| Show ACTION OF FRENCH STIRS UP STREEl Rates Now Fear in from Bank of England- England Stocks GroN Grow St Stronger r r f tl I I C. C B Hy ihy Tile 21 advance of or orthe New Nl York Match the time rate In Paris to 5 rUf- rUf n Pe per cent was tile Uio one tIling thing tl talked tJ bout about In Will Wall flU street hS hiSS lias not I today The Bank of oC France Franca I changed Its rate for Cor seven years and amI Wall street people are arc aI afraid hl that thal tIme thu the Dank flank of of di will cause advance of or today Its sensa- sensa i. i maIl another of to of announcements Friday Frida a aan mornIng the time Increased rate Such a move on an foreshadowed fore fore- it Hank Bank of England was was- t of the pai part shadowed several t years e l' l a ago o. o In III of this the traders todaY ay worked hr level in lit the time stocks as as- asa i in hartl for or u a hl higher renewed and I for COl liquidation for Cor basis n a short contracts The he Hank Bank of England ln d lot let gold get JCL away from fromI rout does loes not hot dare re l an any It IL I until unlit after aCtor March larCh S. S and it n sur surely Jl as Americans attempt to engage gold for Cor S shipment to New York time the I rate inte t will bo ho advanced The rhe chief advances today were In iii Stocks that have been blen shaken severely fc showed little Im- Im j The general situation Smelters wa was tras marked back across 1 ISO 12 after a break brCak to 11 chiefly chien because auK the Insiders rs tb do not dare daro let ir it irsell sell elI at parity S lon Look luXl toe lor i I f in ill Great NOlI Northern h rl is 18 being greedily nb- nb orb tJ on oum the tlc decline uledine and almost t an any advance III In that stock would be lie natural natura 1 The lie stack was was helped by a C minor that the compan compans had 1 won Its contOrt contest t for 01 a n. anew anew official was new stock i Issue hut but nothing Another rumor rut ru- made pUbliC on OTI this point mot mor said that hint time the company Intended to i icIl sell cIl iro of short time note s at nt Ii 0 I. I per cent In Union Pacific Iho tue m advance n was hue due entirely to short covering lo While hll man many mans brokers are an of oC tho the opinion time the wor worst t for time Iho t J Jn a dial tat stocks have ha sect sec present they timey are hesitating about putting put hut I II ting rug their itch customers Into the time market on the time lon long side fh There r is supposition that hunt th the market tl 1 I is heln being held up 1111 simply to 1 unload stocks taken to 10 support rt it a n week seck a ago o and antI the true test tCo will come coma when th this s I liquidation Is bl completed Sen Sentiment limen l Is n about evenly divided The rue foreign market mar mar- ket icet statement may give a hint as to tho Immediate future The close In New wan strong sUon and active but there will be stocks for sale t 4 In iii London over night In lit Street Sti I Number of shares sold today number of shares a year ear ago salute samo Iday I- I day Par value of bonds sold today par Pal value of bonds sold n a year ago Saab samo day Bankers who ate arc getting ready to take a square position on the tue bull built side call attention to tile the great shrinkage In quoted values This Timis has haa been almost In the stocks traded in elm oti the lie exchange and discount time the cost of the Japan Rus ian sian war the loss In several earthquakes tho ho regulation of railroads and even time the next Presidential campaign It will wili be ie hard to get a bear argument out of any Presidential candidate and given a continuation of prosperity even at n a slower pace the stock market will soon do to buy hiu- There is no public liquidation dation of importance to hinder Improvement Improve improve- ment and the big people can turn the market in five minutes by simply agreeing agree agree- hag ing to do soOne so One of time the big traders on Broadway was smas severely hurt titan than the tue public suspects Time The last has not been heard of the panic Announcement that Erl hag suspended work k on Its proposed pen pen- js manent a bad effect on time the stocks This was th tie first formal announcement by any tail rail railroad road that the conditions were ver Interfering with Its plans for betterments betterment f loiter Later the stock rallied on covering by room shorts of Prices The Tho range of prices was as follows Open High Low Close Am C. C F I K Am Smelting Am Locomotive Gl ci 65 Am Sugar Am Wool Sool 29 i Amal Copper M 93 OlVi Olvi 93 Ana Aims Copper GUi OUi Atchison 92 fc 92 OT 02 93 IJ B. and 0 90 Ki 93 K l Brooklyn H. H T r GH Sl 52 2 Gl 51 Canadian Pacific 1724 i and Ohio 11 Il lite C. C M. M and St. St P 13 i Cole Colo F. F and J I. I 35 33 35 S 28 25 23 21 Illinois Illinois- Central in lii III Louis and Nash hiS Mexican Central 21 21 Missouri Pacific 7 3 j 72 73 73 M. 41 K and T T. T 37 Ii 37 27 7 do 10 preferred Ci Gl Gt Gift C. C GS N. N Y 1 Central hiS N. N Y O. O and AV W. 38 is 33 2816 Not Nor and West 78 i 77 77 National Lead 53 5 ZO 50 53 CO 53 Northern Pacific 1271 coples Gas gui 1 50 59 Reading leading II'S tock Island JJ 22 Itch lep I. I and S S. 27 20 Southern Hallway 23 33 KA 3 22 4 Southern Pacific SO SO Tenn C. C and I t ir II ii Union Pacific i i iSi U. U S. S Steel 37 17 37 i 3 r.- r. t do preferred W 99 |
