Show QUIE AND AD STEADIER STOCKS TONE IN NEW YORI YORK April Apri 1 The t.-The The movement of prices was scarcely appreciable hardenIng hardenIng hardening harden harden- In the opening dealings in stocks stock today but the general tendency was a a ing one The market became semi A few stocks sock were marked strongly upward but the tile general movement was spiritless and without cance Railway ay Steel Spring stocks were dealt In let for fr the first time at 2425 and 80 for tor and The preferred subsequently subsequently 4 the common preferred respectively fell feIl 1 Color Colorado do Fuel met realizing sales after it crossed and 1 I demand toward 11 o'clock and androse relapsed d Amalgamated Copper came Into lose rose more than a a point but soon lost its Is gain On free selling Sugar lost 1 Transactions in railroads were infrequent and they moved to tc a less les extent than the specialties Colorado Fuel preferred gained 2 By noon non the market was quiet and steadier in tone Amalgamated recovering recovering to 64 and then yield yield- ing lag Bonds were dull duli and steady Yesterdays Yesterday's YesterdaYs active active speculation in low grade issues was not resumed In the afternoon some inactive stocks gave way sharply The activity in the specialties moderated There was as selling of the stocks of the local municipal corporations on account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of a judicial affirmation of the constitutionality of the New York franchise franchise fran fran- chise e tax t. t Metropolitan Street Railway Hallway yielded 2 and and Manhattan Brooklyn Transit ran and C Consolidated Gas 1 to 1 Minneapolis St. St Paul and Sault Saul Ste Katie Malle preferred dropped 4 4 The of railroad stocks were small email but they dropped In some fome cases well wel below last night Prices drifted downward rd during the final hour except Amalgamated which touched 6 65 Wells Fargo also advanced 2 Colorado Fuel fell tel below last night and Sugar ran off to below American Car lost 2 points on re- re petted decre decrease se in net earnings earning's earning and American Cable fell fel 1 Pullman I dropped 5 The closing was easy ey and quite active j 4 Closing stocks N. N A A. B. B 0 O. C. C G a. a W. W 23 Copper 65 C. C F. F I. I U. U P. P 99 Reding 56 Mo 1 Pac 88 98 Southern Pacific 64 U S. S S. S 42 U. U S. S S. S preferred 34 94 W. W C. C 23 2 W. W C. C preferred 44 4 L N. N Erie CG 26 6 St. St Paul Rock Island Island 19 B. B R. R n T. T 63 Atchison 76 Atchison preferred I 97 N K Y C. C Pac Mail 43 Manhattan Metro Sugar Pennsylvania 19 Peoples People's Gas T. T C. C I. I 70 |