.
 New York, Jan. 4.-Bradstreet's to- morrow will say: There has been no material change in trade within the |. week. Jobbers and other wholesalers are sending out, or are about to send out, commercial travellers, and in many instances have not finished the years accounts and stock taking. Photographed reports from the more important trade centers do not reveal specially hopeful views as to an improvement in business in the near future. Less favorable is the announcement of the lowest price on record for iron and steel, Bessemer pig iron and steel billets each having de- clined IS cents a ton.
 The silver lining is found in an aver age of 25 cents ton in shipping rates to northern markets from southern points of pig iron production. Print cloths are weaker and sell at a shade under last weeks quotations. Coal, too, is fraetionally lower. Pig tin is lower, as are pork, raw Sugar, Indian corn, live cattle and hogs Foreign com- petition with American woolen dress troo1c for er,iVo 1a1ixrar,, s1,a ,,, and domestic fabrics are rather neglected, although many mills are busy on or ders for mems wear woolens. Cheaper grades of shoes at western factories are higher, as are wheat and lard.
 At larges eastern cities only moder- ate volume of business is reported, Buff falo inclining to regard the near out look the more hopefully. Philadelphia and Plttsburg are naturally affected somewhat by lower quotations for iron and steel and Baltimore prefers await ing orders from commercial travellers, before expressing opinions on the out look. General trade Is reported at Charleston, Nashville and Memphis with mercantile collections fair only. At Chattanooga and at Atlanta very little is doing in the wholesale lines, the former reporting manufacturers quiet, as result of holiday influence At Savannah trade is quiet. but improving, and collections are only fair. Cotton manufacturers are taking some new contracts, but merchants will act with extreme conservatism. Augusta cotton factories report a fairly good demand and improved collections though gener- al trade shows no gain. City and coun- try trade Is reported fairly satisfactory by Jacksonville. Damage from ex- tremely cold weather in Florida to fruit Gnd vegetables is quite lleavy,5 orange growers being affected seriously All western cities report unchanged trade conditions. Business is confined most ly to mail orders, Jobbers and whole salers at Kansas City and Omaha re- port only moderate trade, whereas at Des Moines and Milwaukee mercantile collections are slower. On the Pacific coast San Francisco is inclined to re- gard the near future more hopefully although trade there is quiet
 Total bank clearings at 69 cities in the United States aggregate for the calendar year. 1894 $44995, 900, 16 per- cent. less than in 1893 and 26 per cent less than in 1892 the year of the largest volume of bank clearings
 A fairly good business is reported by Halifax jobbers, but they are not in- clined to report the near future bright. and collections are unusually slow Some improvement in trade Is reported from Montreal although the fur bus mess is disappointing At Toronto bus mess is quiet, and the prospects are thought not favorable, although stocks of merchandise generally are small. There are 32 failures reported from Canada this week against 36 in the week year ago.