Show ALBERT RETURNS albert who has been absent from the city the past five weeks during which time be visited new york boston and chicago placing or ders tor sons spring line of goods returned yesterday he states that he never in all the ten years that he has visited these cities saw the activity in business circles that there Is at present this is especially ally true ot new york he stated that the entire stock 0 the new york merchants had been exhausted in supplying the foreign markets largo orders going to china and japan and that all the factories throughout the east were working over time along all lines 0 trade the local trade who desire immediate orders cannot be supplied at the present time on this account and not until the goods are manufactured |