Show MARKET IS SLUGGISH F Few Points of Note in n Trading on Wall Wal Str Street et During Day NEW YORK Oct 21 The The 21 Th stock tock market opened active but hut without a a definite te tone Members Iem ber of oC special groups moved in contrary directions notably the soft coal and anthracite stocks Fluctuations were not Important Important tant cither wa way and the market became came dull dul after the first few minutes of or tra tra- tra- tra ding dins Stocks made a momentary dis display is ls play of firmness s under tinder the Influence of or ofa ofa ora a point rise In Sugar and fractional gains In some of oC the Pacific railways The general en rl market sold oft again to about aboul the opening level lex Lackawanna lost 3 3 i 3 Metropolitan Street Railway 1 B 1111 and Smelting preferred a point The general market was sluggish owing ow ow- ing lag to the reduction of pool pooi pol operations and the Interest attached to the miners miners' convention Prices hardened toward noon under th the leadership of or SL SI Paul which rose a point pint from the lowe lowest t. t Bonds Bonda were Ire Irregular ular Prices failed fale to hold on the midday rally as fresh selling of ot B. B 0 O. and Illinois Central depressed them l nd 2 Z points respectively respectively and caused a n setback In the general general gen gen- eral oral market murkeL Louisville later made an an upward spurt of oC 1 14 but the general list a was practically at Th The failure of the mark market t to respond to the calling off arc of ot the coal strike caused active selling selling- for Cor both accounts and losses of half halt points we were e made by St. St St Paul Atchison Canadian Pacific Missouri i 1 Pacific antI and the Pennsylvania group of or s shocks W Wf Wash ash d declined 3 3 St Paul preferred 3 3 and Northwestern 5 5 5 4 A feeble rai rally In prices was a not lon long maintained as ns large amounts of o stock came out on the rise risE and prices ai ail 1 around sagged to the lowest lowest Practically Practically cally caly all an of o the leading railroads sold solda a point or more under yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's close and a number of the specialties were also aiM affected The closing was dull dul and weak wea k Close Close- Atchison 89 preferred Baltimore Ohio 10 i Chesapeake Ohio 36 2 Erie preferred 6 63 Illinois Central 19 i Louisville Nashville New Ness York Central Penn Penn- sylvania 1634 Reading 67 61 preferred pre pre- erred 87 Southern Souther Pacific 72 71 St. St Paul 1904 Southern Souther ral a railway 33 Union Pacific preferred 9 91 United States Steel 40 f preferred S 9 Wabash preferred 49 49 9 Gas North American Brooklyn Rapid Transit Transit fan fan- Tran Tran- sit It 63 63 Missouri Pacific 10 Copper 65 Sugar 13 Wisconsin Central 23 S preferred 63 |