Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-14
Opening Quotations Showed
Some Wide Advances.
LOCOMOTIVE FEATURED
INDUSTRIALs AND MINOR RAIL
ROADS OCCUPIED ATTENTION.
Hesitancy of Railway Standards
Caused Realizing in Specialties-
Reading Figured in Selling.

NEW YORK, February 14.-Openng
quotations for stocks today showed some
wide advances in the industrias and minor
railroads Locomotive was a feature, open
ing up point and extending the gain to
five points by wide advances of as much as
IA points between sales. Colorado Fuel.
Tennessee Coal, United States Rubber and
Republic Steel preferred advanced from
large fraction to over point. Minneapolis,
| st. Paul and Saut Ste. Marie gained 2is.
and Ontario and Western, Canadian Pacific
and Kansas City Southern preferred were
| UP from a large fraction to over a point.
| Railroad stocks participated very sparing-
| ly in the buoyant upshoot of certain in
| dustrals The hesitancy of the standard
| railroads soon caused realizing in the spe-
| cialties and some of them weakened de-
cidedly Locomotive reacted 21a. and Ten
| nessee Coal, Leather and the Metropolitan
| stocks were forced y and n below last
weeks closing.
The dropping tendency in railroad stocks
caused by the selling was moderate. apart
| from Reading. which fell under 30.
| Canadian Pacific developed aggressive
strength around II o'clock and rose rs.
! Other momentary gains included 31a in Fed
| eral Mining preferred, 2 in Locomotive pre-
| ferred 15s in Kansas City Southern. and
| to IL in Wisconsin Central preferred, New
| York, Chicago and st. Louis. American
! Car. the Sloss Sheffield Steel stocks, Rail-
| way Steel Spring and Pacific Mail Some of
these were considerably reduced when the
selling became general. Westinghouse
Electric lost 1Ss
The occasional strength of special stocks
| was offset by the selling of Reading which
| carried it down IA. Colorado Fuel rose
nearly and Metropolitan Street Railway
! was lifted point Pere Marquette gained
/ 31a. Wisconsin Central preferred 2. and
| New York, Chicago and St. Louis second
preferred l. Consolidated Gas lost IA and
| General Electric l. The trading as whole
was dull Bonds were steady at noon.
The Indifferent character of the morn
ing speculation was reflected in further
marked contraction in the dealings and
iiscarcely any of the usually active features
varied more than an eighth from the noon
range Of prices. The market if anything,
was easier. Rather active buying Of Nor
| folk and western and st. Louis South
respectively, and Brooklyn Union Gas
gained ~ Third Avenue Railroad fell off
| a point, and United Railway and Invest
ment preferred IL.
Stocks were marketed rather more freely,
and a number of the early substantial
nanifestly heavy, despite the temporary
sustaining effect odueed by the bidding
up of selected stocks.
! This list included ST., Louis Southwestern,
Wisconsin Central. Minneapolis St. Paul
and Sault~ Ste. Marie preferred Chicago
Terminal preferred. Rubber Goods and u.
S. Rubber preferred, which scored gains OF
between l and points. Among the de-
| clines Delaware and Hudson figured for az
| and Colorado and Southern, Hooking VAL
/ ley, North American and Chicago Union
| Traction preferred / to IL.