Show STRONG ClOSE TO STOCKS ON MA MARKET KE NEW YORK rORK May 23 The The market closed strong The better tone of tol today's dull dul so stock lc market market was wal ascribed in large measure to a a more moro bop hopeful tul feeling r re regarding ma- ma garding the Mexican outlook and the prospects of ot bettor better betor general trade as out out- lined by the mercantile agencies and other students of the tho situation There Then were again some somo offsetting con conS namely advices from abroad particularly In ire parts where the solvency of certain Important banking Int Interests rests Is being openly questioned The Tho TheM so M called caled market avert tea made mae gains oCa of oC ofa ofa a a point pint or better beter with wih a n similar movement move move- mont ment In some ome of ot the tho specialties More gold was wa shipped to Paris and the movement movement move move- ment of currency to the Pacific coast coat continued Bonds Bond were ere steady tead Except for tor a slightly higher rn range of prices stock market conditions In the early erl stages of ot today's brief bre session manifested little change change from recent days daYI Trading was again of ot normal proportions and United Stat States St Steel el rose roso a substantial tal fraction In response to the more optimistic opinions expressed d by eminent trade tre authorities Most of ot tho the other acUe active ac ac- ac tive Ue Issues tended slightly upwards while Rock Island and Missouri Pacific Inclined to lower levels Among the specialties Texas company compan Rumely preferred and Fargo Fargo Vels Express showed shoVed gains of oC 1 to 2 points point Amalgamated copper 73 American Beet Bee Sugar Suar 2 22 bid American Cotton Oil 01 0 bid American Smelting and Refining 64 American Sugar Sugar Refining lOSt 1051 American Telephone and Telegraph Anaconda Mining company compan Atchison 31 Atlantic Coast Line Lne 1214 1216 bid bh Baltimore Balt Balti more mor Ohio I Brooklyn Rapid Transit Tran Tx-an- Tan Tan- sit 92 Canadian Pacific 1941 Chesapeake Chesapeake ChUl p peake ake Ohio 21 Chicago Northwest era ern er 1301 bid Chicago Chiago Milwaukee St. St st Paul 1001 bid bid Colorado Fuel and Iron I 27 27 Did bid Colorado Southern Souther 22 22 bid Delaware Hudson bid Denver I Rio Grande 11 1 bid Erie Eric General i Electric ElectrIc 1471 Great Grea Northern Norther pre preferred 1241 Great eat treat Northern Ore Certificates e I Illinois I n 11 Central 10 bid ou ough h n. n U Metropolitan preferred 62 International Harvester Haester 1071 LouisvIlle Lasle Nashville 13 bid Missouri Pacific 17 Ii Missouri Kansas 8 T Texas exas as IGI bid Lehl Lehigh h Vale Valley 1391 National Lead Lea 45 43 5 bid New York Central 3 Norfolk Western 1041 Northern Pacific 1101 10 J Pennsylvania 1121 1126 P Peoples People's Gas 11 bid Pullman Palace Palace Palace Pal Pal- ace Car Reading Reding 1661 Rock Island Co 2 3 Rock Island bland Co preferred 4 41 4 bid South Southern r Pacific 93 Southern Souther Railway U Union Pacific 1571 United Unie States State Steel 63 United States te St Steel pl preferred 10 Wabash i Western Union bl bid New Haven 69 |