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Show uy TBADEJTEVIEW NEW YORK, Oct, 20. Bradstreot's tomorrow will say. Though trade trends show little definite change, It is probably true that retail business In the larger cities has expanded In consequence of cooler cool-er weather and the advance of the soason. Yet this Improvement Is by no means uniform, too much rain in ihe northwest and along tho Atlantic seaboard having hampered shipping, while low cotton prices have affected southern trade and collections. Incidentally, the country districts as a whole report that retail business in this respect Is rather slow Returns Re-turns as to Jobbing and wholesale lines tell of n reasonable degree of activity ac-tivity In dry goods furniture, shown and tho like, but It Is claimed that interior distributers continue to buy on a hand-to-mouth basis. Trade In leather holds up well, with a firm export tiado a feature. There Is moro doing in holiday goods and confectioners are busy. Trade In finished steel is unsatis-factorv, unsatis-factorv, not so much because of a paucity of orders but particularly because be-cause prices have again receded so low as to threaten very small profits Competition is keen and manufacturers manufactur-ers in the central west have requested the railways to reduce freight rates on raw materials, apparently preferring prefer-ring to save In this direction rather thnn to cut wages Business fa'lu-es in the United States for the week ending Oct. 19 woro 25S. against 212 'ast week. 197 In the like period of 1910; 214 in 1909: 231 In 190S and 220 in 197. B'lslneps failures in Canada for the week number 21 which enmparos with 19 last wenk and 14 for the corresponding cor-responding weel In 1910. ' |