Show HOLIDAY WEEK BUSINESS DULL Also Helped to Keep Business Quiet FOR THE YEAR 4 OUTLOOK POR 1905 GOOD IN THE hEADING INDUSTRIES New York Dee Weekly Re Review view of Trade tomorrow will say week brought th mar marquIet quIet conditions In tle world and for annual monopolizing cx In some branches of where immediate deliveries were re required Severe storms also Interrupted communication and transportation par at the west but on the whole the were helpful for was broken in the Pittsburg region An Annual nual reviews Indicate that the year has made a much better showing than seemed possIble at the outset tIe half comparing very favorably with the first six months and the amount of business on the boOks in the leading industries promises still Improvement In 1905 TraffIc returns of December indicate that gross earnings of the railways were 72 per cent larger than In the previous year and foreign commerce for the last week at thIs port shows an increase of in exports and a very large gain of Ia imports as com compared pared with 1903 Buoyant sentiments prevail in the iron and steel industry Supplies of native hides are accumulating owing to the liberal movement of cat tie and the tone is easy but small stocks of branded hIdes maintain that Woolen goods are advancing because of the upward tendency of raw wool and purchasers are more willing to place eon tracts at privilege rates Failures this week number 2 In the United States against last year and 11 in Canada compared 17 a year ago Bradstreets Bradstreets tomorrow say Distributive trade Is marking time while past results and future proe are subjects oi consideration A perIod of marked even unexpected ac activity in holiday goods of higher than usual quality has brought ito a close a year which because of marked improve meat In the last quarter has ended bet better ter than It began and certainly in far better shape than seemed possible at atthe the of the year Wholesale trade is naturally the at this season of stock taking and Inventory and Stormy weather and the flurry In rew cotton have been addItional chilling in Rather than the usual annual clearing sales have occurred be because cause of the notable absence of stocks of finished goods pressing for sale Collections show sone effect from the recent heavy circulation of money in ye tail lInes in enlarged receipts Industry is of notably large volume for this season of the year especially In iron and steel and kindred lines of Railway returns are favorable in that inCreased earnIngs are quite general and the only drawback Is the countrywide reports of car shortage At the west an Important has been the breaking of the winter wheat Prices of metals have hardened this Copper Is in good demand ad to the highest point yet reached Wool Is strong and stocks In dealers hands are the lightest in years This makes for strength in the finished pro product duct business in which however Is light Business failures in the States for the week Dee 29 number against last week in the like week In 1903 in 1902 In 1901 and in In Canada failures for the week number 20 against 37 last week and IS this week a year ago Wheat Including flour exports for the week ending Dec 29 aggregate bushels against last week last year in 1901 |