Show I f STOCK MARKET MARKEl MARKElIS IS Speculators Find More Attraction Attraction Attraction tion at Present in Grain and Cotton NO PROSPECT OF REVIVAL SECURITIES NOT WANTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC New Tork York Hay Ma 17 The stock market m today continued to show almost entire ne neglect neglect on the part parl of ot the general world of capital and finance Such speculative pec interest as exists finds more attraction In Inthe Inthe Inthe the grain and cotton markets An fin Important Important Important tant effect on the trading Is produced also by the retirement of ot some Borne of ot the habitual traders whose plunging operations In the past have haye filled tilled up the measure of stock market activity Not only are the Indi Individual individual vidual operations of ot this class of ot leaders lacking In the present market but there has hR been withdrawn In their wake w ke an im important important important following Disgust with heavy losses In the recent severe declines or hopelessness of ot any early substantial re revival revival revival vival of ot general interest are severally ad lanced In explanation of ot these retire retirements retirements ments There seems to be an entire prostration ot of oth h demand for securities inthe open market and there Is almost as aa striking absence tL ence of ot any an large selling The un undertone undertone of or the market Is heavy as Is al almost almost almost most Invariably tile the case In periods of ot extreme dullness The rhe sagging tendency today was a sympathetic reflection from the rising wheat market The rhe selling of stocks Blocks was traceable in iu part to sources which are active buyers buers of wheat This Felling selling seems to be professional as all other transactions in the tho present are and the growth of the short account is believed 1 to keep pace with this selling The in Canadian Pacific was an 1 example of ot the dangers of ot the short side i if if the market in its present narrow con condition conditIon A published report attributing to toS S President Roosevelt an Intention to move for tor a commission to appraise the railroad property of ot the country and the tho belief belier that further action against some of ot the great corporations Is imminent at Wash Washington ash I ington were cited as grounds for discouragement discouragement of ot any active operations In tho to t market Bonds were ware heavy hea Total sale sales par val value value valne ue ne United States bonds were wee ere unchanged on call c L |