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Show ADVANCES IN WALL STREET NEW YORK, Nov. 9. The large orders executed In the opening stock market today to-day caused a commotion in the price movements, the level advancing strongly ' throughout the list. The Industrials were most notably affected. . The extreme advance ad-vance in the railroads was 1 in Southern Pacific, with a number of other prominent issues rising a point. The United States Steel stocks were the feature. 20.000 shares of each selling on running quotations which varied a half with an extreme advance ad-vance over Monday's clvse, of 1 for each stock. The first hour of trading was gives over to the digestion of a flood of profit-taking profit-taking sales which carried the who! market mar-ket back toward Monday's closing levtt and in some instances below. As a rule first prices were the best. Realising In the United States Steel stocks was particularly par-ticularly heavy and wiped out all but mail fractions of their gain. Thla was true of the prominent railroad stocks generally. The New York public utilities were consistently heavy. At the low level small declines from Monday's level were shown in Union Pacific, Reading. Sugar and Erie first preferred. Reading rallied strongly to 1 over Monday. The market made a comprehensive rally during the second hour, but the great , strength shifted to the railroad stocks. Few of the Industrials got any higher than the opening price. There were many one - point gains added to the railroad list. Southern Pacific gained 2. Lackawanna ' Jumped 10. Conspicuous movements in the Industrials were gains of i In Republic Steel. 3 in the preferred, and 2 In Realty and Smelting. Beet Sugar lost 1. Bonds were Irregular at noon. |