| Show FRIDAY AND I OF MONTH A 1 THAT Superstitious Wall Street Brok Brokers Brokers Brokers ers Account for Dullness of Market CROP DAMAGE REPORTS LARGE AMOUNT AMOU OF OP AMERICAN AROA BONDS BONS PLACED ABROAD AROA New York May 13 Idleness and neglect eclipsed all al signs sigs of Interest in inthe Inthe Inthe the stock market today Some ot of the thel lighter l minded of the trading frater fraternity fraternity better for found no beter explanation abstention from Irom the market than the fact that It I was Friday the The Influence of ot the London situa situation siua tion ton on speculative sentiment was In Increased Increased Increased creased by the evidence of or a hardening money market marke at that center The foreign exchange market was rather disordered and fluctuated with wih evidences of ot recovery at the low points The rue more authoritative reports of ot the large volume of American bonds being placed abroad were without Influence In the exchange market market It I was wa said sid that this thi was due to provision for de deferred deferred deferred payments of some of these sub subscriptions and consequent postpone postponement postponement ment merit of the offerings offerIng of exchange bills against the payments Preliminary estimates pointed to an another another another other large gain In cash for the week bv tJ the clearing house banks banks The money market showed no change In conditions Wide VIde Ide movements in a few tew individual stocks supplied the only features of in interest Interest interest terest in the market market The sharp shar rise in I Canadian Pacific was coupled with wih reports that a disbursement of ot profits out of land sales was intended The were affected again by re revived revived reports of ot control passing to the Rock Island Interests Texas Tex Pa Pacific P Pacific land trust certificates were run rn up on a few transactions for no other reason reeson than a a report that they were being bought by the trustees The halt hal in the speculation was due du duparty partly party to the Inconclusiveness of crop conditions Reports of insect damage to winter wheat and to the tho low temper temperatures temperatures temperatures in the southwest were noted The weeks exports of wheat expanded more than a a million bushels over those of the week before The bulge in the Canadian crop pulled prices up In the latter later part of the day but the movement was wa Incon Inconclusive Inconclusive elusive and ond the days changes were mostly triviaL Bonds were irregular Total sales par value United States bonds were unchanged on call cl STOCK S SI I Sales I H H I 1 L I Cl CI pfd t 34 34 4 Amal Copper f 69 70 Amer Amer Beet Sugar 37 sn 37 37 American Can 1500 10 9 9 Amer Cr Car P F 61 61 61 61 61 Amer mer Cotton 01 Oil 66 6 66 Amer mer H L Pfd 33 33 33 H L Amer Ice 2 24 American Linseed 14 13 14 Amer 19 Amer S R B 79 79 Preferred 14 10 Amer Steel Foun 54 54 54 54 Amer Sugar Ref 1231 12 Amer TeL TeL TeI I COO 13 A Arn Tobacco pfd pfd 90 95 95 A Amer er Woolen Wolen 35 Anaconda Mth Co 43 43 43 Atchison 10 Preferred 1011 Atlantic Coast Coast L 13 Baltimore Ohio 1101 10 iiO Bethlehem Steel 27 Brooklyn n R B T S1 SOl SO 81 80 C nadian adlan Pacific 1891 C nral Ither Leather OO 42 41 41 Preferred 1051 Central of N J 3 90 hes Ohio 1300 88 81 87 8 Chicago 45 45 45 a Gt Ot West West 7 1 26 27 7 Preferred 50 49 50 h hi I N W 15 c N L St St Paul Paul c C C S St St LI 85 CoIo oo Fuel Iron 38 Sj 38 38 oo Southern GOj 60 60 C Cn n Gas 2400 Corn Products 12 1 15 ela Hudson 1 R R G U 42 40 4 41 20 30 og 30 rie 1000 28 28 1st d preferred 47 46 46 46 Gen jen Electric Gt Gt Nor preferred 1800 1361 13 1351 H t Nor Ore CUs 63 63 s 63 Illinois Inter Met Met 20 20 Preferred 1000 55 55 55 Harvester bO 93 93 92 Inter Marine pfd 19 19 19 Inter Paper 12 J r Pump 4 H 4 47 47 47 Iowa Central 20 20 Kansas Cit City So 34 34 34 31 Preferred t Gas lOa Nash ash 17 17 un SL 1 Louis M 1 S S P 8 S 8 S M I 1400 10 L L J K T 1900 42 42 4 42 Preferred 69 Pacific 70 atonal Biscuit n 10 atonal Lead 78 78 78 X R ot of 31 L pfd 00 29 29 39 29 Xe ew York rork Central 1201 Y O WI w 4 43 4 43 West orth American 73 71 73 Northern Pacific 2300 12 PacIfic Mail 27 27 26 Pennsylvania noi 14 Peoples Gas GaG 1 P C C St L Patsburg Coal 19 19 19 Steel Steal Car 40 40 39 Pullan Pullman Palace c n Th Steel 38 J Steel 34 3 34 33 Preferred 97 7 Island Co 44 44 41 4 Preferred 2400 91 90 90 f 1 L S F d pfd 49 49 48 81 St Loui Louis 31 31 Preferred 74 74 74 f S S 1 7 74 73 7 74 fouther Southern Pacific 1285 Railway 27 27 26 6 Preferred 61 62 Tenn Copper 26 Texa Texas Pacific 32 32 T it t L L W 38 Preferred 64 64 U 64 4 64 t Pacific i IS Preferred 1 9 t r S s Realy Realty 72 12 1 s Rubber 43 43 4 43 i S Steel 83 i 82 lS t th Copper 1000 46 45 45 Ya Va Carolina Chem Chem 2500 60 58 59 Wabash 21 22 Preferred 48 w Marland Maryland CUs 45 45 45 El 63 Union 68 r 68 68 W Lake Erie 4 4 4 i 4 shares Total sales for the day |
