Show QUOTATIONS COPPER New York Metal Exchange Con5ider jnp Changing of Standard S TRIBUNE SPECIAL NeW York March WrThe board of jnanagerH of the metal exchange a con shlerhfg tho proprjcly 9f changing the standard of average quotations for copper cop-per Thu ehoiiB Jwlll probably be decided de-cided upon at llie April or May board ippvUng1 It Is j > ruposeU to take nice trolytlc copper as tlie basis for quotations quota-tions Instead of lake hnU copper whjch Is not now generally accepted as thy standard of value the reason for this proposed change Is that the cornS corn-S parison of production is now about two to one in favor of electrolytic OH against lake Ingot copper This would init lake in u secondary position Tt Is i flahncil In the near future the lake companies will relIne their copper by tho clertrolyllc process oxvlncr to thereat the-reat preference given to II commercially S commer-cially This question of changing the standard uf quotations had been dlK Itissed by the trade for a long timeout time-out hereafter there has been no concerted con-certed action in that dhectlon i |