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Show - - o ..1 Large pveccnt in That' Steel; Keeps the Wall Streeters Guessing . ' NEW YORK. Jan. 15. Tha New TorK stock market dd not follow the Ixmdoa lead to a tig-he' llvel, but opened Irregular. Irregu-lar. The Pacifies and some of th Industrials Indus-trials made opening losses, but taa Eastern East-ern railroads, Including the trunk lines and coalers,, made fractional advances. ' Except In the Eries business was not oa a large seal eN The. market turned downward down-ward with tSt exemptions. Erie reacted about a point to a half below last night, while the first and seoond preferred continued con-tinued firm at an extrem advance of point. Hocking Vatley roa aver a point. Elsewhere prices ftill blow last night. In St. Paul, Canadian Pacific. D. St H j , and Sug-ar the decline reached a point. The market rallied araln u:ider the lead " ervhlp of Missouri Paclflo and Erie pre- -f erred. The advance was chected atralnt before the recovery had geuvully reaoOect to last night's level. Later Chesapeake (k. Ohio was lifted a potnt wtth soma syra-patHfttlc syra-patHfttlc effect on the gwnnral list. i The lack of authentic information as to the reason for the larpe . market move- V -f ment In the Erie . kept speculation In ' check and the market was soft under J mall selling. Bonds were Irregular. Sugar dropped to below 130 and the n-' dertone of the.mixket was heavy. Only, a few stocks were traded In at all. A. demand sprung up for Amalgamated Copper which carried it a point over laat night. Meantime Sugar went lower and the -general market ntlnued very sluggish slug-gish and Irregular. Michigan Central re-, covered 9 points of yesterday's break.: Lackawanna fell 2 points. . The pric9 movement was" exceedingly narrow. Amalgamated losing Its gain and Erie fell more than, a point below last ... . night. The lattor movement caused some increaae in the selling pressure and prices fell to about the lowest. Sugar lost 2S and United States Express 2. The dosing was dull and easy. Closing stocks: Atchison, 87; Atchison . preferred, 8irti;naoonda, 96; C. A., 35H; C. A O., 604; Illinois Central. 148; New York Central, 153: Reading, 6tf?4: St. Paul. 178H; Southern Ranvray, 35: Union Pa- cine preferred. 94; Hnited States Steel. . iJM,; People's Gas, l03; Missouri Paciflc, ' IJlVi: Sugar, im: B. & O.. 101; C. O. W., TP; Erie preferred, 72; L. & N.. 137H: Southern Paclftc. (6H; Union Pacific, 102; United States Steel. 38; B. R. T., 684; Cop- " per. 2; Corn products. 32. |