The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-13
MORE GOLD GOING.
Nearly 100000 to
be Sent Abroad
Today.
The STOCK MARKET is FIRM.
Boston Features Maintain
Strength-News and
Notes.

The stock market sustained strength
yesterday, with a good volume of
transactions but without notable fea-
ture either in New York or in Boston.
The National City Bank has with
drawn 100000 gold from the United
States sub treasury at New York for
export to Europe today making ST, $780,
900 to date yet this caused no change
in the confident tone of the stock mar
ket. Sugar advanced 3 more, Chicago,
!, Burlington and Quincy and st. Paul
i each and Federal Steel ?. These
were the principal gains, but the whole
f: market in Wall street was firm and
maintained the gains well. Boston
traded principally in Federal Steel and
Sugar the latter selling eX-diVidend
here, as it always does one day before
New York. other home specialties Of
prominence were Dominion Coal and
Bonanza Mining. Dominion Coal lost
H. to IS, rose 585s, and receded TO 5Sss
(, that is, it held well, although Henry
: M. Whitney makes an absolute denial
of Saturdays reports that preferred
stock and bonds are to be retired and
that plans are matured for a new gas
and coke plant at Brooklyn, n. Y.
A rally in Wisconsin Central to 81
was a feature this morning. A week
ago Saturday ii sold at cents; Satur
day at 80 cents. Parrot mining was
off ~, at 81, and Baltic was UP H.,
at "a Zinc rose q, to 491s, and Arnold
IL, to 1875. Centennial advanced "a,
TO 1864, receding to &c. and other mining
stocks were firm. Westinghouse was
up rs, at 525s.
In Wall street a number of specialties
showed marked gains at the opening
Chicago Terminal preferred rising B.
Metropolitan 21a, Delaware and Hud-
son, Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati and
St. Louis. Colorado Fuel and Cont
mental Tobacco from l to IL The iron
and steel stocks tended upward irregu-
larly. The railroad list was irregular,
number of the granger and western
roads showing losses, of which that Of
Missouri Pacific was the greatest with
a decline of point The uncertain tone
soon was changed, the market adopt
ing a generally strong tone on heavy
purchases Of the local municipal
stocks, grangers and middle-grade
specialties. Metropolitan was pushed
up points but the general average
was about 1 point. The announcement
of a 50, 600 600 gold shipment by today's
steamer stemmed the rise for a time,
and there were some rather severe re-
cessions on proft-takng. Heavy buy
ing orders in Sugar raised the price
above $50 and strengthened the entire
market. There was not much life in
the general market, business being
light and variations narrow outside of
a few of the specialties and P. c. &
St L., the latter increasing its rise to
314. The market started briskly up
ward again all around just before noon,
the grangers and Pacifics rising to the
best. Dizziness was pronounced in the
bond market and there was little
change in prices. In the middle of the
afternoon prices became strong after
the noon hour, and at > p. IN. averaged
Il above Saturdays closing
The following quotations were made on
the Boston Exchange yesterday on stocks
held in Worcester and vicinity: