Show I r WASBOTH HALTING c AND HESiTATiNG Speculation Mostly Confined to Room Traders THE INDUSTRIALS WERE NEGLECTED Improvement in Tone in lie Final z Dealings Rnilvtny < anil Miscellaneous Ho ml i Market Strong Silver Coins Al > routl Kffp its of tlic Recent Cold Snap In the East Dry Goods U ict Government Weather Bureau Bu-reau Issues Iiuiiurtuut Information Informa-tion Regarding the Prospective Cropw New York April 3The movement of the stock market today was not interesting in-teresting to the street at large The speculation was spiritless and largely confined to the room traders who worked with less concert of action than usual London was not represented very largely in the dealings and was perhaps more of a seller than a buyer a some of the recent purchasers liquidating t liquidat-ing their holdings F The market was of that halting hesitating hesi-tating character which often precedes a decided movement in the directs of lower prices but the most unfavorable I symptom developed is the decrease in < the foreign buying The leder of the market was Missouri Mis-souri Pacific which was bought heavily heavi-ly it is believed for the account of an inside interest sending the price up to I 0 254 with a final reaction of is The Grangers made fractional gains during 4 the morning but fell off in the afternoon jfii after-noon closing at a decline oC s to on yesterdays final sales The industrials were comparatively I neglected and moved irregularly F Chicago Gas and Distilling recording advances of to Ilk and sugar and t General Electric making declines of > each while Cordage preferred lost 3 per cent and rubber gained 1 lead 4 and lead preferred I1h per cent The other stocks prominent in the I ndvance were Delaware Hudson 1 Consolidated Gas P4 D L W which lost 1 per cent being the only stock in which the decline was above a fraction Colorado Fuel Iron preferred 2 pre-ferred sold at 69 an advance of 9 percent per-cent from the last previous sale In the final dealings the market was Improved in tone and los d very firm Compared with the gnat figures of yesterday yes-terday as many stocks are to be found below the line as above it The report of the Canadian Pacific i for the year ending December 31 shows gross earnings of 7520962317 a decrease of 447034 and net earnings of 7741 410 a decrease of SG78931 surplus for 1803 317682 total surplus 7261213 f The railway and miscellaneous bond market was strong all day and most of the issues traded in recorded advances |