Show IN THE STOCK MAKKET Easier Money Conditions Give it a Good Tone New York Jan Bradstreels Financial Finan-cial Review tomorrow will any Easier conditions in tho money market together with tho effective support from leading Interests In the Industrial and railroad sharo lists particularly the Vanderbilt trunk lines gave a Rood toimit to Ito market mar-ket at tho beginning of tho year rIte transactions of last Saturday were of the usual limited kind In advance of two days holiday but prices were llrrn and tho feeling of the market Indicated n be lief that tlin fInancial situation bud Improved Im-proved Thin Impression was not nega tived I by the weekly bank statement nl though the I changes In the averages for lImo week wero not uf very signal chnrae ter a j On Tuesday when the exchange re 1 opened professional buying was in evi I hence whIle money apart from somo temporary Irregularity ruled at bout 0 per cent and tho foreign markets wcro Kencrnlly calm with Homo slight indications indica-tions ol bullishness Quotations thereupon there-upon all advanced throughout th list attention at-tention beliifr gIven to special securities of which thin Paclllc railroads the I Vnn dorbllt trunk lines stocks and thin Steel and Tobacco industrial were tho I most prominent A drHlnlng tendency In Prooklvn Transit had no effect on Ito rest of tho list and that I stork later mi recovered mainly upon Ito covering by llio short In terest In It It I I was noticeable however that the market In spltu of its relatively fair degree of activity tvlts extremely nrofeislonal I and that I the t publics part in this movement as Indicated by tiP transactions rairled out by the commis sionhouses was on the whole small London I purchased a few stocks but Its I chief influence on tho market canto from tho easing off of discount rates In the open market and the morn cheerful speculative spec-ulative sentiment whleh developed with tbo news that some success bad attended the maneuvers of thin British forces In South Arlea On Wednesday afternoon however there was a Change In the attitude of our market which had Its origin rbroad It would seem that tIle money market conditions condi-tions at Berlin havn not Improved and that tho seizure uf a German vessel carrying car-rying biipnlles to tIme Transvaal was regarded re-garded ns likely to put n strain upon the already difficult relations between Germany Ger-many and Great Britain At all events heavy sales of German holdings of American stocks were noted In bQth London and New York and llio market lost a considerable part of Its previous Improvements Vague reports of British reverses In tbo South African ar oddrd to ito uncertainty while the fart that In spite of easier rates for money In London exchange advanced more or Jess also had Its effect On Thursday the market presented further fur-ther Indications of an Incipient break owing to turtber declines In prices for Americans In London but before the day ended a decided rally set in I under Ito lead of llio trunk lines stocks This hi duo largely to ports that I some Important arrangements bad been effected which are calculated to Impiovo the already harmonious har-monious realtlons of tbo I leading trunk lino properties II Is alSo thought that the announcement announce-ment of the transfer of the electric Hght organization Created by tbo loading In loresls In Metropolitan Traction to tbo I Consolidated OJas will tend lo bring about an torly settlement of Ito New York gas war |