The age-herald., 1902-05-17
BRApsTREET's REVIEW.

New York, May 16.-Bradstreets to-
 morrow will say:
 Conditions governing trade lack uni-
 formity and explain irregularities in ad-
 vices from different sections. The pre-
 eminent feature Is, of course, the favor
 able character of nearly all crop advices
 twinter wheat exceptedD but even here
 the improvement since Iday has neutral
 ized much that was unfavorable before
 The shadow overhanging eastern trade,
 in the shape of a general anthracite coal
 strike, has deepened with the formal sus-
 pension of work and the strike announce
 ment. Cool weather hitherto has retard-
 ed demand and in the agricultural sec
 tions the population has been busily en-
 gagged. Hence present demand has suffer-
 ed in comparison with the outlook for the
 future, but recorder from brokers has
 been very fair despite this. The effect
 of the copious rains In the west has been in a high degree favorable and Is reflected in improved buying from jobbers for fall delivery. The winter wheat yield will | be heavily reduced from last year s bumper crop but the outlook even here | Is better than in 1899, while spring wheat promises well (present prices not favor | ing a heavy decrease in acreage) and the l area in corn will be enlarged by turning plowed up winter wheat land into that i cereal. Oats promise well and cotton crop advices are also more favorable. | Produce prices and dairy products are weakening as supplies increase, but meats are still high and permanently lower prices are not looked for until autumn. The industrial outlook, aside from the anthracite trouble and the possibilities of this disturbance if extended involving
 some branches of the iron and steel
 Ia1 ic 10 whole tied than might be expected in time
 of more than ordinary prosperity. Wage
 advances have been numerous. Fuller railroad earnings are returned for April and confirm last weeks report of gain of Il per cent over April a year ago, while for the first week of May the in- dicated gain was per cent in increase. Hog products have advanced, hides are
 at about the highest point in years, and copper, while tagging, Is stiffening in price on free consumption.
 Cotton is prominent among the staples | declining, but the depression Is more marked in futures, market sentiment at | present being calculated to develop a | large short interest In spite of the un- occasionally narrow condition of actual supplies. Print cloths are 1sc lower. Sugar | is unsettled. trade in best Is small. while | raw and refined articles are lower. but l the canning season is approaching and a | larger business is looked for, as the small | fruit crops promise well. Spot coffee is no higher and supplies are very heavy. | Anthracite coal, as a result of the strike.
 has been marked up $1 per ton by retail | CTS.
 Dry goods are quiet at the east, but | the drop In print cloths is not regarded | as indicating any weakness. Orders for | fall prints are "at value" Rather more | is doing in raw wool, but nominal quo- | tations are lower, while new wool at the | west is active at higher prices than last | year.
 Mills engaged on dress woolens are busy and overcoatings are ordered largely