Show G f L T TRADE t tIT SiTUATION IT TI IS l FAiR f I 1 Weather W Conditions Have II Hinder Hindered ed cd Traffic to More or Less Extent COLLECTIONS MORE PROMPT Wholesale Business flimsiness Is Moderately Good While lobbing Trade Is Js Normal No r in a I New 1 York Jan 22 H 0 O Dun Pun Cos Weekly of Trade Tro o tomor tomorrow row roll will say SO conditions love have hn furnished the tho chief III In tho the general central trade situation To fo onne fome extent hat Iia hll been hindered especially o at 1 t tho tito east enat but hut tIne the latest returns of railway earn earnings ings In for lor January show sho an til Increase of I 39 31 jr Per cent over 1003 1903 Wholesale business Is fairly active traveling salesmen sending III In about overage average order and Jobbing trade IH Ii I normal Manufacturing plants are more moru active n Un with little change In III quotations and the tite outlook lit fur filling trade Is con coil considered I pl favorable tile Collections are tu ronie i what more prompt landing I staples I risen to new ne maximum prices for Cor forthe CorI fortine I the tine crop year Iron and stool steel plants that bitt ut ul tIne the tutu turn of If tine the year eur obtained t busIness to Continue operating tint ami thus far fOI or the of ot wages has not produced the threaten strike Increased se actIvIty nil th Is I retorted reported in III the domestic hl 1111 l this week numbered In III Inthe the United States Hille against 20 OS Q last year yeah III and 33 In lit Canada II compared with 27 II u year n o |