The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-31


asked, National Bank of Savannah, 12S
bid, - asked, Merchants National Bank
of Savannah, 80 bid, 90 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 107 bid, u
asked; Southern Bank of the State OF
Georgia, l29 bid, 1870 asked; Savannah
Bank and Trust Company. 10 bid. III ask
ed; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company. A. Sc bid 81 asked: b. 55l4
bid. 56A asked; Peoples Savings and Loan
Company, "a bid 95 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 1O1
bid, lG2 asked; Sibfey Manufacturing Com
pany IS, 102 BID, 103 asked: Eagle and Pie
nix Mills c per cent. bonds, due 1923. 1914
bid l0S asked; Bib Manufacturing Com
pany, 10S bid 1852 asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory. IS
bid, 50 asked; Graniteville Factory, $50
bid 155 asked; Langley Factory, 81 bid,
IOl12 asked; Enterprise Factory. common.
80 bid, 80 asked; J. r. King Manufacturing
company, 81 bid, 101 asked; Sibley Manu-
featuring Company, 6S bid, 70 asked ;Savan-
nah Brewing Company. 104 bid, 1O5 asked.
New York, March 30.-Money on call,
5l2q2 per cent; the last loan was at So
per cent; prime mercantile paper 3k64h
per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with
actual business in bankers, bills, at S4S6I5
g4S6& for demand, and at &S4lA64.S42t
Tor sixty days; posted rates, &.S41@d4 S5ie
and $4S612Q4S7l2; commercial bills, $S3I5
Q4A. Silver certificates, 60d6015c; bar sill
YER 59$4c; Mexican dollars, 47lac. Govern
meht bonds We're steady; state bonds were
irregular; railroad bonds We're irregular.
New York, March S0.-The movement in
stock prices to-day was very irregular
with net changes maintained but losses
slightly prevailing. Three stock Federal
Steel, Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Man
haitian, figured for nearly half the total
sales on the exchange, which were not
much below 100000. Fears of trouble
over the Samoan situation gave a general
ly easier tone to the early market, which
subsequently advanced under leadership
OF the Flower stocks and Manhattan and
Sugar, but later eased off again, on the
very high rate for money, u per cent. be-
ing charged before the close for call loans
The banks early in the day advanced the
call rate to per cent. Many brokers and
traders had made early provision for loans
which carried them over until Monday
On the Stock Exchange the rate advanced
to u, and the last loan was at 51a. These
fluctuations were reflected in the variable
and nervous movements in many stocks.
Washington advices that the Samoan
complications were not serious, together
with the confident manipulation of some of
the specialties, were coincident with some
OF rfe highest prices for the day for these
stocks. Federal Steel, on the largest deal
ings of any one stock, advanced rs, closing
at the highest. The preferred sympathetic
ally rose Ia. Brooklyn Rapid Transit,
which has been very active and strong all
the week, closed practically unchanged,
although at one time ii was up points,
and at another as much below last night.
Peoples Gas, another Flower speciality,
moved similarly, but on less wide f1uctua-
tons, likewise closing about unchanged.
There was no news attending the move
ments in these properties, but a circum-
stance which attracted much attention
was the gradual drop of the railway stocks
which were affected by the stringent mon
etary situation, and. in a measure, were
also influenced by the divergence of active
operate into the specialties. Rumors of
a possible cooperative arrangement be-
tween Manhattan and Metropolitan raised
The former 50, the highest quotation be-
ing at the close, and Metropolitan IA.
Third avenue, too, rose points, in ex-
pectation that the companys interest
would not suffer as much as anticipated
by impending legislation. Sugar retained
21s points of the 6-point rise. coincident
with the advance in the refined article.
Continental Tobacco made a fractional ad-
vance, after a large recession in the early
trading The market closed with heavy
undertone.
Business in bonds fell off considerably
to-day, ana some weak SpOlS uIOppeu Out.
The main tendency of prices, however was
toward a higher plane, with the Atchisons
and ST Louis and Southwestern issues in
good demand. Total sales 81, 100000. Gov
eminent bonds are unchanged in bid quo
tations.
The total sales of stocks were 954 400
shares, including 81 ,62S Atchlson preferred,
IS 400 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 1885,
$50 Manhattan, 5O75 Metropolitan Street
Railway ex-div., 1910 Reading first pre-
ferred. 16,SS7 New York Central $3.50
Northern Pacific, 5,7S5 Northwest Term-
nal, $3.50 Ontario and Western, 923S Rock
Island, 11,275 Union Pacific 1860 Union
Pacific preferred, 1850 st. Paul, 14575
American Steel and Wire, $3.50 American
Steel and Wire preferred, $500 American
Tobacco, 2O3, 100 Federal Steel, 15,O15 Fed
eral Steel preferred, 1885 Peoples Gas,
114.44O Brooklyn Transit, 31,71O Continental
Tobacco, 57,7SO Sugar 1880 Tennessee
Coal and Iron, 1880 Chicago Great West
ern.
NeU York Closing Stocks