Show I ISAUL INTEREST WAS SAUL SADLY Y LACKING Little Doing in the Market Ex Except Except Except in a Few Special Stocks SOME DIVIDEND RUMORS U US S STEEL DIRECTORS WILL WILLS S MEET TODAY New York Oct Oct 29 The active Interest in la stock market market was of the slen slenderest slenderest slenderest derest outside of special movements on a handful of stocks These special move movements move ments meats were in the way wy of accumulations and ald the resulting advances in the stocks stock concerned served to hold the general list Iu In sympathy s The United States Steel teel directors are expected to act on the terly dividend and the Penn Pennsylvania Pel PennSylvania sylvania directors on Thursday There were some Bome heavy transactions in United States Steel early in the day and asser assertions aser assertions were made nade that the stock would be placed on a 4 per cent dividend basis to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow The rhe price moved up in response and carried with It i Chesapeake Ohio Reading was the most conspicuous stock In the days movement and Its it fluctuations fluctuations ions were attributed to activity by b a pool credited with wih the market control of the stock There were no notable changes in the which operated last week to toI restrain I strain speculative activity Large at ai attention tenton still centers center on the th struggle of or orthe the Bank of England to recuperate its is forces The fact that the 00 of newly new arrived South African gold went almost wholly In to the bank at a decline in the price paid was wa accepted as a help ful fui factor But special domestic re n are to be met by b the te London money market this week which are ex expected exp expected p to make a a drain of an amount to fully offset this gain gain S uTne The call cal money one market was quiet but the te tone of time loans was wa reported again to be strong especially for fOI the thc ninety day da period carrying over oyer the end of the the year Foreign For exchange was w was s weak Rail Railroad Rai Railroad road traffic officials reported increasing difficulty in the growing gowing shortage of cars and unchecked accumulation of ot freight The rise in Pennsylvania which was vas the last lat to occur was taken advantage ya of to sell sel other stocks stock so that the gains were nearly all al wiped out except that in Pennsylvania itself it elf The closing tone was easy Bonds were irregular Total sales p pr r value 1500 United States bonds were unchanged on oneall call |