Show 1 to Financial S and anu 11 Co Commercial r. r BY THOMAS C C. SHOTWELL I N New w York May laY 18 Stocks were buoyant and arid a new now development was participation In the wild wid movements rno by bythe bythe bythe the Gould shares Missouri Us url Pacific at nt atone atone one time b corn almost almot and advancing more than seven ac points Union St. St Paul Reading Rending Steel and other active shares share made new high records s and tho the close wa was tS almost at atthe tho the best prices of the day lay with lh urgent demand for fot stocks In all 11 department departments It IL Is developed de late In trio the afternoon that hat short a-short Interest of unusual lions Jons exists In Pennsylvania stock nn and tho time shares were loaned at a premium of or sixty one Pennsylvania anla la Is so 10 widely scattered that tho the supply In the thc han hands 8 of uC brokers ers Is reduced to a mini mini- mum num The fact that lint several brokers were wele caught speculating speculating- with wih customers customers' custom custom- ore ers shares has lisa caused thousands o of In Investors In- In who ho usually leave heave o lel their thell stocks In n the hands hand of brokers to take th them m U up by payment In iii lull fun or to make their loans onn with Wih the tho ho banks This Thin this ha has reduced ho the floating supply of or stocks to the lowest low low- est ost on record and makes It extremely es e.'s easy to advance prices Copper metal was ad advanced to 13 cents a pound and und the market for fur the showed sho cots considerable lerable vital vital- It ity ty rue Tho copper stocks stock were quick to respond ond both on the curb and nd the tho in inside in- in slOe side market market Smelters and Amalgamated Amalga malga mated matel however ho cru the tho features of tl tile the lla day In th that t direction A burst of or strength In the Harriman stuck stocks followed flowed th tho lh announcement that tile Harriman he Interstate commerce case lad had hal been advanced nd to the supreme court court Stockholders of or Illinois Central voted to Increase the capital s stock tock 28 28 Those who have ha e purchased Missouri Pacific In the last two weeks sa say the they lave have from high quarters that lint th th stock wilt will wl go to par imar The chief trouble with wih Missouri Pacific has been tho tIm enmity existing between lar liar Ilar- and ant Gould Goul It I Is now belle believed that hat the men have patched up their differences dif dlf- Hn and that the Gould shares will wil not noL longer be under pressure lu Iu the Site Street The he number of shares aliases sold today tOllay was as compared with the corresponding ln d day a a. year ear a ago oho o. o The Tho par value valie of or bonds sold today was was' 60 against 1 li a year ago ngo One Omie favorable Influence 0 of- of the da day was the report of or a l l slight alight ht improvement 1 in n the steel trade Reports from Sharon Shar Shar- on said that the leading steel corn com nan les were putting men to work worl and indications on th Urn surface ar al that In Industrial Industrial industrial In- In conditions will wil gradually ra uan Im- Im O IHO rove during the last half hal of tho year earThe ear Time The Rock Island reports that during Apri April loading car decreased 22 cars against a March decrease of or SG GJ cars n Range of or or Prices Pollock l Special Wire I H. H 1 I 1 L. L I Cia CIs ISal Sales Sal Am C O F F. F 1100 Am 1 78 1 Am Loco I 51 50 Am Ar Sugar 1321 1132 1311 I Am Arn Wool 1 I 23 21 23 Amal Amalgamated C 1 1 69 GH Anaconda Anacon a Cop Cop H 1431 I 1 1300 1 S-I-I S OO S 'S Belt Bait Bai and 0 O 3 i 93 94 Brook U fi T 5 53 52 l I 52 1 H 1400 OO Cna Canadian lan Pac 1602 1 Ches and anul ul Ohio 44 H I C M and St l Paul Paul 1137 Cob Colo F and n 1 I. I j Z 39 S 9 29 1 1700 Erie Eric 2211 21 1 I 2231 t Gl- Gl r 1331 a Illinois Cent I 1 42 1141 I 2000 OO iMi MC MCl l Can 1 1 lV l i 4 Missouri Pac lae 50 si IA 59 so GOO cot M ai 1 j K anti and TM T P 1 20 ao 0 I 2321 2531 29 lUr 1200 3 M K I and T 1 pl pfd pId f G 64 I bi bU tHA I 1100 Nw York Turk Cent lO J O K N NY Y 1 Ont and ant W. W j 42 12 1 I 41 2100 Nor Nur au 1 Wt I 7 72 1411 7 72 72 1100 Nat Nn L Lead ad 1 I 64 61 2300 I- I Nor Pac Pee 1332 Pennsylvania Peoples Gas I I f 21 92 J 2200 11 Rock Island Islan J 1 1811 1 1 1200 1300 pO Rep I and amid S S. S 19 1951 1 i 1700 Southern Ry ny IS 1731 1781 Southern Pac f 88 Union Pac lac H. H 1501 1 00 U IT S St Steel el 1 lO 17 39 91 U S Steel pfd It Utah Copper CaPPe 1 I j Sill HI 3 1 Tennessee Tennes o Cop I 8 1 1 ISOO Newhouse 1 I til 75 71 lal 73 ZOO Money lonfY closed 1 JS a per cent Total sales 1179 60 shares shares |