Show VAS A B TTlEROYAL + Lively Contest Between Bulls and Bears InNew York 4 I FOiMER HAD ADVANTAGE ENTRENCHD BEHIND DISTRIBUTED UTD D AN FOR STOCK Bears However Attacked Vuner able Spots and Succeeded In Wiping Wip-ing Out a 1jort of Gains That Had Been Achieved In Railroads and Materially Reduced Other I I New York Aug 1Tbcre was a battle I royal between the bulls and the bears on the stock exchange today The bulls I had somewhat the quHantage of position I as they wero entrenched behind a long and well distributed demand for stocks of all varietIes CommissIon haute bUFI ness was on a very large scale and the movement of prices in the majority of rl fvE tajt the list was iarleut throughout the day realizing going on In a liberal way at one Olt ostnvti8 Portion of the list ithile prices were I marked up in another One or two stocks I showed conspIcuous strength but the ten i aency to advance In the raIlroad list was surprisingly uniform and took in all Igflto g grades of stocks from the highest to the low Priced Issues But there were spots In the Industrial II lIst which proved exceedIngly vulnerable and the persistent determination with whIch the bears raided these resulted In wIping out the majority Of gains which had been achleed In the railroads and re aucCl practically all that remained to I fractional limits Brooklyn rnsit suffered suf-fered the severest attack from the bears l day long Itas olterell oown through successive stl each drop brlnglrg out a deluge of long stock and copious stob I loss orders The success of the bears with I this stock encouraged them to extend their attack to other member of thl soeaUed I Flower gruI They forcetl down International Inter-national Paper an extreme 8 poInts and Federal Steel I suffered to the extent of Hi Peoples Gas fo lc over t2 pdlnts and t1 Island a point The extent of the decline Invited hasty covering and there were rallies or 1 to 2 poInts In the group Manhattan Man-hattan Metropolitan Stet Hallway and Third Avenue showed wide declines In sympathy ranging from 2 to 4 In the case of thc first two named Sugar was also vulnerable after an carl gain of n Point and dropped nearly 2 points Steel and Wire showed s mafkelh drooping tendency and other iron andsteel stocks were also heavy The influence of this weakness on the railroad list wits nccentuated by a late marking up or tai loans tq 3 n per cent after having ruled at and below 3 percent I per-cent during gt early part of the 3d I The net remaIns that I large portion of the days business In the list was done at price above Saturdays Ione I There was an enormous absorptIon or stock from the opening In spIte ot the rather heavy tone reflected from foreign tock markets on account of dIsorders in ParIs and the uneasiness over the ulitl I cal situation and the snrad of bubonic plague Tennessee Coal rose buoyantly i 41i per cent to parm the nWfew mInutes of trading It went back during the day to 9 but closed at RI Louisville con tlnued In active demand and sold up to 38 A number of lowpriced stock notably D R G and N W were in good demand and the large organized buying or Southern Pacific was continued This stock was held back by realizing and did not at any time rise more than a small fraction over Saturday I Stocks of rallrOaUs I in Colorado were uniformly I uni-formly strong on the improved lO conditions I In the minIng Industry of that state Atchison preferred the grangers the eoaler B I O stock and Union Pacific were In large demand Yen little remains re-mains of the early gains In ihee stocks which reached a poInt or oer In a number num-ber of cases American Tobacco ends with I a gain of nearly 2 ppnts There were a number of other more obscure stocks that showEd strength during the dcv t The bond market showed Increased acJ i tI3 In sympathy with stocks There were conspIcuous gains In Southern Pacific I Pa-cific 4s Colorado Midland s md Atchl son 45 Total sales par value l lil2SOO uns = s S lnJe y the f price I I Bond 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3iobile Ohio 4i Preferred P1 3i K T IHiLadedeGsis 58 1 Ireferred 4014 Nat Biscuit 45 I N J Central 119 Preferred 85 N Y Centrpl 139 Nat Lend Nor V Preferrtui ll2t Preferred 72 Nat No Jacitic Sl lreferred Si Preferred Tht N Y AIB192 1 Out W 25i1i No AmerIcan 124 0 H N 4 Pacfle Coast 47t Preferred 71 Jrstpfd iii I iennsylraiiia lZt1 Secolid pfd67 1 Reading 22t PacifIc Mail u I First pfd 0114 PeodleCasll2 Second pfd1 33P SteeICer is TI G Preferred 59 Preferred 76 Pullman Pal158 St L S P 5t4 First pfd 70 Sugar Second pfd alt Preferred 125 st Seat 17 Teen C 95 Preferred 38 U S Leather S St Paul 134tt1 Preferred Preferred 174 U S Rubber 49L St I 0illt Preferred ll5t ISo I-So Iacliic 4i Western Union IS Condition of the Treitsury I Washington Aug 21Todays state I mont of the condition of the treasury showi Available cash balance 2174261 ISI Gold reserve 245480J61 I Sto kt at London New York tug 2iCommtrclal Advertisers Adver-tisers London financial cablegram Tho markets hero were fairly active but irregular ir-regular today The Paris rIots the Tans ynal costs antttho appearance of the plague In Pottugal were the disturbing ftlctor Consolasold down partly on b aYaetiVity Spanish 4s were 55 Tintos 42 oiher cosprs were unaffected AmerIcana opened rather wild some deal I era taking handsome profits others being inclined to luy on the favorablo email tions in the New York market The tone t5nded steadiep bur prices remained ulider I parity until New York opened The adVance ad-Vance was then resumed and the close was near the best Norfolk Western common St Paul and Louiaville Nash yule were the cblcZ features Iuletal Quotaticns New York Aug 21TakIng the tisy as a whole anti the market generally metals exhibited deddel strength today with substantial advances recorded in several department at the cIoe Iron tin and lead were leaders in the upward nlovetnent influenced by better European cables and reports from productive points at the west The metal exchange cafled Pig Iron WarrantsFirm at the dote with 1525 biul and 15l raked Lake CopperUnchanged at 1510 TirsFlrrner with 315 bId and L25 asked LeadSteady with 4I bid and I asked SpelterDull at ItS nomlral The brokers price for lead is 425 And for copper 1510 Loans Exchange and Silver New York Aug 21Money on all steady at 2612t per coat last Iohn 2 per cent Prime mercantile paper 44 5 per cent SterlIng exchange firm wnsi actual lstalness in bankers bills at 4S6SI 4S6l for demand and iS3414A34 for 00 days Posted rates tSI and I57457 CommercIal bills 4S2f4 82 Silver certificates 601160 Bar silver CO MexIcan dollars 4T London Aug 21Bar silver 27d Coffen and Sugar New York Aug 2lCoffeeOplons to day closed quiet ad unchanged to 5 o nt lower Sales IeSI bags Including Sop tember 432 October 440 December lAS February 455 March 500 Slay 3J5 Spot cQlfee Eta dull anti easy Np 7 invoIce 3i No 7 jobbirg Sti mild quiet Cordo vii 91Hjll SugarRaw nominal wIth weak undertone under-tone fair rafinirig Ic centrifugal 56test 4 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