Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-26


Many of the members who have been act
| i've In the spirited trading of the pas,
! several days were absent. and others who
were present appeared to be willing to
| let well enough alone for a short period
| The general result was little or no trad
Ing. although in one or two of the stocks
there was some active bidding. The
| trades In bulk, however. We're far below
| the standard set during the past two
weeks.
Washington Railway and Electric 4 per
! cent bonds were traded in to the extent OF
$4,000, at figures slightly below the offer
| ing price of the past several days.
| Washington Gas certificates of Indebted
| ness went of a fraction on the bid price OF
the past several days. and a point OF the
last several days in the offering. with no
| trades resulting Those who hold the ccr-
thcates appear not to be DESTROYS of get
ing rid of them.
There was dull and listless activity in
the stock of the Capital Traction railway.
| ana nifty shares were traded I'm at I4.;
winch is fractional advance over the bid
| price OF yesterday. but off more than
| point over some of the recent trades. The
| stock closed on the regular call at 142is bid
| with Hay asked. The Capital Traction
STOCK is firm. and but few trades are being
made, except in fractional lots
washington Railway and Electric prefer
| ,ed was In demand again today and al
| tnough trades were made in a total of RIO
shares, all of them were Off the asking
price on the close OF the market yesterday
| The stock closed point Off in the bidding.
as compared with the bid price of yester-
day, and more than point of In the price
| al which the stock was offered.
The activity in the common stock of the
Washington Railway and Electric has ap-
| peared to have died out entirely and there
m nd f.et A.
Washington Loan and Trust made an ad-
vance of more than five points today and
four shares were traded in at 2l4 Al the
close of the market 215 was bid for the
stock with none in sight at the figure.
| A little activity was shown in Union
| Trust and Storage stock and ffty-nyc
| shares were traded in up to 1l7l.
Home Savings Bank stock advanced five
points In the bidding today. but there APP
peared to be none of the stock in the mar
| ket.
| Five shares of American National Bank
| stock brought lg0 the first sale for the
past several weeks. 1s5 was bid for the
stock yesterday, with none of IL offered.
Washington Gaslight COMPANY was active
again today and showed more movement
than any other of the listed stocks. Nearly
6oo shares sold up to 64k. On yesterdays
quotations closed with e4ss bid and 643.
asked. Todays prices showed a falling of
to 63A bid with G3la asked
There was some little trading In Lanston
21O or 300 shares changing hands as low az
ia which Is off the recent market trades.
Mergenthaler was in demand. but there ap-
Feared to be none on the market
There was but small demand for tie
common stock of the Graphophone Com
parry. 100 shares being traded in at ~.
The preferred stock advanced a fraction
and $40 shares were traded In up to o.
Several hundred shares OF Greene Copper
were traded In at a fractional advance over
recent quotations.
record price has been offered for a
seat on the local stock exchange. Mr. j.
William Henry of the banking firm OF
Lewis Johnson & Co. has applied for the
seat recently vacated by Mr.. Lewis J. Da-
Wis. the price being 5000.
Today's Government Receipts
National bank notes received today for
redemption. 81 .395 .667; government receipts