Show r d IMPROVEMENT IN INI I L t. t NEARL All LL LINES I Colder Weather Stimulates ReP ReV Re- Re V P r- r tail Trade and Improves Business Generally I RAW I RAW WOOL TRADE HELPED f s Report From Lending Crops CrOllS Are Arc All JI oW 1 oralle Fa and Transportation Facilities Fa FH u ji Only i 4 Now York Nov No 3 Dunns Dunn's Dunn's Dunns review o or of ortI tI t trade today toda ro says s 's Colder Coldo weather weather has ha r removed mo f one one bf of the draw draw- J the seasonable distribution o or of merchandise lS' lS hut but the there e I Is still much complaint of traffic conditions ns Congestion Con Con- upon the railways was Jn r 7 ed cd by tho the destruction of vessels din lur- lur ing Jug the thc recent gulf storm and a u much heavier tonnage of or freight Is delaye than usual although although h th there r Is away i j a car famine at this his season Retail Ketai t I 1 J tl i hows shows Improvement In nearl au an all sections anti ant mercantile collection i. i are more moro prompt Returns from th thiron the q iron lIon and stool steel industry could not casIly casU cas ens- U Ily be brighter and foot footwear footwear- weal have havo abundant ol orders rs on I hand 1 III After Arter several weeks ve ks of or pressure to place contrails ts Ls for f. cotton goods there Js is a i natural season ea on o of or quiet but the thc 1111 ls have ha secured sufficient business to to U a. a sure ninny many months mouths of or active c or cry ery Eastern w wool ol sales have hav alt att f 1 ie 1 record proportions but hul the late latt fall fail has delayed the demand for foi WO J I Primary receipts of or wheat h m are not I ii I V V keeping with a maximum crop owing to delas delays As t he l n. n adV advance advances ad ad- V vance vances with increasing ln urgency fi 4 V delivery o of iron and V of further advances In prices even the themos mos t conservative cl's gi- gi UI ui up r- r hope OJ better f. f lt 1 terms terms- r and h ue slug gling g to place contracts before another fraction Is added to tu the lie price or i. i a a aV a V oth other r month to lo the tho remoteness of d I I livery JJ Spot quotations for pig iron C e really nominal because nothing I is I offered and very yeno fanc fancy prices V be lie paid for billets that could be shi- shi sin sin- V V lied led immediately Commercial failures this week in n inV V the tho s are I 1 ISO SO against 24 Ia Jat t w week I 1 S G the previous week I a.- a. aI l cI V the corresponding w eel ek lost last joir H Failures in Cana Canada a number 25 i 21 last Jast week 17 the tho preceding preceding- week weel and 3 34 last year ye-al' Of or failures this week weel c- c V In the United States C 69 were in th the ga Kasl t. t 19 South 45 Y West Vest st and 17 In the I Pacific states slates Sixty three c report liabilities lia ha- ha bulLies of 1 or 01 more mOI Liabilities V V of failures reported for tOI October are compared with V V 92 a year tar ago WV Ih Ihie lew ie V V New York Nov No 3 ln In its weekly I V V Io of the tra trade Bradstreet's Bradstreets to tomorrow fo- fo V m morrow soya sas Clear Cleal an and colder weather has ws Improved retail trade and stimulated d ol order cr business c greatly Lo lo- lo Milliner In a record October trade with V V Jobbers I besides helpInG the coal coalt t J kindred lines lines- Industry Is V V active c labor S scarcity Is still till a a. feature tea fea V Lure ture of the trade Iron and azul steel stee s.- s. markets nr are j advancing and nn largo Irn- Irn c l ts pe-ts oil ur arc Ihu he h only rent apparent source o of ot l V relief tl tho o n advent enl of 01 November thero 1 come lull lun in wholesale hole V lu o a some ome V lines but this Is only natural considering consid consid- 1 min ering past t activities Cotton Colton Roods goods are arc a quieter but vcr very firm l because I V of or scarcity ot or supplies while woolen 1 goods have ha been heen stimulated by good V reports report as to retail sales les of cf heavy clothing The tone of the raw wool woo trade has Leen been helped bellied h by the thc Immense Immense immense im Im- mense sales recently reported Holiday hell Holi cIa day trade trado preparations and andIes sales Ies have hove been so 80 far tar encouraging Spring business bust busi V ness Is of good goOl volume as a whole hol am and hosiery hosler men are tal taking or orders ers for nex next fall Tho rho shoe tra trade e has been rather rath rath- cr er backward and fall and wintel viner trade as expected d. d has not hurt h by frosts tu to tIe ext extent nt feared anti and freer I er sales of oC tIme the staple have helped Southern trade an and coll V HOlls though the late decline I Is In Inducing Inducing In- In h holding A large larg ar area arca a in wheat has got git a good start before the cold coli weather athel The one Leall hurtful de dc IL itself an outgrowth of I I superabundance 0 of prosperity is iN the growing tension as aa regards transportation tallon tation facilities Tills ThIR is getting worse instead of or better and the thC grain rain lumber lum lumn- ber coal and iron and steel trad trades s all feel reel the bad effects of ot delayed deliveries deliver dellver- I ies Demands s for increased wages are arean arean arean an additional feature pressing for fOI at attention attention at- at upon railway IY managers l but I at-I ut amicable f settlements are hoped hUIell for 01 Coll Collection arc irregular Southern payments being boing better while hlll gra grain in blockades interfere ith Western an and Noi Northwestern In receipts Money Mony a as a whole 15 Is still sUI in jn active C demand und and finn film The 11 November NO 1 disbursement have luave al also o ned hardened tIme till I market t temporarily I |