New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-07
CHARACTER OF TRADING.

Tondon prices for American stocks were suO"s
and higher and arbitrage houses were actiVe ouS
ars IN the local market Norfolk and Western com
mon to the extent of $1,000 shares. was bought TOT
the foreign account, and round amounts OF O"'',IO
and Western and louisville and Nashville were ai'"
taken This market however did not need the IN
huence of foreign buying for a cue. as the advance
o4 the last few DAYS was incentive enough Tor pun
lie and professional traders. The enief supply u
stock appeared to come from pront taxing sdie9'
but the demand throughout the day was large
enough to offset the heavy realizing MANY o"! ei'
in the December panic were doubtless sellers out
the ease with which sales were ABSORBED rehe'teu
the strongest kind of buying In sugar r\eH'ii,'S
weakness was again marked, and for uihe t'le
decline in this stock exerted a symPathetlc lhhu
ence on the rest of the list. IN Third Avenue D. .
pache g. Co were active uyers, and traders Ooush'
and bid the stock Up. Commission hoISes "o"e
St Paul and all the railroad stocks par'icut>i'iS
good buying being done in New-fork central Nor
folk and Western Baltimore and Ohio and Pehhsyi-
va, IA Wheeling and Lake Erie second preferred was
well bought and all soft and hard coal s'oeAs were
IN demand. UIman Brothers were heavy ouEers Vi
Wisconsin Central preferred ana lille q o"es''
were active in Pennsylvania and Ne"-horh Cen-
,raI Tlov.er and Standard OH brokers were buyers
The steel stocks were somewhat irregular 0"ue'
realizing sales. Anaconda Copper and American ~
bacco were features in the INDUSTRIAL hst' VI
sidenberg & Kraus large buyers OF People :
c. sauIro around 100 which sold last year as
high 12o12. ,
Hocp Post & Flagg ard kesoh, l0e" q ~
bouaht: e. Bonner sold Metropolitan Railway
Sidanberg & Kraus bought Sugar, Sterhperser
Fuld & Sim j. j. Marping and Content CO.
n con bought: L. w. Savin (25OO aid j. j. Man
ming sold Norfolk and Western, Heusman q 60
aud Sutro Eros (4OON bought. Third Avenue j.
Field Pea,l & Co and j. NJ. Shaw Co. bought
Rrooklvn RauId Transit Flower q 20: anu LoCh
wood Hurd * Co. bought; F. r. HaveIis 1 SoiG
Atchison preferred, Sci gman utO0) = feau' - I
& Stieglitz u5OO and Sellsman x Meyer MY ,ygo
bought; Vase. man and traders SOLO. fedeT "a
Steel. Meyers bought; Kendall & NnltlSock anu n
L. Hotchkiss G00 sold Chicago. burlington ana
Quincy Halle s, S,ieglitZ bought LOO Union "a
cifc Tileston Housman Co. bought; Ilmpson
sod. No!.Ol, and Western, Williamson q SQUIRE
bought 700; 7; w: Myers sold 1eVD; 81 F p1a
Is 600 in ain bought Brooklyn Rapid Transit, A H
stiegltz Pearl & Co and Parsons bought; H. G.
Campbell and W. ID. Hatch t2,O0o) sold sugar
Carlisle & Co, H. Content Bell Co, J. j. Man
ming and Mcintyre & Wardell bought; BOYD, Ray
nor and Hudson sold Housman & Co. sold New,
York Central Union Pacific. c. A. Harmed and
Speyer & Co. bought; Hedge Lounsbury & Foster
and Ladenburg, Thalmann Co. sold. Third Ave
nue. Halle StieglItz bought Sugar, Housman
& Co (2,50O bought; Van Emburg Atterbury
N5GO), +. w. Savln $4,000, and Clark, Dodge & Co
$1,000 sold. New York Central, Wasserman bought
Pennsylvania F. w. Savn. #. j. Taylor and Hous-
man & Co. bought; Content Co. and J. J. Man
ming sold. Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Rolston &
Bass and Traders bought Walsh 4 Ford sold 1.00O
Wisconsin Central preferred. Uman Bros, bought
1000. Union Pacific. Oelrich & Co, bought 900
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, J. Henning, P, j.
bought; c. A. Harmed sold. Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit H CleWs & Co. sold 600