Show BRADSTREETS OPINION Trade Situation Summed Up as Inactive I active Demand Prices Weaker Now York May Bradstrccfs tomorrow tomor-row will say The trade situation this week may be summed up in the phrase Inactive demand and weaker prices I Vhllc In many respects the Industrial sItuation 1 1 sIt-uation Is ea ler than It was the unsattlu I I ment In the building trades continue 1 marked the reflex action being exhibited c I In unsettled demand for building material I mind weaker prices for lumber anti for I many products used In the building Indua try Iron and steel buyers are still holding oft most of the business done being for small lots for Immediate consumption Jlirtlicr declines are noted In steel bil lets and for some llnished products whllo sympathetic weakness Is reported In tho other metals ueh as copper head and tin > There was slight Increases of the out put otpl iron during the month of April ann a small Kfjn In furnace nnd other stocks Steel rails mind Mructural ma i i i tcrlal arc conspicuous exceptions to the wcaknots above noted prices for these products bllng firmly malntaliixd Jn HKrulailve mirkts dullners has lip < n the feature wheat after considerable KlendliMfs nejikrnod on the favorable Government report which Is token in 1mm > dICRti a yield of winter wheat H < VXX > OW bushels larger than a year ign rotwlth piimlliig Immense damage from winter killing In lh entrol Western Slates apparently nnVot however by l a high condition con-dition In States west of the Mississippi Relatively good reports come from the I I retail trade at mot comers notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the backward spring but as yet the J volumo of reorder business from wholesalers whole-salers and Jobbers has proved dlsappolnt I Ing Finishod cotton and woolen products I I remain steady Wool Is weaker owing to restricted dc maud from manufacturers and li sympii thy with lower prices set at many grades at the London wool sales Primary wool markets are higher than In tIme KflSt 1 Print cloth though nominally held firm i at Fall River continued to be offered below be-low the Liverpool price Coffee Is rather weaker owing to lower quotations In European markets and Sugar Is also shaded owing to receipts exceeding requirements re-quirements Relatively a good report comes from the distribution trudo In shoes but manufacturers manu-facturers are hanging hack In theIr purchases pur-chases of leather and hides are rather iv on If or Relatively tho best trade reports still como from the Pacific coast markets but better weather conditions at the South havo tended to brighten trade reports from that section Wheat Including Hour shipments for time week aggregate ilSIFi4 > bushels against T5T7iX2 lust week n2Sl1S2 In the corresponding week of 1W 3li VI3 In ISM l 25KJS7 In JW and 190S22 In 1W Slnco July 1st thin reason tile exports of wheat segregate lC9r05GQi bushels against 2r3 0s TSl last year and 20252 001 In 1WG3 Business failures In time United States for time week number 171 an compared with 1J3 last week 160 a year ago i 5 In IKK 2 1 In 1N7 and 2m5 In ISM Busllle failures for the week In time Dominion of Canada number in as compared com-pared with 10 Inst week 21 hist year 20 In 1SSS Cl In 1S07 and 11 In ISft Bank Clearings i Now York May 11The following table ta-ble compiled by Uradstrcct shows time bonk clonrlnga nt all tho principal cities for ho otsk ending May llth with the percentage of Increase and docreuso as compared with the corresponding week last year Inc Dec New York 51000170110 201 Boston 319803720 1S3 Chicago J 17210 UK 51 Philadelphia SI7SiW > St Louis 320flcOG9 13 PlltPburg TiliOOir 113 Baltimore ClHOtUrt 231 San lrnnrlseo i9 l5iS20 KS Cincinnati 15insino cK Kansas City 153317tW 2i7 Now Orleans 7 7iMi GG Mlnnoapolis 1103S700 215 Oflrnlt SOI03 112 Clovoland 10 < rSi S 12 loulsllle SIT71IW7 m 152 1rovldoiico r > iiyrt0 llI Milwaukee jllOISS 17 St Paul i5ifl7fiC 21 1 B illalo fiSiiifrl 3i Omaha G0053fn 127 Indianapolis tf303tVi 1 L2 Columbus O rC3 500 2 s Savannah 3102ni 2ln DenIm IISSftM 1 I 370 Hartford 2S33W 30 Richmond KJ7UV4 152 Memphis JfJOKB MJ AViishlnglon 29211 7 50 Peoria 20tPS Hrt Rochester 2ror 270 aett nnven iH isf < j i AVorcester 12IS0 219 Atlanta m J GrtdGlfi 10S SiT LAKE 21f377it U7 Sprliigncld Mats 122532 70 Foil Vorth 2121102 2T4 Portland Me lflMov tr Portland Or 19GS4S4 loS St Joseph t311070 RSS Los Angeles 2400f5 275 Norfolk i2T5 221 Syracuse 1119532 Vn Molnefl 1751111 I 213 Xashvllle 25iS5 12S AVJImlnglon Del M3lt 39 i Fall River S11SC 2i j Scranion 1019HH 111 < 1 Grand Rapids ir 00in > i AugusUi Ga 715 U77 ISfi lLowHl r09 > 7 111 > Dayton O 115227 7S Seattle l212K5 T17 Taconui 9JISO 270 Spokane 11RIOW 75 Sioux City lUSO < Ko 211 New Bedford IUOW3 203 Kuoxvllle Tcnn 481377 Sn Topeka CJ101I 300 Birmingham 7SJ > H7 Lxlngion Ky 32111 10i Jacksonville Fin 2I1S1S 3S KaUimazoo 419370 10Fi Akron 173100 179 Chattanooga SW Vii ilrj Rockford Ill 3IS7S 171 Canton O 2l7r0 Sprlngilcld O P199S9 4 15 Fargo X D 1 330021 213 Sioux Falls S D 16IIM7 140 Hastings Xeb 1G0978 CJ3 Fromont Neb 1031 > 1 2S Davenport S7S1SI S2S Toledo 220243 3oS GalVcslon R007000 ITuiiston 011SSI1 103 Macon 18700 tf7 Helena O mua i 3S Little Rock M317fi U7 Kvansvlllo 500VJ 29 Saglnaw 5170 GOr SprhigJicld Ill 378007 170 Youngatown 27S023 03 Totals U S S1GJ1S91S39 3SO Totals outsido New York GlS7Wl23 lS DOMINION OF CANADA Montreal 162309I Toronto 1tifiSlI 110 Winnipeg 202JIiX 17t Halifax l33iIG ISf Hamilton saw 16 St John N B 7527i Victoria 7HSI2 Vancouver S1S309 165 lotals 3 320o323o C2 Not Included in totals bee unto containing contain-ing other items than cloarlugs Not included In totals because of no comparison for last jxir |