Show CONSERVATISM SEEM SEEN THROUGHOUT COUNTRY NEW YORK Feb eb H H. Bradstreets says Cautionary signals displayed last ve week weel I by the foreign exchange money securities securities ties grain ana provision markets later laler Joined by the the- big primary lines linea of textiles I particularly cotton and woolen goods are still in evidence and the area of or country reporting conservatism more manifest has hag I widened somewhat This is most niost perceptible In In- Inthe the large lar-e centers of th the East and Central West Vest in inthe inthe inthe I the former aided appreciably by the disturbance disturbance dis dis- disturbance dis- dis to shipping and forwarding caused by after effects 0 of the big storm I of last week and b by the still prevailing epidemic and in the West by tightened I money and the fears of a possible countrywide countrywide coun coun- countrywide of or traffic if it the predicted I strike of or railway maintenance of way vay and shop workers should occur The quieting down Is still little In evidence evidence evi evi- dence in big consuming districts of or the West and South and Is not unanimous even In the East and Central West as shown by the strength of demand and of prices noted In the big basic industries such as iron and steel and lumber in which buyers are arc bidding eagerly In some cases It wildly for nearby and distant deliveries of nearly all kinds of structural material finished steel hard and soft grades of lumber Weekly bank clearings |