The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-13

No LIE N NAL STREET
DEALINGS WE'RE AT THE POINT
Of ALMOST ABSOLUTE
DULLNEss
PRICE CHANGES ARE SMALL
Speculative Brokers Unable to In
fuse Interest Even Into the
Most Favored 81 the
Specialties.
PRICE CHANGES ARE SMALL

NEW YORK, Sept 12.-Very little can
be said of such market as that Of today,
beyond the chronicle of the movements
OF individual stocks. Dealings fell nearer
the point of stagnation than even the re-
cord of the recent dizziness has yet shown.
The few stocks which showed any ap-
probable movement were not influenced
by any kind of business or affairs and
1t was difficult in some cases to discover
even special cause to account for the
movement Dealings represented little
else than the amusement of professional
operators. Telegraphic communication
was much interrupted by the storms in.
the West, and this was profTered as cause
OF the extraordinary dullneSS, but as or
ders received by telegraph and executed
in the market have not been a percepti-
/ bic influence for many months past, the
explanation was not convincing. The
most mercurial specalties, namely, Pe9-
! pies Gas. Sugar, and Brooklyn Transit,
maintained their poor pre-eminence III
/ the market But the range of their fuc-
/ tuations was extended to reach pc Mt
onsy, with palpable effort. Before the
market closed prices for the three had
been dragged back to'.very near last
nights level In the railroad list there
| was some demand for Northern Pacific at
an extreme advance of a point. appar-
emily on the large increase in earnings
reported yesterday for the first week in
| SepteInbe-.-
This sustained railway stocks, even ST.
| Paul recovering sharply, in spite of the
heavy decline in the first week of It's Sep
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| for August. depressed that stock, owing
! to the large Increase in the OUTLAY for
| operating expenses, which served to pull
/ down the net earnings. The anthracite
| coalers We're heavy as the period APP
| proaches for the declaration of the min
crs' final decision on the strike. Reading
! time and New. Jersey Central two. The
! imminence Of a strike Probably has a
| wider influence than the special weakness
! in the coaiers would indicate. The re-
! 1rEn Of cn6 TO
| leave the companies M position to
stand a curtailment of production very
| well, but the ceSsa ton of mining with
| anything like unanlmIty IN the anthra-
cite field is bound TO have far-rea ching
| consequences in many branches of bust
ness. London bought stocks here again
| today and helped the uopening rise, the
London market being encouraged by be-
! lief that the Boer war. has collapsed,
and seemingly by the hope that a renewal
market Sterling exchange in New York
| reacted again, and yesterdays demand,
which was partly due to rem:ttances on
account of American subscriptions to the
| British war loan seemed satisfied. Not
! withstanding the downward course of
| sterling exchanges Operations are strange
/ ly persistent in some quarters that gold
will soon go out to London. Currency con-
tinueS to move freely towards the South
and the West, and the sub-treasurY is
! taking small sums from the market with
/ the cessation of the transfer of Pacific
coast gold and the practical discontin-
uances of operations under the govern
ment refunding law. Local money rates
are slightly firmer in tone as a conse-
/ quence. Foday's bond market was barren
| Of any feature. Total sales par value,
| 5,069. United state IS registered an adj
vance of 1sc. therefunding Is registered
| when issued &c, and IS coupons, 1ac in the
! bid prices. The IS coupons declined &c.
STOCK QUOTATIONS.
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Co.'S, members of the New York Stock ex-
! change, Pioneer Press building, who nave
! di1ect wires to Chicago and New York.
! Closing prices are bid:
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