People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — SIGNS OF IMPROVING BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

SIGNS OF IMPROVING BUSINESS.

Large Orders Coining in from the South uud Southwest. New York, Aug. 29.—Merchants here gay the best indication of improving business eohies from the south and southwest, where the orders for goods are almost normal and the buyers say the merchants see an outlet for all they are buying and expect to increase their orders. Two large houses have sent their drominers out again through the southwest, and particularly through Texas, where the orders have been particularly good. In the west and northwest they say this condition is reversed, and the buying is only about 25 per cent, of what it is in nominal years, the merchants saying that the people will be too poor to buy heavily. A prominent dry goods merchant says he has given up his vacation, arranged for the latter part of this montli and early in September, because he is compelled to remain and attend to buyers who are coming here in large numbers. He further says the demand for drummers exceeds the supply, and those already on the road are sending in satisfactory orders. If retail trade is what is expected fall business will be large in dry goods.