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Show REVIEW OF TRADE. Volume of Business Continues Large In Splie of Tariff Agitation. NEW YORK. May 23. Dun's Review will eay tomorrow: The volume of buMnefs In nearly all branches of trade and Industry continues con-tinues very large, but It Is mostlv to meet Immediate needs. Confidence Is suntalned by the prospect of big crops, but manufacturers and tnerchantH still pursue a conservative policy, ponding the termination of tariff uncertainty. uch recession in trade as exists Is chiefly In the absence of new orders for future delivery. Mercantile and Industrial conditions are strengthened by the absence of large stocks, and the financial situation Is made more secure by the absenco of excessive ex-cessive speculation. "While cold weather has served lo delay planting In some HectloriH, crop conditions for both Fprlns wheat and corn nre In the main very uusplclou. and cotton shows Improvement. Improve-ment. This serves to make business sentiment senti-ment In the south and west very cheerful. cheer-ful. The Iron and steel mills continue fully occupied In filling old orders, but there has been a sharp falling off In tho volume vol-ume of new business. Commercial failures this week In tho united States are 265 against 241 the corresponding week la at year. Failures In Canada number 33. against 190 last year. NEVT YORK. May 23. Bradstreet's tomorrow will say: It i difficult to find a keynote, that will at once characterize trade trends the country over, but buying and largo business continues favorable, tho western west-ern situation In these respects being almost al-most antithetical lo the repression prevailing pre-vailing In the east. Presumably tho wect Is buoyed by sanguine wheat crop prospe-is nnd in that section of the country there does not appear to bo much apprehension ns regards unfavorable unfavor-able consequences from tariff revisions. In any event, the west, northwest, southwest and far west nro doing well as regards jobbing trade, and while some centers in the middle west manifest more or less conservatism, there Is an obvious disposition towards optimism, future wants are being covered in a reasonably rea-sonably Satisfactory way. nnd tho general gen-eral consensus that business is moderately mod-erately well ahead of last year, Money Is quite active for commercial and industrial uses, and rates are somewhat some-what easier. Collections do not improve much and, all In all. they do not appear to bo above fair. Stock market operations remain as for TveeKs that is. dull nnd tho success of the New York city bond Issue does not impart the fillip, or new impulse that wns anticipated. Business failures for the week ending May ,2 wrn 265, which compnres with 215 In tho like week of 1912. Wheal, including flour, exports from tho t'nlted States and Canada for thn week ending, May 22 nwreKote 6 471 4J , bushel", nsalnst F,909,bl3 busr-e'.s this week last year. |