| Show FINANCIAL and and I COMMERCIAL I IDY BY DY THOMAS C. C SHOTWELL New cw York YOlk I Jan Jan 27 Consolidated a nS Ga Gal Gas acted In the tho market markot today LL i though the tho directors of or the thC compan I little bit ashamed of or themselves themselves them them- were wera Just a selves for trying to deceive Investors I Consolidated Gas atIs at ut utts In n their shares lel and tind In the tho cheapest its Is ts present price In Wall street No o 1 safest Val i will buy It U person In his rl right h t mind wl on margin but aa as an Investment It i u 15 I. I I bonds and a United States safe as as nB i great groat deal more profitable to own I leal election to the time Now Ne' york el C Central directorate cam came camo to pass paBs toda It remains for lor the future to tell teU the I discounted his whether tho the stock flock ha has election In I Its market markel price price One thing is certain certIn there will wil bo be p paulo panic for fOJ harriman was not compelled to elect himself New York Tone Central will wi of the time soon boon be bc one of or the leading roads United States and and will be earning lt its I s dividends When hen tho the new Grand Central Central Cen Cen- I trai station in New York Is If finished P. P E H. H harriman Hariman staton will wil bo be Quartered lh thor rf I with wih all fl his railroads ls for or by hy that time lm I Now ow York Central will wIn have havo P ha be been n I announced as aa tho the holding company conlan COT com pany an or of the Harriman I-harriman H system tom Gould j tO tok were so 80 strong that it required 1 great exorcise exercise of control on or orthe the part of Chicago to withhold announcement an alt- al- al I of or tho the Gould holding holing company com coin pany once more rIme Tho situation in Iii re regard re- re gard garl garl to the tIme Goul Goulds 8 seems eema to b be bf- bf t tha 10 I they arc about to t. t be bo financed by strong people and amid Missouri Pacific may t to Issue some Bomo bonds after all After C r is Ie elected electer a director of or the Wabash tho the Gould credit will wi be lo materially ma ma- ma- ma Improved The Tho street will wil bo- bo fore tore long f see sec the Gould shares active J popular J Denver nver and Rio Grande Grando GrandoIs Is attracting so much attention that some somo persons persona Imagine It I may bo be 10 made mode Into a holding company compan for Cor tho the Gould Could roads At any rate Iato Its stock stoel is being accumulated by very stron strong Interests arid and there thero is talk of or a 40 point move moo In It Purchase b by Edwin ElIn and a a syndicate syndicat of ot tho the Chesapeake and Ohio stock owned by Kuhn loeb Co 0 a ami anil 01 the Now Xo York Central coming just at atthe atthe the tho time 1 when Harriman enters the Central board boar Is 18 significant Neither the New Nes York Central nor nOlO Kuhn Loob Loub I t Co would let Jet tho the stock get bet Leb Into hands unfriendly to Harriman The plans of ot tho the le Hawley syndicate are arc a amster I mystery but comple completion on of or the tho Virginian Virgin Virgin- ian tan ral railway 1 way from deep water VIrg Virginia miia to Norfolk furnishes another clew to to the situation By u using Ing ln the tho Ohio Central Cen Cen- Hocking Va Valley 1 0 route the Virginian Vir Vir- ginian railroad which i Is owned by II IT JL Ii Rogers would havo tho most direct line Ine from time the lakes to Norfolk Har- Har statement that he lie would spend IJ on the time Georgia GeorgIa woul Central shows that ho lie has hns big plans for his Southern properties In Eu the tue Street Number of shares sold today against a year ago Par value of bonds bonda sold aso against a 0 year ago ago nn e of or Price James Jame A. A Pollock Co bankers and nd and brokers 6 West Second South street furnish the following received over t their private wire I H. H H I L. L L J I IClal CiR Sale Sales Am m. C. C F. F 60 Am Smelting 86 St tl Am Locomotive o 57 Am Wool 28 Amal Arnal Amal Copper 78 00 Ana Ana Coper 6 00 Atchison 46 IGI loOt 1001 l B. B and O O. 12 j 1 l 1 Brooklyn R. R P. P T. T 76 Ila 71 i Canadian Pac 1734 1712 17 1200 dies Ches and nl Ohio 63 63 C. C M. M nn and St. St St P. P 1503 1502 1492 un I 1503 1501 Colo Cob F F. and I. I 1 42 40 Con Gas Ga 1 JOO 2 1 0 46 Brie Crie Erie 31 30 31 Great Northern 1431 11 I 1200 I Illinois Central I 1 16 1451 1151 2000 OO Missouri Pacific 2 71 l I 3 M. M K an and T T. T H 4 43 3 6 00 N. N Y 7 Central 1315 1311 N. N Y O. O and W. W iS 47 S 13 18 i Nor or and West 92 91 91 National Lead SO SOS 80 oo Nor or Pacific 1 10 HO 2500 oa k 1212 lua Oi ia 1526 Pc PI 1003 10 IOU Ila A J Reading Pleading 3 1371 isea 1 12 TOO TOOD Hock Island land 25 5 24 4 2 25 D GOO do preferred f 6 62 Rep Hep nep I. I and amid S. S 2 25 25 H 00 00 Southern T Ry 26 6 6 26 26 1 hOO Southern Pacific 10 l iH J 2 27 IOl IOlI Union Pacific ISO 1 1 1794 oo I U. U S. S Steel 54 54 53 0 Oi I do preferred U 11 H i. i 1011 Utah Copper Coppel 41 H 43 11 II too loo Tenn Copper 1 15 1 1St 51 1 10 0 I 1 5 51 5 J j Too 1 J Total olal HOO Money closel closed i 15 I per cent cen |