The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-16
CAN'T GET AT THEM
OPERATORS FIND OUTSIDERS EX-
CEEDINGLY SHY.
Cautiously Distrustful Of the Situ-
ton. They Leave the Family 10
Fi.ht Out Their Own Row-Busi-
ness Lighter-Sugar Aciive-Other
IpduStrialS Weak-EondS Heavy

| NEW YORK, Nov. l5-The volume OF
business GU the Stock exchange today was
! lighter than for the past few days and
! there were indications that the favorable
| iufiuences OF the elections and the govern
mrnt were losing cir affect on the share
! speculation. Both OF these Incidents were
taken advantage of by the professional
( operators to create the impre>sio that a
! permanent improvement in share values
was assured, in the hope of attracting h.
| investigating element TO the stock mar
| ket. but the out siders are wary, thew hav-
| ing be-n deceived so often tbat
they are not so easily caught now
| by the glitter that may not after all
be gold. They are cauriaus, even TO timid-
| lty. and appear 10 be determined 20 wit
| until all doubt i removed from the situt-
ton. The speculative conditions are sill
uncertain and the clIqueS and traders are
left To Hight IL out among themselves.
| Outside OF sugar. which furnished nearly
hall OF the days transactions, the trading
was small. s.. Paul being the only a. her
stock IN which the dealings reached 10 coo
shares. London WAS not in the market To
auy extent and very little busiue~s was
done by any but the local account. Sugar
was manipulated by the inside pool which
moved IL up and down at its pleasure
Opening unchanged from yesterday, the
stock rose per cent, reacted q perc Mt
and before noon had advanced 25L per cent
TO 9O2s per cent. During the afternoon
he shares were freely offered for sale and
in the late dealings touched s71 per cent
n break of 31s per cent, from winch there
was final rally of per cent, making a
net loss Of Il per cent. The other indus
trials We're as rule weak throughout the
dav and closed generally lower, Cordage
common IA per cent: COrdaGe preferred
and Rubber preferred u per cent: Rubber
common ! Der cent, Disabling and Leather
preferred y Der cent; General Electric !!
per cent. Chicago Gas X per cent and
Tobacco ~ Cent. The lead shares
were favorably affected by the decla-
ration of dividends and show
gain Of Is per cent in common and Il per
cent in preferred. Laclede Gas preferrei
Is up per sent and Consolidated Gas is
down per cent. The railway list was
unsettled but in no case was there any
special pressure to sell The Changers
We're fairly well held; moving within a
range OF fraction and gaining on the day
y per cent for Northwest and =. Paul and
Is per cent 70. Burlington. while Rock Is
land loses 1 per cent Advances are shown
in Cincinnati. Cleveland. Chicago and ST.
Louis preferred and Sout hern and Atlantic
Telegraph per cent, American Express
Is per cent and Alton and Terre Haute,
Pittsburg and Western preferred and Fort
Wayne per cent In the list of declines
are New Jersey Central, ? per CEN; D-la-
ware and Hudson, "a per cent; Delaware
and Lackawanna, = per cent AID Reading.
y per cent; Lake Erie aud Western aud
Southern preferred, per cent.
The bond market was heavy during the
day for tue more active mortgages with
Atkinson As and Reading Sd Drefere Dces
leading in point of business. The
sales for the dav aggregated 81 3i4. 800
Net results are follows: Declines:
Corlage tirsts, 2lz per cent: Atlantic and
Pacific fours, per cent; Union Pacific,
Denver and Gull firsts. TX per cent; Lake
Erie and Western trsrs, l.. per cent, and
Wabash seconds, Cotton Oh eigbths. Chi
cago ard Northern Pacific first trusts re-
c-ipIs. Erie seconds consols ami Ohio
South ern fours. l per cent. Advances:
ST. Louis and San Francisco general skies.
per cent; same consol tours,
u per cent; Chicago and East
cru Illinois consols SKIES. Chicago
and Erie firsts ana Illinois Central TOURS of
1861, per cent: and Long I-land fours.
Northwest sinking fund skies registered,
| mon r. evated firsts and Rock Island
fIr-ts aud R-ck Island extended fives l per
cent. Buffalo, New York and Erie sevens
sold at l3s per cent. against Us per cent
on August 80. Louisville, Evansville aud
st. LouI- consul ives sold at 4OE per cent
against 49, per cent on June ;.