The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-09
WALL STREET
PRICES OF STOCKS GENER-
ALLY GOING STILL LOWER.
Selling Orders from Holland Supposed
to Have Influenced Tone of
Market Today.

NEW YORK. Oct. 9.-First prices OF
stocks were lower all around than last
night. The dealir gs were quite active.
Some of the low priced stocks showed wide
declines. Denver and Rio Grande and
Great Northern ore certificates fell III,
American Car 1Ss, Ontario and Western
and International Mercantile Marine pre-
fetred IL. Rock Island 11s, Great Northern
preferred. Kansas and Texas, Chesapeake
and Ohio and American Smelling a point
and Northern Pacific and Railway Steel
Spring large fractions.
II a. m.-There was continuous liquida-
ton of numerous low-priced stocks on
orders said to be from Holland. The usual
ly active stocks gave way In sympathy
after a feeble show of resistance. BUSH
ness increased considerably on the decline.
United States Reduction yielded 81, the
preferred 6&, American Locomotive 24,
American Car 21s, Northern Pacific, Erie
first preferred, Central Railroad Of New
Jersey, Railway Steel Spring and Pressed
Steel Car preferred 2, Kansas and Texas
ia, Tennessee Copper 15s, Missouri Pacific,
Wabash preferred, Colorado and Southern
second preferred, Reading. Brooklyn Tran
sit, Union Pacific, st. Paul, Canadian
Pacific, Amalgamated Copper, American
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Car, Distillers' Securities and United Rail
way and investment preferred l to ~.
IL m.-The trading became quleter, but
weak spots developed continuously, es-
pecially among the industrials and low
priced railroads, which showed a long list
of declines running from / to IL and es-
tablishing new low prices for the year.
The Standard dividend-paying railroad
stocks were less affected but declined In
sympathy. Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha fell 5, General Electric A and
Denver and Rio Grande, Brooklyn Transit,
American Car preferred and Pressed Steel
Car 2, and Wabash 1%. Bonds were
heavy.
l p. m~,--Liquidation was on a more ex-
tensive scale after u o'clock, with the
standard stocks sharing in the weakness.
Blocks of from 1000 to 1000 shares were
sold frequently. Brooklyn Transit lost 3sb;
Reading and American Smelling, 8; Union
Pacific, rs; Northern Pacific and Colorado
and Southern second preferred. ~;
Wabash preferred, New York, Chicago
and st. Louis, Amalgamated Copper and
Lead, 21s; U. S. Rubber and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS preferred, ~;
Kansas and Texas, 2ss, and st. Louis and
San Francisco second preferred, Duluth,
South Shore and Atlantic preferred, Atchi-
son, ROCK Island, Denver and lilo Grande
preferred, Kansas City Southern, Louis
Vile and Nashville, Minneapolis, st. Paul
Sault Ste. Marie preferred and Corn
Products preferred, 2.
2 p. m.-Further inroads were made on
prices, after which the selling paused, but
there were no notable rallies. Missouri
Pacific sagged 3A, Erie first preferred and
Great Northern Ore certificates ~, North
Western and Sloss-Sheffield Steel 2 and
Texas and Pacific IA.
3 p. m.-The market closed weak at the
lowest. Slight rallies on covering by room
shorts were followed by renewed declines
in which American Smelling fell Az,
Northern Pacific 3%, Missouri, Kansas and
Texas 3ss, Union Pacific SA, Amalgamated
Copper 3is, ST. Louis and San Francisco
second preferred 2%, Delaware and Hudson
"a. Great Northern preferred, Southern
Pacific, Tennessee Copper and American
Locomotive 2, and st. Paul 16s.