New-York tribune., 1900-04-18
CHARACTER OF TRADING.

The Chicago speculative crowd continued to sell
stocks yesterday, and many commission mouse
traders quida Early declines were followed by
rally, the iron and steel stocks showing sharp re-
coveries Later in the day the market became
weak again. an1, while the steel stocks closed
higher the greater number of issues were under
Mondays final figures Sugar Refining and Amer
lean Tobacco conspicuously weak features
The so-called Gould stocks went down with the
rest Of the list, and the only noteworthy strong
feature was Norfolk and Western. which went 20
997s. A. A. Housman & Co were heavy buyers OF
this stock, taking ten thousand shares The
raid the general list in the early afternoon
doubtless helped a large short interest to cover.
Wassermann Brothers were heavy sellers of Sugar
Refining, Willie Ellingwood & Cunningham were
heavy buyers. Street & Norton sold five thousand
shares of Pennsylvania. London sold and bought,
its dealings being about evenly distributed between
sales and purchases. II. G. We'll said to be
large buyer of American Steel and Wire and Fed
era Steel. Butler Brothers again active buy
of Missouri Pacific, also of Texas Pacific, Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas. Wabash preferred and
st. Louis Southwestern preferred. Peoples Gas
was sold by Chicago operators. The buying of the
Pacific stocks was fair and prices were well main
tained. Commission houses had good investment
orders in the railroad stocks. A slow recovery set
in in the final dealings
Some of the buyers and sellers were: F. L. Selgs-
berg bought Continental Tobacco; Louis Levy &
Co. sold Price Mccormick & Co. Q.OO0), ]. H.
Griesel & Co. and Henry Clews & Co. sold Wire.
l. & S. Wormser bought Sugar Refining; j. F.
Carlisle sold. Homans & Co. Q.0cO and A. II.
Combs e Co. (,0O0 bought Baltimore and Ohio
preferred; F. W. Savin & Co. Q.O0O and Homans
& Co. 1900 sold. Street Norton 10000 sold
Pennsylvania. Kohn & Co and j. Ballard sold
American Tobacco. Wilcox & Co. and j. j. Man
ming bought Sugar Refining; ]. A. Blair & Co.
Q,0O0 sold. H d. Lewis Q00C and w. NJ Imbre
& Co. sold Manhattan. Dominick & Dominck, ],
NJ Shaw Co.. c. Mnzesheimer & Co. and Strong
sturgis Co. bought Missouri Pacific: ]. NJ. Amory
& Son sold. j. NJ Amory & Son and s. II. Rosen-
Provost Brothers & Co sold w. S Gurner jr.. &
Co. and w. r. Houghtaling & Co. bought St. Paul:
j. s. n. Crane sold. w. r. Houghtaling & Co.
bought Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. w. S.
Gurner. jr., & Co 5000 bought Wire: s. a. Walsh,
Halle & Stieglitz and Coster. Knapp & Co sold.
j. II. Oliphant & Co. bought Republic Steel COM
mon; ]. II. Waggoner Q.O0O sold. Parkinson &
Burr G5OW bought Brooklyn Rapid Transit Halle
& Stieglitz bought Louisville and Nashville. Texas
Pacific. Metropolitan Street Railroad and Man
haitian. Day & Heaton bought Brooklyn Rapid
Transit; f. A. Mauriac G.O0O and ]. ]. Manning
sold. j. Hongman (3OOO)) bought Sugar Refining;
J. +. Carlisle q 900 and H. It. Imbrie QOOO sold
c. l. Hudson & Co. Q.0o0. c. Mnzesheimer & Co.
and Bruce & Peters bought American Tobacco:
Uiman Brothers q OOU scld. Van Emburgh & At
terbury and ]. NJ Amory Son bought Wire c. S
Parsons bought Leather common w. D. Hatch
1000 and Price. Mccormick & Co sold. Halle &
Stieglitz sold Louisville and Nashville Schalk &
Ward G,5OO and J. J. Marning Il 600 bought Mis-
shank sold Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co, Provost
Brothers and traders bought Wire; F. W. Savin &
Co sold; l. & S. Wormser 1900 bought Federal
Steel: F. w Savin & Co. sold. Bell & Co. sold
American Tobacco H. L. Horton & Co sold
A. De CordoVa Il Co. and traders sold