Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-22
NEW YORK STOCKS AND BONDS.
Gould Group and BaltimOres Lea
Prices on Inward March.

Prices on Upward March.
NEW YORK, April 21.-There was an up
could GouH m sToaP an o. RBrliitfiS SGe"y Z ie ohi by t 4s
other parts of the list came into the move
ment a disposition became manifest to take
moderate reaction all through the list and
the closing was easy and dull.
The movement was attributed largely to
professional operations and commission
houses continued to complain of the light
volume of their orders. 1t was plain, how
ever, that a speculative party had been or
ganized to advance the market and they
made their operations effective today. Their
campaign seems based on general condi-
tons. They had the advantage today of the
cheering Influence upon sentiment exercised
by the modification of the dscree against
Northern Securities company so far as it
referred to the enjoining of the payment
of dividend. The Great Northern dividend
came off that stock this morning and the
tors during the session of the Stock ex-
change gave assurance that that dividend
would also be promptly distributed. specu,
in the Gould group, led by Wabash pre-
ferred, and especial stress was laid upon
the April report of the Kansas State Board
of Agriculture confirming the very favora-
BILE government report as to the favorable
condition of winter. wheat. Southern Pa
cihc was lifted 2 points late in the day in
an unconfrmed rumor that a settlement
had been effected between the Hartman
and Keene interests. Some early heaviness
in Amalgamated Copper was accounted for
by the illness of the president OF the COM
pany, but this stock recovered; Colorado
Fuel was weak without explanation. Read
ing Jagged in the advance on account of the
opening of the interstate hearing
OF charges of suppression of competition by
the coal combine. but this stock also be-
came strong. An unusually large number
of Industrial stocks were advanced from
1 to 2 points and beyond that for American
steel foundry, which gained 8, Sloss Shelf
field steel AZ, Westinghouse electric s and
the first preferred 8.
The professional contingent among the
traders laid some stress upon tomorroW's
entry into the new exchange quarters as
proper sentimental ground for advancing
was considerably neglected, on account of
diversions INDUCED In by the brokers as an
incident to the closing of business in their
temporary quarters on the Produce eX-
change floor. An incident of the day was
the resumption of the recording OF ~transac-
lions in odd lots on the tape. During the
! boom period of two years ago In the midst
of which the Stock exchange moved to the
temporary quarters now being abandoned,
Il was found impracticable to keep up with
the record of the minor transactions, and
since that time only full share lots of 100
shares, or some multiple OF that, have been
printed on the tape until today. The re-
sumption of odd share lots must be re-
garded as a symptom of the relative dull
ness to which business in the stock market
has fallen. Money continued to work
easier, with every prospect of additional
relaxation, and the recent upward course OF
exchange was also recorded today.
Prices OF bonds moved upward in sym
patty with stocks and on a fairly well dis
tributed demand. Total sales, par value,
United States bonds were all unchanged
on the call.
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