Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-14
Yesterdays Conspicuous fea-
lures Marked Opening.
NUMBER SHARES SOLD
MOST LEADERS ROSE ABOVE
FIRST PRICES BEFORE YIELDING.
Aggressive Buying of Other Stocfs-
Some Specialties Made Notable
Gains-Fractional Declines.

NEW YORK, April 14-Yesterday's con-
spicucus features held their place in the
OF ening trading in the stock market this
mo ming. Reading extreme "a on
running sales of 1000 shares and Union
Pacific as much on running sales of $500
shares. There was a jump of 21s in Wooden
and of ia in Erie second preferred. Ten
uessee Coal, Colorado Fuel, Sugar and
Metropolitan Securities gained a point and
United States Steel preferred. Smelling,
General Electric. Metropolitan Street Rail-
way. st. Paul and Colorado and Southern
large fractions
An early advance was but indfferently
maintained, and there were indications OF
growing pressure against Illinois Central,
Locomotive, Smelling and Amalgamated
Copper. Most of the leaders above
their first prices before yielding, and there
was enough aggressive buying of other
stocks to give an appearance of Irregular
ity. There was an excellent distribution of
speculative interest and transactions were
urcommoniy large in number of usually
neglected stocks
Near IL o'clock when New York Cen
trail, which has been a laggard of late,
moved up to zoos, the tendency became
generally upward again. Union Pacific
rose to 1888 and Reading to 90 The
more notable advances We're: Wooden. 4;
the preferred, ~ Philadelphia Rapid
Transit and American Agricultural Chem
ical N Northwestern preferred, IN;
Lead preferred ., and Car, L. S. Pipe,
Distillers' Securities, Linseed. Smelling,
Twin City Rapid Transit, General Elec-
trio and Baltimore and Ohio preferred, 1
to Is.
The sustained strength of Union Pacific
St. Paul and New York Central was the
feature of the railroad list. which moved
narrowly otherwise. Baltimore and Ohio,
Louisville and Nashville. Atchison, Min
nj ar,.l Sntt1t Ito Mnria
and Northwestern. however, rose l. The
movement among industrialS and spe-
ctaltieS showed great variety. Union Pa
CifiC touched 1868 New York Central 161
and st. Paul, ISL.
The more notable gains among special
ties were Hooking Valley, Car Pressed
Steel Car Pipe and Linseed preferred and
Beet Sugar, to 3; Philadelphia Rapid
Transit. 4. and American Express. 8.
Lead Locomotive. Ice preferred. Federal
Mining preferred and Pacific Mail lost a
point, and fractional declines We're made
in some prominent stocks. Bonds We're
irregulaE at noon.
Pennsylvania made a belated response to
the forenoon advance in other eastern
trunk lines and rose above IA. Support de-
veioped on Locomotive and it recovered its
loss.
Some new advances kept up the variety
of the market. but realizing made an i'm
preston the leaders, carrying Union
Pacific back a point. Amalgamated Copper
rose l on large buying, and Illinois Central
and Smelling made Roadway against their
early depression and rose ~ over yester-
day.
Pressed Steel Car rose Al in all, Tennes-
see Coal 3. Sloss-S Sheffield Steel and some
minor stocks point. Rubber Goods pre-
ferred and Wabash preferred lost L. Toledo
st. Louis and Western preferred IA and
Westinghouse Electric first preferred AS
The movement in Northern Securities on
the curb. with rise of 5@. kept pace with
the transContinental stocks on the ex-
before
o'clock.
NEW YORK, April 14.-An excited buy
ing movement broke out in st. Paul after
j. o'clock and on purchases of many thou
sands of shares its price touched 1895, or al
most four points above yesterdays final fig
ures. Other transcontinental stocks did not
rise materially above the level reached at
noon. although Union Pacific brought 1864.