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Show NO INTEREST ' INilARKET Wall Street Pays Little Attention to Fluctuat-lug Fluctuat-lug Stocks. NEW YORK. Feb. lJ.-Tha majority of atocka were Igwer at the opealng today. Amalgamated Copper and Tennessee Coal were conspicuous exceptions, with advances ad-vances of a large fraction, and Anaconda rose l la sympathy with the former. Among the declines Smelting and Leather preferred reached a point. The ohaogM otherwise were small fraction. Dealing were very quiet and rather lrrerulaA A number of the active leaders. Including Bx. Paul. New York Central. Anaconda, Amalgamated, Amal-gamated, Amalgamated Copper and Ten nesaee Coal, ran fit below their opening pneea. Meanwhile Wabaah preferred. Brooklyn Transit, BmelUng and Republlo Steel rose sharply. Large orders for Amalgamated Copper came Into the mar ket at the low level, and the price advanced ad-vanced to 74. with some effect ail around. nces drifted sluggishly in an almUss way, except In special stocks. The market mar-ket hardened when gold exports tomorrow were seen to be unlikely, but eeeed off again with a loes of 14 In New York Central. Cen-tral. Northwestern preferred sold at a decline de-cline of 16 points fron the preceding sale last month, and Canada Southern fell 1. Among the specialties American Telephone Tele-phone advanced 4. Sloss-Bhefflelil Bteel preferred advanced 4. People's Gas i. and Pressed Steel Car and Fort Worth Denver City stamped 1 point. Bonds were steady at noon. Most of the limited selling was in Amalgamated, which again touched T4, the highest of the day. Fluctuations In other speculative favorites were trivial, and traders paid little attention to the market. Ge,r1. Electrio gained 1. while Colorado Colora-do Fuel and St. Louis-Southwastera lost 1. and New Jersey Central 4 points. The eelllriy was very light, but was sufficient suf-ficient to induce further small recessions in the price level. Tennessee Coal relapsed re-lapsed ls under last night Louisville and Chicago Terminal preferred lost a point, and Metropolitan securities 1. The clo-smtr clo-smtr was easv. Closing stocks: Atchison, R74: Atchison preferred, 100H; Anaconda, 1224: B. A O.. Alton 35; C G. W7, 27V4: C. A O.. f :vLrievflr!!tJ)r'f'rr'd 71: L. & N.. V '. NwWwYo,rlt Central. 146: Illinois Cen-tral Cen-tral 14H: Pennsylvania. 149;, Reading. S: !LeadJnnr8t Preferred, SH; Southern Pacing 64; 8t. Paul, 177T4: Southern Railway, Rail-way, 35; Union Pacific. 101H; U. U. preferred. pre-ferred. 94-?i; rnltort States Steel. 38V ; U. S. S. preferred, 88; Wabash preferred. 61: People's Gas. 104: North American. 1 la; B. R. T.. 69; Missouri Pacific. 113 AmalKamatM Copper. 73V; 8uarL 131: Wisconsin Central, 38; Wisconsin Central preferred, 63. |