The Washington times., 1894-03-25
DULL DAY IN WALL STREET
Caused BY Holiday in London and the
Absence of Many Operators.
SUGAR MAKES A SLIGHT GAIN
Tho Effect Of Veto Of the Bland Bill on
the Market Railroad List Neglected.
Weekly Bank Statement Shows Gains in
Lawful Money and in Loans.

New YoRK, March 24.-wall street-Even for
Saturday the stock market to-day was unu-
sually dull and the speculation unimportant,
but ON q half holiday, coming between two
full holidays, with London out Of the market,
little else was to be expected. Distiling was
the only even moderately active stock which
was bought in small blocks, it is believed for
n newly formed bull pool, which bid up the
shares / Is per cent. Long stock bought at
lower figures was then brought out, causing
reaction of Is, with a recovery OF Is at the
closing, leaving only n net gain OF g per
cent. The only other stock the transaction
in which exceeded 5000 shares was st. Paul,
the buying in which was mainly to cover
short contracts OF leading bear operator.
The flu ctuations in the stock were, however,
limited to 4 per cent, and the closing price
was the same as Thursdays. Sugar was sadly
neglected, neither bull nor bear appearing
anxious to operate extensively. possibly in
view of the conflicting reports rs to the fate
of the sugar schedule of the tariff bill in the
Senate A decline Of Is at the opening was
followed by an advance oil the final sale
being Is below the top figure.
Alter opening ar an advance of -, Chicago
Gas receded 4 and then on buying, induced
by report that the attorney general OF
Illinois would dismiss the quo warranto pro-
ceedings, rose l per cent, losing 5s in the
final dealings. American Tobacco was strong
on reports of improved trade prospects. gain
ing "a per cent. on the day. The general
market was dull and featureless. the usually
active shares being held firmly, while some OF
the specialties were weak, notably Baltimore
and Ohio. which declined Is, Wheeling and
Lake Erie. which fell off /. and Canada South
ern, which receded 5s per cent Rome. Water
town, and Ogdensburg made an advance of
per cent. At the close the market was strong,
except for Chicago Gas, which became heavy
on Chicago dispatch stating that questions
asked by the attorney general during the pro-
ceedings before him indicated that he would
grant the petition for the writ. The trend OF
prices during the week has been in the
main upward. the leading advances being: st.
Paul and Duluth and Pittsburg, G. C. and st.
Louis preferred per cent; c. c. and st.
Louis and Iowa Central, ~; do. preferred,
80; Burlington and Quincy. 1S; Chicago and
Alton, Consolidated Gas, Edison Electric. and
Pittsburg and Western preferred, 2Iz; Evans
vile and Terre Haute. 8; American Tobacco,
"A, and Minnesota. per cent. The only i'm
portant declines are Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg. 4; New Jersey Central, IL, and
Sugar, Is.
The railway and miscellaneous bond mar
ket was strong from opening to close to-day,
Ohio Southern firsts selling up 8, Erie funded
fives coupon. 2J&; c., c., c. and Indianapolis
generals. / 4, and Kansas Pacific consols and
Richmond and Danville skies per cent. Chi
cago. Rock Island and Pacific skies regis
tered sold at l2i3&. against l21$ on January
81 Missouri Pacific consol skies advanced
per cent. to 100. reacting to SO. Toledo,
Peoria and Western firsts declined "a per
oent During the week the bond market was
strong, and compared with the prices current
at the close of Saturday last the Saturdays
quotations showed material Improvement, the
only declines of moment being IL per cent in
Cleveland and Canton firsts. 3Ss in Delaware
and Hudson registered sevens Of '97s, and AS
in Oregon Short Line skies.
The principa: advances are: Northern Pa
cifc flrsts, IL do. registered. %; do. coupon
seconds. 215 dc. thirds, 8; do 5s, 29s do. Mon
tana firsts, 6J5; Ohio Southern lrsts, Chesa-
peake and Ohio. T. and A. division. seconds;
Duluth. South Shore and Atlantic 5s; East
Tennessee eonsoi 5s; Fulton Elevator 5s and
Texas Pacific. each /; Rock Island Is. regis
tered, $50: Peoria and Eastern flrsts, 3d. do.
incomes. 2IS, Illinois Central 6s of 1886, L;
Iron Mountain guaranteed IS, and st. Louis
and San Francisco general Is, each 5.