Show REVIEW OF SPECULATION Attention Has en Chiefly Turned t tho Specialties New York Feb Bradstreets financial review tomorrow will say Wednesday being a holiday not only broke the stock exchange but established estab-lished a difference in tone between its earlier and latter portions Monday and Tuesday were In the main devoted to further exhibitions of the ehlbltons speculative speculat-ive temper of the street and to the bullish bull-ish manipulation which had le renewed re-newed public interest I Is to b remembered re-membered however that while memberd howeer whie the standard stocks were strong the activity tivity in them seemed to decrease tvl me deceae and turned to the specialties andneglected parts of the share list At the same time the further advances in the past tme avancs te pat weeks had resulted in the usual resuled uua accumulation cumulation of Ions stocks in weak or reopened on Thursday it found traders were disposed to attack values while the material for llqiuidatlon a abundant The fat that the Burlington refunding refund-ing plan a belief which was adhered to by a considerable number of operators ators in the face of all denials proved to be a fa less comprehensive plan than had been predicted also tended to unsettle the market and bring out offerings of-ferings at grangers and other high priced stocks Consequently when the room traders raided the market on Thursday afternoon prices showed a I readiness to yield and thef act developed devel-oped that a considerable number of stop loss orders were unearthed in Fridays Fri-days market Irregularity was prevalent prev-alent the standard stocks selling off while manipulative strength in the In dustrials particularly the newer ones was the principal sustaining factor There hail been a large amount of activity on the part of commission houses the disposition to buy stocks extending to specialties and lowpriced securities with less of a regard for Investment In-vestment values and more Inclination to follow manipulation or to accept rumors at their face value than the market has exhibited for some time past There was irregularity in the advances ad-vances nnd a corespondinjj Irregularity In the Subsequent declines At no time In the week was the movement tme prices uniform which alone would tend to indicate that professional In fluences were more or less supreme London has shown an Increased Lonton ha tendency tend-ency to follow the course of our mar kets and especially in the latter part prt of the week a a moderate purchaser though this was in part at least ascribed toorders from this side atcrbed The alight hardening of money which made its appearance In the last two days has not passed unnoticed and perhaps aid I ed in causing more conservative views vew to become prevalent while it must also b remembered that the activity of the Iron and steel markets and the ad stel maket generally a ger ally cheerful nature of reports regarding regard-ing those industries a looked r a arguments of some force for the continuance con-tinuance of bullishness on the Industrials Bank Clearings New York Feb 21The following t ble compiled by Bradstrcet shows the bank clearings at all the principal cities al te cUes of the united Slates and Canada for the week ended Feb 23 with the percentage t Jce of increase and decrease a compared with Uie corresponding week lt ompe ye CITIES I Amount IIneIDe New York IBboaE54ih4s11 1n10J9534 Boston r 1Ii 3LO Chicago 103671 0 Phlaelphl 72547594e1t13 St Louis 77r 15 Pltsburg 630 081 Baltimore San Francisco 1 1ZU1S24II mz Cincinnati 110718001 3s i Kansas City t5t5OIttUS New Orieans 71s2G31 1 Minneapolis 60656751 57 Detroit C5 11 Cleveland SI91 47i Louisville 7o Providence 5533lOOj 116 55lOlGI Milwaukee 4551011 St Paul 691011 141 Buffalo J Omaha 524l 97I Indianapolis tJ 51 Columbus O 30 1 Savannah ZIJ5SIS60 Denver z344000j74 Hartford Z3sS1S 280 Richmond 2381 15 Memphis 1700311250 Washington 1754105 86 Peoria 1G25212 1lIL M Rochester U5 22S New Haven 14Z 18 Worcester 14C1i 217 Atlanta 191 SALT LAKE CIT 170481 351 Springfield Ia 1S5774 234 Fort Worth 1BSB6280 Portland Me LnG457 Portland Ore 1325332 hO k St Joseph 2000840 19Z Los Angeles 14i99lS I5I 44 Norfolk 9544661 7 Syracuse Is 175 Des Moines 107r l 19 Nashville 93 ah1le 99 Wilmington Dell 679516 36 Fall River 10 s 213 Scranton 49 11 Grand Rapids F 109 Augusta Ga 51 Lowell 6644lI 110 Dayton 11 Seattle Tacoma G71i 66 Spokane 162 Sioux City 8290091 B5 New Bedford 415 Knoxville Tenn L4600 l2 Topeka 1241 Birmingham Iazu 2l4 Wichita 4424l 0 Binghamton lis Lincoln Lexington Ky 29ls Jacksonville Fla 1SS0i411 Kalamazoo 2S85S 176 Akron Chattanooga Jtockford 6J Canton 0 1E0 9 Springfield 0 Eo74 21 28 Fargo D 35O00 Sioux Falls S D 107474 23 Hastings Nob 9377 44 Fremont Davenport Toledo 1 Galveston 4s4t 14j Houston Youngstowo 2831s1 Evansville 1s9 Helena Little Rock TotalUnited States1656OIOSIB 577 Outside New York 4 seO0751201 E0 DOMINION OP CANADA i Amount InciI5 Montreal 1772Z311 Toronto 14t winnipeg Halifax 10l Hamilton St John N B 5l71 Ia Vancouver Victoria s 3l1i3912 D0 T o tal Not included in totals because con aini other items than clearings J Not included in totsiS bcaausofofno mparison for lastyear |