The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26
Gossip OF WALL STREET.

Various matters of news and a suoc.s.,or
OF unfavorable rumors caused profees,ona al
selling for both accounts at the OPENING
| Traders who sclL fer short accounts ronrd
| disposed 10 take tbom hact on a.. -. 80
/ that followed the anr.ara,,
| sta,enan, Tha a.. 49,. 9 oA"h
! abatement ,wa. % -. 'o. VI Wv oenh
| Of nrIc.s h,, 49,, w." euhehihe
! who ware ,t-aid , e uH w uaoers
| s,,ndav snd a. W iohe LOCKS over
ars ..oLin =. 'ae',oH y, o,ner trao-
mani ms .,,i,,,,' v W. e.osss the improve.
vaI,,s. a., -, ,o..' anu the tendency Of
! aaa rno 'aet ."enty minutes was
! 0. n.I' rV'esroiai sentiment is mixed.
VI "'.Nt ~ Perhape' friendly to the
's'I NJ ! '',re was perceptibie Increase
VI Nue0t'ism uurinS the short session. The
narkct 10 ali IN the room. to borrow from
tne Sernacu'ar. the outside interests being
aifhos' MI brokers say the prevailing
hon-proiessional sci timent In New York is
rather more bulish than that out Of town.
especially that tn the West
The borrowing demand for stocks vsst.rdav
was only nominal The most active inoyiry
was for Pennsylvania and Amalramated
| Corper II Is n matter of ,enernI con,neot
that the borrowing Ser,erd for psrnsvivario
| should hold up n. II does The imnression
In the joan crowd WIS thar The cyerin q nm
| of profession nj accounts mad h~en ,ro,s
| thorough than usual ard the, a mn ,or,,v
of traders mnd, II a noint resterr,oy 70 n,,,
the m.,L., "a, w '"''
There IL current In certain stock msrtet
, cirolr' the strange story that a crowd Of
Operators with h.nd,rnrters IN a big Broad
way building has hesn ac,,, r,,la,,,a To-
40, ora, rr,n.bs p,s, ~ Ior.. .,,r,,I,,. -, ,.sh
Th.rs ,a. 49,, +, :. "a SUI, ,,.,, s.an
80 80, -, s,r.,, - u, 49,. ~
o..,', r.>a~.in 80, 80 ...
IN as,ros ~, wo,h a,o,,a s,sn,io,.n,
hui ,or ,h,' ,n,.ron, sincor,,v u.,,h Nhi,h
,ha ,r,o,m,,ion i. ,,y., V.rio,,. ,,nac,nar
reason. I'm GO been assirred Tor On. cnnc,.p-
tra,ion ~ % ,ruch r,o,sx T6e mater
na,ural,v In. given riso 10 a orsa, deoI ~
talk and n Ia faken for yra,ted ;bat nm i'm
nortsnt dea, i. foreshadowed In, ths no,nr.
Of n h a nrofound mvsterv Tho crnwd IN
ouestian 10 hea viiy ,ntoras,cd In tr,otio, ond
lighting Affairs Everything about the story
ia extremely ysue which Of oourse gives
II nm increa sed spec,,lative interest
One Of the largo wire houses recentIv dis.
carded an oak motation hoard that had
been nut in at considerable exnense and
substituted for Il the ouota,ion .hee, Witch
ia now in growing vogue. The method Of
having quotations kept by A ticker clerk
on n sheet ruled for that purpose 4. con-
adhered to be more diRpifed than the old
way of displayins them on n board The
advantage of having no board "a that strav
and undesirable persons are not continually
dropping In no see the mstkpt;-. Beyond
thsf y ID largely a matter 81 taste, but the
houses that do not have boards assert for
Themselves a certain su periority over houses
that do and whether. the assertion Ia justi-
where there M, ~ ,.sr,.. Tie g. ~. No. -
more exclusive Most NJ the really az c,,.;y.
houses. however have ontv the t,rters md
keep no record Of nu ctu atoms. Houses that
cater TO the ordinary MIN. Of buainess conld
not get along without a board. Their c,s-
toners demand II. Il seems. after all a
hair splitting distinct between keeping a
record Of fluctuations on a sheet or on a
board .....-
weakness of Metropolitan. but the effect