Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-07
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LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

AHefe were no FEATURES of special interest
ABOUT the trading at today's meeting of the
STOCK exchange The securities that are
| usually active were In reasonably good de-
mand, but the buying was not sufficient in
volume to make material chances In the
prices. There was more trading done In
Mergenthaler stock than i'm any one Sc
curfty. and, although the aggregates of the
sales of this stock reached lao shares. yet
the last sale was at 1854. precisely the level
of the closing bid of yesterday.
Commercial Bank stock stood next in the
aggregate of the sales made There was
practically nothing done in the stock OF
the American Security and Trust Com
pany. after the active part which 1t took
In the dealings at yesterdays meeting OF
the exchange. The only transaction was
the sale of one lot of seven shares at 2i5
During the call the bid for this stock rose
10 2421a. which was the level of the closing
DID or yesterday, and the case yes-
terday at the close there was no stock Of
fered for sale less than go One share was
offered for $50 and 243 was bid for it. After
call seven shares were secured at 245.
There was no trading in the stock of the
other trust companies, except the sale of
two hve-share lots of the Union Trust and
Storage Company for 40. The bid was
then l19A and the asking price III.
The charges made in the quotations in
the bank stock list were not important and
with the exception mentioned no trading
took place in these securities. The bid for
Farmers and Mechanics advanced from
300 to 300, the Second National from lao
to 100. the Traders: 1921 to 40. with a
bid of l69 for forty shares, and Lincoln
125 to 126.
A bid of 166 for Commercial Bank stock
resulted in the sale at the start of ten
shares. The bid then advanced to 1861 for
ten shares and 1864 for twenty shares. but
without result. These bids were withdrawn
and 1855 was bid and no stock was offered
After the call. however, sixty shares were
sold at prices ranging from 166 to 1864.
Twenty shares of Capital Traction stock
We're sold at 144A and after that the stock
was offered at 144al and 144A was bid. After
call ten shares brought 1441a
One lot of fifty shares of the preferred
stock of the. Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company sold for S5ss, and the bid was
renewed on that level The asking price was
ssh, but there was no further trading
A bid of 291s was made for option on
the common stock. The bid for fifty shares
was 1914, and 80 was asked.
There was a good market for gas stock
at 6414, and after the sales of two lots Of
twenty-five shares each at that figure no
stock was offered at less than 6f1a and the
bidding did not advance. A bid of 64Is was
made for 100 shares. and fifty shares were
offered al GAY.
| Mergenthaler sold during the call at 1854
and 1855 with an aggregate of fifty shares.
After call the range in the prices of the
ninety shares sold in lots of ten shares each
ran from 1855 to 1851, as the last sales
| made were on the latter level. nv,
A couple of 1O0-share lots Of Lanston sold
for 1875 and 1874. At the close the bid was
1895 and the asking price 1875. Options were
offered at Ia. .- SO. -.,.-.-. -