Show JOBBING TRADE GOOD Business is Increasing as Vacation Season Wanes REPORTS MORE FAVORABLE Movement in Dry Goods Clothing Shoes Hats and Hardware is the Feature Noted This WeekIron and Steel Trade Also Records a Decided Gain in Tone and Volumo of Sales Though Prices Except in a Few Instances Harden but Slow lyrln Metals Copper is Firm New York Aug Bradstrects tomorrOw to-morrow will I say Distributive trade that from jobbers particularly Increases In-creases as the vacation season wnnos Reports from leading Western centers are more favorable and a large aggregate aggre-gate of business In dry goods clothing shoes hats and hardware are features noted this week The iron and steel trade too notes a decided gain In tone and volume of sales though prices except ex-cept In a few instances harden but slowly Clearings reflecting past business and dormant speculation are very small but railroad earnings reflecting the really heavy actual movement Into consumption maintain their old gains Relatively the most quiet and least satisfactory conditions rule In the primary pri-mary textile markets of tho East reflecting re-flecting f the backward state of next I springs business I Corn crop advices arc viewed as rather better because of the ending of the late dry hot spell at the West Cotton crop conditions arc still however how-ever only partially defined and leadIng lead-Ing i State authorities arc quoted as predicting pre-dicting a short crop The steadiness oC staple prices is feature In present quietness of trade Among the metals copper Is firm on the combination while tin Is lower after a little spurt In the volume of business doing In the Iron trade compares favorably with recent weeks and months and the tone of trade Is certainly more cheerful thr > nat n-at any time since the brealc last spring The history of the slump and rally In the t finished material market Is however how-ever being repeated In the pig Iron trade t Producers are apparently so anxious to have a supply of orders on hand this fall that they are readily selling their production ahead at relatively rela-tively low quotations some of these in fact being at bottom rates On thii other hand an offer of an order for 15000 tons for next years delivery has been rejected the claim being that present quotations are too low and will be i exceeded in a month or so Export Inquiry i for all classes of material Is and has been good Bars shapes and plates note good domestic and export Inquiry i aiTd are firmer at the East and I to 2 higher at Chicago Southern South-ern Iron stocks of higher grades are reported oversold at Birmingham To disappointing foreign advlces and the backward state of the spring for cotton goods are to be attributed the shading In raw cotton this week The spring season In mens wear woolens has been rather disappointing so far while the jobbing demand for dress goods Is quite favorable Manu facturers are buying only enough raw wool to cover orders for goods and prices are weak at the lowest point reached Wheat including flour shipments for the week aggregate 3248313 bush els against 2C951CS bushels last week 3613113 bushels In the corresponding week of 1S90 3687010 bushels In 1SOS C20S247 bushels In 1697 and 3369862 bushels in 1S96 From July 1st to date this season wheat exports are 26941761 bushels against 3312233 bushels last season and 29593092 bushels In 189899 Failures aggregate IBS for the week as against 135 last week 131 In this week a year ago 1C1 In 1S9S 189 In 1897 and 1S1 In 1S96 Canadian failures number 32 against 29 last week and 25 this week a year ago |