New-York tribune., 1903-03-21
WALL, STREET AND EXCHANGES,

FOREIGN TRADING.-Foreign houses dealt IN
X 900 shares In the local market, buying on oai-
ance American stocks in the London narhet rs
a rule showed strength in spite Of some lquioauoh
IN Southern Pacific. This was of course STOCK
(which had been bought in New York purely for Vot-
ing purposes Consols showed some Improvement
and the general market was tirmer The copper
stocks were steady There was no change IN the
quotations for money exchange In any or the
European centres. but money was expected 10 ne
In good demand at least up TO the end or TINS
month.
CURRENCY MOVEMENT.-The principal move
ments of currency this week as compiled oy me
Wall street Journal" indicate that the oahhS ioSI
+hereby S5Sn 200 "They received from the Interior
q 100 and sent to the interior 17S3Oo or "hch
500 600 was transferred through the suo-treaSury 10
New Orleans. The gain on the interior movement
was sS17Soo Receipts of new gold were $9S9.lVo OF
which 500 100 was New York assay ONCE checKs'
s14 40 on Seattle assay office checks and Sl0oU on
San Francisco mint checks. The banks received
from the subj treasury on ordinary government us
hursements $171O9 900 and paid to the subtreasury
for customs internal revenue, per cent reoemP-
+io, fund etc S8943,O00 The loss on suo-treas-
urv operations was S1.S33 100. The total gain from
the interior and gold was $1'2o29"; deoucunS
this from the loss Of 1888 100 to the sub-treasurE'
the net loss was $780,
MARKET GOSSIP.-Traders thought that streHs'h
:, Union Pacific indicated a settlement OF inc
Southern Pacific trouble. The professional elefnee
worked on the bull side. The LoulSVlHe poor
bought the stock and there appeared to ne poor
huving in the fractions and Canadian Paclhc-
PENNSYLVANIA was scarce in the loan crowd Inc
early selling Of Southern Pacific was by II v
Lester and was considered good Bull points "eF9
ont on Ba timore and Ohio. and 1t looked as II
the Salomon following had taken the long side
They are generally pretty we'll Informed. Ihe
strength in ST Louis and San Francisco and Rock
Island was based the conferences between Presl-
dent Yoakum, Judge Moore and G. W. PERKINS. IL
Vas inferred that the announcement OF the con-
,I,o fIo' 'EriS nopnn
modified their demands. Standard Oil brokers
honcht St Paul Missouri Pacific was helped ny
its good showing of earnings. Street opinion
favored the idea that the Rockefeller holdings in
New-York Central had been enlarged. H Content
led the attack on the Consolidated Gas shorts and
was the largest buyers. The Keene brokers
bought stocks all round the room. and were
credited with some Of the purchases in Union Pa
rifc Southern Pacific lent fat. There was some
attempt 20 shake out little Reading stock on the
forecasts OF the strike commission report but the
buying looked rather good. Halsted & Rodges had
a fairly large buying order. The Western crowd
were active in the market. and were either cover
ing shorts else taking the bull side. Shorts were
pushed in Colorado and Southern.
ROCK ISLAND AND 'FRISCO.-Strength in
Rock Island and Frisco stocks followed reports of
A speedy completion Of the pending Rock Island
Frisco deal
UNITED COPPER SYNDICATE EXTENDED
The original United Copper underwriting syndicate
expired yesterday. but by the consent of the MEM
bers the time has been extended until January !.
1904
GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY.-The regular
quarterly dividend of 1la per of the General
chemical Company will be paid April I, 1903.
preferred stockholders of record at p. m. March
81. Preferred stock transfer books will he closed
from March 81 to April 2.
STOCK LOAN QUOTATIOES.-Loa quotations
were: Amalgamated Copper. Anaconda, American
Ice Atchison common and preferred. Brooklyn
Rapid Transit. Baltimore and Ohio common. Cana
dian Pacific. Colorado Fuel, Delaware and Hud-
son, Erie common, first and second preferred,
Louisville and Nashville. Manhattan, Missouri Pa
Cihc NeW-York Central. Metropolitan Street Rail
way, Norfolk and Western, Peoples Gas Reading
first preferred. Republic Steel common and pre-
ferred. Rock Island, st. Paul Southern Railway
preferred. Sugar. Tennessee Coal and Iron. Union
Pacific common and preferred. United States Steel
common and preferred. United States Leather pre-
ferred. Wabash preferred, Western Union 5d5I,
per cent; Southern Pacific fiat.
AMERICAN CAR AND FOUNDRY-The fol-
lowing companies have ordered cars from the
American Car and Foundry Car Company: The
psny 800 S000e pound hopper cars 100 40 900 pound
low gondolas, 165 $1,000 pound drop bottom Condo
las 35 $1,000 pound refrigerator cars and 100 $1,000
pound box cars the Chicago and Western Indiana
Railroad Company. so freight cars; the Toledo ST.
Louis and Western Railroad Company, so box cars;
the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Company. 25 5000 pound freight cars: niscella-
neous parties. sc Of various types 1t was In
correctly stated recently that the Chicago, Bur
Hngton and Quincy Railroad Company had placed
an order with the American company for cars
NO order has as yet been received, but the COM
pany is asking bids 1000 side dump coal cars
COMPRESSED AIR COMPANY sJJsCRJP
TIOSS.-William E. Nichols 4 Co. are receiving
subscriptions to the &2aOoo bond issue OF the Com
pressed Air Company, N20e00 having bean sinh