Show EASTER RETAIL TRADE GOOD i of Business In All Brancho Exceptionally Largo In gol ACTIVITY WAS GENERAL t I Ictor etor hi h 1111 oi HUM idea 31 tot or on un Hour DUJI Nw York Tork March 28 0 CJ Duni Weekly We dy of or Trade Trado tomorrow will wll Favorable weather greatly Eat ul retail trade thu tho 1 o ot ci transitions In III II nil of ot wearing op nil pard of ot by b no means restricted t tUe A tI ItY was till the lilt IJ p however tho the general genera dI distribution 0 of ot merchandise that Illat of previous seasons s with prices distinct well w lI maintained A of ot die Ibe vigor lor of aZ legitimate trado truO It Is I found In the th decline of og only poi pee cAnt In bank brUitt exchanges It t Now New York ork notwithstanding the tho tact fact that transactions lion tIon at lit the Iho exchange wore WOle not lIt moro than a II third of ot those In the corresponding cor core corr neck taRt last year white while at lit the theother responding r other oIlier leading clearings cl exhibit exhibited ed d a B gain of ot l DS U 5 Per cent over oyer tact last year yeni oar nil ind Jt 31 J per FC cent over oyer 18 Demands for tor an un day May Ma 1 I by the tho blast furnace men was sva ns the most disturbing dl tur feature In the tho Iron tron and mu led Ile Industry and cut thin lu Ia not cane caus causing ing lag much alarm a all an agreement wilt will probably bo be readied during the tho Inter Intervening month Production lon Ic 19 s now be beyond beyond yond nil flu previous records and the thc movement of oC coke IN le ample ampie although the ite early opening ot oC lake Inke navigation naY may withdraw some of ot the Ih transporting I facilities which cannot well ho lie spared Buying 13 has lee been notably active In III bars bare for lor Cr Implement makers and producer have havo sold their entire outputs BO eo far ahead abeal that now nosy business Is In not nought Many Miny plans for Cor Immediate structural work wk have base been belli abandoned owing to 10 the tte Insufficient supplY of ot available ma mn material m On the tho other hand thoro there are re reports reo ports 1011 of reselling contracts for tor rails ana other supplies by who have secured d larger deliveries than will wilt he be needed The Tho Th appearance of or this speculative lIi element clement would bo be It more moro excessively In ln Inflated Inn n ted Aside sl e from the advance n vanco In bar barlion Iron lion at nt to 18 and ana Iron troit nt nl H to there IMra are no spec specht igI ht changes sou thorn furnace products having decided to postpone the contemplated advance A severe severo reaction occurred In cot cotton cotton cotton ton due entirely to tho the excessive spec purchases which made tho the mar Inar marlet market let lei A slight elight recovery In cof cot tee tte teem from the tho bottom prim price bo be at attribute tribute to 10 aggressive a option buying nil ait to the statistical position Is le not receipts receIpt exceeding last years cn s high bleh record to date by over a n third thiriL A temporary reduction r In refined sugar eugare wU e restored as OIl the market for Cor fort t taW gt dej became very strong Meats Ments aln In advanced In the taco of oC easier train grain s a helpful Influence being the order over placed for tor the army arnoy Weakness appeared In Iii the th cereals eer early In the week when thura huru woe was a n certain unanimity about encouraging enc seather reports and Increased acreage Subsequently there thero was IRS partial recovery recovery ery owing to lose less cheerful news from Kansas and Oklahoma but bolt the Iho nut re remit result mit sult for tho Iho th week was n a decidedly lower ring ringo nIB of prices R Wheat exports ma materially declined from the tho satisfactory record of oC bushels last bet week to only bushels bushel this week weck which compares cc with In It the same heek eek last bet year There woe was a n decrease In western wern receipts to bushels against 4 OS a II year rear ago but tim the difference In arrivals ot of corn was wa less Ices striking According to nn an analysis of ot tip Ill I official returns return by n a Liverpool au RU authority there will wilt be only of oC wheat In thin country at nt the tha of f the crop year oar but the state tate tr rr nt at Is based on exports exhorts for or this the last host lastour our Or months of holt halt as o much mu h as nil the tho roc rec shipments of or the preceding ht months which It is exceedingly lao able A further alteration In the tho should ho bo monte made to allow for tor the tho thor ther 11 r estimate e of ot tho Urn total allures for tor the tho week numbered 05 In the United States against last year yell 1 anti III In Canada against t twentynine t tWenty last year |