The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-30

ularly good" 80 "o' '""e-
u q. Williams. president Chemical Ma
.lon pank: 1T will take time "a 70, hack
~ ~. .ne CONDITION We were In prior 10 1893.
brilliant" ~" "'e 'air' o"' NOT
W. T. Buckley OF Durham. buckley &
i,,,, business mas gradually improved for
niue while, though | can not saw II Ia
que que TO the election. As to the prospects for
. one coming year. we have hopes. If congress
wy not 40 anything unwisc q"
d. L. 81. John. stationery: There Is
h,uei complaint in the trade that business
,m as not peen SO brisk as It might be. Col
leu,ions are bad. The prosn.c,s Tor Tho
rev year are not as hri xbt as AZ MIA ,,p...
DAN Frederick w Dohr-
manu. president Merchants association. 81
nave not noticed any Improvement in the
'e'a' trade The holiday trade was not
80 sood this year as last. The prospects
LOT 1877 however. are encouraging"
nv. Lew strauss, dry and furnishing Goods:
"us,iess III dry goods has increased since
, uv e'ec'ioh. money is easier and capital
ists are satisfied with smaller return for
lheir Investments. The prospects for tn,
"ew year are decidedly good"
FRANK y. Johnson, president of the John.
SON Locke Trading COMPANY. Since the
erection business has not improved in Call
iornia so far as the physical interchange of
products is concerned, There is, however,
decidedly more hopeful feeling. which is
largely based upon expected tarin lcrisla-
tlon In favor OF California products"
l.. n. Liienthal. manager Anglo Califor
ma oank' business has been satisfactory
since the election. for great many peo-
PIE nave paid OIL their debts. | think that
the summer and fall trade will be brisk"
d. Eppinger, grain dealer and shipper:
BUSINESS has improved slight, since the
election With the advanc in the price OF
| agricultural products confidence has in
| creased among business men. The outlook
is bright for heavy harvest next year and
lor a consequent increase i'll business"
/ HARTFoRD-Goorge A. Gay. department.
store: "Our business since the election has
been satisfactory and quite up to our ex-
pectations. There is a feeling of greater
| confidence and the outlook tor the new year
is encouraging"
Charles Soby, cigar manufacturer; "Busi-
ness is not any better than II was before
the election. The holiday trade was good
but there is no real or solid Improvement
| yet think, however. 1t will come. The
tHtNA VI lilt titftltn ON INC NOlulnt Ol tTaup
is not visible yet but 1t has caused bet
ter feeling aud has given hope that the
new year is likely to fulfill. | don't look
for much OF a revival of trade before
| spring"
ClNCINNATI-J. T. Carew, president Of
Mabley & Carew, dry goods: 81 look for
a duh january and February in the retail
business. expect the spring trade 10 show
marked Improvement over that of 'oG. and
look for very busy time next fall"
f. II. Aims, Of Aims 6 noepke, rener Al
merchandise. Generally speaking, brsi-
ness is not so good as last year, We are
looking TO the future and cxnet that it
will pick UP right along"
INDIANAPOLIS-John w. Murphy.
wholesale dry goods, There has been no
great change in business since The eleciion
and the outlook for the future is not speci-
ally nattering. People are living economic
ally and are conservative in expenditures,
| and business naturally feels the influence
of these conditions"
| John II. Holiday, president Union Trust
company There has been perceptib,e m
| provement In business with us since the
election. though 1t Is nothing like as good
as the same period " last year before the
| Venezuelan war scare. The prospects for
next year are good, If we can have political
rest and maintenance of present condi-
| items"
St Louis business men quoted by the
I journal are Mossrs Jucob Meyer nf the
Meyer Zimmerman Saddlery company, John
C.. Wilkinson of the Hnrgadine- McKlttrick
! Dry Goods company Goodman King If ;ho
! Mermod -Iacoard Jewelry company, w. r.
Schweppe, cx-presdent Of the Associated
Wholesale Groccrs Of St Louis, and H. a.
Guinzburg. All agreed that there had been
no general increase in business since the
! election except Mr. Wilkinson speaking OF
the dry goods business. Mcssrs King and
Wilkinson joined in hopeful view OF the
future, while the other gentlemen viewed
I. il as uncertain