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Show FAILURES LAST YEAH Business Calamities Numbered Num-bered 9768. LESS THAN F0RMER YEARS Two Por Cent Loss Than 1902, Eight From 1901. With Oue Exception This Is the Smallest Number of Casualties Heported Since 1877. New York, Jan. 5. There were K7CS failures fail-ures reported lo Tiradslreet's In the calendar calen-dar year 1003. with liabilities of $151,277,093 and assets of ?S4.0C0,-i75. This marked a decrease In number of Just 2 per cent frcm 1902 and of S per cent from 1301. With tho exception of 1S09, the Increase over which is 1.4 per cent, the year 1P03 shows the smallest number of failure casualties reported since 1SS7. Liabilities, however, owing primarily to tho Increase in suspensions of financial Institutions, but also because of the considerable number num-ber of heavy manufacturing concerns suspending sus-pending wt-rc larger by -lo per cent than those of 1902, and the heaviest, in fact, alncc 1S97. There were failures. Involving SS.32S.-SE SS.32S.-SE of liabilities and I.S.:C.1&7 of assets, in the Dominion of Canada In 1003, a decrease de-crease of 12 per cent In number on a practically Identical total of liabilities. |