Show CAUSES OF FAILURES fJack of Capital Takes the Lead and Incompetence Comes Next Some interesting figures have recently In Bradstreets show ly been published Ing tho number of business failures last year in the United States and the causes to which they are attributable It is slated that there wore 1201862 concerns engaged In business in 1001 and that of these 10648 failed or considerably con-siderably less than one per cent of the whole a lower percentage than has occurred in 1882 save ear since curred in any year he year 1000 of classifies the causes Bradstreets I failures under eleven heads and gives I ulso the number which It regards as attributable to each cause Of the eleven lack of capital takes the lead us most prolific In Inducing failures those ascribed to It numbering 3323 Incompetence comes next on the list md Is made accountable for 2023 and then specific conditions by whch Is means such things as strikes the corn crop failure the assassination of President Pres-ident McKlnley the lowered pries of otton at the south nwl similar events tendency To these 1 disastrous of u 755 business failures are traced Next number were failures arising from In ffradulent dispensation of property end amounting to 1154 |