Show ARE TAKEN Y SUBSTANTIAL j INTERESTS ai Issues Are Thus Ab- Ab During Recent lj Era lEra of Weakness It urn hed b by Harold Harold HaroldI U. U I Smoot Co l Dec 15 Short Short covering to continue and atil rallying en Absence of money furrie flurries Ifs such a tendency The TheU U of the rails raUs is favor favor- S j commented upon as ae reflecting ingi in- in gi Tient ent absorption during weakness reported in m specialist channels that lent of Baldwin stock went hands of influential railroad banking tests rests the latest d decline The King jing sUPPlY is said sid to be very much ver Iced and the stock stok Is in a position cover rapidly it i is said sid It I is a known fact that all al railways here abroad are short of or locomotives News r eb by those who study such ires are to the effect that the v ino now being borrowed b by brokers to own ow am and their customers customers' customer Is about If 1 this U I figure then brokers' brokers loans a good deal since the big ets of last last- last year In July In loans were estimated at al l 0 and by t the end of i last year ll this i supposed to have been reduced b by About three months the figure was placed at between and teJ district was not surprised erday ray when word was received that tate rotate tato of ot Nebraska had formally op op- d approval by the interstate com corn e commission of the plan to cut a an n for stockholders of or the Chicago Ington Quincy railroad as some some opposition had been expected The Tho contends that the plan threatens it of revenue evenue resulting from of a I heavy heV transfer of nontaxable dividends dividends Times Pasco lasco Copper company sells sels bonds to syndicate headed by Morgan an Co United Drug sells I e. e 00 G C per pel cent notes to local sels syn- syn ferage erge price 20 industrials up iO 20 rais rails up Dow Jones Dow I |