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Show rebounded to tr.-hlErliPst, Reading1 brlrisr-ins brlrisr-ins The list rtponded In spots, but the market yielded apain at 1 o'clock. United States Steel preferred falling; back; to 81. The market became decidedly reactionary reaction-ary and ran off sharply to below last night except for a few leaders. After feeble rally the decline was renewed. - GAINS IN WALL STREET NEW YORK. Oct. 18. Stocks were well taken today at the outset and showed grains throughout with the exception of a few of the Southwestern and New York Central. Erie was the feature, big' blocks of shares appearing in the opening' transactions transac-tions at an extreme advance of St. Paul gained V Amalgamated Copper and Erie second preferred . One thousand thou-sand snares of Mexican Central sold at 17 and ITH. compared .with 164 last night. United States Steel preferred opened up on the sale of 2(00 shares and the common com-mon unchanged on the sale of 3000 shares and both stocks subsequently ran off a fraction below last night. Consolidated Gas . and Westlngphouse Electric rose 1 each. " 1 t St. Paul became very buoyant and rose to 1734. Erie broke through' the opposition opposi-tion at 38 and rose I4, and Reading extended ex-tended its gain to 13. Long strings of lOOO-share blocks and upward of Southern South-ern Railway and of Atchison carried them up liflhi. Louisville & Nashville sold at 187 for one - lot and then ' relapsed IVi. These were the features of the market. There were gains of 1 to 2 in Illinois Central. Cen-tral. Lead, Pacific Mall and 'some others. Westlnghouse Electric rose 2i and the first preferred 2. The rise In the general list was mdderate. under pressure of profit-taking on the reaetlon. Amalgamated Copper, Brooklyn Translt.Wabash, Kansas Kan-sas & Texas preferred; Tennessee Coal and Locomotive sold .below Jast night Bonds were .strong at noon, except for a few speculative issues. . . Several other stocks of first importance were forced well below yesterday's closing clos-ing before. the market rallied., including Northwestern.- New York Central and Republic Re-public Steel preferred, which lost from to 1 point.- Enormous purchases of Reading Read-ing and St Paul ware resumed and they |