Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-15
FINANCE AND TRADE
Opening Today Was Active
and Higher Prices
WITH FEW EXCEPTIONS
ONTARIO AND WESTERN AND
UNION PACIFIC FEATURED.
Realizing Sales Well Taken-Extendee
Dealings Developed Aggressive
Strength.

NEW YORK, March 15.-The stock mar
ket today opened active and higher. with
few exceptions. Ontario and Western and
Union Pacific were the features. and opened
wide Ontario and Western opened at GO.
and then sold at Co.'s and Goa. compared
with 1875 last night, and 6,Jo0 shares of
Union Pacific sold al 1865. and 136. COM
pared with 1854 last night.
There were $500 shares of Ontario and
Western sold at COS and coz. compared
with 59% last night, and 6,5e0 shares of
Union Pacific at 1864 and 1856. compared
with 1874 last night. Chicago and Alton
rose IA. Smelling rs and Delaware and
Hudson, Illinois Central. Toledo, st. Louis
and Western preferred and Car preferred
large fractions.
Realizing sales We're well taken, and the
market developed more aggressive strength
on largely extended dealings. St Paul,
Union Pacific and Ontario and Western
were taken in large blocks. feature of
the market was the occasional bursts of
activity in usually dormant stocks
Distilers Securities was an example. Ad-
vances for the first hour reached in On
tario and Western and Chicago and Alton
preferred, Ii. in Consolidated Gas and to
~ in st. Paul Union Pacific. Chesapeake
tic Coast Line. Minneapolis and st. Louis.
Chicago Terminal preferred. Car preferred.
Manhattan. Distillers Securities and Pull
man. Lackawanna got up IA, Chicago
Great Western debentures 2h, and keokuk
and Des Moines preferred . Minneapolis.
St Paul and Saut Ste. Marie, New York.
Chicago and st. Louis and Wheeling and
Lake Erie second preferred lost point.
Prices off in sympathy with a decline
in New York Central to a fraction below
last night, but hardened again with that
stocks gain of rs. The Metropolitan
stocks, some of the railroad equipment
stocks, Biscuit. Wooden preferred and Des
Moines and Fort Dodge made 1 to point
gains. Federal Mining dropped I, St Jo-
seph and Grand Island second preferred
2S and Lead a point. The movement was
hesitating and the trading duh at times.
Ontario and Western advanced to G2lh be-
fore noon. Erie and Norfolk and Western
rose point and Chesapeake and Ohio
points Bonds were firm at noon.
Bull operations were unrestrained in sew
eral quarters particularly among the
Southern stocks. Louisville and Nashville
was bid up over points, and Atlantic
Coast Line over 3. Low-priced stocks were
taken hold of more freely, the recent large
advances in Ontario and Western and
Chesapeake and Ohio attracting more gen
eral attention to them. New York Central,
after easing off to near yesterdays closing,
was run up again to 1876, and there was an
active inquiry for many specialties.
Among other midday advances noted were
Canadian Pacific. Cleveland, c., c. and st.
Louis, Erie, the Toledo, st. Louis and West
ern stocks, Colorado Fuel and Minneapolis.
St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie preferred,
which improved 1 to points. Northwest
err and United Railway investment We're a
point lower. and Sloss- Sheffield Steel f.
Comparative dullness prevailed and there
was also some impairment of the earlier
strength. After Reading and Illinois Cen
trail were marked up l and 2as, respectively,
the conspicuous buying of standard stocks
ceased, and number of early strong stocks
fell back a point or more. General Electric
improved rs and Bag preferred ~.