Show WEATHER STILt RETARDS TRADE I All Lines Have Marked Time During the Past Week POSSIBLE INJURY TO CROPS POLITICAL OUTLOOK HAS IN INDUCED I New York April tomor tomorrow row will say cold weather aft over the country with plant lions and and interrupts activity in many hines notably building trade both wholesale and retaIl has practically marked time during time week Back of weather amid price there looms up the political outlook which in most cases has included a ten tendency dency toward conservatism While fail has opened measurably well In there is a tendency to swit do to affect and con Among the industrIes Iron and steel note an accentuation of the quiet observable last week The market for raw is rather low at the east though higher prices than last yer are reported for forthe the new wool chip at the first The trade in flour was a depresS lag feature this week the mills refusing much business at the rates Some export business was reported done at the declines in wheat and corn Wheat including flour for the week 21 bushels against week this week laSt in 1902 add in 1901 From July 1 WIll to date they aggregate against last season In 1402 and hi 1901 Corn exports for the week aggregate bushels against last week a year ago in 1902 and III From July 1 1900 they ag aggregate bushels against last season In 1202 and in 1901 Bustness failures in the States for the week ending 21 number against last week in the like week in 1903 In 1902 in 1901 and in In Canada failures for week film ber 11 agaInst 20 last and 13 this week a year ago Duns Report it G Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trade will sa tomorrow weather is still the chief to Improvement in business complaInts being received from every see lion of the country and slow are also attributed to this factor Not only Is current distribution of use particularly affected but future commitment are undertaken most con conservatively on account of the possible I injury to There is much con regarding the future despite tho fact that at many points of merchandise are burdensome Structural work Is gradually resuming normal pro proportions portions for the season May 1 Is usually the date fixed for mahy labor ales limit this year there is little prospect I of serious dIsturbances At the west railroad freIght tonnage has not In Increased creased but passenger traffic Is very heavy and earnings of all roads thus fax reported in April re only 45 per cent smaller than last year While no further Improvement can be discerned in the iron amid steel industry it is gratifying to find no dIstinct denee of a setback Aside from strength and activity in Texas hides the western market for do domestic skins is dull and barely steady a little prospect of higher values although sales of foreign hides arc restricted by light Importations from Slightly lower prIces prevail for the leading Failures thIs week In tIme States against 12 in Can Canada ada compared with 15 a year ago |