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Show :AI,'0TliEl PLURRY ON 7All STREET NEW YORK, March 19. Openlna-'prlces showed declines, generally, which were wide In some of the most active stocks. There was a sprinkling of gains, a rise of a point In Southern Pacittc being the most conspicuous. Reading fell 21. SmeTt-Ing SmeTt-Ing and Great Northern 2, Northern Pacific Pa-cific and Union Pacific H, Anaconda,. It and Amalgamated Copper a point. t Heavy liquidation was resumed In the stock market, and prices crumpled away rapidly with special stocks showing demoralisation. de-moralisation. Reading, Union Pacific, St. Paul and the Hill stocks and Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper broke heavy. The entire market became sensationally weak.' Union Pacific dropped 71. Great Northern preferred pre-ferred and Smelting 64, Reading 6. St. Paul 6, Northern Pacific 41. Amalgamated Copper 4 and Anaconda, 31. The decline generally ran between- 1 and 2 points. There were signs of a check to the decline de-cline by IX o'clock. The pressure of liquidation spent its force and there were rebounds and feverish fever-ish fluctuations. There were recoveries in Union Pacific to 3, Reading 2J. Amalgam mated Copper 24 and the most active stocks 1 to 2. Bonds were weak. The market again betrayed weakness, but the decline was arrested after the reaction re-action had reached 1 to 11 for the lead-. lead-. lng stocks. The rally which followed brought some stocks higher than on the preceding recovery, especially Union Pacific, Pa-cific, which touched if. Southern Pacific scored a full recovery. About the middle of the afternoon another spell of weakness developed which lowered the list .from 1 to 2 points. The market made some stand for a while but had to succumb to the increasing offers of Reading and Union Pacific. |