Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-14
BUSINESS IMPROVES.
Nearly Every Line Shows an Increase Since
the Presidential Election.

New York; Nov. IS.-Bradstreets. to-
ness improves slowly in nearly all lines
jobbers in dry goods. clothing. millinery
shoes, leather and hardware. and in the
leading industrial lines. nearly 200 mills
factories and foundries having started
up this week, one-half of them in iron.
steel, machinery. tools. carriages, lum-
Der. glass, woolens and cotton goods
lines. About 100 other industrial estab
liShmentS have increased working forces
or working hours, or both. among them
10 iron and steel establishments. 10 glass
works and four factories, making lamps,
clocks, wooden goods and cotton. A par
tial record of the number of men given
employment In industrial lines since Nov.
s. shows an aggregate Of nearly 10000.
The demand for iron and steel has not
increased after the activity of a week
ago. but prices are firm. and in some in
stances advanced, and the trade feels
confident of large business during the
coming year Cotton and cotton goods
continue firm in price; print cloths have
an upward tendency. Wool is higher on
the more active demand. but manufact-
urers are not supplying in excess of then
leather. shoes. white pine lumber. petro-
leum, lard. sugar wheat. corn and oats
The strength of the statistical position
of wheat rs marked as heretofore. and
renewed inquiries are received from Au-
stralia The conspicuous decreases in
price are those for coffee, pork and tur-
pentine.. Western jobbers report an in
crease in mail orders and that between
seasons in some lines alone prevent an
Improvement in the demand from the
lobbing being general. Mercantile collec-
tions throughout the central Western
and Southern states are easier. but COM
plants are still heard from the West
Exports of wheat flour included as
Wheat) from both coasts of the United
states and Montreal. were 4,664.5l5 bush
/ els. this week, the heaviest weeks total
since the second week of September. 1893
This Is an increase of more than 1900 OOD
over the corresponding week of a wear
ago. Exports of Indian corn have in
/ creased heavily, amounting to 1882 900
900 in the like week of last year.
BANK clearings leaped up 20 per cent.
this week, compared with a week ago,
the total being $1.19o 900. 600. Contrasted
with the average weekly total in the four
preceding weeks. the gain is % per cent.
When compared with the CORRESPONDING
week of last year. the increase Is only IL
per cent, and contrasted with the second
week or November. 1894. and the like
in each instance. -
,October railway earnings. rejecting
the ante-election condition. make the
poorest showing of any month for sew
eral wears. The October total Of 12l road
is s4s,149.5sO, a decrease Of is per cent
from a year ago. The trunk lines, coa]
roads and Mexicans show gains, while
central Western. Grangers Southern
d 5ou.nwes'ern and nc Pacific roads report
OF ll6 roads aggregate $3.50. 295 100 a gair
lover the 10 months in 1895. of 33 per cent
when the gain was Al per cent. over 1894
Ihe Grangers show the largest increases
Pacific and coal roads.
| Two hundred and fiftv-eight failure:
are reported this week. p fewer than II
the corresponding week. year ago.