Show 3I WAS AMPLE CAPITAL C P 4 L Offers Made to Take Up All the Flower Stocks j NET GAINS PREDOMINATED + 1 POWEBFTJTi WEAPONS I HAND t t TO RESIST BEARS r Timid Holders Encouraged and Market Mar-ket Regained Its Firmness Prices Closed Above Saturday Advices S From London Indicate Large Reserves of Capital 4 New York May 15 Opening1 quotations n the stock market were a vigorous notice no-tice served on all parties that ample cap efO t f ital was forthcoming to take up all offerings of-ferings which timid holders of the ho called Flower stocks chose to onTer and t also to the bears that powerful weapons I were In hand to resist any onslaught by i them The different members of the Flower group were poeusd up 1 to 3 r points above Saturdays close the favorites favor-ites of the late linancial dealer Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Peoples Gas leading the rise New York Air l Brake in Its usual volatile manner made an exceptional excep-tional rise ot 1 points In the lirst few I minutes These aggressive tactics served to dissipate any uneasiness in the speculative t spec-ulative mind remaining after the violent fluctuations In Saturdays market Early quotations from London also made it evident I evi-dent that there were nl large reserves of capital prepared to take advantage of any further sympathetic declines in the general gen-eral list of securities The buying tnero > before the opening here was not only for I New York Air but presumably with tho purpose of supporting ± values also on order from Scotland Germany and Holland Hol-land as well as a local English demand The high opening here especially in tho Flower stocks Invited a considerable vol umo of offerings but these were al > sorbe < l without the slightest hesitation and in a 1 uil tl H nd I short time they materially I decreased The pressure of liquidation being relieved I the vigor of the efforts of the support was somewhat relaxed Prices having I failed to break the bargainhunters were deterred from buying I and the market I fell into a quiet state A brisk upward movement in Sugar to I 15J5j and a lively demand for the Pacifies Pa-cifies and the grangers caused a stiffening I stiffen-ing throughout the lst But the stfenI ness of the transactions discouraged a continuance of the bullish sentiment and I sentment the market fell to a kind of comparative I Inactivity The movement of prices became I be-came decidedly Irregular some of the eme mor6 obscure specialties iluctuuting quite widely but in the contrary dire I tion This was notably the cast among tho Iron and steel stocks Tennessee Coal Colorado Fuel and National Steel preferred i pre-ferred being notably weak American i Smelting and the coalers were also consistently con-sistently weak This tendency and the apparent withdrawal of supporting orders Invited a raid by the bears late In the day directed particularly against Metropolitan Metro-politan Street Railway which was raided poltan down 3 points The grangers and Pacifies Pa-cifies also suffered in the decline except Central and Southern Pacifies which were consistently strong Metropolitan Street Railway rallied very strongly 9 i Riway rIe er points the local traction shares responding respond-ing In sympathy The bear traders covered cov-ered makng the closing firm The conspicuous con-spicuous changes were in the Flow r stocks which all cosed higher though al c4 below the best of the day Otherwise changes in the prominent stocks were not large Net gains predominated In the bond market there was some very heavy takings of Baltimore Ohio 4s then insuod Dealings were moderate and changes were Irregular Total sales par value 41SO < yx United States 4s advanced s In the bid price The total sales of stock today amounted to 392303 shares including American Smelting 3 y American Steel Wire 22200 American Amer-ican Sugar 30000 American Tobacco I Ica Suga 0 6500 Anaconda 4300 AtchIson 3300 Atchison preferred 39900 B O AV 1 73i Brooklyn Rapid Transit 12900 Central Broklu 7400 C B Q rights 8GOO Chicago Con Tree 1200 Chicago Terminal trust receipts preferred 41110 Continental Tobacco 9700 Federal Steel Contrfntal Tobco International 23600 Federal Steel preferred 11400 ternational Papr 3100 Louisville I Ntishvllle 9200 Manhattan 1500 Metropolitan 92 Railway S100 Missouri politan Street 810 Missonr Ralwa Pacific 4000 National Steel 4100 New Plclfc Central 4EOO New Jersey Central rights 6700 North American Company rght 60 Northern 4000 Northern Pacific 12100 Pacific preferred 4100 Ontario Western West-ern 410J Pennsylvania 3200 Peoples Reading first preferred 17O Gas 27600 dS Rock Island S0O St Paul 23100 oUth era Pacific 6600 Southern Railway 6200 Pacfc 6rJ 5030 Union Southern Railway preferred 50 Pacific 9100 Union Pacific preferred Pacfc 910 8300 S500 United States Rubber 8rJ Bond Quotations IT S 2s reg JBfcN J C gen osttO re U S3s reg10SNor I Pac bets 120 U SS3 3s coup 10 Nor Pac 3s 66 TJ S n 4s reg1211Nor Pac 4s LI0 V S old 4s rcgll2jlN Y C cL St L 1 S old 4s 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Railway It Chi E 1 16 Preferred r4 Preferred 12 Tex Pac 1SU Chi G AV Uls UnionPac 42 4 Chi Ind L 9 Preferred 75 Prefrtrred 1 37 i Wabash 1 Chi 0 N AA152 Preferred 21 Preferred 191 AA L E 10 cCCSLL54 2nd pfd 2 Preferred 93 Adams Ex110 Preferre Del HudsonHG Am Ex 140 Del L Ct WI6 United States 47 D R G 22 = s AVclls Fargo 125 Preferred 7G Am Cot Oil 3 Pre1erre 12V Preferred 9 Ere Pfd 23V Am Spirits 1 8 Ft Wayne 184 Preferred 32 t Nor nfd 186 Am Tobacco lOoVi Hocking Val 10 I Preferred HI loking HHt Con Gas187 j I E W IGfcCom Cabin Col79 Prefecred 6 Col F Iron 14 Prfoe Lake Shore 1S i Preferred 10 I Le Nash nGen Elec1l5 Manhattan L109 Haw Com CO122M B R T Co 109ji Met St Ry22Ci4B fi ntR f InL Paper 45 lrtHhe lnn St 1 5 1 Preferred 79 let pfd l0Lclede Ga 5 IJfd 74 Lead I Pc Ohio 4 Preferred I2 M ole P 12 Nat Lln Oil 4 irefrred 2 lpae Mal 50 N Prfre 10 Peoples Gas IWi N Y Cent 11 Pulma Pal 15714 N Y C St L 17Siiver Ceet 6l g i t K E t 1st p03 65 SL H Twine 7 Xispf Zh3 Sugar 151 e Nor Vest 94 Preferred 16 Nor Am Co 1 T C Iron L Pac 49 15 S Leather 6 Nor Preferred 76I I Preferred C J1 Out cl Y 24 U S Hubber 47 Ont N pfd G 4IU Preferred 13 Pac C 1st pfd S Yet Unlon 97 2nd pfd 56 Am S W Co 61 L Pits bur 1St Preferred 9 Reading 19iFed Steel 514 Li 1st pfd 5 Preferred 78 H G I 34 Pae Coast z Preferred 5t 1 Nor et pfd 654 RoCk Island 10 Cob So 5 St L S F 1 i 1s pfd 45 > 1s pfd G 2nd ptd IS |