Show Gotham Gossip New York 17It is generally believed be-lieved that stocks are depressed on Wall street to enable insiders to buy at low figures and profit by the advance The passage in the assembly as-sembly of the unpopular broker tax bill aided materially in the depression depres-sion It taxes each trade instead of the monthly total Trunk line troubles also had a bad influence There were soon evident however strong sustaining influences and the market became steadily strong especially when it was reported that trunk lines had adjusted their differences There was a good demand de-mand for coupon 5s at full prices upon the news that the Administration Administra-tion would not favor refunding any further There have been large transfers of elevated stocks but it is stated that Gould Dillon and others wont be candidates as directors Over 625 saloon passengers go out for Europe tomorrow The rush is so great that officers have given up their rooms and some pay full fare for special steerage accommodation The brewers on a strike still meet and talk with confidence of holding out all summer It was said that a great labor movement would soon follow the strike The presidents of the New York Central Erie Burlington and Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad agreed at a meeting today to in no wise countenance or participate in the cuts made by western connections and instructed Commissioner Fink to so notify them and adopt such measures as were necessary to maintain main-tain rates |