Show I I I STRIKE NEWS HAS 1 NO BAD EFfECT NEW EW YORK Feb 23 Before noon cables from London indicated th tho probable proba bb ble bl failure of the coak conference This and nd the announcement that list several lc ral hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred thou thousand miners hal had Joined th the ranks of or the tho proposed strikers produced d depression in jn markets but the news tle was wait without effect here b beyond ond hIn h in In pause to those traders committed d to the long account Boardroom gossip attributed much of or orthIs thIs morning selling to an o operator prominent in yesterdays yesterday's buying move move- ment The market grow Increasingly Ir Irregular Ir- Ir regular before midday with 1 point de decline de de- dines cline in Reading and nd Metropolitan Metropolitan Metro Metro- politan preferred Elsewhere movements were unimportant s save ve for a A. 3 point gain gainIn In American AmerIa Tobacco and Sear Seam Roe Roo buck Bonds were steady Prices Price yielded slightly during durin the hour probably probA-hl probA as a result r of or the thc showing of the roads for or January January- Union Pacific reported a ft net decrease of or almost almot 38 X and arId South Southern rn Pacific a a. decrease of ot 3 The poor POOL showing was ascribed to the severe v r weather of 01 that month The market d d steady Weakness of or Reading which sold gold at th the lowest caused cA a L general reaction Standard stocks tock ho however eYer met support h C when n prices had returned d to a parity with yesterdays yesterday's closing dotting and the undertone the undertone was better bettor betterin In inthe in the tho final dealings Stock List Close Amalgamated Copp Copper r. r 67 61 J American Beet Sugar l American Car and Foun Foundry Foundry dry M lil American Cotton Oil Am American Amen Ameri rl can Locomotive 32 bid American SmeltIng Smelting Smelting Smelt Smelt- ing and anti Refining 72 Am American Smelting and Refining preferred 1082 1081 American Sugar Su nr P RefinIng Kenning 1191 Anaconda Mining MIning- company campan Atchison 1043 1041 Atlantic Coast COllet Line 1373 Baltimore Ohio 1021 1023 Brooklyn Rapid Transit lt Canadian Pacific 2303 Ch Chesapeake Ohio Chicago o Northwestern Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul IO 1053 J Colorado Fuel and Iron 24 4 Colorado Southern 43 13 bid Delaware Tar Hudson bId Denver Denv r Rio Grande 21 1 bid Denver Deliver Rio Grande pret preferred 42 42 Erie 31 Great Northern preferred 1293 1291 Great Northern Ore are Car Car- tl 31 bid Illinois Central In In- h Metropolitan ough Metropolitan tan pr preferred d 58 Louisville Missouri Pacific 29 23 Missouri 1 Kansas Texas National BI Biscuit 11 National National National Na Na- Lead 53 bid Now ew York Central 1101 1102 Norfolk 1 Western stem 1091 Northern I Pacific 1173 i Pacific Mail Mall 32 22 Pennsyl I vania 1223 P Peoples People's S 'S Ga Gas 1051 1033 Pullman Palace Car l 8 bid Reading 1342 Rock Island company compan 23 3 Rock Island company pr preferred Southern Pacific 1081 Southern Railway 28 Union Pacific 1663 1661 United States Steel Stel United tel States Steel preferred lOa Wabash 6 61 6 bid Wa- Wa hash preferred Western Union 84 Lehigh Valley inter H nester Harvester 1053 j General Electric 61 |