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Show EARLY LOSSES ON V7ALL STREET NEW YORK, April 15. Opening prfces for stocks showed a precipitate decline from last- week's closing. The Hill and Harriman stocks and the coppers were weakest, as was the cause last week. Amalgamated Copper was carried down 31, Northern Pacific 2J. Union Pacific on running sales 2, Great Northern preferred 1!. Southern Pacific 1 and Amalgamated Copper 1). Atchison declined 11 and Reading and Anaconda a point. - A few losses were intermingled with' the brisk rally that began within five minutes after business opened. Otherwise the recovery re-covery was vigorous, though interrupted a.t times by renewed selling, which, however, how-ever, was shortlived. The rally reached 1 to 2 points in the stocks which had shown the most acute weakness and resulted in full recoveries In Northern Pacific, Great Northern preferred and- Union Pacific,- raltimore & Ohio fell 11. Canadian Pacific and C. C. C. & St. Louis 2! before they responded sympathetically to the Improvement Improve-ment elsewhere. - The recovery gained vigor after a slight reaction and advances were carried well over last week's closing. The Hill and Harriman stocks and the coppers maintained main-tained their conspicuous position at the rise as upon' the decline. Smelting's advance ad-vance over Saturday's close reached 21, Reading 2. Great Northern preferred 1. Union Pacific 1J. Copper If, St. Paul, Erie first preferred 1,. National Lead 1), and Anaconda and Missouri Pacific. 1. The market was dull and below the best at noon. , Bonds were Irregular. Reading. Union' Pacific snd Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper- were foremost in the reaction re-action and declined 1 to 1. The tone remained re-mained heavy af 1 o'clock. Late speculation was marked by Irregular Irreg-ular fluctuatione of less than, a point with a downward tendency. Very little of the early advances -were retained, those in Amalgamated Copper, Smelting, Reading 'and Union Pacific being more than wiped out. American Ice lost 4 points, and 'New York Central and Erie felt back to the low level of the morning. The market closed dull and irregular. Prices dropped back during the final hour to the morning low level. Atchison, 92,; Atchison pfd., 95 Jc: Baltimore Bal-timore Ohio, 96J; Canadian Pacific. 73J; Chicago k Northwestern, 149; Chicago Northwestern pfd., 195; Colorado Southern, 26; Denver Rio Grande, 281 : Denver k Rio Grande pfd.. 751 ; Erie, 23; Illinois Central, 143; Louisville k Nashville. Nash-ville. 1161; Mexican Central, 221; Missouri Pacific, 731; New York Central, 1161; Pennsylvania, 123; Reading, 1031; Rock Island, 21; Rock Island pfd., 4Sf ; St. Paul, 132; Southern Pacific, 801; Southern Railway, Rail-way, 20f; "Cnion Pacific, 133; Union Pacific Pa-cific pfd., 871; Wabash, 141: Wisconsin Central.N 18: Amalgamated Copper, 90; American Car k Foundry, 35; American Locomotive, 60!: American Smelting k Refining. 1251: American Smelting A Refining Re-fining pfd., 105; Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 571; Colorado Fuel Iron, 341; International Interna-tional Paper, 141; National Biscuit, 71; National Lead. 58 J; Pacific Mall, 25; People's 'Gas, 91f; Pressed Steel Car, 34 f; Pullman Palace Car, 167; Standard Oil, 522; Sugar, 1221; Tennessee Coal k Iron, 142; United States Steel. 351: United States Steel pfd., 991; Western Union, 82; N. Pac, 127; G. N. pfd.. 132; Int. Met.. 25; Int. Metal pfd., 591; Mackay, 69; Mackay pfd., 691. |