The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-15
NEW YORK MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Y. Y, May 14-The volume or
business on the Stock Exchange was not more
than half of Yesterdays There was pressure to
sell the coal shares at the opening, which weak
ened the general list to some extent, and decline
was recorded of 1s61 per cent the later in Chlca-
go Gas, Lake Shore and Minnesota Iron. The de-
preston was Of brief duration and before the END
of the first quarter OF an hour good buy-in move
1nent had set in, under the influence Of which
prices began to move upward the lndustrials IN
the lead The advancing tendency was in force
up to l o'clock at which time sugar had advanced
The Cordage shares were exceptions and under
heavy sales declined. The preferred, when mad
gained ! per cent in the earlier dealings, fell OF
49, and the guaranteed broke 2 per cent. A rally
of $l(01 per cent followed, which was followed by
a reaction OF 5S1l12 at the close Inc Leather
stocks were weak during the morning, selling on
3e6l IA per cent, rallied 1aQl5s and again sagged
on Seal 10. About O'Clock renewal Of the sell
ing movement depressed the speculation and the
tendency was downward up to the close, the losses
ranging m TO 23s DER cent the latterin Manhattan
At the close there was a slight recovery, but the
market generally closed weak and in the main
1sa1a below the final sales of yesterday, the
Greatest losses being in Cordage guaranteed. The
greatest advances on the day were 134 in Wheel
ing and Lake Erie preferred.
The dealings in bonds to-day were again heavy,
the sales aggregating So, 100000. During the
morning there was marked strength in the specu-
laton. Government bonds firm; State bonds In
active; railroad bonds Irregular.
Grain and Merchandise.
Flour-Receipts, 5000 barrels: exports $4,000
barrels; sales Is, 600 packages. Quiet but steady
Demand runs chiefly to special brands. Winter In
light supply. o
Wheat-Receipts, $4,000 bushels; exports, 6S-
600: Sales 5 .O20 600 futures; spot, none. Spot
dull; No. 2 red store and elevator, zoe;
afoat 6915c; f. o. b. 97sc afioat; No. l, hard
741Ic delivered. Options opened steady and ad-
vanced in sympathy with the West, ruled very iT-
regular throughout the day within 12c range, the
sentiment being guided by frost talk, firm foreign
news strong outside markets and disappointing
reduction in the worlds stock. Room traders
finally started in realize and the market went to
[-n not HanN1 N
red Nav closed at 6S3sc: June, 6S5sG1691sc closed
6Sssc: july, 6S $1,000 else closed sec; Au-
gust, closed 691Ac: September 69SsG7Oc closed
6914c: December, 71ss@721sc, closed 711ac.
Hops-Duu and heavy.
Wool-Firm.
Petroleum-weaker: United closed 81 so.
Pigiron-Frm; Scotch, $4,000; American.
Copper-Firm; brokers' price, slO14; exchange
price, $40 so.
Lead-Upward tendency; brokers' price, 81 95;
exchange price, So 20.
Tin-Easy: Straits, SIS Is; Plate market
steady.
Speiter-Firm domestic, SO 55.
tons July, $15 10: 10 tons July, $15 05; 5 tons
spot SIS 10; % tons May, SIS.
Coifee-Options opened irregular at points de
cline to points advance and ruled dull with few
and narrow changes. There was some foreign
selling and only local support. Brazil markets
closed quiet unchanged to 10 points net decline.
Sales II 200 bags, including: May, $14 35(G14 40
June, Sl4 20@14 80; July, $14 90; September
S14 so: December, $14 45914 55.
Spot Coffee-Rio. quiet; No. z, l6c; mild, steady
Cordova, 1S14@119c
Sugar-Raw firm; sales, 10000 bags centrfu
gal, 80 test. 212c. 1900 tons Muscovado. SO
test &c; ex-shp 300 bags molasses sugar, IS test
212c; ex-ship refined steady.