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Show SHALL CHANGES ON WALL STREET NEW TORli. Feb. I. Openlnn prlc changes were unusually narrow, the market mar-ket ruling practically on a parity, with yesterday's closing;. The tendency waa upward. Canadian Pacific. Northern Pa-clflo Pa-clflo and Chesapeake a Ohio showing Improvements Im-provements of . and lnlon Pacific ,1. Business was .small as a result of the, interruption in-terruption of wire communication by The storm, v Bull operators became more confident of their position and bought llberallv. raising 'prices substantially In all quarters. A bear drive., against Great Northern preferred pre-ferred sent It down 41. and caused general gen-eral realising In other stocks, which wiped l)ut the major portion of their advance. The trading movement caused hy the weakness of the Hill stocks soon passed and the list rebounded to the earlier high prices when trading became dull. Bonds were steady. Selected storks were taken hold of and advanced sharply at Intervals, but the ret of the Mst was not much altered, though prices at 2 o'clock were at the hlghent of th day. Railroad stocks were not henftied much by the Inquiry which developed for a number of specialties after 12 o clock. The market, however, showed Increasing underlying un-derlying strength, although the buying was In small amounts. I'nlon Pacific. Northwestern and Canadian Pacific rose 2. Hide and leather preferred 11 and Colorado Southern. Amalgamated Copper. I Colorado Fuel. Corn Products, National I Biscuit and 1". S. Rubber first pfd. 1 to 1J. |