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Show II MARKET YET 4" fillLLER if tiling in Trend oX Financial Currents to Cause Any An-j An-j parent Animation. Ik ok demand is the CHARACTBRTSTig FEATURE sorption of United States Steel and Union Pacific Give Strength at Closing. CEW YORK. April 21. The extreme llricss of yesterday's stock market was tellevcd today by tho resumption of derations in foreign stock markets and Boston, although the Easter Monday Bfiday abroad was advanced as a special rjjpIanaUon for the halt In New York, nther the dullness was aggravated today vd1 the lneria of the mass of the list of Hiturltles was not overcome at any time aBtho moderate movement In a few spc-Ip'. spc-Ip'. stocks. hjMtocks were in scant supply and wore Jj.tJ pressed for sale In any largo volume. s tr on the,solher hand, general demand 9te almost stagnant. The dull and al-bst al-bst motionless market Is the conse-Jfence. conse-Jfence. Immodiate developments bearing if the financial flltnaUon were not im-aTtant im-aTtant today. It Is evident, however, at the prevailing' mood of the waiting1 pltho effect of the balancing of the cer-jtn cer-jtn considerations, one against another, plllch serve to hold the market for the vlfte, at a dead level. On the one side affa renewed reuollon of the buslncfn faA trade activity which threatens addi-Hjnnl addi-Hjnnl Inroads upon the earning power of taustrles, while on the other Is the lapwing accumulation of money In b;ik-centers b;ik-centers and the promise of floods of 'jjpplies which will lloat Investment sc-"frltles sc-"frltles In the market. Confidence in the litter force Js inferred from the plans for financing which are coming to pub-"Jyikuowledge. pub-"Jyikuowledge. Rankers and railroad administrators ad-ministrators would not continue to bring ,nL) these new Issues until they had con-fljanco con-fljanco In the revival of a. demand to jwbrb them, and In a maintenance of a iftco level that would make their flota-iJ5ns flota-iJ5ns profitable. SlThe demonstration of tills theory regains re-gains to he made, and the arrowing ple-Clpra ple-Clpra of money has not only awakened ; investment demand for securities, al-wiough al-wiough tho negative of the entirely sus-inried sus-inried ll'iuidatlon is very apparent. No (lpficlul information can be secured of the ingress makhfc in the sales of the new jjcurltles already olforcd, but the as-mptlon as-mptlon is general that a very slow iarkct exists for them as yet. It was Ither significant that the filing of a ortgago for 530.000.000 on Illinois Ccn-kl' Ccn-kl' efiulpmont caused a sharp drop in tej price of that stock today. Ponnsyl-tnla Ponnsyl-tnla was conspicuous because of the ro-Mrjed ro-Mrjed determination of the directors to I'sue $40,000,000 of bonds under an au-Vorlzation au-Vorlzation given many years ago, al-Jough al-Jough there was an official announcement announce-ment on this subject. lUEhr-re was a notable absorption of njtod Ftates Steel and the upward -iurse of this stock and of Union Pacific las of large sympathetic effect on the Sflible list, leading to the strong closing. Bonds were Irregular. Total sales, par 21ue. $2,715,000. v j United States bonds were unchanged on Fun. lit N'e'w' Xork Bonds. 'JfS ref 2s reg:. 1033 Mann con gold 4s jm do coupon ...10A Mexl Cen -Is .. SO PS 3s res? 100? , do 1st Inc ... 16a ftdo coupon ...lOU'M. & StL -is ... 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SSilTJ S Steal 2nd 5s 901 ,nfuba 5s , 102 (Wabash lsJs ..107i m:& R G is ... 91 I do Deb B ... 46 pistil Sec 5s... 699IW rd 4s fio Cjlrle p 1 4s Sli I r & L ID 4 . . . r3 Qirle Gen 4s .... 70 Wis Cen is' si 3rock Val 4Jf ,.I01iJap 4s 77 ffiapan 4s cer . . Sns'Atch cv 4s RS ;RIao 2nd series. S55; do 5s 99J isw u,li ,s " 3,'ilInt Iet 4is "" fiC8 I Now York Money. NEW YORK, April 21. Prime mercantile mercan-tile paper. 47j41 per cent. I'Sterllng exchance, strong, with actual 'Uisinoss In bankers' bills at ?4.S7.40fi iS7.45 for demand and at ?4.S5fj'4.S5.0n for. Jfety-day bills. ICjCommercial bills, SI.S4J. .Mexican dollar.-;. 47c. 5.BondH Governments, steady; railroads, Jregular, Money on call easy, at ls'5'2 per cent: lng rato, 1 per rent; closing bid, 15 jr. cent; offered at 2 per cent. JiTJrne loans, dull but slightly firmer: Vkty days, 21fi?24 per cent: ninety days, llfti per cent; six months, SiS por Iff- |