Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-17
BUSINESS AT LEADING POINTS.


is general. Report of failures for April
thus far give total of 214 against 225
last year Reports from leading points
are as follows:
Chicago Business conditions still
show much encouragement. Lake
traffic has made fair start and this
addition to commercial activities now
leaves no important branch unemploy-
ed. Reports from the manufacturing
interests emphasize former favorable
opinions, new demands coming for
ward in satisfactory volume, and in
some lines involving considerable adj
dftions to the forces engaged. Heavy
machinery and car construction have
made notable progress in new work.
Agricultural conditions create most
encouraging feeling. Western rail
roads are carrying more freight of all
kinds than a month ago and there
is less difficulty in making reasonably
prompt deliveries of general merchan-
disc. Jobbers' shipments have been
trade thus far as being Of greater
volume than q year ago. Retail trade
has held very steady in seasonabla
lines. Mercantile collections generally
make satisfactory showing.
st. Louis-Dry goods and footwear
are very active, sales at present break
ing all previous high records. Cloth
ing, hats, hardware, woodenware, fur
niture, groceries. drugs and paints and
oils are also in good demand. Col
lections are good. The receipts of
lumber are fair, mainly on contract
rule firm. The demand for building
materials is very large and increas-
ing, and the capacity of the planning
mills, brick making establishments and
quarries especially. are being taxed to
their utmost. The number Of real
estate transfers and of building per-
mits issued this week exceed those for
the corresponding period of last year.
ST Paul.-Jobbing and manufacture
ing returns show seasonablet activity,
and collections are fair. Sales of dry
goods, clothing, hats, furnishings and
shoes reach gratifying proportions, and
forward business is of good volume.
Groceries are in good, steady demand.
Supplementary orders in millinery are
increasing, and notions and jewelry are
in fair request. In wholesale drugs
and chemicals the trade is fairly active.
The shelf and heavy hardware business
is we'll maintained. Harness manu-
facturers report a brisk demand, and
factories are busily engaged. Agricul-
tural conditions are excellent.
Omaha.-Grocery houses report an
Improvement in collections and say
has exceeded that Of any previous per-
iod of the same length. Prices or
staple articles are strong. The hard
ware business is good, collections are
heavy and prices firm. March business
was the largest in the history of the
hardware trade. Dry goods jobbers say
that the business done so far this year
exceeds that for the same period last
year. Fall orders are heavy and coll
lections very good. A satisfactory bus
mess is being done in boots and shoes
and collections have improved Prices
in leather goods continue strong, with
healthy demand.
Boston-Cotton goods at first hands
are firmly held, with some domestic
orders declined because of inability of
agents to fill them by giving the de-
sired delivery. Labor troubles at Fall
River are being adjusted to the advan-
tage of the print cloth market. New
England industries are in good condt-
ton. Most wooden mills are busy, and
with the cotton mills machinery is well
occupied, while the shoe factories are
running we'll. These conditions are ex-
pected to hold during the summer. The
market for all raw materials is firm,
with wool and others strengthening.
Philadelphia.-Th slight improve
ment noted by manufacturers Of textile
goods continues. Manufacturers Of
hosiery, dress goods, carpets and wor-
sted yarns are we'll employed, but in
upholstery goods and trimmings BUSH
ness is somewhat unsatisfactory.
Wholesale dry goods houses are fairly
busy, dealers asking for immediate
shipments. Collections are fair. Lo-
cal wooden jobbers state that trade is
fair, but collections are little SLOW
Manufacturers of clothing are quite
busy, as many customers delayed Or
dering goods until late in the season,
and are now asking for immediate
shipments.
The Change He Wanted.
At a dinner in New York Prince
Fushimi Of Japan praised monogamy.
He said that he believed it would not
be many years before polygamous
marriage contracts would quite vanish
from the face of the earth.
"All men of education" he said, mo
matter what their color or creed may
be, believe that 1T is only right to have
one wife. It is in Jest alone that such