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Show week number 22, which compares with Co for last week and G7 in the like week of 1903. TRADE REVIEWS OF IE KEEK 'EW YORK, Sept. 2:1 Bradstrects tomorrow will say: Trade and industrial in-dustrial reports are still irregular and general characterization Is difficult. Fair acthitly In some lines and at some centers Is indicated, l.ut repression repres-sion anil conservation are widely In evidence and reflected in small hut .frequent rather than largo or confident confi-dent buying. One rcully favorable underlying feature, perhaps not thoroughly appreciated ap-preciated at present. Is the apparent absence of large stocks of goods In primary or secondary hands, born apparently ap-parently of uncertainty as to future-prices future-prices and the growth of tho belief that far distant buying Ik neither ad vlsnblf or necessary. Reports from the leading Industries are of repression. repres-sion. (In the eastern Inaiher tradu some sole leather tanners are operating operat-ing much below capacity and eastern shoe manufacturers report consena-llsin consena-llsin marked In buying. At the west some centers report shoe factories running to capacltv. In textile lines curtailment Is still In evldcnco. Staple lines meet with fairly steady demand. Jobbers and manufacturers stocks arc reported lighter than usual usu-al In the woollen trade, political agitation ag-itation is claimed to bo holding back future demand. Business failures in I nltd States for the week ending September 22 wore 190, against 210 last week and 171 in the Hke week of 1909. Business failures In Canada for the |