Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-29
WALL STREET IS now
TO HAVE A HOLIDAY
Stock Exchange VIII Take a Good
Friday Recess and VIII Not Re.
open Till Monday.
SPECULATION YESTERDAY WAS LIGHT
General Feeling of HopcfuIness
That the First of April Will Find
the Money Conditions Improved
But the Street was Depressed BY
Reports of Threatened Strike.
(By Associated Pressl

:
was rather dcsultory cortrs'
waged between the opposing Gle.
mcnts Sn the speculation Tor 4 small
lGit OF the Stock Exchange scS.ai
today
When it was demonstrated that
nt'ther side was making any uec!u.
CIV advantage the professional Gle
ment which bias been carrying on
tho contest practically ahan.ionoc
it. After that the market Tr:i $50
Il lciiod of dullncss such as hiss
not been seen for many weeks
The Quictncss was accepted as
grateful relief from the rescl.t tur
MOL of the market. The profess
ional testing opera Sons seemed 10
be largely on the short side OF the
market. The resistance which
these efforts encountered was al.
tributcd to the activities OF the
party of bankers and capitalists
said TO havo been organized Tor The
purpose of supporting the market
and supposed to be responsible Tor
the rally in Tuesdays mari;al.
When the market WIS seen to
have regained some of degree OF
equilibrium many brokers left the
city to be gone until Monday to
enjoy what they regarded as much
needed rest.
Active operations were in pro
gress at the subtrcasury today IN
the working of the trcasury's relief
measures for the money market.
Payments on account of redemp-
ton of government as of 1907, of
anticipated April interest OH the
As of 1907 and deposit of customs
revenues with the National banks
were all i'll progress.
There is n general feeling OF
hopcfulness that money conditions
Will improve after the first OF Aprl-
The Bank of England made a weak
return for tho ve,ek past, but els.
counts eased in London and sterling
exchange at Paris, which measures
the pressure of outside money re-
0uircments on that center, roceded
sharply The showing or the Eng
lish bank, therefore, and in less
degree Of the French bank were
regarded as rejecting the results
of past pressure, with 4 promise
OF amclioration for the future. Re
ports of n dead lock between Off
Gals and operatives or western rail
ways which threatened strike,
had n distressing effect on the
market and helped to Tic heavy
tone of the latter trading.
The marking UP of prices at the
end of the day was on small
volume of transactions. Bonds we're
STEADY; total sales par value ST.
?1S,000: u. S. bonds were I'M
changed on call.
Total sales today S3S,OOO-inciud-
ing Copper 81 200; Smelling 10000;
Sugar 700; Tobacco 1890: Atchi,
CO.. A ~
$500 Pennsylvania 36,5OO; Reading
226,3OO; l.. & ~ 1900; Southern
Pacific 26,S0O; Southern Railway
45,500; 1. u. p. ia 200; u. S. Steel
67,50O; v. z. G. 1900.
Amalgamatod Copper ..... S5&
American Car G. Foundry pfd.. 96H
American Cotton Oil ........ 27E!.
American Cotton Oil pfd. so
American Express ........... 200
American Hide & Leather pfd.. u
American Ice ........ 76M:
American LinSeGd Oil ... 12M
American LinseeG Oil Dfd 26
American Locomotive ........ GO
American Locomotive pfd ...1O1
American Smelling & Refng ..115M
American Smelling & Refng pfd .1Oz
Amer. Smelling & Refng Dfd. .102A
American Sugar Refining -. .121
Amer. Tobacco, pfd. ccrtif -. so
Anaconda Mining Co. ........ 60&
AtchisOn S731
Atchison pfd Observation-Disclosures. S.H
Atlantic Coast Line ....... 9SR
Baltimore IL Ohio ........... 95A
Baltimore &c Ohio pfd ...... SO
Brooklyn Rapid Transit ...... 1885
Canadian Pacific .IG7 a
Central of New Jersey ..... .173
Chesapeake & Ohio 40M
Chicago Great Western Ism
Chicago C Northwestern .145
Chicago Mil & st. Paul .12SH
Chicago Terminal e Trans -.
Chicago Term. & Trans. pfd... 8
c.. c., c.. &c st. Louis Co.
Colorado Fuel e Iron ....... aoas
Colorado e Southern ........ 22%
Colorado IL Southern list prd -. 56H
/. Colorado & Southern End pfd. 4G
Consolidated Gas ........ .1l9K
Corn Products .............. 1891
Corn Products pfdt .......... S1A
Delaware Il Hudson LII
Delaware, Lacka. & West =. ass
Denver e Rio Grande ..... 2SK
i Denver &c Rio Grando pfd -. II
Distillcrs Securities .......... 6SH
Erie .................. 23M
Erie list pfd Observation-Disclosures. 5SH
Eric End pfd ............. 37H
General Electric ............143
Hooking Valley ............ II
Illinois Central ............. IA