Show WAR SITUATION AFFECTS WALL Sr Prices Have Recovered the Los Sustained on flonday TRADING DULL YESTERDAY GOVEENMENTS GAIN SLIGHTLY ON FAIR PTTBCEASING Money on Call Easy Sterling Exchange Ex-change Easier Condition of the Treasury Very little Business on the London Stock Ex hage Chicago Wheat Recedes Western Live Stock Markets New York April 21Tue European war situation continues to largely dominate dom-inate the course of the market for stocV here a was shown by the quick adjustment ad-justment to the London parity in the quotations at the opening The day was without special developments otherwise other-wise outside of special movements ir individual stocks London showed a further fractional advance for American Ameri-can securities and this was probably due In part to the fact that yesterday yester-day s London prices were somewhat depressed de-pressed by the excessive depression existing ex-isting in New York on Monday Prices for Americans continued to improve in I London during the day and there wa some buying for London account here The result has been that prices have prces recovered the loss sustained on Monday Mon-day and are very generally above Saturdays close to the extent of a varying fraction Trading was dull today I to-day however outside of some special I cases dealers having apparently been I convinced by the experience of Monday I when they acted without any foreign exchanges to take their cue from and I largely oversold the market on the wai I news that they did not understand I much about the eastern question and that they would prefer to await the clearer comprehension before buying or selling further A notable solnt in the days market tor stocks was that It moved with the wheat market though within wihin a narrower nar-rower range This was contrary to the tendency hitherto shown ever since the beginning of the present war scare and was perhaps due in part to the influence influ-ence of domestic crop conditions on the wheat market The days gains In the railway list generally were confined to fractions In the coalers some larger gain were noticed due in wer notced seme mea ure to manipulation to pinch the shares but influenceH also by reports of pjans for more economical marketing of the coal output In the grangers grngr Burlington crossed St Paul and ruled a fraction higher during the day Sugar gained 1 on published reports of steps being taken to secure control of the beet sugar output The bond market ruled firm and higher with a lack of feature in the prominent Issues The aggregate sale were 834000 Governments gained slightly on purchases pur-chases of 31000 Money on call easy at lij < g > iy percent per-cent Last loan 1l closed offered at 1 l413 per cent Prime mercantile paper 3y4 percent per-cent Sterling exchange easier with actual business In bankers bills at 4SS4SS14 for demand and at 4S64SG for 60 days posted rates 487 < 3 > 4S7y and 48S489 commercial bills 4S5O 486 Silver certificates 61ig62 Todays statement of the condition of the treasury shows Available cash balance 224461020 gold reserve 155 008109 Customs receipts today were 673953 38814 total first half of the week 2298 BOND QUOTATIONS U S 4s reg23H Missouri 6s 100 U S new 4s S C nonfund ti coupon 124V6Can So 2da10334 LT S 5s regll23 D R 2dsloY U S 5s coup114 D R G 4s S7V I U S 4s reg111 N J C gen 5sllOVi L > S 4s couplV R G W Ists 72 U SIsreg 96lUPis9t3i < Pac 6s 95104 West Shore 4S10S L new C 4s 95 lest STOCK QUOTATIONS Atchison 10U Preferred 151U Am Express 111 Kr Y C irt Cent Pac 7V4N Y N E 37 Chc Ohio 16 < sOr Nay 10 Chicago Gas 8Hp S L U X 16 Con Gas 1G2PU1I Palace 15S Colo C t 1 Reading 13 D L V i500jfl G W 1234 k iRp fied D f G pf 37Vi Preferred 30 Erie 2S St Paul 7174 i i Preferred 16Vi Preferred 130 Gt I N pref IIS iSo Pacific 143 r E I pref 95 j i Sugar Refin 11314 I Ills Cent 92 Union Pacific o Lead Trust 23 U S Express 40 C a N 433k i F Express101 I 1 N A l West Union SO hp Cent 95 D R G s Mo Pac 1873 Gen Elec y > y U P D G Colo F I 17 orthw101 SAN FRANCISCO MINING STOCKS San Francisco April 20The oflicial Ioslne quotations for mining stocks to lj were as follows Vita 6 Hale Nor 9S Alpha Con S Julia < Ande 24JustIco s I Bel her Kentuck Con 5 Rt I Belcher tSMexican 4 3ullion 9OphIr 103 10 Caledonia Overman 6 Challenge Con 32PotosI 69 hollar llOPavage G Confidence 1 10Sc6rpion 4 Con Cal Val 3 Sierra Nevada 51 Con Imperial 1 Silver Hill ion i-on New York 1 Union Con 26 Crown Point 12 Utah Con 6 Exchequer 3 Yellow Jacket 26 Gould Currie 33 silver bars C Mexican dollars 49Uso lW DraftsslKht 1734 Drafts telegraph NEW YORK MINING STOCKS Jholor 1 ISOntarlo 7 0 awn Point lOOphir i oq t Jon Cal Va 1 7tPlymout 10 Deadwood 1 Quicksilver 1 oO Gould Curry 3 Preferred 10 WHale W-Hale Nor 90Sierra Nevada 45 lomestake 29 Standard i GO Iron Silver 35 Union Con r Icxican 43 Yellow Jacket Z 2 Boston Quotations Boston April 21 Atchison 10 3 Bell 22 Burlington 72 Mexican Central 8 Shor Line 14J San Diego 20 B 11 113 B B IS London finances New York April 21The Evening Posts London financial cablegram The pronounced Turkish victories increased creased today the Stock Exchange be lef that the conflict would bert be-rt and hence a general rise In all locks consols leading with the close radically at the best practcal I Very little business was done butt but-t the moment the tone Is confident and hopefu not the least so with AmerIcans Amer-Icans which closed at the best I is rumored that a large block of Louise Louis-e Nashville will have to be sold by executors I |