Show WALL STREET TRADING Quotations Were Irregnlar and the Market Feverish + PRICES UP AND DOWN PEOSEQIENT RAILWAYS SHOW A LOSS v Some Sensational Advances I the Specialties Beweys Bequest For n Battleship Caused Uneasiness Heavy Professional Selling On Unfavorable Bank Statement 1 I New York Feb 4Stocl speculations I today were decidedly irregular and the movement ss in some respects a counterpart coun-terpart of yesterday Prices opened favorable for the bulls In a number of stocks the Industrials and the specialties speialte being prominent Subsequently values moved alternately down and up and leaving leav-ing net changes mixed with losses averaging aver-aging a point in prominent railways accompanied ac-companied by sensational advances among the specialties The dispatch from the American naval commanutr in the Jar I cast requesting the presence of a battleship battle-ship for political reasons was considered possible ot an unfavorable interruption out the route of a body of Filipinos by the American army in a measure oifstt the advices London after advice ater some firmness ivus a seller on balance ihe international shares were generally fractionally higher in the early dealings while the advance in Burlington Tobacco and the steel stocks gave an early appearance of strength The small recoveries from yesterdays yes-terdays close tailed to hold in tne case or the railways Realizing in St Paul on Its favorable showing for the third week in February left it below yesterday and Burlington loss Its early advance and declined further ending with a loss of i on the reported abandonment 01 a general gen-eral refunding plan There was > considerably professional selling as well as some realizings and stop loss orders were reported Traders were Induced to sell on the idea that there would be another substantial decrease in the bank reserves tomorrow The market displayed feverishness as the contending Interests succeeded In cither lifting or depressing de-pressing prices and then dealings contracted con-tracted with a somewhat professional appearance ap-pearance to the afternoon s trading Tobacco To-bacco made a maximum rise of G points on the rumor that I large operator was short and refused to cover and the circulation cir-culation of stories as to the companys earning power Subsequently the price ran off and closed with a net gain of IVj There were some very violent advances among the local specialties the extreme rise in the case of Third avenue being 14 Consolidated Gas lb Brooklyn Union Gas Sli and 2 points In Metropolitan The advance In the gas stocks was in expectation expec-tation of securing the passage of the law allowing the cooperative manufacture of gas In contiguous territory which would permit the disposal of valuable new real i g Ja estate The rise in Third avenue was said to be on the discovery of an unexpected i unex-pected short Interest existing The hish ly favorable condition reported in the iron and steel industries and Intimations that Intmatons I the relations of the leading interests would bf closer led to an extreme advance ad-vance of o A in American steel with which Federal Steel sympathized to the I extent of 3 i its extreme rise American tin and New York Air Brake rose 3 points I somewhat weak it a jump Sugar was at one time on the continuance of dividend tme contnuance dend rumors and International Paper shares receded on realizing following the declaration of dividends of 1 on the preferred pre-ferred and 1 on the common The selling I of the active list began with heavy trnd I Ing In Burlington and Sugar The feature of todays bond trading was the active inquiry for San Antonio Ar I nnsas Pass 4s which improved 4 points The general market was very irregular in weakness and strength developing many Issues Total sales 3000000 Government bonds were unchanged iu bid Brines The total sales of stocks today were I K31100 shares including M7H Atchison B4SJV Atchison preferred l4O Central Pail ie2a3 Burlington 10 IX 8 R G preferrer 11110 Manhattan SfiM Metropolitan Metro-politan 32070 Reading 4370 MIssonrL Pa 1rL fIa oO M K T 1rLr I r Northern Pacific 232TO Ontario V cst I rrn nli4 S20 Rock Island 16520 Tnion la dOC 102SO ITnlon Pacific nieferr 30920 I St Paul 4AV > Southern Pacific 700 I Texas Pacific 3300 Pioer fi910 Tobacco I To-bacco 45700 eel 9S40 Stee1 preferred 1 m Peoples Ga < 22600 Consolidated rRr isw Brooklyn Transit 5C50 Pacific Mail 42 SCO Sugar 11070 Tennes e Coal F Iron 4 O Leather preferred fi729 Rubber e BOND QUOTATIONS j I t U S Ss 107 iN Y C lstsH7i I I 1 S n 4s regI21 X J C 5 US I Do coup KB i > i C 8t r S COUl ll25t L 4s 107 Do COOl It34tNor k W 6 lIt Do COUl 50 Nwest cons I I C S reg ll2 Do deb Is lbO Os coup gm 10Xa Ists lf District I os I 0 Na is JU I Atch1oii is P52 0 S L t r thl2S Al Jj4 Is S30 8 S t t r m I Can So Ids 12 Reading 4s O 44s t j t It G W Ist5 1111 < < 11 Term 4s te II t L Ir M I C Ohio Zs 18 Con 55 110 I C C H D 41s1t4St L San P K It G 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Adams Kxliii Vel L WIGAmer Six140 L R G 23 United States S > V Prrfcnrd < 4ytWells Fargo 12 lri new Hfe A Cot Oil iiH First pfU 3 101 Preferred ffift f Ft Wuiie 1 > 0 Amn Spirits 12A Gt Nor pfd 1M 1t Preferred I yt Hocking Val i > Am lolmcco ls ii Jllinii Cant llfifet 1 Preferred 141 Lake Erie AV IS Cons Gas 220 Prefecrtl TV4Com Cable COIM Like i4vrz iuui Col FFb r Louis Nash CG I Preferred w Manhattan L Gen Electliz r Met St Ky 24 i Hak Com Co 72 Mich Ceni 118 B R T 95 Mum t il y IntnI Paper 53 r First fd to Preferred St t M Pac 1 46 < Laclede Gas i F Mobile yilo 3S Lead My t r MO I1 rl r Preferred 1IOZ t Preferred Sl hI Fed Steel Co 51 trJ TV J Cent 1TI Preferred s > x r I N Y Cent 1374 Nat Lin Oil i t I N Y ChI St Pac Mall 52 L 14J4 Peoples Gas U4 > I First pfd G Pullman Pal 16Qii t Second pfd S3 I Silver Cert OH > Nor West 10 Standard Rope No Amer Co S Twine 101 8 No Pac 5 Sugar IIli r Preferred 73Vfe Preferred 114V Ontario W 2l T C Iron 45 18 O It N 40 IU S Leather C t 8 t lLpr 7f g O S L 45 t Preferred 71fe Pac Coast isis IU S Rubber G3V4 pfd 53 i Preferred 117 Second pfd C3 West Union IMY Plttsburg tit lx lOre Nay pfd G A Reading 22Pac Coast 4S t fe First ptd Cl Colo South 7i rJ st L IW F 12 Vc gstS pfd M first pfd 72V1i Second pfd 21 Second pfd 40Rock Jplnnd UU NEW YORK MINING STOCKS Chollur T Ontario 575 Deadwood 43Ophir 15 Gould Curry WPlymouth IS Hall Xonross 35 Quicksilver 1 M orlIOs 3 Quicksiver 0 f Crown Point 25 Preferred a 0 Con CuI Va I 90 Sierra Nov 1 O Komestake a KStandard 0 Iron Silver SO Union Con m Mexican 60 Yellow Jacket Z I SAN FRANCISCO MINING STOCKS San Francisco Feb LThe odal I I II L ur closing quotations for mining stocks today to-day were as follows Alta 10 Justice r Alpha Con fc Kentuck Con 13 Andes 19 Mexican n 7U Belcher 24 Occidental Con 3 Benton Con 10 Ophlr 110 Best Belcher 57Overman 1 Bullion 7 Potosi 31 Caledonia 4 Savage 2 Challenge Con 2SSag Belcher 5 Chollar 40Slerra Key 123 Confidence TalSilver i JUt Ip Con Cal Va 155Stahdard 323 Crown Point 27 Union Con 5 Gould Curry 41Utah Con r3 Hale Norcross Yellow Jacket 34 BOSTON MINING STOCKS Allouez Min Co 10V4 Osccola r Atlantic I Quincy 1S1 Boston Mont3 Tamarack 240 Butte Boston S Wolverine 4S Calumet H830 iarrott 2Ts Centennial 57 Adventure 16 Old Dominion 41i Stocks at London New York Feb 54The Commercial Advertisers London financial cablegram Business here was small today owing to the heavy settlement The tone was good In the early hours but was depressed later by a rumor of the death of tho ameer of Afghanistan which affected consols and Indian issues although it was much doubted Americans opened off then rallied slightly above parity and maintained a firm tone on professional and continental buying until New York prices came weak whereupon the market E eCt1 1 J became rather wild went flat and closed at only fractional recovery Three hard spots were Central Pacific Baltimore t Ohio and Ontario Western There were dealings in Central Pacifc4s at 1 > 5H in the 314s at 91V4 in Southern Pacific is 35 at S and in Southern Pacific shares at t Coppers were flabby Tintos were 4 Utahs 9U Anacondas SUS and Bos tons 2s Loans Exchange and Silver New York Feb 24 Money on call steady at 2S2Vi per cent lust loan I 21 l per cent Prime mercantile paper 2ifj > 3 1 per cent Sterling exchange struntr Vltl actual hUhiness In bankers wlh banker bills at I 4S6t4S6t4 for demand and 4S41t0i4S4 for w days Posted rates 4SiyQ4 and I 4Sii61187 Comemrcial bills 4S3a4SJit Silver certificates nominally SlMjjw I Bar silver 5Di Mexican dollars 17 > I Metal Markets New York Feb 24It was a day of small changes in the local metal market With the exception of lead which eased off 2 to 5 points the final notations were positively unchanged News from abroad and the west was practically as had been anticipated Buyers in view of heavy purchases were slow to take hold sellers were indifferent and disposed to hold out for another upward movement move-ment At the close the metal exchange I 9 aied pig iron warrants unchanged at I Lake Copper Unchanged at 1775 bid and 1SOO asked I Tin Firm at 2475 LeadQuiet at 433 bid and 440 asked Spelter Unchanged at C50 I fg totrGi The brokers price for lead is 420 and ant l1or copper 1SOO t |