New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-14
CHARACTER OF TRADING.

The buying If the leading railroad stocks. of the
traction stocks of the steel and iron stocks and OF
of the other industrial stocks particularly
good. The absorption of the Baltimore and Ohio Is
sues proceeded without interruption from the
ing the close, and the final prices were the best
of the day The report of the company for Janu-
airy received, and was handsome showing.
So also was that of the subsidiary company the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, for the same
month The buying of Pennsylvania Railroad
stock large. and a substantial gain was made
in it's price the strength of the Pennsylvania
ascendancy' In the affairs Of the Baltimore and
Ohio and supposedly in those OF the Norfolk and
Western Railroad. the stock issues of which were
strong Third Avenue Railroad had a sharp rise
the information that its financial difficulties had
been brought 10 end. Metropolitan Street Rail-
way and Manhattan Railway moved up in SYM
pathy. Brooklyn Rapid Transit, too. advanced
readily. The declaration of the dividend on Federal
Steel common stock carried the price of the
company's shares and contributed to an improve
ment in the stocks OF the other steel companies
There was liberal buying Of Sugar Refining.
Some of the buyers and sellers were: j. H
Griesel & Co. QOO0). Moore & Schley 1000 and
Jacob Field (2,OO0 bought Union Pacific: Brown
Bruins & Co. and f. Stevens sold. c. l. Hudson d
Co. 1000, Dominck Dominick H. Clews & Co..
T. B. Williams and Van Emburgh & Atterbury
(20OO bought American Tobacco c. Schumacher
& Co., Ulman Brothers and r. H. BisseH q Co
(2OOW sold. ]. Field bought St. Paul; Harris &
Fuller sold. w. H. Burger & Co. Q,OoO sold Brook
Ign Rapid Transit. ]. s. Bache & Co, F. F. Ames
and T. II. Kerr bought Third Avenue; Louis
Wormser sold. Halle & Stieglitz bought 800 Atchl-
son preferred. j. R. Williston & Co and Halle q
Stiegtz bought Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
J. A. Blair e. Son 500 sold Sugar Refining H.
Content & Co. and Haven & Stout bought Union
Pacific; j. NJ. Amory & Son sold. H. Content & CO.,
Bruce & Peters and ]. Field bought Baltimore and
Ohio preferred. 1. & S. Wormser ]. Field ana
Halle & Stieglitz bought Metropolitan Street Ral-
way; E. Haight sold. Simmons & Slade Q'UO ana
J. B. Newcombe & Co. bought Consolidated CAS-
Chauncey & Co. sold Halle & Stieglitz bought 81
Paul ]. S. Bache & Co. bought Northern Paclnc
common. Hedge Lounsbery & Foster ana harvey
Durand bought Missouri Pacific; Weaver, Harris
& Co. Q,OO0) sold. w S. lawson & Co bought
American Tobacco; Van Emburgh & Atterbury soid.
H Content & Co. and o. Loeb Q,OOO bought Union
Pacific common; ]. Field bid 1t up; c. Minzeshelmer
& Co. sold. A H. Combs & Co (2.5OO, Bell q CO.
and SeIgsberg & Co. bought Baltimore ana ONO
common; Bell &. Co sold. Rogers & Gould Cz'uVV
bought Norfolk and Western preferred }. Wailace
& Co. and T. j. Taylor & Co. bought Atchison pre-
ferred; c. A. Harmed & Co. sold. w. d. Hatch sold
Rubber common and preferred down. Dick Broth
ers and Halle & Stiegitz $1,000 bought Pennsyl-
vania Mendham Brothers sold Baltimore and Onlo
Wassermann Brothers bought Steel and Wire. R. H.
Bissen & Co. QOOO bought American Tobacco
Halle G. Stieglitz bought Leather.