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Show ' i 4 1' II i . V - J . NEW YORK, April 5. The opening stock market today was dull nd ths tone was hesitating. There wt-rs running sales of C:0 shares of Unlon'Paclfio at Si'i and S'i, compared with 89 last n'cht, snd this totk tilj'quently sold at 4e . Peorios G run off l1. Thpre was a rise of Si In Tennsee Coal. Otherwise the chanJ were amall and mixed. Buying orders for some of the repreanta.tive stocks created a better sontiment and prices were lined quite substantially In a number of oaaea. C'nlon Pacinc was lifted a point above its low flg-ure of the start and Pennsylvania, Bout horn Pacific, at. Paul. Rock Island and Tennessee Coal as much over yesterday's yester-day's cloning- Tbe market reacted slightly, slight-ly, following preaaure against United States Stewl preJerred. but steadied on a .large accumulation of Southern Pacific. The undertone of the market was feverish. fever-ish. - Bonds were, firm at noon. ' Trading Interest was attached to the local lo-cal tractions by the simultaneous execution execu-tion of buying orders in these stocks. The room element beran bidding op prices of the group, and Uetropoiitan Street Railway Rail-way responded with a rise of J. Brooklyn Transit 1 and Manhattan and Metropolitan Metropoli-tan Street Railway 1. Railroad stocks meanwhile, though partly neglected, held welL -Atchison preferred. Kansas Texas preferred. Amalgamated and Colorado Fuel rose from 1 to 14, Lackawanna lost ' Amalgamated' Copper-was pushed tip to (Ofc and Anaconda gained United 8 La tea Btsel preferred, which was binder rather continuous pressure earlier, suddenly sud-denly moved up m over yesterday's close, snd Sugar and fit- Louis Southwestern preferred gained about a point. Colorado Fuel Increased its rise to 1 points, and Realty preferred touched 6t4. a gain of !. Realising went on In tbe railroads and tractions under cover of this strength. Union Pacific and Metropolitan Street Railway-falling back a point wnd sorer others large fractions. Bnuf .asproved. i points on one transaction. A reaction carried Atchison and Missouri Mis-souri Pacific back a point. The market became, steady again, but was notably quieter. Lackawanna recovered to over the - previous dosing, snd Republic Steel te IS. Snuff preferred gained 4H. In the final dealings United States Steel preferred lost Its rise, making tbe dose irregular. |