The Critic and record., 1891-04-25
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

NEW YoRK, April 25.--Money on call
loaned at easy rates to-day. Three per
cent was the ruling rate.
Exchange quiet; posted rates, 1890 lS0h
actual rates, 4s5@4s5l for sixty days and
4ssl for demand.
Governments steady; currency Gs, 1l3
bid; As coupon, 12l bid; lls, do, lO2
bid.
Pacific bonds closed; Union lists, los
bid; do. funds, l08 bid; Centrals, 1073.
The stock market was active to-day.
Up to noon, the closing hour 2l3,6l5
shares had changed hands. At the OPEN
ing there was an urgent demand for stocks
for both sides of the account
The opening figures were TO per cent
higher, and during the early part of the
hour there was further sharp rise under
the lead of Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago and Tennessee Coal. The adj
vance by the end of the first half hour
ranged from to per cent. From this
there was a fractional reaction by IL
o'clock. In the hour TO noon the market
was somewhat irregular. Prices iluctu-
ated frequently within narrow range.
On the publication of the bank state
ment showing an unexpected increase of
T2,655,275 in the reserves, there was a
vigorous buying and prices advanced by
11:30 to the best figures again, but in the
final half hour there was free selling to
realize resulting in sharp reaction.
Prices at the close, however, were frac-
tionally higher than those of yesterday.
Washington Stock Exchange.
Reported for THE Critic by Gurley &
Stevens, real estate and local securities,
1885 Il street northwest
Sales-Regular call, u o'clock M
Capital Nat. Bank, 10 1897; 10 a l2l.
Lincoln Nat. Bank 10 a 10 at 1921. w. IL
allytown X. r., 10 a63. Col. Fire ms, 20
a 1GY Peoples Fire Ins., 100 81. Wash.
Gas, GOA 444
Miscellaneous Bonds-W. e G. r. r.
10-40G's R03]23. 10i: W. a. q. II. r..
Convertible6's '90j20 120 Masonic Hall
Assn 5's, c 1908, l0I; Wash. Market Co.
lst 6s 1S02-1911, no. Wash. Market Co.,
Imp Gs 10l2@27, 1l6; Amer. Security and
Trust, 5's, 1905, 100; Wash. Light In-
Infantry, 2d7's, 1904, %; Wash. Gas Co.
Ser. A, 6's, 19O2!27, 1913; Wash Gas. Co.
Ser. b, 0's, 190l-20, 125; Wash. Gas Co.
Convertible 6s, 1901. 1856.
National Bank Stocks-Bank of Wash
ington, 4A0; Bank of Republic, 270; Met
ropoltan, 2s0 Central, 300; Second, 1856;
Farmers and Mechanics, 1876; Citizens
llU; COlum Dla, 100 Oapltal, LON w eSt
End 1909; Traders, 1l7l; Lincoln, 10ll.
Railroad Stocks. Washington and
Georgetown, 2iil; Metropolitan, 1l6; Co
lumbia, 60; Capitol and North o Street,
50 lexington and Soldiers Home, 5ji;
Georgetown and Tenallytown, 63.
Insurance Stocks - Firemen's, AZ;
Franklin, 81; Metropolitan, 80; National
Union, 10; Arlington, $50; Corcoran, 6S;
Columbia, 16l; German American, 1856;
Potomac, so; Riggs, 81; Peoples, 81; Lin.
coin, 5b; Commercial, Al.
Title Insurance Stocks.-Real Estate
Title, 1913; Columbia Title, 6s.
Gas and Electric Light Stocks.-' ASH
ington Gas, @44l; Georgetown Gas, 49; U.
S. Electric Light, 175.
Telephone Stocks. Pennsylvania, 25;
Chesapeake & Potomac, %57; American
Graphephone, ST.
Miscellaneous Washington Mar
ket, II; Bull Run Panorama, 16 Pneu.
matte Gun Carriage, Z; Great Falls Ice, 170
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies
Washington Safe Deposit, 10; Washing
ton Loan and Trust, SO; Amer. Security
and Trust, s0s.
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