Show TBEND OF SPECULATION Public Is Still Awaiting Decisive War Developments New York May Bradstreets j financial review tomorrow will say Irregularity Ir-regularity In the movement of prices this week has beet attended by consid I erable bullish sentiment and activity The war continues to be the principal I speculative factor and in a large degree restricts the market by rendering the j outside public unwilling to take a part in it until there are further and even i decisively favorable developments This i has let matters entirely in professional I hands although the rank and file of the Wall street traders are at present bullish in their ideas and disposition Both the regular professionals and the large financial interests closely connected connect-ed with corporations are disposed to I pay more attention to the crops the prospects of another year of large rail j ipad tonnage and earnings and to the j generally favorable outlook than to the war situation The principal movements in prices this icekthe advances in the granger stocks and the local traction trac-tion securities were the result of Influences In-fluences entirely outside of war develOpments devel-Opments In the first named case the Increase in the Rock Island dividend and the probability of an extra one was the moving factor in prices and In the latter instance rumors of a connection between the Metropolitan and the Third avenue companies were sufficient to materially advance both stocks Other parts of the list also moved in obedience obedi-ence to circumstances or developments having a particular bearing on their values It should be noted that this week London has changed its position and has bought our stocks instead of selling sell-ing them Its change attitude is due partly to the decline or the money market mar-ket there and to an easier feeling about the relations between England and the continental powers The advance of exchange rates here seems natural and attracted little attention on the stock market while the very tfasy rates for money are an encouragement for holders cf stocks and tend to emphasize empha-size the firmness with which the market mar-ket resists bearing pressure or fails to respond to unfavorable reports New York May 27Tim following table cornmled hy Hrailstreet shown tho inc clearing at S3 cities for the week ended May 2S with the percentages of increase and decrees is coirparea with the corresponding corre-sponding week last year Cities I Amount IncDe New York 605605SOII 277 Boston 911140ii 4L Chicago 1111683351 33S Philadelphia C3tC2725 213t St Louis 2C513302 141 Pittsburg 204 Baltimore 1S27S12S 40 7 San Francisco 12i972S31 223 Cincinnati 1270440 641 Kansas City 11423718 42 New Orleans 68449P2 llS Minneapolis 94131531 2Si Detroit 6353915 CG7 Cleveland 70S3016I 339 Louisville 5517317 112 ProvidenceI 441S100 86 Milwaukee 47S5306 121 St Paul 4010414 150 Buffalo 4403037 152 Omaha CS93143 332 Indianapolis 5G663O 348 Columbus O 3SWOOO 111 Savannah1671685 43 Denver 26056421 Hartford 1E5S311I 104 Richmbfud11521811 22 Memphis 137837C 250 Wftshbgton 171551115 Peorlarr 16S4 413 218 Rochester 1679143 173 New Haven I 134411 701 Worcester 124S792I Atlantn 1019571 18 SALT LAKE CITY 12026581 598 Springfield Mass 1311210 190 Fort Worth i60005 553 Portland Me 1hOt331 59 Portland Ore Il01GSli 7731 St Joseph 301361415I2 Los Angeles 1210776 172 Norfolk 950302 1441 Syracuse 1095390 Des Moines t 1057052 231 Nashville J 1075812 43 Wilmington Del iS4Sffi 242 Falt River S47S162 Grand Rapids 5636781 295 Augusta Ga 427476 t 249 Lowell 23613885 Dayton 2S9 Seattle 11190571 1125 Tacoma 108195711175 Spokane 7924281 304 Sioux City 633172 New Bedford 49iItI 193 Knoxville Tenn 33058I 910 Birmingham 417531 WichIta 4115121 69 Binghamton 242tcelj S2 Lincoln 315763 227 Lexington Ky 311617 331 Jacksonville Pie ZtS7l3GIDP Kalamazoo I 3332001162 Bay City iDOG23i Chattanooga 31894 335 Rockford Ills 243753 US Canton 6 7 Springfield 0 231154 129 Fargo N lfl0 Sioux Fails S Hastings Neb fl2C0 773 Fremont Neb 121651 134 593 Toledo 2402194 1121 Galveston 4334200 194 194i Helena 554cJ51 Totals U SilSSS2S343 294 Totals outside N Y 3 4931124151 126 DOMINION OF CANADA CIties i Amount InclDec Montreal 109136311 2521 Toronto 6231447 80 Winnipeg 3123800 202 771 St John N B 52124492 I Totals 214458111 210 Not included in totals because contain log other items than clar1ngs |