Show DUNS OF NEW YORK saturday april another week brings additional proof of actual improvement in business at many points while slackness at a few is explained by causes obviously local and temporary thus at some point bal weather and impassable roada ati I 1 retard while at others where the coi alt on ns passed vigorous cevial is kieen extreme low prices for cotton still depress at the auth nd production of iron in excess of has caused the failure cf oua company and the closing of several furnaces spring brings the usual reviving in building and in demand for materials at some points larger usual aad at only ona as yet reporting chec iced by an un expected strike the money continue abundantly supplied and easy with no trace odthe pressure often about april ast 1st and while at most pianta abo demand ia only moderate at of importance an de is reported two theories regarding the state t business which find frequent expression that trade has disappointed expectations to borne extent i obvious and anere are some who claim that a reaction has begun of unknown aeration de ration which appeared in europe lait year and was oaly in part hera be causa of extraordinary chopa bliesa have to support them unusually lor prices and in some departments a shrinkage in sales bat others argue thit disappointment ia due to excessive expectations and especially to the failure to take into account the great volume of indebtedness left from real estate at the west and south and tho influence here of bad chopa aad financial depression abroad these have to support them much evidence that the actual business transacted all considered is greater than aver before at tm season in spits of all obita clea and complaints comola ints speculation has bean stronger wheat advancing 31 cents corn 3 cents and cottma a sixteenth with smaller receipts oil is a cent higher but coffee lower money has been very easy ana foreign exchange a fraction lower experts fall a little behind last yeara for a boek treasury shipments exceed receipts for the month thus far over tho stock market has shown nu important change but ii on the whole stronger and some foreign buying is now reported the business failures occurring throughout country during the last days as reported to K G dun S co the mercantile by telegraph number for tho united states and for canada 31 or total of as compared with totals of last week and the defek previous to the last for the corresponding week of lait year the figures were representing failures in the united al in the dominion of canada |