Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-26
AS tic Result of Hartman Being
on the Stand in the Interstate
Commerce Commission Inquiry tho
List Was DECIDEDLY Weak-Total
Sales ard Closing Quotations.
(By Associated Press. }


orators. The selling was constant
and the demand was SO small as
to be negligible quantity except as
the concessions In the price level
uncovered some buying. This de.
mand was not aggressive in char.
acter and interposed no effective OBJ
stacle to the large decrease of prices.
The taking of the testimony of e.
ri. Hartman before the Interstate
Commerce Commission. was the sub.
1ect OF universal discussion and the
weakness of stocks was generality
attributed to this cause. The spec.
ulative view taken of the occurrence
was that 1t was to mark a wide.
spread public realization of the ma.
ture OF the transaction under the
investigation and to offer material
Tor some such disturbance OF the
public mind and agitation of the
public indignation as grew out OF
inc legislative investigation of the
HE Insurance companies. Wall
street sees in this prospect n supply
OF fresh fuel for the danger against
railroads and other corporations.
which is active in shaping legisla-
1--WE measures and in directing public
policy all over the country.
The former has gained ground in
financial opinion that the stability
OF The country's prosperity or the
aVerting of coming industrial and
financial depression is to be innu-
enced perhaps, decided, by the
course, of public sentiment on these
A ~ III
es shows severe impairment of
values and prices in some impor.
tant stocks at the lowest figure
The notable sufferers still were
stocks about which chung sugges-
tons of further financing. Reading
Baltimore and Ohio and louisville
EVANSVILLE were especially effected
by such rumors. Bonds were easy.
Total sales FAR value $1,62S, 900. u.
5. S advanced 1-2, new 4 regis
tered IA and the old s 1.S per
cent on call
Total sales 913,sOOO shares. In.
Guiding Copper $4,000; Sugar $500;
Tobacco 500; Anaconda 1000: Atchi.
son 21,000: st. Paul 10000; Pennsyl-
vania $4,000: Reading 257,10O;
Southern Pacific 22,1OO Southern TO-.
700; Southern pfd 100; Union Pa
cific 10000: U. S. Steel 65,500;
Virg!na-Carolina Chemical 500: Vlr-
ginia!Carolina Chemical pfd 1890.
Adams Express .280
Amalgamated Copper ITO SIS
American Car & Foundry. 80. AZ "a
American Car &c Foundry pfd. .1O2 1-2
American Cotton Oil ......... 81
American Cotton Oil pfd -. So
American Express ............2 $50
American Hide & Leather pfd.25O
American Ice 80
American Linsecd Oil 1912
American Linseed Oil pfd 80. 80
American Locomotive 11.2
American Locomotive pfd -. .1O3 3-S
American Smelling & Ring IA
American Smelling &c Ring pfd.114
American Sugar Refining -. .131 3-8
American Tobacco, pfd. certif. 95 1-2
Anaconda Mining Co. 98S
Atchison ..,.. 100 So
Atcnlson ptd ................. SO Ia
Atlantic Coast Line .......... .115 "a
Baltimore e Ohio ........ 1OS 5-S
Baltimore C Ohio pfd ..... 50
Brooklyn Rapid Transit ..... 40 1.2
Canadian Pacific 1882 81
Central of New Jersey ...... 200
Chesapeake & Ohio ......,... 40 81
SnicaSo hTedt western ,...... 10 o-S
Chicago & Northwestern 1877
Chicago, Mil. C st. Paul. ....143 1.2
Chicago Terminal e. Trans. ~. 91.2
Chicago Terminal e Trans. pfd 90
c., c.. c. & st. Louis. ..,.... 81 1.2
Colorado Fuel &: Iron ..... A SIS
Colorado & Southern ..... "a 1-2
Colorado e. Southern 2nd pfd. 55 1-2
Consolidated Gas .136
Corn Products 221.4
Delaware & Hudson 200
Delaware. Lackawanna & West5O
Denver G Rio Grande. 3G1.S
Denver e Rio Grande pfd -. 70 10
Distillers' Securities IA II
Erie ... ARA
Eric LIST pfd GO
Erie End pfd ................ So 1-2
General Electric ..157
Hooking valley ..............1O los
Illinois Central .......1 59
International Paper 1912
International Paper pfd $500. 1912
International Pump 331.4
International Pump pfd ...... 1884
Iowa Central observation-disclosures. 90 IL
Iowa Central pfd ....,...... 43 1.2
Kansas City Southern 81
Kansas City Southern pfd III. 581-2
Louisville & Nashville 1928 t.2
Mexican Central . %
Minneapolis G. ST. Louis SIS
Mimi, st. p. & Sault. Sic. M..118
Mimi, st. p. G Sault Ste, NJ,
pa .:.......... .-....,.... .141
Missouri Pacific .......... SO
Missouri Kansas G. Texas 3o7.9